Best/worst sports for your health

Football and boxing are the worst sports because of the concussions and other forms of brain damage that occur.

Competitive Ballroom dancers might be the healthiest athletes, they are lean they have agility, endurance, mobility and probably don't suffer from overuse injuries like most other athletes.

Health and athletic are not synonymous.

best is probably swimming. can do it till you die and has no impact so fewer injuries. straight up full body workout you can do every day. Soccer may also be up there. Those guys are in great shape but not something you can do in to your later years.

worst is probably football or boxing as someone else said. so much impact and your body takes a big beating. lots of other sports that can fall here to like rugby and hockey,

Worst: distance running. It makes you scrawny fat.

Best: CrossFit. It makes you buff and ripped.

Best: discus

Worst : hockey or rugby

There is only best 1 and it is SURFING. Pretty much all sports are great though: running, riding, flag football, basketball, ultimate, golf, baseball.

Worst: Beer mile (why do I do t every year?)

Ocean swimming, surfing

MMA, boxing, wrestling

Shark attacks, jellyfish, drowning, etc

Ligament injuries, dislocations, brain damage, cauliflower ear, other injuries

Motocross, snowmobiling, off road rec vehicle ing,

Pro and college football (ligaments, brain and spine, etc)

Soccer (leg ligaments )

Bodybuilding (steroid use, aesthetics etc)

Best

Track and field

Distance running

Sprinting

Swimming

Climbing

I've coached swimming . Numerous rotator cuff injures . Not as easy as you think .

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best is probably swimming. can do it till you die and has no impact so fewer injuries. straight up full body workout you can do every day. Soccer may also be up there. Those guys are in great shape but not something you can do in to your later years.

worst is probably football or boxing as someone else said. so much impact and your body takes a big beating. lots of other sports that can fall here to like rugby and hockey,

According to nutritionists, competitive eating is the worst for your health. But some of the competitors like Yasir Salem, regularly run triathlons. So it's hard to know.

Best: XC skiing or biathlon.

Worst: Fishing.