Most exhausting kinds of sports?

Iron Man Competition. I'd take a nap for a week after that.

 

I always think Sychronised Swimming must be really tiring.

 

As far as team sports go, I'd say football. You're not just running like most other sports, you got people smacking the crap outta you every single play. A running back will get tackles 20-30 times a game... I don't know how they do it.


Also, being a pitcher isn't pretty. I've pitched before, and when I got to around the 80 pitch mark, my arm felt like it was gonna fall off and my left leg felt like it was amputated during world war II or something.

 

The most exhausting sport that i've played is easily Soccer (or Football for the folks on the old continent ).

In games like Football and Hockey, sure they're probably more physically demanding, but you've also got fairly regular intervals where you aren't on the field (say, when the offense is on the field, the defense is on the sidelines in football, in hockey you have line changes.)

In Soccer, you are out there for the entire game (unless substitued.), and you are constantly running back and forth. Sure you can take periods where you can walk a little bit, but these periods are about 10 seconds or so before you have to get back into the play.

Easily the most physically demanding team sport i've played.

Swimming, of course, is also pretty demanding.

 

Gymnastics, and Ballet.



And no, that's not a joke.

Even though games like football(soccer), and basketball do involve massive amounts of running.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that I was perfectly serious in my suggestion, too.

 

Competitive swimming takes tons of stamina, I didn't think you were joking.

 

I think it would have to be something like a marathon, the mile, etc. Something where when you're done, you're done. I can't think many sports where the person looks like they can't go a step further at the end of the competition.

 

I played a lot of sports when I was younger. I played four years of soccer, and nothing tired me more than that.

 

I agree with swimming/long distance running

And trampolining too. It is great fun but can tire you out sooo much. I used to train for about 4 hours one day, then 2 hours on another and was dead at the end of the sessions lol

 

Dressage tires me out. (Its a style of horse riding that requires your horse being in perfect balance and yourself being in perfect balance with the horse). Imagine lifting a 1200 lb animal up for over an hour and using every muscle in your body to do it.

 

I would say a Marathon. It's something that requires massive endurance over a long period of time. That's grueling.

 

Something like the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon would be devastating:
2.4m swim
112 mile bike ride
and then an entire 26.2 mile marathon.

 

Surprisingly, no one has mentioned amatuer wrestling. I have wrestled for more than five years, and I have yet to do something that is more tiring than wrestling an entire six minute match. The constant motion and the strength you need to apply, as well as the technique...it's hard stuff.

 

Sports I've played: fencing
Sports I've not played: dance or gymnastics


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Agreed. Marathon is IMHO the most challenging sport (or discipline, to be more precise) when it comes to endurance.

But I also agree with Drew_Atreides on football (soccer for you Americans ), that requires a lot of endurance as well, since you're on field for 45 minutes in each half and you're almost constantly running.

But when it comes to short-time exhaustion, I would say downhill skiing and 400-metres sprint. While an average downhill ride takes only about 2 minutes, you're almost constantly in the downhill stance (the "egg" as we call it), which is very tiring on leg muscles, trust me, especially when your velocity is around 100 km/h or more. And 400-metres - it's the longest sprint in the light athletics and I can only imagine the pain there is after the runners reach the finish line (my Dad used to do light athletics when he was young and he told me that he almost fainted a few times after having run a 400-metres sprint. You give out everything).

 

Oh, I also forgot, when you try wrestling after a week of starving yourself...that really takes a toll on your body.

 

Water polo. Full on swimming with people trying to drown you, no touching the bottom, most of the time with hands out the water.

 

I completely forgot about Wrestling. In freshmen year of high school, the required gym class had a Wrestling unit to it. It can definitly be a gruelling sport.

I remember I faced off against a guy whow as twice my size. I went RIGHT at him, picked him up and tossed him out of the circle immediately. Surprised the heck out of EVERYONE in the gym. Unfortunately, i didn't count on how much energy that one toss was gonna take. I was completely useless for the rest of the match.

 

Yeah, using brute strength in wrestling is not always the best thing. It takes a lot out of you. That's why a smart wrestler usually wins.

 

Water polo. Followined by gymnastics.








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