Most exhausting kinds of sports?

EMPEROR_WINDU · EMPEROR_WINDU, Nov 25, 2006 at 9:34 AM

Basketball is extremely tiring if it's played between evenly talented teams.

Herman Snerd · Herman Snerd, Nov 25, 2006 at 1:00 PM

I recall the announcers mention during one of the Winter Olympics that the best conditioned athletes are cross country skiers.

For Summer Games, the synchronized swimmers are in insane physical condition. Imagine lifting your body up out of the water without touchng bottom. Oh, and you only get to breathe once every bouple minutes.

Obi Anne · Obi Anne, Nov 26, 2006 at 6:10 AM

Well cross country skiing is very much just about having a lot of condition, after all they are competing in up to 50 km in a race.

Alpha-02 · Alpha-02, Nov 26, 2006 at 7:11 AM

I read an article about this a while back, it was specifically about which sports are the most physically demanding (in terms of "normal" sports if you will, i.e. not the Sahara marathon thing and such), I'm sure Cross Country Skiing came out on top.

JOHNNY-B · JOHNNY-B, Nov 26, 2006 at 1:54 PM

I would probably have to go with, triathlon athletes. That's brutal stuff they go through.

Obi Anne · Obi Anne, Nov 26, 2006 at 3:15 PM

The funny thing though is that I can easily go out and go 10 km cross country skiing, but I can't run further than a couple of kilometers at one time. The thing is though in order to have a tempo on skis you have to keep the whole body working very hard.

Skiara · Skiara, Nov 27, 2006 at 3:59 AM

That's something I have realised as well. I can have a brilliant condition for (for example) swimming or skiing, but when I should do a 10km run it is unbelievalbe hard. The same with other kind of sports. But I get fascinated about it.

malkieD2 · malkieD2, Nov 27, 2006 at 9:08 AM

Officially, the correct answer is distance running / distance cycling (tied for first), followed distance swimming, followed by cross-country skiing, followed by boxing, followed by rowing, followed by water polo.

Spike2002 · Spike2002, Dec 5, 2006 at 4:53 PM

Wow, I was gonna suggest boxing. Nice to know I was pretty close.

Jeedai_Veila · Jeedai_Veila, Dec 5, 2006 at 5:41 PM

I'd say tennis because the matches literally can go on forever. I've had 3.5 hour long matches, and by the end, I was about to drop I was so tired. And in tennis, you only get a break every odd game, so if you are stuck in a wicked long deuce, you're stuck.

Skiara · Skiara, Dec 6, 2006 at 2:42 AM

What do you mean by "officially", Malkie?

MarcusP2 · MarcusP2, Dec 6, 2006 at 5:37 AM

distance running / distance cycling (tied for first), followed distance swimming

So...triathlons FTL.

General_Kenobi_66 · General_Kenobi_66, Dec 6, 2006 at 6:12 PM

I play adult baseball, and even though the sport in general is not that tiring, catching takes it out of you.
So does getting hit by baseballs in the arms and shoulders

DurronFan · DurronFan, Dec 6, 2006 at 11:59 PM

Drew_Atreides said:

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.

I'll disagree in regards to ice hockey and its line changes. If you think that you get "a good rest" between line changes you're sadly mistaken. In ice hockey you go out and pretty much sprint with every fiber of your body on the ice for 0.5-1.5 minutes, depending on how good a player you are. Then you get maybe one-three minutes rest and you're at it again. Scott Niedermyer for example plays 2-minute shifts, rests for 30-60 seconds and then goes out to do the same again. It's pretty insane if you ask me. Although in regards to Soccer, I have to say that seeing a guy like Roberto Carlos run up and down a field for 90 minutes is pretty astounding.

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