Poll: What is the most physicly demanding sport?
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I honestly think American Football is. You have to be fast, agile, and mothereffingly strong. And there's a crapload of strategy as well.
Gymnastics is a close second.
Gymnastics is a close second.
Boxing.
Boxing. Boxing. Boxing.
Hardest sport in the world. You definitely need a lot of heart to sit in a ring for three rounds letting some bloke pummel you for two minutes straight.
(AND THOSE TWO MINUTES CRAWWWL BY)
Boxing. Boxing. Boxing.
Hardest sport in the world. You definitely need a lot of heart to sit in a ring for three rounds letting some bloke pummel you for two minutes straight.
(AND THOSE TWO MINUTES CRAWWWL BY)
Watch some of the bull pistons nba games from the jordan era those were physically demanding. CLosest thing to a full contact wrestling match while running up and down a 60 foot court. damn shame they have neutered basketball so much anymore.
Professional hockey tho i gotta give the overall nod to just skating, cutting, hitting, on ice that takes some strength and stamina to do just the skating bit nevermind toss in the other stuff.
Baseball should not even be on there
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Professional hockey tho i gotta give the overall nod to just skating, cutting, hitting, on ice that takes some strength and stamina to do just the skating bit nevermind toss in the other stuff.
Baseball should not even be on there
.Most physically demanding, has to be football. Cardio is the hardest physical trait to train to preak perfection. The stress is comparable to marathon.
As for most physically tolling, it has to be contact sports. MMA defeats Boxing by a little notch because of thinner gloves, and less controlling referees.
As for most physically tolling, it has to be contact sports. MMA defeats Boxing by a little notch because of thinner gloves, and less controlling referees.
Constant motion is a must. Sorry (American) Football, Tennis, Baseball. Also, I have to rule out track and field and swimming, if you are talking about the distance part absolutely, but sprinting sorry but no. Soccer (Football for the rest of you), Rugby, Wrestling, MMA, etc. They all are very physically demanding and have very, very few breaks. However, contact is an absolute must. Sorry Soccer, you are gone, along with XC, and other distance sports. To me it comes down to these choices. Boxing, Wrestling, Rugby, MMA. Wrestling is out, MMA beats it with sheer brutallity. However, Boxing and MMA lack the pure time factor of Rugby. I've boxed and played rugby. I've never been in an MMA fight, (thank god, gotta protect the moneymaker *motions towards face*) but honestly it suffers from the same mistake boxing does. Sure you're are beat to all holy hell by the end (in even fights), but after a good boxing match, you're done for a while. Sure you train, you spar, you run. But I think Rugby takes the cake, full body contact with large masses, no padding, virtually constant motion, and a much longer period of time that you are moving.
All in all, I have boxed and played rugby. From personal experience I can say that I've been sore as all holy hell after boxing bouts. However, I don't want to move after I play rugby. The game is physically demanding and brutal. It's not about being sore afterwards, it's about being exhausted.
TLDR: Rugby.
All in all, I have boxed and played rugby. From personal experience I can say that I've been sore as all holy hell after boxing bouts. However, I don't want to move after I play rugby. The game is physically demanding and brutal. It's not about being sore afterwards, it's about being exhausted.
TLDR: Rugby.
This or MMA. Both of those sports are very physically demanding because you train to be able to take a beating and to give one too. Especially with boxing where there are many many rounds during a bout too.Counter_Southpaw said:
I will say from personal experience that baseball is definitely not one of the top physically demanding sports, I played in high school and it is more laid back than other sports. Although I think baseball is one of the more mentally taxing sports because it is a game of failure. If a batter in the MLB gets 3 hits for every 10 at bats he has, that batter is considered good.
I reckon Aussie rules football is way more demanding than any of those listed in the OP. The average player runs about 10k's in two hours whilst getting the shit beaten hout of him.
I haven't seen anyone say it yet so I'm gonna say rowing. Obviously, pretty much everyone who plays a sport is going to say that the one they play is more physically demanding, so I'll just go with it and say mine is the hardest.
Seriously, a 2K, (rowing as fast as you can go for 7-8 minutes straight) is the hardest, most painful, and also most rewarding thing I've ever done.
Seriously, a 2K, (rowing as fast as you can go for 7-8 minutes straight) is the hardest, most painful, and also most rewarding thing I've ever done.
Water resistance is nothing compared to gravity. Which is why, having done swimming as a sport and rugby, football (casually), hockey, cricket, tennis, squash and weight training, I can say with some surety that none of those are as physically demanding as climbing.triggrhappy94 said:
Seriously. I'm quite the climbing enthusiast, having done it at two seperate holiday parks, an Army training base, and last week at my university's newly renovated sports centre. It's exceptionally tough to do, much more so than swimming. You need to have a great deal of upper body strength to be able to try it, especially when dealing with overhangs, and it's tough too to find decent balance in some cases. I recall last week almost falling a couple of times because my balance was off, and having to literally jump on the wall to reach some of the handholds. And I'm an experienced climber, too.
Trust me, swimming is by no means as tough as that. It's not really easy, but swimming is more about technique, which is pretty easy to train for, as well as the obvious strength and fitness requirements. Climbing is all of that, and much more. So climbing is definitely a much more physically demanding sport, I think.
I do or have done most of the sports, and Cross Country is the hardest if you are on a half decent team. Think about it, that sport is your sports punishment. Running as fast as you can sucks. Running as fast as you can for three miles sucks even more.
Down here in AZ, one of the hottest places in the US, I do it during the summer. Nearly every race I throw up, except the problem is nothing comes out because you sweated it all out. Its a very painful feeling. People who say that sport is for wusses are dumbasses, and I challenge any of them to do it.
For the record, I play a middie in soccer too, Xcountry is way worse.
Down here in AZ, one of the hottest places in the US, I do it during the summer. Nearly every race I throw up, except the problem is nothing comes out because you sweated it all out. Its a very painful feeling. People who say that sport is for wusses are dumbasses, and I challenge any of them to do it.
For the record, I play a middie in soccer too, Xcountry is way worse.
My money's on ice hockey. Not only do those guys skate the length of the ice repeatedly, they're also getting the crap knocked out of them by hard body checking and defense, and did I mention they're ON ICE?
Rugby union is a close second---Carlos Spencer playing for the All-Blacks six weeks after breaking his jaw, getting his jaw broken AGAIN, and staying in the game? That is Chuck Norris-level badass.
Rugby union is a close second---Carlos Spencer playing for the All-Blacks six weeks after breaking his jaw, getting his jaw broken AGAIN, and staying in the game? That is Chuck Norris-level badass.
Firstly, yeah Rugby is physically more demanding than American Football, but I'd have to say long distance running takes the prize anyway. There aren't many sports where the top athletes push themselves so hard that they shit themselves, and that's got to count for something.
You don't see footballers, or rugby players, or american footballers, or swimmers, or basketball players, or wrestlers (lol!) exert themselves to the point that they shit themselves do you?
You don't see footballers, or rugby players, or american footballers, or swimmers, or basketball players, or wrestlers (lol!) exert themselves to the point that they shit themselves do you?