What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)I've always found basketball very demanding because it's basically attck, counter attack, counter attack, counter attack, etc. for the whole game, just running backwards and forwards very quickly.
I am and have always been pretty physically fit but out of all sports I did at school, basketball was probably the most demanding.... And swimming actually.... **** swimming. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Hard to see as different sports emphasize different areas in which to exert yourself. Tour de France is the ultimate endurance event i know of and the most exhausting one too. But what about 100m sprint, where they go all out for those 10 seconds (or less)? Or Powerlifters Lifting ridiculously high weights? Many a person has fainted going for a 1RM Squat and overexerting themselves. Surely this is the most intense?
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Boxing. The training and fighting is ridiculously harder than neutrals will think. Looks so easy but trust me, try one round of sparring and 95% of people here would be on their ass
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Frankly, anybody who thinks that it matters which sport is the most "physically exhausting" - or even that there is a single answer to that question - is missing the point of sport entirely and should have their viewing rights revoked.
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)judo is also a hard sport in this respect.(Original post by Zyyz)
Boxing. The training and fighting is ridiculously harder than neutrals will think. Looks so easy but trust me, try one round of sparring and 95% of people here would be on their ass
getting attacked, attacking back and forth with big movements, but using your brain also is hard at the same time, trying to remeber, then when you are being pinned using all your energy to try and escape, then you get up and carry on.... -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Agree with swimming, as its non contact huge amount of hours can be put in, and therefore have to be to be at the top level.
Triathlons also, as you have to be at a top level for three seperate sports.
I think the most exhausting competitions are definetly the cycling tours, the Giro, Tour de France, La Vuelta etc are many hours of intense racing a day for a number of weeks. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)mabye.. just mabye... its the compititition that makes it hard, having to train more than the other people, than the sport itself. like pullups could be really hard, the amount of training you may have to put in, then the mentality of beating somebody..
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)I disagree and I'm a boxer.(Original post by Zyyz)
Boxing. The training and fighting is ridiculously harder than neutrals will think. Looks so easy but trust me, try one round of sparring and 95% of people here would be on their ass
Firstly I don't think that martial arts are the toughest sports, even MMA or judo etc. stuff that requires enormous training and conditioning. Boxing definitely doesn't come up there in my opinion. Fighting can hurt but it's not as physically exhausting as other sports, let alone martial arts.
I think that 'pure sports' (i.e. not games basically) are the toughest, mainly running, cycling and swimming. Fighting is tough, sure, but the mentality for it is not too difficult to find. When you're in the ring/cage etc. you're fighting another guy and it's basically you vs him so you tend to block out the feeling of exhaustion I've found.
When you're running a marathon or doing a triathlon the toughness on the mind is crushing. I do a lot of bike work and in EVERY session I always think about giving up just from the pain. It's not just that it's physically incredibly tough, it's that very little is pushing you to keep going even though it's unbelievably painful. You can easily just stop or slow down or whatever when you're running/swimming/cycling etc. you can't do that when you're fighting and so you get a sort of second wind. I'm not even conservative when I fight and I still get less tired. When I'm boxing/kickboxing I'm constantly moving and throwing punches. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Ultra-running.
Makes Marathon runners look like small-fry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon
Especially this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon
135 miles, uphill, finishing at 2.5km altitude (by which point you can easily start to feel the effects of lack of oxygen) and temperatures in excess of 40 Celcius. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)Hmm, I wouldn't say they are any longer. Boxing has Twelve 2 minute rounds at most, yeah? MMA can Five 5 minute rounds. Although, usually, the guys don't last that long. They have to train for it though. Jon jones vs Rashad Evans went the full time so it can happen. In that respect, I have to say MMA. Also, I prefer watching MMA to boxing.(Original post by stefl14)
Boxing is more difficult due to the much longer fights. Unfortunately though this makes boxing a lot more risky as shown by the higher frequency of brutal knockouts and in the long term... brain damage. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)In terms of actual exhaustion, I'd have to say those multiday ultramarathons which are just ****ing ridiculous. No other sport has a similar competition time, even the tour de france you're not cycling 24/7.
Obviously different sports have very different demands, and loads have a respective shout at being the most physically exhausting, but there is no real answer to this. -
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Re: What's the most physically exhausting sport? (at professional level)12 3 minute rounds is 36 min and 5 5 minute rounds is 25 min. MMA attracts thugs and skinheads like Mayweather says. You can argue with it all you want but its true is you just look at the people who participate in it... half of them are skinheads with earrings and tatoos lol. Both sports are hard I just don't enjoy MMA as much as boxing. The striking in MMA simply aren't that good and therefore most stoppages aren't due to brutal knockouts.(Original post by Rossshaw)
Hmm, I wouldn't say they are any longer. Boxing has Twelve 2 minute rounds at most, yeah? MMA can Five 5 minute rounds. Although, usually, the guys don't last that long. They have to train for it though. Jon jones vs Rashad Evans went the full time so it can happen. In that respect, I have to say MMA. Also, I prefer watching MMA to boxing.
