Poll: What is the most physicly demanding sport?

[Jamieson 90]

I would say swimming, you are pritty much using all your bodies muscles.

 

[Tdc2182]

Parkour
That is considered a sport, right?

I think Parkour isn't considered a sport, but Freerunning is. They're basically the same except Freerunning is about the style, while Parkour is more of a transport/pastime focusing on fluidity of motion. I could be wrong of course, but either way I would vote Freerunning. Or Parkour, as the case may be.

You got that mixed up. Parkour is all about technique. Free running is about getting from one place to the other.

 

[Saphire]

Honestly, my opinion would have to go with hockey since the shifts are like 1-1.5 minutes at a maximum and honestly if you look at those guys when they come to the bench, they're absolutely drenched. On top of the stamina required to play a full game (albeit they have intermissions and get to take a breather on the bench every couple of minutes) they're also being hit/hitting people while trying to maintain themselves on their skates.

 

[Se7enUpMustang]

24 hours of Le Mans hands down

 

[Chamale]

American football is slow-paced, but it causes an absurd number of injuries every year. For that definition of "physically demanding", it easily tops the other options in the poll. Almost every former NFL star has some sort of debilitating health problem as a result of playing. Rugby also causes many injuries, but unlike American football, I don't know the statistics for it.

 

[ExecutionStyle]

I've heard that Formula 1 racing is the most demanding on the body, you have to be in perfect physical condition just to finish the race. What i've heard it's like strapping a giant rubberband to your waist and attempting to escape for about 3 and a half hours, but everything is loud and fast and requires 100% of your attention or you die.

 

[Dys]

Parkour
That is considered a sport, right?

Ohh, good call.
I was thinking water polo or ice hockey

I wouldn't even rate American football, baseball, cricket etc as highly physically demanding- they are mind games.

 

[brodie21]

hockey hands down.

 

[Spiner909]

Marching music. By far. There are so many things to focus on.

 

[ExecutionStyle]

Also, i've heard boxing can pretty much destroy your body, workout wise and competition wise.

 

[triggrhappy94]

A little while ago, me and a friend got into a discussion about sports, becuse I am planning on joining the swim team next year. We both agree that swimming is the most physicly demanding sport, because you have to deal with water resistance and you have to go fast.

All pride aside, what do you thing is the most physicly demanding sport and why

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.

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.

Oh yeah your right. How could I have forgotten about climbing, I love cliimbing too. Yeah I remember that during the conversation mentioned in the original comment, that the we both ended up on agreeing that climbing is the most demanding

 

[Nouw]

Real men play CHESS!

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I'd have to say either Rugby or Swimming.

 

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I'd say either swimming or wrestling; both require all of the muscles in your body.

 

[Luftwaffles]

A little while ago, me and a friend got into a discussion about sports, becuse I am planning on joining the swim team next year. We both agree that swimming is the most physicly demanding sport, because you have to deal with water resistance and you have to go fast.

All pride aside, what do you thing is the most physicly demanding sport and why

Swimming+soccer=waterpolo.

Water+opposing team resistance, team coordination, shooting a ball etc etc.

 

[Hollock]

Soccer, right in front of raining sulfur.
( Pho for reference )

 

[bluedragon117]

hurling, definitely. just google it, i dont want to explain it.

 

[Yoshemo]

Swimming. It takes all your movement muscles working almost constantly to do

 

[Fearzone]

I gotta go with water polo for intensity, then any number of outdoor endurance sports.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Other.

It is clearly Rubgy. I'm shocked that OP left it out, me thinks he/she may be a yank. Think American Football but take out all the pads, eye protection and helmets and replace them with a gumsheild.

Also take out all the head on collisions at full running speed and 300 pound linemen slamming into you two at a time.