Sports - Degree of difficulty - JP Fitness Forums

Jimbo · 01-24-2007, 03:29 PM

Time on my hands.

Found another interesting article that ranks 60 sports based on several categories and then gives each sport a weight of difficulty based on those results. Interesting table. Swimming is number 36..BOXING is number 1.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...otal_rank#grid

emartin10 · 01-24-2007, 06:44 PM

I'm calling B.S. -

Kayaking - #49 - these people obviously have never kayaked.
Skateboarding above: track and field sprints, rowing, weight lifting, and bull riding
Golf - #51 - it sure feels like #1 every time I play
Badmitton - #30?!?!? - it's not harder than bull riding, that's for SURE!

Lame.

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Buk · 01-25-2007, 01:47 PM

Things like that are so funny. You would think that they have never played any of the sports the way they end up ranking them. They put tennis above the high jump in the power category? Weight lifting near the bottom for flexability, it is quite clear they have never watched the general population try a deep overhead squat? Can pole vaulting really be that different from the high jump for analytic aptitude? Soccer that high above volleyball and wrestling in the agility category?

These kind of rankings are impossible to do, but it seems they always try. Journalists just seem to know everything about sport.

ODB · 01-25-2007, 01:55 PM

I just want everyone to know that the sports that I take part in (swimming, cycling, running, canoeing, hiking) really should be the highest on the list.

Buk · 01-25-2007, 02:45 PM

There is no way dodge ball isn't at the top of the list. Endurance, Durability, nerve, agility, smashing the ball as hard as you can into an opponents face, it should be at the top of all of those categories

Jimbo · 01-26-2007, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ODB

I just want everyone to know that the sports that I take part in (swimming, cycling, running, canoeing, hiking) really should be the highest on the list.

You didn't mention leap frog. Your avatar makes it obvious that you are quite proficient. Which one is you?

ODB · 01-28-2007, 07:46 AM

The one on top of course!

Waittz · 01-28-2007, 12:49 PM

I dont think it accounts for the training though, or Id say wrestling and swimming are a top the list.

milkman21 · 01-28-2007, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSteve

I dont think it accounts for the training though, or Id say wrestling and swimming are a top the list.

Yea, I agree with this assessment. No other sports require as much strenuous training as do wrestling and swimming.

Waittz · 01-28-2007, 11:09 PM

Its really funny though, when I was the captain of the wrestling team back in HS, the captain(and state champ at freestyle) of the swimming team was a good friend of mine and we used to always talk about it. My two years at the school, only 2 out of 25 football players didnt quit the team because it was too hard. And he would tell me how many soccer/other atheletes would drop out of waterpolo after the first week. We used to always say they play football, we dont play wrestling.

milkman21 · 01-29-2007, 08:58 PM

In HS, my swim team had a challenge with the football and basketball teams. They would have to survive a single practice (not even a difficult one) and then we'd go do one of theirs. No one ever took us up on the offer.

emartin10 · 01-31-2007, 12:16 PM

I wonder where they find all of these satanic high school coaches, and why those guys can't get the average joe to lose some weight. I had some TOUGH high school baseball coaches. They killed us! I just don't understand why some of those guys don't get into the world of personal training - they would be more qualified than those schmucks at the big gyms!

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ODB · 01-31-2007, 12:20 PM

I remember many swim team practices that had swimmers in tears before the end. Not me mind you, the others.

Ruslan Kedik · 02-07-2007, 08:48 AM

I have read somewhere years ago, that swimming is one of the hardest sports to train for. Not many sports out there require you to train for that sport two hours plus per practice, twice per day ten times per week. Speaking from experience, once I stopped swimming for a few month, I couldn't make a come back, it's very difficult to get into that mode once you've stopped.

fitzy21 · 02-07-2007, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ruslan Kedik

I have read somewhere years ago, that swimming is one of the hardest sports to train for. Not many sports out there require you to train for that sport two hours plus per practice, twice per day ten times per week. Speaking from experience, once I stopped swimming for a few month, I couldn't make a come back, it's very difficult to get into that mode once you've stopped.

i can definately agree with that. i stopped when 16 for a brief period, went back again when i was 17 and couldn't finish the season out.

then i tried my luck sophomore year in college, age 19 - after having knee surgery...it didnt work out so well, there were other factors, but i do want to try again after college and see where i get now that i believe i have the right mindset.