Hardest Sports to Train For?

[WyoNewk]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashbeck

The reason why I say cross country is hard to train for because you'd have to run miles. It was brutal when I went out.

My junior year in high school I went out for cross-country track the last couple weeks of it just to get in shape for wrestling. The next year I didn't get there until the last day of c/c season, just in time for a big meet. The coach told me to run as fast as I could for as long as I could, in an attempt to sucker some opposing runners into trying to keep up with my pace.

It was held on our local golf course, and I think I left a trail of vomit all the way from the first green to the second one! By the time I'd walked the rest of the course, everyone else had left.

But our wrestling coach was BIG on conditioning, and if we weren't wrestling we were running, so by the end of the wrestling season I couldn't run far enough to tire. Same with push-ups. A teammate and I were to have a push-up contest one night after practice. We both had done 500 (on our fingertips) when the coach kicked us out. Time to go home, and neither of us were even starting to get tired.

So I don't think running, or any other endurance sport, would provide the most difficult training. Once you're in good physical shape, it's just running, no matter the distance. Am I wrong? I'd have to side with jmgg; training for hotdog eating contests would be tough -- day after day of eating *ugh* hotdogs by the dozens. You wouldn't want to combine THAT with x-country track! BAAAAAARRRRRRFFFFFFFFF

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashbeck

The reason why I say cross country is hard to train for because you'd have to run miles. It was brutal when I went out.

the difference between training for long distance track and cross country is when you run cross country and go into the woods you can wait until you're out of sight and veer off the trail and hide behind a tree or shrubbery. Then, you wait for your teammates to come back and fall in behind them, sometimes with a late burst with your arms upraised to be the first one back. Not as easy to do on a track and in plain sight of the mean and frustrated coach who wasn't good enough for the football team.

Originally Posted by WyoNewk

...So I don't think running, or any other endurance sport, would provide the most difficult training. Once you're in good physical shape, it's just running, no matter the distance. Am I wrong? I'd have to side with jmgg; training for hotdog eating contests would be tough -- day after day of eating *ugh* hotdogs by the dozens. You wouldn't want to combine THAT with x-country track! BAAAAAARRRRRRFFFFFFFFF

I would think that in training for hot dog eating contest you would train on little smokies and save the full sized hot dogs for the actual championships

[Cliff Hardy]

Boxing and kickboxing, both of which I can speak first-hand about, are extremely tough to train for if you expect to succeed.

[1973PINTO]

i am/was very athletic and can succeed quite well in all stick and ball sports but i would hate to have to try and be a gymnast ..