Most Physically Demanding Team Sport?

**Snowman723** · 05-22-2007, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by one98six

fastest paced team sport.. i vote hockey.

No disrespect to hockey, but the shifts are spread out so you get enough rets to play at your full capacity...

Once you start getting into overtime it can be pretty brutal lol

My vote is for Rugby

**hollisterboii** · 05-22-2007, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by cchrisstopherr

WRESTLING, i dont care what anybody else says

we cut weight, gain weight, build strenght & endurance like crazy!

x2. Everyone thinks wrestling is so easy.

But yeah rugby looks so hardcore. It makes me wonder why they use pads in football.

**Adamisseyegh** · 05-23-2007, 06:11 AM

Rowing For Sure.

**Kreatine9** · 05-23-2007, 06:26 AM

track, boxing, fighting

**rugbyman12** · 05-23-2007, 06:35 AM

Rugby definitely and if you want to take that fruther, rugby 7's is the most demanding sport ever invented! Try it and you will find nothing harder.

Also the guy that said soccer needs more endurance than rugby, that's bull. In rugby you are constantly running just like soccer, but at breakdowns when rucking etc, its also strength endurance. Rugby = most demanding

**SpoofRocket** · 05-23-2007, 06:36 AM

water polo

**andrewmul** · 05-23-2007, 06:51 AM

in a game of soccer lassting 90minutes on average the ball is only in play for 45 mins.

Prob that same for rugby, american football it is probably 5minutes lol

**NuclearArms** · 05-23-2007, 06:56 AM

Important point of clarification.

Rugby League is considerably more demanding that Rugby Union.

**hiphophead** · 05-23-2007, 07:03 AM

why is everyone saying rugby? Yeah at a really high level its a demanding sport just like most sports. Every amutuer rugby team i've ever seen has at least a few big fat guys. All the rugby teams in my city are unfit, fat guys that were too fat and had rubbish CV endurance to take take part in sports like football, basketball, gymnastics, swimming ect..

I hardly ever play rugby, but I could get into a competitive game for my age group and be faster than everyone, better CV, hit harder than alot of people ect..

**andrewmul** · 05-23-2007, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by hiphophead

why is everyone saying rugby? Yeah at a really high level its a demanding sport just like most sports. Every amutuer rugby team i've ever seen has at least a few big fat guys. All the rugby teams in my city are unfit, fat guys that were too fat and had rubbish CV endurance to take take part in sports like football, basketball, gymnastics, swimming ect..

I hardly ever play rugby, but I could get into a competitive game for my age group and be faster than everyone, better CV, hit harder than alot of people ect..

yes im sure you could............

**TomVZ** · 05-23-2007, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by andrewmul

Most demanding team sport?

do orgies count?

**rugbyman12** · 05-23-2007, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by hiphophead

why is everyone saying rugby? Yeah at a really high level its a demanding sport just like most sports. Every amutuer rugby team i've ever seen has at least a few big fat guys. All the rugby teams in my city are unfit, fat guys that were too fat and had rubbish CV endurance to take take part in sports like football, basketball, gymnastics, swimming ect..

I hardly ever play rugby, but I could get into a competitive game for my age group and be faster than everyone, better CV, hit harder than alot of people ect..

No offense bud, but at 144lbs, you come and play in a decent game of rugby and you will go home broken. You just wont have strength/weight to compete, well apart from say one position. Don't know what age you are, but play U18 rugby at a highly competitive level, like national cup and you will see what rugby is! And you don't get fat guys playing in high level stuff.

Originally Posted by NuclearArms

Important point of clarification.

Rugby League is considerably more demanding that Rugby Union.

This is true for a running sense. But with the absence of rucking and mauls it is far less strength demanding. I'd say league is harder cardiovascularly but union is the more overall demanding of the two.

Also league is the most boring sport i have ever played. It really doesn't compare to union.

**hiphophead** · 05-23-2007, 08:52 AM

No offense bud, but at 144lbs, you come and play in a decent game of rugby and you will go home broken. You just wont have strength/weight to compete, well apart from say one position. Don't know what age you are, but play U18 rugby at a highly competitive level, like national cup and you will see what rugby is! And you don't get fat guys playing in high level stuff.

I'm 16 and i've played rugby alot in school, took it for my GCSE's in P.E. I know what you mean. I just seriously doubt rugby is the most phyiscally demanding sport. I've been to the millenium stadium to see Wales in the six nations and trust me, afew of them looked out of shape. Even the captain Gareth Thomas was struggling :/

**body_by_iron** · 05-23-2007, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by tomterp

in america its got to be wrestling with cutting weight not eating etc.. i play football its hard but nothing compared to wrestling imo.

team sports?

**andrewmul** · 05-23-2007, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by hiphophead

I'm 16 and i've played rugby alot in school, took it for my GCSE's in P.E. I know what you mean. I just seriously doubt rugby is the most phyiscally demanding sport. I've been to the millenium stadium to see Wales in the six nations and trust me, afew of them looked out of shape. Even the captain Gareth Thomas was struggling :/

you no why they were sturggling???? Cause its a physically demanding sport.

Yeh league is very high fitness but union ism ore rounded.

Imagine a prop. scrummaging useing all his length strength to push, then having to go to rucks straight away. then when the ball goes out they are lifting in the lineout. Its very draining.

**rugbyman12** · 05-23-2007, 09:21 AM

^^^^^^^Exactly even the 20stone professional props are extremely fit. It's just that the other guys in the team are carrying less bodyweight.

Also playing in P.E. isn't really playing high level rugby. It is seriously demanding. I will not say there is nothing that comes close as they're are probably unbeliveably draining sports i have never played.

**1054876** · 05-23-2007, 09:36 AM

There are plenty of tough sports about, but surely things like lacrosse, ice hockey, rugby, aussie rules football, american football and so on top the list, it's a lot of sprinting around and you're taking hits as well.

**NYRFan68** · 05-23-2007, 09:54 AM

hockey...
i'm not biased at all

**mnwrestler4life** · 05-23-2007, 10:54 AM

ok so im a wrestler, easy enough to tell, and anyone who says it isnt a team sport thats bull. you can be good individually thats great but you train as a team and not usually all on your own like other sports where you compete one on one. Id say wrestling by far is the most demanding of mental and physical strength. Fighting and all other martial arts are up there too. For a sport that you compete on a team together, id say rugby for sure, demands are almost always big muscular guys who have endurance like crazy. constant play, it makes football just seem so boring and easy

**Shangius** · 05-23-2007, 11:19 AM

Water Polo.

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