HARDEST sports to play

mikeyc765
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:54:44 +0000

Tennis is a fairly “easy” sport, compared to others. Yes, I speak from experience. I played 4 years of varsity in high school. Unless you are a professional player going 3-5 hard sets with 20-shot rallies, it’s really not that bad. I would say the conventional sports (basketball, soccer, football, etc.) are harder, especially at non-elite levels. Tennis certainly involves skill and athleticism, and I love the sport, but as far as “hardest”, absolutely not except at the highest levels.

I ran XC in high school and that was tough. But as for “hardest”, and I’m going with something that doesn’t really qualify as a sport, but martial arts. I tend to think it’s only a “sport” if you are doing competitions, which not everyone does. Martial arts training is quite intense. If you do it right, it’s quite exhausting very quickly, since with every “snap” of a technique, you are tensing all the major muscle groups. Add to that you literally get hit if you mess up, plus the conditioning, and you’ve got something that’s pretty tough. 50 push-ups seem like a lot? Now do them on your knuckles. Still too easy? Do another set on your finger tips…