HARDEST sports to play

ijustwantfood
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:42:35 +0000

Swimming or waterpolo, by far and away. If you think running is hard, try swimming. I am both a runner and swimmer, mi do cross country for my school. Doesn’t ven compare to swimming. The sports are actually similar in the way that theres distance and sprinting and its enurance. But when you run, you’re running through air. When you swim, you swim through water. Water is denser than air, making it harder for your muscles to move through it. Also when you swim, you are working EVERY single muscle in your body, it’s the only sport that does. You also have to hold your breath. When you breath, it takes time (keep in mind that one one hundreth of a second can be all that decides a race) and it puts your body out of position. And when you use all of your muscle strength, pushing through the water doing repetive arm and leg movements, as well as constantly stretching your abs to get a longer pull, not giving your muscles enough oxygen to do so makes you even more exhausted. When you end your race, my coach says that if you’re not in an aerobic shock (not enough oxygen in your bloodtream) that you breathed too much and didn’t work hard enough. Yes, there is such thing as breathing too much. Many people will say, yeah I can swim. No. Swimming is not just splashing around in a pool in the summer time. You can’t even begin to think of yourself as a swimmer unless you have at least BB or A times, if you don’t know what that is, you aren’t a swimmer. (Unless your from a different country. They do things different probably similar).

Waterpolo is also very hard. Its not just ‘treading water’. I have never played it because I wanted to freshman year but I was the only girl and the guys wouldn’t accept me. But in waterpolo, you are constantly fighting with someone, kicking, scratching,shoving, elbowing. The catch is, you are doing this while in water, not allowed to touch the bottom, making you very off balance. You also can only catch and throw the ball with one hand, and still keep in mind iu are off balance, with people trying to dunk and kick you.