Can we at least agree on that?
Can we at least agree on that?
NO.
Shouldn't running be the same as swimming and cycling? If you're going all out then you're going all out.
Actually I might even put swimming as more difficult. When I'm at the end of a running race, my breathing is ridiculous, it sounds like I am hyperventilating. I can't imagine doing that in the water.
I think everyone at the top feels the same no matter the event (as long as it isn't heavily relient on skill). So sprinting and maybe even Olympic weightlifting might be just as physically hard as swimming and running.
addition:
running >>swimming>javelin>crossfit
Swimming must rule. It requirs you to hold your breath. Running does not.
Wrestling is the most taxing.
Swimming the 100/200m fly is the worst pain an athlete can experience, BUT it's over in two minutes. I'd say the lack of available oxygen makes it a bit tougher than running (we used to get berated at practice if we took more breaths than one every other stroke, because breathing slows a swimmer down. Imagine if we were sitting here breaking down how many times Rupp took a breath in the last 400...)
I have participated in both swimming and running. I have always found swimming to be the harder of the two. The U.S. has so many of the world's top swimmers that it is very difficult to make the Olympic team. While there are many runners in the U.S., not that many take it that seriously. They do it for fun, just to stay in shape, to run in a local 5K/10K, etc. Since we aren't the best in the world at running, it is easier to make the team.
Most of the Olympic swimmers have been working at their sport since their were very young. While Flannigan has been running a long time, it will only be her third marathon when she runs at the Olympics. That would be unheard of in swimming or most any other sport for that matter.
swimmig harder wrote:
I have participated in both swimming and running. I have always found swimming to be the harder of the two. The U.S. has so many of the world's top swimmers that it is very difficult to make the Olympic team. While there are many runners in the U.S., not that many take it that seriously. They do it for fun, just to stay in shape, to run in a local 5K/10K, etc. Since we aren't the best in the world at running, it is easier to make the team.
Most of the Olympic swimmers have been working at their sport since their were very young. While Flannigan has been running a long time, it will only be her third marathon when she runs at the Olympics. That would be unheard of in swimming or most any other sport for that matter.
I think we are talking about physically hard, not competively hard.
Keep telling yourself running is the hardest sport ever. It will make you feel better.
I'll name several sports far more taxing in general in terms of training and racing:
Boxing, wrestling, swimming, rowing, soccer, hockey.....
But it's ok, keep putting others and other sports down to make yourself feel better as you put your split shorts on for your easy 6 mile recovery run as everyone else in the other sports go hard most every day.
If a trolling attempt, however, I applaud it..well done.
You need recovery because your body cant handle hard workout after hard workout.
If swimming can let you do hard workout after hard workout then...
Um, hockey is played by, almost overwhelmingly, relatively well off people. You don't see peeps in the ghetto playing hockey. Thus, it is inherently less competitive than sports where everybody can compete, like running or baseball. (poor dominicans do just fine with hand-made gloves and balls)Also, I don't know of that many people that have even TRIED boxing, wrestling, or rowing. So either its so hard that people won't even try it or....probably just less people to compete with...
arm. wrote:
Keep telling yourself running is the hardest sport ever. It will make you feel better.
I'll name several sports far more taxing in general in terms of training and racing:
Boxing, wrestling, swimming, rowing, soccer, hockey.....
But it's ok, keep putting others and other sports down to make yourself feel better as you put your split shorts on for your easy 6 mile recovery run as everyone else in the other sports go hard most every day.
If a trolling attempt, however, I applaud it..well done.
I like how people use the word difficult and tiring interchangeably. Javelin is one of the technically advanced events in track and field. You could have the fastest arm in the world and still not come within 20m of the world record with years of practice if you do not get technique right. Javelin throwers also spend hours upon hours rehabbing their arms and strengthening there joints and muscles and tendons.
You can not compare events unless you have trained as an elite at both levels.
I hear people all the time that are like, oh I run a 5k that is way harder than throwing or pole vaulting. Look a pole vaulter just runs down the runway then lays on the mat. Oh I tried vaulting and it was not tiring at all. People always say they did something once or along with their events and it was not hard at all.
But if you run a 13:30 5k and then go pole vault 10-11 feet a few times you are not doing both at the same level. An athlete in an event like the 5k will run lots of mileage and some tough workouts but hardly ever runs race pace, even during a race. While someone in a jumping event does their event at competition level every day in practice and pretty much runs all out sprints 20-30 times at 100% while working on technique. Then they go do a sprint workout, then hit the weight room. Trying an event like that and jumping 11' is not like an athlete going 19'. An 11' jump would be like jogging down the runway in slow motion from like 3 steps vs. Running 40m at around 22-23 miles carrying a 10 pound pole.
The same way someone can pick up a javelin and throw it 40m and be like thats not "Difficult". If it was not difficult you should have thrown it 80m. Those guys that throw it twice as far as you could ever dream spend hours a day working on technique, building arm speed, strength training and rehabbing.
arm. wrote:
Keep telling yourself running is the hardest sport ever. It will make you feel better.
I'll name several sports far more taxing in general in terms of training and racing:
Boxing, wrestling, swimming, rowing, soccer, hockey.....
But it's ok, keep putting others and other sports down to make yourself feel better as you put your split shorts on for your easy 6 mile recovery run as everyone else in the other sports go hard most every day.
If a trolling attempt, however, I applaud it..well done.
I can attest to the fact that soccer is not as hard as running. I played competitive club soccer until I was 15, and my brother plays division 1 soccer for a final four team. While he is strong and can run about 11:40-12:00 for 3200, he himself says that the training I do for high school cross country/track is much harder than what he does for college soccer.
My mother was a swimmer, and a runner later, and what she told me was that the time commitment was the hardest part, and the workouts were not as intense as track workouts. (Granted she's never done one, but she's seen me run them.)
Rowing is a joke, the rest I have no experience with.
Soccer is undoubtedly the hardest sport to make it to the top in.
Maradona didn't even go to school, from age 9 to when he went pro, he practiced something like 8-10 hours a day.
lets say you have someone whos never swam in their life join the swim team and you have someone who has never ran before join cross country. the new swimmer is going to have a harder time.
lets say you have an olympic runner and an olympic swimmer. the runner feels more pain. :)
If you slow down too much when you run, you walk.
If you slow down too much when you swim, you drown.
'nuff said.
Maria Venn wrote:
If you slow down too much when you run, you walk.
If you slow down too much when you swim, you drown.
'nuff said.
You're an idiot.
swimming for sure. Ive done both at a competitive level. swimming takes sooooo much time everyday. its constant interval training. plus adding resistance. its aweful to be honest. Thats why I decided to run and not swim in college
15:55 and change wrote:
Rowing is a joke, the rest I have no experience with.
Rowing is insanely hard. I quit rowing to run because it was easier.