We are tough buggers

[Ed-Zulu]

At my stitches and roasties. . I doubt that ha ha ha.

 

Mind you I am able to get lots of assistance from the male teachers.

Like I said...

[Dustbug]

Each sport has its requirements and having played many different ones, everyone will claim its the toughest its how you train, you get out what you put in. there is definitely a benefit to cycling from running but not the other way round. most other sports are short time frame intermittent high intensity so hard to compare to long cycling endurance events, but cycling definitely takes a lot of training to get to reasonable fitness and performance levels, swimming is another that requires a lot of effort to achieve.

In KZN we have the same problem with the schools and recognition but we have discovered it is because the governing bodies don't want to loose top rugby or cricketers to other disciplines so refuse to recognise the kids achievement, but wait until the mates see them dressed in KZN or SA colours then the attitudes change.

[JJDT]

Each sport does have another type fitness and basically can not compare them.

In school I was a good middle distance runner very good in 800m and 1500m. At the end of the season beginning with the rugby season I was somewhat exhausted in training because it involved differant type of exercises.

After school I did road running was also pretty good could manage sub 4min/km easily for distances up to 42km. One day I was invited by a person in the running club to compete in duathlon event. It consisted of 5km run 40km cycle and then a final 5km run. At that stage I had a personal best time on the 4km of 13:48. A road bike was organised and I was ready for this event, with the 1st run I was about 5th and started the cycling leg....I was passed by about everyone and the last running leg was so difficult...and that was the end of duathlon.

 

Differant skill and fitness level and respect must be mutual for all sports.

[jcmeyerSS]

I have played most sports

 

Rugga - is tough on the whole body. When you work during a game it is completely physical and you use every muscle you have. But this is only 40- 70 sec blast max and if you read the game and smart you can rest a lot.

 

Soccer - this is tough on the legs lots of repeated sprints but also only 20-30sec max. It's 85% legs. And you can find some rest

 

The hardest I have ever worked is when some big shot in SA rugby decided he wanted to try and send a SA team to Aus to play Aussie rules.

We trained hard and then played against a school side that can across here.

 

F M George. You run as much as soccer and it's as physical (if not a bit tougher, you can get taken out in the air and without the ball) as rugga.

Oh an did I mention you play it on a full size cricket field.

[Wez-O]

Cycling does not even feature

 

http://uk.askmen.com...t-sports_1.html

This is just taking the p*ss! haha

 

A really hard and tough soccer game leaves me way more exhausted than a 50km bike race.

 

Averages are normally even higher than 12km. Add to that hits taken in tackles and it gets pretty rough.

 

I challenge you. Do 12km of stop start sprints and see how hard it really is. Doing that 3 times a week and add to that the training and it becomes too much.

 

Just because you can cycle 100km+ doesn't mean you will last 90min in a fast paced soccer game.

 

As cyclists we moan about the way we are treated by non cyclists with regard to it being apparently "easy", but do the same to people playing other sports.

Make no mistake, I love soccer and have played club soccer in my younger days (as a winger which means stacks of running) and yes it can be damn tough but it can't compare to a good bike race.

I'm talking racing here, and not just "riding" the 94.7 in 4 hours. One day racing is non stop intervals and surging... Or take a criterium for example, where you can sit with an average HR of 90% of max plus for an hour, or an endurance event where you pedal hundreds of KMs for consecutive days. All three are tougher than the toughest football game I have ever played.

[LONE TWO]

With out a doubt the " toughest" sport (from stamina point of view) I have ever played is Waterpolo. I mean having to tread water for 30 minutes with people swimming over you aswell as trying to drown you is hard let me tell you. School level is one thing but when you get to national its a completely different story.

 

I also played Ice Hockey for the last 19 years and that's just as hard. take a look at the link below and tell me differently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6C18PsbZ_A

[Joe Low]

BS why must they be like that though, makes me angry.

 

You just get on and do your thing and dont worry about what other people say. This sport is going to bring you happiness for a lifetime.

 

I imagine part of why they get on your case is it gets a good reaction. From your side just make sure not to be putting it in their faces all the time.

[Wez-O]

Okay, there is "toughest" and "toughest"... I would still go with cycling (pro/semi-pro RACING not social riding) as the toughest from a stamina/endurance point of view, but yes ice hockey, rugby, boxing/fighting and perhaps American football are surely the toughest from the physical impact point of view...

 

UNLESS your name is Jonny Hoogerland in which case cycling is the toughest in both aspects and you crash through a barbed wire fence and still complete the stage...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYPDAry-A-s

[rouxtjie]

I find road racing tougher than mtb. Those road pro's gets huuuuge respect from me. They can just sit and hurt for hours on end.

[Gen]

I find road racing tougher than mtb. Those road pro's gets huuuuge respect from me. They can just sit and hurt for hours on end.

 

Yip.. both disciplines come with there own set of challenges.

 

I found both times I was out on a road bike in a bunch that the amiunt of concentration required to just hild my line was moerse challenging.

 

Then of course riding a very technical mtb route comes with the same challenge. . lapse in concentration and it's a big gemors.

[Shebeen]

I find the comparison with tennis silly, try 12km of sprints! The top tennis players are all damn fit, you wouldn't get through a slam tournament if you couldn't recover from round to round. If you take out some the strongmen like lakata, kulhavy and the road sprinters - mosrt of the top cyclists are real lightweights. They would be totally f@##$ing useless in a bar fight, imagine having contador and rasmussen as your wingmen, with the schelk sisters manning the door for runners?!

 

I've done a lot of sports, and the hardest for me physically is wave windsurfing when the wind is pomping and the swell is running. After a tough session I can hardly move, let alone derig my kit and pack it into the car. The problem with this is that the good guys make it look so damn easy, ebut it's damn hard trying to waterstart when the sail is over the werong way, the wind is throwing stingy bits of water in your eyes and a new wave comes and f#$%S the whole shebang up everytime you're almost good to go. I need to be sailing lots to get into the physical shape to handle it. Normally something breaks (kit, my body, my schedule pick one) before this can happen.

 

Doing 24hrs of mountainbiking tomorrow...seems much easier!

[Wez-O]

I find the comparison with tennis silly, try 12km of sprints! The top tennis players are all damn fit, you wouldn't get through a slam tournament if you couldn't recover from round to round. If you take out some the strongmen like lakata, kulhavy and the road sprinters - mosrt of the top cyclists are real lightweights. They would be totally f@##$ing useless in a bar fight, imagine having contador and rasmussen as your wingmen, with the schelk sisters manning the door for runners?!

 

I've done a lot of sports, and the hardest for me physically is wave windsurfing when the wind is pomping and the swell is running. After a tough session I can hardly move, let alone derig my kit and pack it into the car. The problem with this is that the good guys make it look so damn easy, ebut it's damn hard trying to waterstart when the sail is over the werong way, the wind is throwing stingy bits of water in your eyes and a new wave comes and f#$%S the whole shebang up everytime you're almost good to go. I need to be sailing lots to get into the physical shape to handle it. Normally something breaks (kit, my body, my schedule pick one) before this can happen.

 

Doing 24hrs of mountainbiking tomorrow...seems much easier!

The toughest sport is pomping in the wind?

 

Sorry, I totally misread that...

[Shebeen]

Cycling does not even feature

 

http://uk.askmen.com...t-sports_1.html

Just like every top 10 list, it's going to get disputed.

 

Rowing is muuuuch harder than soccer. You don't need a cristiano ronaldo dive to prove it either. You have to be proper tough to row at the highest level, they say preparing for an oxford/cambridge campaign will take 9months off your life due to the prolonged stress you put your system under.

[marko35s]

Agree with the OP!

 

The English Premier League footballers were complaining about 3 games a week at the end of December... Thats 3 games of around 12km covered per day...

Umm, even a basic South African 3 day road tour sounds more strenuous than that, never mind a 3 week grand tour of 3,500km where the riders still ride 100km on their 'rest' days just to keep the legs spinning.

I honestly don't think the two can be compared - the footballers are really fit and those 12 km's are a sprint-stop-sprint kind of thing which can be very draining.

[Wez-O]

As I have mentioned, There is cycling to work, cycling with your buddies in a nature reserve, cycling the 94.7 in 4 hours plus, cycling 94.7 in 3 hours, cycling 94.7 in closer to 2 hours, racing everyday for 3 weeks, racing on a circuit while spitting blood, and so on. The latter ones are what we are referring too when we say cyclists are tough...

 

@Shebeen As for the bar fight, I think while the fight is going on inside between the boxers and rugby players. The cyclist will be outside impressing the girlfriends with their toned shaved legs, shiny carbon bikes and all round stamina

[Wez-O]

Just like every top 10 list, it's going to get disputed.

 

Rowing is muuuuch harder than soccer. You don't need a cristiano ronaldo dive to prove it either. You have to be proper tough to row at the highest level, they say preparing for an oxford/cambridge campaign will take 9months off your life due to the prolonged stress you put your system under.

I honestly don't think the two can be compared - the footballers are really fit and those 12 km's are a sprint-stop-sprint kind of thing which can be very draining.

Point taken on both of these...