What is regarded as the most physically demanding sport to play

I would think taekwondo, I mean my god it doesn't look like much but it's hard as fuck.

Maybe rugby?

Weight lifting, they rely on strength alone

What is referred to as Soccer because they play for 90 minutes a pop and substitutions are rare. American football is more brutal and dangerous but that's not the issue here. Real tough athletes are these ballers, back of the net shot callers. They could have a tee shirt that reads: Real men dribble. All that beating they take day in and out with minimal protection.

Should be motocross

motocross!

At both the moment you play and over time, football would be an extremely physically demanding sport to play. Its one of the sports where there is a possibility of being injured or killed.

OF all the sports I have played, three in HS and two in College, Football was definitely the most physically demanding, purely from the level that you have to be able to play with injury. Most sports you play with pain, aches, soreness, etc., but football you play with actual injuries and if you don't, you usually are not on the field much. While most sports are contact sports, football is a collision sport, and easily the highest level of violent stress on the body. When people can be carted off the field with life threatening injuries, the game is brutal on the body.

Motocross and possibly biathlon participant.

how can motor cross be... i have seen by fat dudes who are like pro. It would have to be Soccer or Rugby. In a game of soccer players have been accounted to run 5-7 miles a game also the only thing you have is little shin gaurds

Football is pretty physically demanding. Then again most sports are pretty demanding. That's just the first one that popped into my head.

Its got to be Soccer or Football depending on whether you are on this side of the pond or the other side of it.

No, it's NONE of the above mentioned. The correct answer is MMA. NHB fighting is on a whole different level.

From Studies at Plenty of universities that i have been to, Motor cross is a very physically demanding sport, which requires core strength to the limit and plenty of L.M.E (Local Muscular Endurance). Soccer actually isn't as physically demanding as people think, L.M.E is required to a certain extent, Aerobic power is required again to a certain extent but soccer players have plenty of time to recover ATP and isn't in the top 3 most physically demanding sports. Wrestling is only power and core strength so neither is wrestling in the top 3. Now, this may surprise people but Australian Rules Football is the second (arguably the best) most physically demanding sport in the world due to the immense training regime and special diet. They have almost a program for everything. In a game a full forward (considered the lazy player) runs up to 13km a game, the average Football player bench presses 150kg and completes the beep test at around 16-17. The amount of L.M.E in these guys legs are amazing and Aerobic power throughout the game is incredible. Flexibility is required to a certain extent and speed is the most important part of them game. The most physically demanding sport in the world is motor cross. If you don't think it is hard try squatting for half an hour while doing squat repetitions. this sport has amazing amounts of L.M.E and is an amazing sport. Remember guys, don't be biased towards your favorite sport the two most physically demanding sports are Australian Rules Footy and Motor Cross.

Definetly not. Wrestling is, and I dont get how everyone could forget it. I come from the same school as Toby Gearhart Norco High School and for season we run 10 miles everyday. Intense and horryfiying conditioning and grugling strength training. No breaks we are always on the go. Even varsity linebacker on our football team couldn't last. Wrestling Is i think a fact by far the most physically demanding sport as a fact. I've done football and soccer and muay thai fighting and trust me they are uncomparable. Trust me you have to try it to understand. Season in wrestling is HELL football players are pussies compared to us. Our average practice is worse than their whole season. Look up the facts if you dont believe me.

The most physically demanding sport is in my opinon is triathlon.
We swim, cylce and run all in one race using different muscle groups for each leg.
The hardest triathlon is without a doubt the Ironman consisting of a 3.8km swim, 180.0km cycle and a 42.2km run. The stress the body is put under can take months maybe even years (depending on your age) to recover from and up to years to train and prepare for.
There is no sport that could possibly fully compare.

by far wrestling what idiots could think motorcross is hard. Wrestlers are the toughest strongest quickest athletes they combined every element of hard sports like football lacrosse soccer and xc. motorcross really anyone can drive

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It’s hard to draw a parallel between motorsports
athletes and traditional stick and ball sports ath-
letes. Most traditional sports post statistics on
their athletes to represent their skills. For instance,
baseball has ERAs, batting averages or on-base
percentage. Football even has the combine that
systematically evaluates and breaks down the
make-up of each athlete. The NFL combine has
tests that include the 40-yard dash, bench press,
vertical leap and other measurements that dissect
the players inch-by-inch.
In supercross, analysts don’t comment about
how high series champion Chad Reed can jump
or how quick he navigates a left-hand turn. At
first glance, the perception of supercross racers
is daredevil-esque and the most energy being
exerted would be simply the twisting of the throttle.
Does the bike do all of the work?
Today, in the Google-everything era, the
sport of supercross/motocross is the first result
yielded when searching: “What is the world’s most
physically demanding sport?” The contents of the
story go on to say how supercross/motocross is
the world’s second-most physically demanding
sport behind soccer, however many involved with
the sport of supercross would dispute this claim,
believing it is the most physically demanding sport
in the world.
While there may not be as many detailed sta-
tistics about a racer’s strengths and weaknesses,
the misconception that these guys are not fit needs
to be erased. Deciding who are the most-fit or
toughest athletes in the world or what sport is the
most physically demanding are arguments that
could be debated for years. Bo Jackson played
baseball with a metal hip, Michael Jordan has more
rings than fingers, Michael Phelps has won more
medals, etc. There really is no right answer.
Dr. Steve Augustine, of Jacksonville Ortho pedic Institute and the Action Sports Medicine
Foundation in Jacksonville, Fla., and his colleagues
undertook a research study where they placed
heart-rate monitors on the riders and monitored
them throughout the races to see where super-
cross athletes compared to other athletes in terms
of fitness.
The results showed that the bottom line is that
these supercross athletes are in incredible shape.
Heart rate is a measurement of the exercises
intensity of an activity. The higher the heart rate,
the higher the intensity and when he looked at the
supercross racers, they were running their hearts
at an average of 179-180 beats per minute. During
a supercross race, the riders’ heart-rate level is at
92% of their maximum heart rate.
As soon as the race starts, their heart rate
runs up to that 92% from start to finish, which is
approximately 20 minutes duration. This is put into
perspective when compared to other sports. Most
other sports gauge their competitors’ heart rates
at an average of 80% during an event. Supercross
racers are actually running at higher heart rates
than most sports, and the most impressive differ-
ence is that they are doing it at 20-minute intervals. Hockey teams may be on the ice for a minute,
football players exert themselves in short bursts
that last only a few seconds.
“I wanted to give everyone the sound medical
data to support that argument in our favor,” said
Augustine. “Anyone that is involved with the sport
or who has ever raced knows how physically
demanding it is, yet the average sports fan still
believes that the motorcycle does all the work.
This wide spread misconception is definitely not
the case, as the results speak for themselves. This
type of research validates our sport on a scientific
level. It gives our sport the respect it deserves in
terms of exercise intensity and the fitness demands
required to compete in this sport.”

anybody who thinks motocross is easy is a retard and probly has never actually done it only watched. sure it looks like like all you do is hit the throttle and hang on but i'd like to see any one from any other sport go pound out a hard thirty minute moto and them not be fatigued or see if they can make there last lap look like their first no way that's happenin. as someone who has actually raced and has done alot of other common sports like baseball basketball soccer etc. motocross takes the cake for sure.every single muscle you have is used and does not get a break until your done your moto. and also best cardio i've ever done.

Either water polo or team handball.

The rider you are looking for is Travis Pastrana. For those of you who are picking the sport that you play, that is considered a biased answer. In a world where everything has a statistic or number along with it, the OP is looking for an unbiased question by using the facts. Thus said, the numbers vary depending on the level of the sport you are competing in. Highschool football is completely different than NFL. So solely based on numbers, motocross by far, at a professional level, the most physically demanding sport to compete in. I have ridden a little at the amateur, as well as many other sports at the same level. Motocross is plain old exhausting. As the poster said earlier, your heart rate is racing constantly for the length of the race. In an offroad GNCC race, that could be up to 3 hours!

Either rugby or traiathlon or cross country skiing

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I think lots of these hater for motocross people for first get street bikes confused with dirt bikes, and there is a difference. and i think they confuse the few elite professional athletes with enthusiast. sure you run many of miles a day, and same in every sport that requires high endurance or strength. some guy posted a comment above me who said triathletes are the most physically demanded athletes in the world. I know that anybody can ride a Dirtbike on flat ground, but to learn to compete is much more difficult. jumps required upper body strength, obstacles require standing up in crouch like stance and usually the tracks are not smooth like flat ground. upper body strength can be self built from practice, like monkeys. swinging from tree to tree, monkeys may not lift the bar full of weights but they can swing all day long. it takes lots of muscle endurance or strength to hold on to your bike for thirty minute races. racers do lots of riding to practice. and on race day practice the new track on the circuit, they qualify for the race, and they also compete in the races. pros fly by air to every race and back home to practice for the week. lots of pros in america live in California, and Florida being dryer climates to be able practice year round.sitting down on the Dirtbike is the reason why people vision motocross as easy. bull riders sit down and hang on as long as they can.I assure you that when they sit down on a professional motocross course they would not compete. they will crash. its skill, and strength. professional motocross athletes jump 100's of feet per lap depending on the track.I know a pretty good motocross rider, who also is a very great wrestler in the state and he admits that motocross is a very tuff sport.
It is physically impossible for the track to be a smooth ride, or surface. there is lots of moguls that are difficult for the average. moguls form and become bigger throughout the day, and are not built as part of the track. what causes this is heavy breaking into the corners. ruts form when the ground is soft as well as moguls. there usually is different choices of ruts to go through, or a couple main deeper ruts. more commonly used ruts get deeper. these parts of the track are as difficult as the big jumps. every sport is hard. skills are worth lots of training and dedication on all different measures. and professionals are selected people who achieved very highly in there previous history of statistics. and not everyone can do it.

Hate too pop everyone’s Bubble but it's actually Motocross ! Burnout age is around 25 yrs of age ! And too the that posted who said he's seen fat pro riders LOL Guy I'll kiss your azz on the corner of Hollywood and Vine and give you twenty- min to draw a crowd if you can name one pro rider that’s over weight ! You have to remember these guys go 30 min or longer using every muscle in there body with no let up! With soccer I see some guy catching his breath standing there getting ready to give a penalty shot at the goal or for some other reason with time out. Football same thing and then you have the Huddle all giving you time to catch your breath or stop momentarily physically. With Motto there no such thing! Ahh and there nothing like the feeling of going down just as you get the whole shot off the line then have 5-10 riders use you body for traction LOL Not really funny tho have seen it happen ! Oh and as far as being hurt if you think smashing into a Hay bail at 80 plus miles an hour feels good think again ! I won’t even go into the Baja thing. To date I think there only been one person that’s been able to ride the course single handed and I can’t remember his name off hand. But even the Team riders go several hours between riders ! If you folks don’t believe what I have written just look it up at sports illustrated site