Some friends say how hard their sports practice is. They say they have to lift, and do suicides (the thing where you run back and forth), and run, etc.
Listenin to what they say, I think its nothing compared to swim practice. We swim several miles each practice, and do sprints throught. It feels really bad, and I have thrown up before in practice becuase I got so tired. Many of the coaches don't give a s**t listening to how bad you feel.
This is not to say that other sports than swimming are easy! I just think that to swim well, you have to go through much more suffering.
2007-03-27 14:04:30 · 5 answers · asked by some guy 1 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
The thing about swimming is that when you need air... you can't get it cause your face is buried in the water while you count strokes and you are preying that the wall at the end of the pool will show up sooner rather than later, so you can catch a quick breath before you tumble turn and do it all again! No other sport tortures you like that! At least in all those field sports ..... you get to breathe if you still can.
The throwing up, by the way.. .is caused by an acid build up in your stomach from metabolising... your body draws as much energy from food sources as it can before it starts drawing on fat reserves or muscle depletion. Back "in the old days" - they called this "hurt pain agony" traning - we used to do "Shane Gould sprints" (progressive sprints) ... I would swim up to the pool deck, throw up, turn around and swim back to the other end.. just in time to have to turn around and conme back. I used to ride my bike to the pool but I couldnt muster up enough energy to climb back on it to ride home.. and I was too dizzy to balance anyway... so I used to push it home.
You are right. No other sport makes you do that!
2007-03-27 14:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swimming is by far the hardest sport in my mind. Is there any other sport where a coach will throw something at you for breathing? Hey ask those people who said suicides were hard if they've ever tried em in the water. To half point, back to flags, to other flags, back to first flags, to wall, back to flags. Most would give up. Seriously, would you rather swim a mile or run it? Everyone would choose run. Running=5-10 minutes of pain. Swimming 19-20 minutes of pain or faster or slower depending on your time. No practice compares to a swim practice. Swimming drylands are often harder than pushups and stuff at other practices too!!!!
2007-03-28 14:39:12 · answer #2 · answered by Gatorfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assure you that top level athletes have hard practices always. What you need to realize about many sports outside of individual ones (swimming and track mainly), in playing the sport you are working hard in practice. EX: Lets say you play a scrimmage for basketball, that is tough on the body, yet it isn't exactly considered "strength and conditioning". With swimming, the only way to play the sport is to swim lots of laps.
2007-03-27 14:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by cowsvils 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe if your being sick during practise you should just take it easier because otherwise you may end up being put off by it.
Being a swimmer, I know that people definitely think that its one of the easiest sports to do, but I agree with you, they don't know how hard it is to get better.
Being at the top of your game in any sport would be difficult though because they are so competitive. All sports would be the same when it came to training hard and competing etc.
2007-03-28 03:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by maddy h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's excellent. If you play extreme thats how your muscle mass suppose. Basketball is amusing. Maybe if it hurts, do not play as a lot. Don't get worried in a brand new recreation, basketball is the first-rate. Just take it convenient on the grounds that your a newbie, and paintings your means up.
2016-09-05 18:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋