Why is swimming the hardest sport?
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Swimming is the toughest sport to succeed at. As a swimmer, I know how taxing this sport is
on an athlete’s body. Swimmers work all
the muscles of their body and all the different energy systems in the body
during training. This sports demands
every second of the athele’s attention as well as the majority of their free
time. Swimming is the most physically/mentally
demanding and time consuming sport in the world.
As a sports geek I have attempted a few sports, yet none
have compared to swimming. Just look at Prince Fielder to see how in shape a baseball
player has to be. In Bowling the ball
gets rolled back to you at arms level. And
in golf, you have a caddie carry your equipment for you. Swimming is all conditioning. Nobody ever says” I play swimming” because it
isn’t a game where you keep score. Every swimmer has to be in exceptional physical
shape to succeed at a high level. They
have to be mentally focused at all practices. That means that when we wake up
at 4:30 to go to a 5 AM morning practice, we have to immediately focus on our
technique even though we are still half asleep.
Yes, 5 AM morning practices are a real thing. They take away much needed sleep and instead
leave you exhausted until your next practice that night. So while a football player practices for
three hours after school, swimmers are too.
And we continue to get ready for the upcoming morning by packing our
bags and sleeping. Swimming doesn’t only
require that you be at 9 practices a week.
It requires that you get enough rest during the week to train well at
these practices. What sport can match this
training regime combined with the demands of the sport itself? Swimming is the toughest sport. And even if you still disagree with me, try
naming 10 well-known swimmers. Swimming
is the hardest sport to succeed at.
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