What type of athlete would you say is the most complete, in terms of combining the highest level strength, speed, agility, reaction, flexibility, accuracy, endurance, adaptability (switch from one sport to another), strategic mind and mental toughness.
For example, is it the Olympic sprinter, Basketball player, Tennis player, UFC fighter, Marathon runner, Swimmer, Gymnast, Cyclist, Driver, Boxer... etc?
To put it in more visual terms, which type of athlete would be able to do best in these four tests, altogether done in 1 day?
Biathlon, Triathlon, Decathlon, Aeronautical Pentathlon and the Ninja Warrior Course?
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Yup, these guys often work with injuries that players in these other sports would never play with.
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Endurance cyclists can also go on the list through sheer fitness level. I remember watching a video about Marco Pantani whose resting heart rate was so low (34bpm) that he had to wake up during the night and use an exercise bike to get his heart rate up because when he slept it got so low that he risked having heart failure. Miguel Indurain's was even lower at 26bpm.
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As Jaden said cyclists for endurance, but no one is a complete all rounder, as for UFC fighters... depends of the fighter... Big Country was pretty successful lol.
I mean in terms of coping with stress no other human body could a strong man would be up there... but he's not going to run a marathon.
Most champion sportsman are genetic freaks to a point. Even down to hand eye co-ordination. All of us could practice our whole lives and we'd never have Federer's hand eye co-ordination or Prime Wood's fine motor skills, have the right version of the myostatin gene to be an elite strongman, the extra red blood cells and ability to deal with lactic acid to be a champion distance runner etc. As for gymnasts most of them have connective tissue almost like a childs and in fact China staves off puberty in its girl gymnasts to keep them like that.
I've heard that racecar drivers are the most "conditioned" athletes on average, but I don't know what exactly that entails.
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No idea is they're the "most", but professional race car drivers are extremely well conditioned. The amount of G-force they have to take means their bodies, mostly necks, shoulders and core are in superb condition. It's not uncommon for an Indy or Le Mans driver to have their neck grow an inch or more in muscle mass during a racing season. Those cars do not having power steering, so their hands and arms are well condition to grip, hold and control a machine going 200+ mph for extended lengths of time.
Their legs are less conditioned by comparison, but they're still fit and fast enough to play with the gas and brake in a constant back and forth. Again, no power brakes so they're using leg/foot muscle to slow down all that mass while under some Gs.
Add to that the hand/eye coordination and quick thinking they constantly need to keep from crashing.
I remember reading about a guy who done a "super triathlon" of cycling around the world, rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean and climbing mount Everest and all I could think was "rowing and climbing aren't in a triathlon...idiot".
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