Zoltan;1624987 wrote:Lots of football players would quit if they had to do cross country workouts, but I think more cross country runners would quit if they got knocked around daily in football practice.

I think they both would be terrible at each others sports. Not a good sport swap. CC runners as slender and often lanky. Footbal players don't have the endurance for CC. They'd both be awful

I played football and baseball (was good at football, really good at baseball).

I wrestled for 2 years in jr high and hated it, but would have been rather good at it had I kept it up (have done a few submission grappling tournaments as an adult and done well).

I would have SUCKED at basketball. I tried out for it in 7th grade (before I signed up for wrestling) and got cut. In my 12 year old mind I was devastated. I had been really good at every sport I had played to that point and I utterly sucked at basketball. I was enough of an athlete to play defense but I couldn't shoot (and still can't) to save my life.

I would have been good at volleyball had there been a boys team. I have played on a few sand volleyball and court volleyball leagues and been pretty good even with never playing in HS.

Soccer I would have sucked at, long distance track/field and cross country I would have sucked at. I could run 40 yard dashes all day (football conditioning) but ask me to be at a fast jog/slow sprint for more than a couple minutes and I was screwed.

What about golf workouts?

dlazz;1625002 wrote:What about golf workouts?

Hahaha

ccrunner609;1624802 wrote:LOL....I have had some of the best football players in my school run track and even jump over and run CC and all of them say that CC is way harder then anything in football.

No practice/sport is close to as hard as wrestling. Football and cross country practices are a joke compared to wrestling practices/tournaments....both physically and mentally.

jmog;1625004 wrote:No practice/sport is close to as hard as wrestling. Football and cross country practices are a joke compared to wrestling practices/tournaments....both physically and mentally.

Pretty much. I can use cc's same argument against him that I know plenty of cross country runners who also wrestled and said wrestling was by far tougher than CC.

Ib4 pissing match

CC harder than wrestling? lol...I've heard it all now.


I wish I would have played soccer or stuck with hockey when I was younger.

ccrunner609;1624802 wrote:LOL....I have had some of the best football players in my school run track and even jump over and run CC and all of them say that CC is way harder then anything in football.

In a way, yeah, track and CC is tougher than football because of the running. They run a ton more that is for sure so in terms of that, yeah, CC/track can be harder. FB is a sport of short 5-10 second bursts and the conditioning is different.


but the actual physical aspect of tackling, hitting, etc there is no doubt that football is much more demanding and tougher than CC/track.

CC is NOT harder that wresting or football. Period.

When they allow competitors to tackle each other and the last one standing wins, people (re: not moms, dads, gfs & perv coaches) will actually go watch a XC meet. Until then comparing it to football is mockery.

Tiernan;1625047 wrote:When they allow competitors to tackle each other and the last one standing wins, people (re: not moms, dads, gfs & perv coaches) will actually go watch a XC meet. Until then comparing it to football is mockery.

I played HS football for a successful program. There are many members of our team who could probably not have even made it the entirety of a cross country race.

Tiernan;1625047 wrote:When they allow competitors to tackle each other and the last one standing wins...

I think you're on to something here....I like it.

like_that;1625009 wrote:Pretty much. I can use cc's same argument against him that I know plenty of cross country runners who also wrestled and said wrestling was by far tougher than CC.

This is definitely true. While I didn't wrestle probably 75% of my high school's CC team did. And they all said wrestling was harder.

Dr Winston O'Boogie;1625049 wrote:I played HS football for a successful program. There are many members of our team who could probably not have even made it the entirety of a cross country race.

Oh I believe it!

Those wrestlers had some brutal practice and ran like MFers!

Iliketurtles;1625057 wrote:This is definitely true. While I didn't wrestle probably 75% of my high school's CC team did. And they all said wrestling was harder.

Running 3 miles was the warmup to wrestling practice....

jmog;1625060 wrote:Running 3 miles was the warmup to wrestling practice....

Yeah, but then you get to lay around on a nice comfy mat and mess around with the boys.

Zoltan;1624987 wrote:Lots of football players would quit if they had to do cross country workouts, but I think more cross country runners would quit if they got knocked around daily in football practice.

I think most of the quitters would be because they suck.....not many of us stuck with stuff we sucked at compared to other sports

Dr Winston O'Boogie;1625049 wrote:I played HS football for a successful program. There are many members of our team who could probably not have even made it the entirety of a cross country race.

No shit Sherlock. But could a single runner on the XC team block a 210 LB on a crush blitz? Nobody is saying running everyday to train isn't hard, but the point being football all around is physically more demanding than most sports...wrestling possibly being the only one tougher.

Wrestling is also by far tougher than football. Give me a football practice/game over a wrestling match/practice any day of the week if I want to take it easy.

The contact part of football is more a function of mental toughness rather than physical IMO.

I ran both cross country and track for a few state championship teams and have always felt the three weeks of conditioning going into basketball season were the most physically difficult of my four sports.

I played football, wrestled, and baseball in high school. I was bad at baseball but all my friends were on the team so that was the only reason I went out for it. Basketball was never an option for me I couldnt shoot to save my life.

like_that;1625072 wrote:Wrestling is also by far tougher than football. Give me a football practice/game over a wrestling match/practice any day of the week if I want to take it easy.

This is 100% true, I love football and hated wrestling in HS. I still agree with this 100%.

Play 48 minutes on Friday night-go out and party after
Wrestle 3-4 matches on a Saturday wrestling tournament (MAYBE 20 minutes of wrestling spread out over 5 hours) and you do nothing but crash.

Heck, one single wrestling match (6 minutes in HS) is harder than a HS football game (48 minutes).

Tiernan;1625066 wrote:No shit Sherlock. But could a single runner on the XC team block a 210 LB on a crush blitz? Nobody is saying running everyday to train isn't hard, but the point being football all around is physically more demanding than most sports...wrestling possibly being the only one tougher.

It depends. If you are 150 lbs, then football is pretty demanding. If you are 250, not really.