Legs
 

Which team sport requires the best conditioned set of legs?:

Baseball? Basketball? Football? Hockey? Soccer [I]futbol/I]? The Rockettes?
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I'll go with track and field or team gymnastics.

American football has to most freakish athletes in the world, considering size and speed combined, so you'd need some pretty solid legs to excel in that world these days.

I'd go with hockey players. They're constantly on the move. The cuts they have to make on those skates are incredible, and they need to accelerate at a moment's notice.

I would have to qualify the "best conditioned" definition. Are we talking conditioned to run a marathon or conditioned to weight lift? (as two almost opposite examples) And I might add boxers into the best conditioned athletes legs. I think I boxed about 3 rounds in my life. That is all it took to know what kind of condition those guys must be in. All that said, almost all professional level athletes (legs) in today's sports are going to be very well conditioned for what they do.

I think the key word is team sport. I'd go one further on boxing and say Wrestling or MMA. Because the legs need to be all-around conditioned(for running a marathon AND lifting weights). Not only the typical push/pull. Legs need to be conditioned for power, quickness, endurance, and flexibility, as they're often used for holds.. However, yes, these sometimes are team sports, but let's be honest, they're individual sports in a team environment.. Same for gymnastics or track..

I'd say out of the "team sports", Hockey, mostly because of the skate factor.. I haven't met too many skaters in my life, who didn't have ridiculously strong legs...

I'd go with cycling and speed skating.

Team sports... football because of the beating a player takes.

Soccer.... Although i hate the sport and think its boring as hell it does require the best legs. Imo

I agree with the MMA. The legs also have to be able both take a pounding from an opponent as well as dish it out, without pads.

Cycling is actually an odd combination of team and individual sport.

While the US focuses on who won the Tour de France,(General classification for the rider with the lowest overall time) there's also a team that wins based on how they did as a group. Plus the overall winner simply couldn't manage alone. There are always a couple guys whose job is to burn themselves out fetching water and stuff for the stars.

There's also team time trials, team pursuit, and team sprint, plus the Madison and 6 day racing with smaller teams.

And those guys are hands down the best in any sport for legs. Both strength and being able to go a long time. Although the time is more of an overall conditioning. (An average pro might go 4 hours or more at a steady pulse rate of 150-160 then peak at 180+ for the final half hour or so as the pack speeds up towards the finish.

Strength? I did one summer of absolute bottom of the barrel cycle racing right after high school. I was fairly strong, but not pro strong. When we did leg presses before a year or so of extra riding/training I could do 500Lbs+ Probably a lot more by the end of senior year. (Moved a 900Lb pallet at work by bracing against a heavier one and giving it a good push with my feet. Not a good test, since the grit on the floor may have made it easier, but still...)
And the local riders who were just below national level were WAY stronger.

For traditional team sports? For strength I have to go with football linemen. Endurance, probably soccer since they're always moving.

Steve B

I'm laughing. Yes, well it was about team sports but that's the beauty of Net54 -- threads morph. Everybody please have a very safe and happy NYE. Anyway, here's my Rockettes example of great conditioned legs:

+1

Looks more like an example of great cameltoe...:eek:

Definitely hockey; stopping, starting, accelerating both front wards and backwards on a much smaller playing area than soccer. Soccer players can stop and catch their breath, while the play moves on outside their zone of responsibility. Hockey players also deal with power plays and penalty kills. In the last decade or so the game has become much faster as well.

I have never played hockey. Of the sports I have played I would have to say soccer. It by far trumps track.