Water Polo because unlike Football, you are in the water working every muscle in your body the entire quarter without all those breaks and what not. Plus in Football you are more running away from or towards someone and you've got all that momentum that is angled at that person which greatly helps, whereas in Water Polo all you have is your own strength. There is no momentum in the pool! Plus a Water Polo practice alone is consisted of 3 different sports where as Football is divided among different groups. (i.e. Special Teams, Offensive Line, Deffensive Line) So in Football you are specially trained for that certain spot and don't get the tonage that it takes to play every spot during the whole game, while Water Polo everyone is toned for every spot! Not only that, but it has been scientifically proven that swimming works almost every major muscle in your body and in Water Polo you need to have all those muscles in perfect shape to even be able to swim up and down the pool, let alone play the game! And, finally, Football teams consist of like 30+ players who are CONSTANTLY switched out so everyone gets a break and Water Polo teams consist of like 12 players MAX who are rarely ever substituted! So ya, I say that Water Polo is much more physically challenging than Football.
I find it hard to disagree with your statement. Football players get a break in between every play to huddle, catch their breath, and get ready for the next play. While each individual play in football is probably more demanding (since it's an all out sprint for the running backs and WR) and the lines are smashing in to each other full force, over the course of an entire game I think Water Polo would be more demanding primarily due to its nonstop treading water while trying to move the ball towards the goal. Even when you're not involved in the play you're either swimming to get involved or treading water to stay afloat.
Posted 149 days ago | Tagged As: Water polo in more demanding
any sport in water would definitely be more challenging as swimming itself is quite demanding on the body. Add to that the actions that one normally does in water polo makes it definitely more demanding. The closest that football cn come to in comparison would be when you are playing football when it is pouring.
Posted 149 days ago | Tagged As: Water polo in more demanding
"The closest that football cn come to in comparison would be when you are playing football when it is pouring." And even that doesn't come that close either. . .
Those who have played both know that water polo is significantly more demanding.
This is not really concerning of the debate, but have you played both?
H2O Polo is more physically challenging than football because they are constantly moving. In football you get a break during the huddles. H2O Polo can be made more physically challenging by adding piranhas or sharks or something ;)
Water polo requires much more effort for every action.
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I have never played water polo. If I grant you every point in your argument regarding water polo, I conclude that water polo is more physically demanding than football. But, for the sake of argument - football comes with its own set of physical challenges. A person can get seriously injured playing football, and that might be construed as "more challenging" - depending on your definition. What little water polo I have seen, it seems that no one gets injured. I read an article (quite a few years ago) that stated that motocross was one of the most physically demanding sports.
I grant you that my definition of "physically challenging" was obscured, but what I meant by it, was in conditioning and overall fitness level that the player must be in to succeed in the sport.
I get what you're saying, but you're looking at the question wrong. You're pulling it out of context. You do not physically challenge injury. You mentally challenge it by forcing yourself to accept the physical injury. Challenging injury is a mental thing, not a physical. Sure the physical part of you is put into a situation that may or may not get it injured, but that is the mind's will to do so. If you are thinking "Well, I am challenging the possibility of injury, because I think that my body is strong enough to not be injured", that is not the body proving that it is strong, that is your mind estimating the strength of your body. The question is "Which sport is more physically challenging" Physical challenge. If you're surrounded in something as dense as water, when you're not used to it, and you're struggling to do something as quickly as possible, it is your minds will to hand over commands to the body and have them executed against stronger resistance than the body is used to. Your body isn't accepting injury, it is forcing itself through resistance for long periods of time. When you get so tired of it that your muscles cannot do it any longer, it is because your body is exhausted from challenging the resistance to move. I hope that makes sense.
Posted 148 days ago | Tagged As: Water polo in more demanding
From a physical perspective, I concede that water polo may be on par with the rigor involved in playing football. However, the mental challenge involved in football must also be considered because it has a direct impact on the physicality of the sport! In football, every single player on the field is responsible for memorizing hundreds of plays, signals and audibles. In addition, football players be able to mentally adjust to account for the positioning of the opponent. On the other hand, water polo is more akin to soccer. There is a general strategy but for the most part, players are responsible for using their instincts to make great plays.
Posted 149 days ago | Tagged As: Football Mental Matters
I disagree. When I'm in the pool playing water polo, its true that i, along with the rest of my team, rely on instincts a lot, however for every offensive play, a team must learn to counter with a better defensive play. If anything, with the physical exertion it takes a take part in a water polo game, it is much harder to react to a sudden change with your opponent's offense because you're body is physically exhausted which affects your ability to change up your own counter defense as well. Aside from that I love how those who don't know the sport think that water polo has little or no strategy. Which is completely wrong. Water polo practices are all about learning new plays and perfecting them as a team. Basically put, water polo is all Cause and Effect. For every action that your opposing team does your team must have a better reaction that is perfected. And vice versa.
Football is more physically challenging, because the competition level is much, much higher. Let the nations top athletes play polo and let an exclusive number of people play football, and this would be reversed. If Polo is more challeging, do polo players live the rest of their lives in chronic pain like ex-NFL players do? Personally, I'd rather swim for an hour than be hit 30 times by a 300-pound man on steroids. But maybe that is just me.
Watch a few snaps in a football game. See the punishment their bodies take from the other team. I don't think youu can even compare these two. I am very surprised that water polo is getting more votes because I don't think a water polo player could endure the pain the football players feel during some of those hits.
Posted 101 days ago | Tagged As: The Pain
It lasts longer - at least 90 minutes of running up and down the pitch without the support of water.
I have played both and Water Polo is much harder. And there is a lot more contact. People are just ignorant
Posted 75 days ago | Tagged As: Water Polo
Support of water?!?!?! Have you ever TRIED water polo?!?!?! wait! don't answer that! obviously u haven't! water doesn't help support you! BUT GROUND DOES! being in water makes u physically exert yourself to your highest potential every second of every game! there is no "support of water"!
Water supports your weight against gravity due to buoyancy and displacement - this is elementary physics.
Only to the point of which you are mainly submerged in water, but in water polo, you are trying to get up OUT of the water so you have gravity pushing against you and you have nothing that will support your body firmly so you rely on leg muscle alone to keep your force greater than that of gravity to stay up out of the water. if you watch olympic water polo teams, you will see that they are pretty much halfway out of the water the entire time without the support of their hands, so not only do you have to have leg muscle, but you also need core body muscle to support you so you don't fall over.
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