Endurance is Overrated
Soccer players are impressive athletes. However, sometimes I think soccer players' athleticism is somewhat overstated when their fans constantly reference the need for endurance in soccer, because it seems to me that endurance is a skill that is relatively attainable. Most decently athletic people can build endurance, but very few even stud athletes people can perform with the power/quickness combo of a Ray Lewis, Tim Duncan, or Ken Griffey Jr. I'm not saying soccer players don't have those more-difficult-to-attain skills; just saying endurance isn't evidence of that.
posted by Astrofan at Saturday, June 17, 2006
2 Comments:
Once again, my dear ASTROFAN, you demonsrate your complete and utter lack of any knowledge of human phisiology, kinesiology, and performance science. In fact, each person's endurance limits are bounded, just as their capacity for speed and for quickness is bounded. Speed is attainable via proper training just as endurance is. Quickness is also improvable, though the cost/benefit ratio is much lower. Trust me, I work for the government. So your basic premise is flawed in that it assumes that endurance can be trained, but speed or quickness cannot.
As for your position on the athleticism of soccer players, I do actually agree with you that the "endurance" requirements are not alone enough to claim soccer players are more athletic than other sport athletes. But running around is not the key to the game of soccer. In fact the better you are, the less you have to run.
"In fact the better you are, the less you have to run."
Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I respect soccer players.
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