Breathtaking U.S. College Sports Story

[dgs49]

What a fantastic lot of information available on this thread!

To those who are serious about the amount of "work" that goes into playing a sport, much of this talk about distance and time is nonsense.

How valid would it be to point out that the Olympic gold medal winner (100M dash) runs less than half a mile or only a minute or two IN TOTAL in order to win that medal? The intensity of his exertion is many times that of a distance runner or other athlete who plays a typical game.

An average NFL lineman burns more calories in an afternoon (...eleven minutes of actual playing time...) than a typical marathon runner or soccer player in a full match. It is not unusual for them to lose ten to 20 pounds on a warm day, even while drinking on the sidelines throughout the game.

And they could kick the soccer player's ass, too.

[Gob]

An average NFL lineman burns more calories in an afternoon (...eleven minutes of actual playing time...) than a typical marathon runner or soccer player in a full match. It is not unusual for them to lose ten to 20 pounds on a warm day, even while drinking on the sidelines throughout the game.

Bollocks. Utter bollocks.

[Gob]

So, a running back might drop four to five pounds (around two kilograms) during a game, and a lineman might expend closer to nine pounds (four kilograms), says Chris Fischetti, an athletic trainer for the Buffalo Bills.

[Sean]

Dave is just pulling 'facts' out of his arse. I am now convinced that not only did he fail to get on to the footy team at school but the team captain used to beat him up every day for his lunch money.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Between 1995 and 2001, 21 players died from heatstroke, an average of three a year, said Dr. Frederick Mueller, professor and chair of exercise and sport science in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/10203.php

These days deaths from heatstroke are almost non-existent, as the referenced site indicates. Weight-loss is of course a product of exertion, burning energy which creates heat. Playing in a suit of armour and failure to remove the helmet and properly hydrate magnify the weight loss. The exertion as such is a lesser cause than the sauna which the players inhabit.

[rubato]

An average NFL lineman burns more calories in an afternoon (...eleven minutes of actual playing time...) than a typical marathon runner or soccer player in a full match. It is not unusual for them to lose ten to 20 pounds on a warm day, even while drinking on the sidelines throughout the game.

Bollocks. Utter bollocks.

Weight loss during exercise is nearly all dehydration. But 20lbs = 2.41 gallons of water loss. Very unlikely for a living person.

Your body volume would decrease by as much as one of these:



20 lbs (IIR) is also 70,000 calories many times as much as a TdF rider burns in an average day.



yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

Who in the hell wants to watch a game with namby pambys grown men running around wearing full body armour?

Actually, they AREN'T wearing the full armor... to the point that the NFL is considering requiring them to wear more protection.

[Sean]

LMAO. I think you're making my point for me Jarl...