Olympic lifter here. The "clean deadlift" is a specific movement to reinforce the clean pull. We don't even call it a deadlift haha. It's like comparing a front squat to a back squat.
I really like that front squat/backsquat comparison like someone with a crazy FS could learn a great BS with just a little practice. The clean pull would transfer to a great deadlift with probably not that much practice
As soon as I read the title....Decathlon popped into my head as they do so many things both strength, and speed/endurance. Good to see you picked it too!
A guy wrote a book where he analyzed Batman from the point of view of a physical trainer and basically concluded that Batman is an Olympic-level decathlete who at the same time has a black belt in at least 2 or 3 martial arts, which he also practices at world top level
Wrestling at 5 is insane. Have a world class wrestler on your channel and put them through any athletic gauntlet you can come up with and see how they do
Okay so you admit to be lacking the knowledge about wrestling but to answer a few questions: Any wrestler below 200 pounds and who has been wrestling for atleast 1 year at the high school level is expected to be able to walk on their hands, evey college and any legit highschool program does handwalking across the gym as part of the warmup before practice. Running is a massive part of the sport as well, id say most highschool wrestlers would run atleast 2 miles each practice for warmup, not including conditioning and in addition to this there is massive ammounts of running for weight cutting. That is another thing that i think should be mentioned is that wrestlers do wild things while being malnourished and alot of the time after running many miles before the contest just to make weight. You would not be able to make a d3 college wrestling team let alone the olympics if you are unable to run long distances or walk on your hands, unless you are in the 285 pound weightclass. I recommend getting into a college wrestling practice one day and youll understand how intense the training is, and thats not even including the intense strength training. I joined Cross country in the middle of my years of wrestling and was able to run a 6 minute mile in my first week because of the gpp wrestling gave me, then the same thing applied to lifting weights where my first time deadlifting I pulled 440 pounds conventional just from my wrestling training.
Heard a lot of horror stories about you lads. I've been told it's not uncommon for Americans to vomit during training sessions and the Russians apparently have sickening devotion to strength and technique building, that they ignore anything else. All respect to you wrestlers
I wrestled for a good while and this is on the conservative end of how wrestlers practice. I agree with you on everything, and wrestler flexibility is very forgotten by people outside of the sport. Everyone had to be able to do all the different things you see contortionists brag about online even though I wrestled with a group of 30 people who could all do the same things. I've never seen anything near the intensity of a college wrestling practice, and it would be cool to see Mitch join a college wrestling practice.
@@ODJames1 in college during our preseason conditioning the first workout would usually have about 1/4 of the team throwing up. That goes away as you get in shape and most of then we're stupid for not keeping their conditioning up in the off-season, but yeah that's pretty common
@@handeggchan1057 our team didn't, we did kettlebells and stuff which was okay but not the best. Lifting was an on your own thing. I coach at my old hs now and made lifting a priority since when I started lifting a bunch on my own halfway though HS I became so much better.
Every Strongman competition should have a ping pong tournament. Test agility and hand-eye coordination, and the paddles would look comical with 6’5 350 lb + dudes using them
Funny Story... I play table tennis and we once had an ex Strongman in club who, for having to play with his off-hand because his right wasn't really working anymore, played incredibly gracefully. :)
My dad has always said to me that waterpolo and wrestling are the hardest sports in the world. Anyway, I do wrestling and my sister did waterpolo, he made sure we went hard.
Netflix already tested this in two seasons of Physical 100...both times crossfit won Crossfit isnt an olympic sport but they beat many olympic medalists
Climbing is by far the best choice for the metrics you are using. Climbers are very strong in their whole body. Nothing compared to strength sports but compared to their body weight they are far above average. They are generally highly mobile, they are generally good at coordination with both hands and feet considering the modern setting. They have solid aerobic capasity because of the large lead routes they have to climb. They have to be dynamic and static with strength all the time. They are extremely adaptable because every boulder and lead comp is a different set. They are good under pressure including the risk of injury because they take boulder falls from 10ft regularly and have to trust their belayer to not drop them on a 45ft fall. For the mens athletes they are not small people(not huge either but pretty average weight and height for a top athlete) and they are not uncomfortable with pain. Alot of climbing is fighting the pain of the holds, the pain of pump, and the pain of pushing as far beyond your conceived limit every single comp. The fact that you didnt include climbing at all on the list is very uninformed, I get its new to the arena but objectively it has some of the hardest, most variable, and most rounded athletes in all of sport.
They should introduce a "megathlon", where athletes have to do all of the other olympic games combined in a gauntlet, that athelete would be the ultimate olympian
There's so many olympic events right now that it would be impossible to do, you will need a whole month to be able to complete all the events and survive in the process, also the team events would be hard to judge. But I love the idea lol
I’d put climbing up around gymnastics. Incredible athletic capabilities and The competition concept is literally based around being able do whatever is thrown at them on the day!
As a man from nation that won gold(Serbia), i will tell you it is overrated. Waterpolo is all about playing it a lot. Our guys dont even hit the gym frequently, all they do is swim and play waterpolo every day. Sports like athletics, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, awimming take much more effort.
Even at the high school level gymnastics and flexibility are a huge part of any elite wrestlers training. I'd put wrestling right under or above water polo athletes
A bit surprised rock climbing didnt make it onto this. These guys have insane strength, especially for their size, they need to do a lot of aerobic stuff on modern boulders, balance and flexibility and have incredible endurance for lead. All while having great bodily awareness. To me they should be pretty high on the list
Competitive wrestlers possess an amazing combination of strength, agility, endurance, and toughness. I would say they can hang with the best all-around around athletes.
I would say wresting has to be number 2. All great wrestlers are good gymnasts (even as a judoka gymnastics is part of my training). Secondly, since you were talking about the "balls" component, you cant beat someone who is desensitised to being dropped on their head. Normal wrestling training consists of weightlifting, Intervals and gymnastics, and a lot of mat time. They are second in strength only to the weighlifters and throwers. I recommend you guys watch some wrestling training compilations
Javelin would be my guess. Excellent coordination, good running, good explosiveness and also some upper body strength. I'll be curious about Mitch's pick! Okay so I was thinking about a single discipline, decathletes are obviously even better rounded!
As a swimmer, I always found water polo extremely fun. A lot of the skills you gain from swimming (treading water /kicking drills), the crazy endurance, even just knowing how to move your body through water… it all makes those aspects of water polo much much easier. There is still obviously the hand eye coordination, teamwork/strategy, and physicality that doesn’t directly translate from traditional swimming, but you’d be surprised how much a solid swimming background almost trivializes those other aspects of water polo.
Decathlon was super obvious. But bro, how could you dismiss Handball?!?! It's like Basketball, but 10 times tougher. I'd say comparable to Rugby because they don't kick but jump and throw better (:
How is such a simple sport harder than basketball i feel like you would need much more skills playing basketball plus height and athleticism but enlightenment me about handball
Well, it's basically full contact, but you're right the shooting is harder to learn in basketball, but you throw harder in Handball. Maybe I'll put them on the same spot after thinking about it :D
@@cyber7273 its just much more physical and much faster than basketball. I dont know how you would describe handball as simple and basketbal as difficult ? There is no logical reason to do so ?
@@cyber7273 the question was a sport with good allrounders and in this case handball is a much more physical sport with more strength and endurance components as basketball. i would say that handball is a better package of strength, agility, endurance and skill. basketball is more skill heavy and less strength and endurance (like every american sport - there are too many breaks ^^)
@@cyber7273 Because if you pick the core athletic qualities running, sprinting, jumping and throwing. Handball players are better at it compared to basketball players
What you said about there being less distinction between the shorter and longer distance swimmers than there is in track is really a major flaw in swim coaches. A lot of coaches refuse to let swimmers specialize until at least the collegiate level. Even the best sprinters of all time grew up doing tons of counterproductive distance training well into their high school years and I feel like if they could specialize younger we’d have some unbelievable sprinters.
Triathlon is up near the top. I remember an old round fitness test back in the 90s in Australia. The top athletes were triathletes and surf life saving ironmen.
4:50 Not even dancers are crazy enough to do jumpsplits for max height 😭 the main goal of a jumpsplit is usually “conclude with both hamstrings intact”
Good list. I'd probably put wrestlers at place 2 or 3. I don't know too much about sailing but seems less athletic than swimming and volleyball to me. Other than that I'm pleased with the list.
Basketball. They have it all, speed, endurance, coordination, skills, natural strength. The selectivity to make pro may be one of if not the hardest major sport. Genetics are in the 99.99 percentile.
I think you did Oly a disservice. Look up all the different backgrounds of CrossFit athletes and you’ll see a lot of these different sports. Mat Fraser is the 🐐
Soccer Players have always came out on top. They had a series where they took pro players from all sports and had them perform all different things...Soccer Players for the win
You mentioned a sprinter playing soccer and we actually have an example of that with the fastest human, Usain Bolt. He unsuccessfully tried his hand at soccer. He was OK but he aspired to play in a top league and I think he ended up signing with some Aussie team but didn't make any waves.
I agree that water polo and decathlon athletes would definitely be at the top! I think water polo athletes could definitely kick extremely well, since they literally kick against the resistance of the water for such a long time during games. I also wonder about surfing, because I've seen Coco Ho's workouts where she walks with a large rock underwater fighting the waves, and I have to think that would make her a pretty incredible athlete. Surfing doesn't really involve throwing or catching things, though.
Rules of race walking says that you must have one foot in contact with the ground at all times, as visible to the human eye. So basically you are allowed to "run" if you dont get caught by judges.
There is word of mouth info on Kovacs hitting 770 for a double on bench on a recent Throws University you tube video. I honestly think he and a few of the other Shotputters could step into Strong man and be competitive. Geoff Capes a World Strongest Man from England made a couple of Olympics back in the day in ShotPut. I do think that Kovacs would surprise you if you put him in a strong man event or two if you can get him in a video.
Basketball players. Not all but most of them are giants who are strong, runu fast, good endurance, athletic with good coordination. Look at LeBron James and Zion Williamson, Shaq. Don't forget two of the best strongman in history played basketball as well as there is a former NBA player in This year beach volleyball from the USA. His name is Chase
Played Rugby, Water Polo, and Decathlon. Rugby is 1000% the most athletic and hardest. None of the other sports are as physical and require an all-round skillset. Swimming is a main recovery activity for Rugby. I would arrange them. 1. Rugby 2. Decathlon 3. Water Polo 4. Gymnastics
I'd put archery higher than golf, archers are stronger than they look and plenty of strength endurance and you have to be very body aware for archery so picking up another skill is easy
Good analysis, Mitchell. I wouldn’t have thought to include water polo. Decathletes are obviously an excellent choice, but they are somewhat lacking in aerobic endurance. They have 9 anaerobic events, and their only aerobic event is only the 1500m, and most of them hate doing it. For the women’s heptathlon, the only aerobic event is only 800m. Wrestlers and gymnasts are excellent choices, but again lacking in aerobic endurance, especially the gymnasts. Two sports that have strength, speed, agility, plus better aerobic endurance are boxing and basketball. Retired exercise physiology professor here. 🙂
I have been a lot around decathletes and trust me they have great aerobic endurance, they do a lot of long runs in the off season, you need to have good aerobic capacitiy for the decathlon because you are competing for 2 days (all day) and you need to recover fast for the next event, they have 3 jumping competitions just for those you need to do multiple sprints and jumps and then recover for the next event, also the 400m sprint is brutal you need good aerocbic capacity mostly to recover from it and then do other 5 events.
@@stan5936 Yes it would.. Rugby 7s, is a super fast game with constant change of directions and linear sprints.. Research shows that some of the best exercises that correlate with velocity and the stretch shortening cycle are snatches, cleans and squats (more specifically the reseach I read suggested front squats is better developing linear sprint speed). Pretty much every sport Mitch mentioned would be improved with weightlifting Strength and mobility is the foundation of all sport
I’d put volleyball above swimming for sure. If you took the top male swimmers and I took the top male volleyball players and we played basketball, football, soccer, baseball I bet the volleyball players stomp. Of course the swimmers would probably win in long distance running but even in short distance running I wouldn’t give the swimmers an edge.
There is a points system to rank the difficulty of different achievements in track and field. I am not sure how it works exactly because I cannot find what equation it is based off of, but it is used by the people who choose what odds for athletes to win. Based on it though, the most impressive achievement by far was Kelvin Kiptum's marathon world record. The previous wr was already the most impressive, but Kiptum shattered it by 34 seconds. Unfortunately he passed away early this year, but he set multiple records in the span of one year and probably would have broken 2 hrs if he had one more race. If he had lived to have a full career, I think he would have gone down in history as one of the greatest athletes to ever live, if he does not deserve that distinction already.
This is not true, Kelvin world record holds at 1322 points, it's literally the number 10 on track and field world records. The record with the most points is the javelin throw, 98.48m with 1365 points
Wrestlers and gymnasts. Best well rounded athletes. Yes wrestlers can throw...and do handstands. We do handstands in practice pretty regularly. Having water polo above wrestlers hurts my soul brother.
Im super curious how your strenght compares to track cyclists, the male sprinters in that discipline do over 400kg's per leg in leg presses. And would be super interested to see what kind of power a strongman could put out on a bicycle!
Decathlon Decathletes of course If you look back on the 70s abc seasonal series The Superstars asked this question with competitors from all sports. Golfers didn’t do to back up your assumptions.
I've been thinking a lot on what sport is the best for the brain and cognitive benefits. I'll state my top 3 here, without explaining all my reasoning, as it would be too long. First, I stoped on curling as being the best, for the insane coordination and mental calculations. Then, I thought that acrobatics is even better, because of the mad spatial awareness and coordination. And then I came to water polo, which incorporates all that plus team skills. If I am to choose 1 sport for my kid (if I want them to be as smart as possible), that would be water polo.
would be interesting to have a list of most impressive olympic performances. Like most golds, most consecutive golds, most appearnaces, most dominant record, etc
so a couple things, would've honestly guessed wrestler, strength, speed, endurance, situational awareness, knowledge.... on a side note i would've actually put shooting first as its all pure skill and knowledge, personally i was able to score 100% on a range before hitting a 275lb bench (the concepts are basically the same) as for golf, you should check out Bryson Dechambeau and Grant Horvat
Kinda got me thinking that there is no kick event in athletics. They throw a bunch of stuff javeling hammer, discus and theres the shot put. Would have been cool if there was a kick something fairly heavy as far as possible. It would have been fun to see the crazy quad physiques of the kickers in athletics.
It's all going to depend on what you're looking for out of your competition. I've been around All-American decathletes and seen some very good D1 wrestlers train and in an all-around competition, I'd pick the decathletes. They tend to be taller, faster, and are naturally very coordinated. Wrestlers tend to be explosive in short bursts and have good muscular endurance, but may not have the most "naturally athletic" build.
What I like about decathlon is that the cameraderie and the respect for your opponents there is even more prominent then in other disciplines. Essentially..you got to a lot of sh** together and you know exactely how tough that is and how much the other guy(or girl) is accomplishing...so usually they are super supportive of each other..and in a nutshell..that should be in every sport..you wanna win yeah..but you gotta respect the blood and sweat the other ppl pull into it too
I think sports with the largest talent base generally have the best athletes, because they are the most competitive. But athleticism is a tricky thing to defines, like the athleticism needed for Basketball is quite different than what is needed for wrestling so it would be hard to say of LeBron or Mijan Lopez is the better athlete. As someone who plays Judo though, I'd say that maybe has some of the best athletes only because wrestling gets somewhat diluted by having two different styles in the Olympics - there are just way more Judo players world wide than Greco or Freestyle wrestlers, so Judo had a larger talent pool.
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Olympic lifter here. The "clean deadlift" is a specific movement to reinforce the clean pull. We don't even call it a deadlift haha. It's like comparing a front squat to a back squat.
Yeah I don’t PR my clean deadlift. 😅 just don’t ask us to bench
I really like that front squat/backsquat comparison like someone with a crazy FS could learn a great BS with just a little practice. The clean pull would transfer to a great deadlift with probably not that much practice
As soon as I read the title....Decathlon popped into my head as they do so many things both strength, and speed/endurance. Good to see you picked it too!
That was what i was thinking. There is a sport that are the best allrounders.
A guy wrote a book where he analyzed Batman from the point of view of a physical trainer and basically concluded that Batman is an Olympic-level decathlete who at the same time has a black belt in at least 2 or 3 martial arts, which he also practices at world top level
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@@user-ki4xw2rb8q top MMA fighter + top krav maga + 2 other more, yes, maybe.
Wrestling at 5 is insane. Have a world class wrestler on your channel and put them through any athletic gauntlet you can come up with and see how they do
Fr when he said have them run a 10k or do a hand stand and you do both of those in an averagehigh school practice
They should probably be second.
Okay so you admit to be lacking the knowledge about wrestling but to answer a few questions:
Any wrestler below 200 pounds and who has been wrestling for atleast 1 year at the high school level is expected to be able to walk on their hands, evey college and any legit highschool program does handwalking across the gym as part of the warmup before practice. Running is a massive part of the sport as well, id say most highschool wrestlers would run atleast 2 miles each practice for warmup, not including conditioning and in addition to this there is massive ammounts of running for weight cutting. That is another thing that i think should be mentioned is that wrestlers do wild things while being malnourished and alot of the time after running many miles before the contest just to make weight.
You would not be able to make a d3 college wrestling team let alone the olympics if you are unable to run long distances or walk on your hands, unless you are in the 285 pound weightclass.
I recommend getting into a college wrestling practice one day and youll understand how intense the training is, and thats not even including the intense strength training.
I joined Cross country in the middle of my years of wrestling and was able to run a 6 minute mile in my first week because of the gpp wrestling gave me, then the same thing applied to lifting weights where my first time deadlifting I pulled 440 pounds conventional just from my wrestling training.
Heard a lot of horror stories about you lads. I've been told it's not uncommon for Americans to vomit during training sessions and the Russians apparently have sickening devotion to strength and technique building, that they ignore anything else. All respect to you wrestlers
I wrestled for a good while and this is on the conservative end of how wrestlers practice. I agree with you on everything, and wrestler flexibility is very forgotten by people outside of the sport. Everyone had to be able to do all the different things you see contortionists brag about online even though I wrestled with a group of 30 people who could all do the same things. I've never seen anything near the intensity of a college wrestling practice, and it would be cool to see Mitch join a college wrestling practice.
@@ODJames1 in college during our preseason conditioning the first workout would usually have about 1/4 of the team throwing up. That goes away as you get in shape and most of then we're stupid for not keeping their conditioning up in the off-season, but yeah that's pretty common
Why weren't you lifting already for Wrestling? Wrestlers at my HS were lifting all the time with us football players.
@@handeggchan1057 our team didn't, we did kettlebells and stuff which was okay but not the best. Lifting was an on your own thing. I coach at my old hs now and made lifting a priority since when I started lifting a bunch on my own halfway though HS I became so much better.
Every Strongman competition should have a ping pong tournament. Test agility and hand-eye coordination, and the paddles would look comical with 6’5 350 lb + dudes using them
Funny Story... I play table tennis and we once had an ex Strongman in club who, for having to play with his off-hand because his right wasn't really working anymore, played incredibly gracefully. :)
Big Loz was a Ping Pong National champion and trained Jr Olympic candidates lol I wonder how good he would be now
You keep saying that and Brian Shaw will try to make a huge machine involving kegs out of it and call it "ping pong " . I love his shows tho.
They could probably just do pickleball and they would be so big it looks like ping-pong
My dad has always said to me that waterpolo and wrestling are the hardest sports in the world. Anyway, I do wrestling and my sister did waterpolo, he made sure we went hard.
I feel like rowing should be on this list, maybe around 6 or 7
Where would you put top rock climbing athletes on this list?
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Where is rowing? The German gold medalist in single scull looked like the most athletic person in the whole Olympic games.
Decathlon, all in one. Full-body, explosiveness, fitness.
Pick a sport and do it better!
Netflix already tested this in two seasons of Physical 100...both times crossfit won
Crossfit isnt an olympic sport but they beat many olympic medalists
Rowing.......some of the fittest mutants you,ll ever see.......
@@slee2695only because they are juiced up out of their minds.
@@Metso-ateco yeah the natty olympians..lol
Climbing is by far the best choice for the metrics you are using. Climbers are very strong in their whole body. Nothing compared to strength sports but compared to their body weight they are far above average. They are generally highly mobile, they are generally good at coordination with both hands and feet considering the modern setting. They have solid aerobic capasity because of the large lead routes they have to climb. They have to be dynamic and static with strength all the time. They are extremely adaptable because every boulder and lead comp is a different set. They are good under pressure including the risk of injury because they take boulder falls from 10ft regularly and have to trust their belayer to not drop them on a 45ft fall. For the mens athletes they are not small people(not huge either but pretty average weight and height for a top athlete) and they are not uncomfortable with pain. Alot of climbing is fighting the pain of the holds, the pain of pump, and the pain of pushing as far beyond your conceived limit every single comp. The fact that you didnt include climbing at all on the list is very uninformed, I get its new to the arena but objectively it has some of the hardest, most variable, and most rounded athletes in all of sport.
They should introduce a "megathlon", where athletes have to do all of the other olympic games combined in a gauntlet, that athelete would be the ultimate olympian
Could it the Olympython
They wouldn't be called Olympians but be called MEGALODONS.
There's so many olympic events right now that it would be impossible to do, you will need a whole month to be able to complete all the events and survive in the process, also the team events would be hard to judge. But I love the idea lol
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I’d put climbing up around gymnastics. Incredible athletic capabilities and The competition concept is literally based around being able do whatever is thrown at them on the day!
True!
Agreed, they have flexibility, strength, endurance, coordination. AND speed climbers got the speed down packed! 😂
I mean I'm at 0:57 in the video, it has to be a decathlon dude, that's literally what they do, they master many events
I was thinking pentathlon, but the same idea.
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Many people forget Brian Budd who won Superstars 3 years in a row. He was a soccer player (& Canadian).
All around athlete I gotta go Rugby 7’s
Golf was mentioned so i will again ask for a Bryson DeChambeau collab
Fun video! Rugby and Water Polo should definitely be up high.
Water polo comes to mind. Strength sport in the water is just insane.
As a man from nation that won gold(Serbia), i will tell you it is overrated. Waterpolo is all about playing it a lot. Our guys dont even hit the gym frequently, all they do is swim and play waterpolo every day. Sports like athletics, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, awimming take much more effort.
Rugby 7's is probably it. Powerful as they have to be as well as athletic. They also have to go 7 minutes.
Yeah there are a few people saying it but Decathlon no question. They are a world class athlete in 10 different sports
Even at the high school level gymnastics and flexibility are a huge part of any elite wrestlers training. I'd put wrestling right under or above water polo athletes
A bit surprised rock climbing didnt make it onto this. These guys have insane strength, especially for their size, they need to do a lot of aerobic stuff on modern boulders, balance and flexibility and have incredible endurance for lead. All while having great bodily awareness. To me they should be pretty high on the list
The wrestling vo2 max compared to runners is actual more on par than you think because the ratio is only brought down by the additional muscle mass.
I'd love to see strongmen do a pole vault competition, obviously far lower to the ground with far thicker poles, but would still be hilarious.
Ah the polevault dilema. Require hughe meaty clakers to commit, but they might get you disqualified just as quick.
Don't forget the ladies in the heptathlon moose
Competitive wrestlers possess an amazing combination of strength, agility, endurance, and toughness. I would say they can hang with the best all-around around athletes.
I would say wresting has to be number 2. All great wrestlers are good gymnasts (even as a judoka gymnastics is part of my training). Secondly, since you were talking about the "balls" component, you cant beat someone who is desensitised to being dropped on their head. Normal wrestling training consists of weightlifting, Intervals and gymnastics, and a lot of mat time. They are second in strength only to the weighlifters and throwers. I recommend you guys watch some wrestling training compilations
Boxing is up there. Both endurance and strength. Accuracy, Tolerance, focus, Foot work and quickness.
Javelin would be my guess. Excellent coordination, good running, good explosiveness and also some upper body strength. I'll be curious about Mitch's pick!
Okay so I was thinking about a single discipline, decathletes are obviously even better rounded!
As a swimmer, I always found water polo extremely fun. A lot of the skills you gain from swimming (treading water /kicking drills), the crazy endurance, even just knowing how to move your body through water… it all makes those aspects of water polo much much easier. There is still obviously the hand eye coordination, teamwork/strategy, and physicality that doesn’t directly translate from traditional swimming, but you’d be surprised how much a solid swimming background almost trivializes those other aspects of water polo.
How do you not have climbers on that list? They do extremely well in mix groups competitions (2 examples: ninja warriors and Physical: 100)
They are great athletes, but do you think they would do well at the other core athletic qualities? Running, sprinting, jumping, throwing and swimming?
Decathlon was super obvious. But bro, how could you dismiss Handball?!?! It's like Basketball, but 10 times tougher. I'd say comparable to Rugby because they don't kick but jump and throw better (:
How is such a simple sport harder than basketball i feel like you would need much more skills playing basketball plus height and athleticism but enlightenment me about handball
Well, it's basically full contact, but you're right the shooting is harder to learn in basketball, but you throw harder in Handball. Maybe I'll put them on the same spot after thinking about it :D
@@cyber7273 its just much more physical and much faster than basketball. I dont know how you would describe handball as simple and basketbal as difficult ? There is no logical reason to do so ?
@@cyber7273 the question was a sport with good allrounders and in this case handball is a much more physical sport with more strength and endurance components as basketball. i would say that handball is a better package of strength, agility, endurance and skill. basketball is more skill heavy and less strength and endurance (like every american sport - there are too many breaks ^^)
@@cyber7273 Because if you pick the core athletic qualities running, sprinting, jumping and throwing. Handball players are better at it compared to basketball players
I’m going gymnastics. Then decathalon/heptathalon. Bouldering is right there.
Oh and boxers.
What you said about there being less distinction between the shorter and longer distance swimmers than there is in track is really a major flaw in swim coaches. A lot of coaches refuse to let swimmers specialize until at least the collegiate level. Even the best sprinters of all time grew up doing tons of counterproductive distance training well into their high school years and I feel like if they could specialize younger we’d have some unbelievable sprinters.
I completely disagree, great video.
As someone who was a sprinter in highschool and college, yes i did sprinting because i did not like long distances
Great to see some Decathlon appreciation.
Boxers were severely underestimated in this video.
Triathlon is up near the top. I remember an old round fitness test back in the 90s in Australia. The top athletes were triathletes and surf life saving ironmen.
4:50 Not even dancers are crazy enough to do jumpsplits for max height 😭 the main goal of a jumpsplit is usually “conclude with both hamstrings intact”
Decathlon for sure for men or heptathlon for women
Great list. Really looking forward to the Joe Kovacs video. And a visit at his home gym would be legendary. I predict you’ll do 16+ in the shot put.
Good list. I'd probably put wrestlers at place 2 or 3. I don't know too much about sailing but seems less athletic than swimming and volleyball to me. Other than that I'm pleased with the list.
Olympics is the biggest sports day ever. Should have tug-o -war too.
Love the list. I would love to see how Joe Kovacs, or Ryan Crouser could transition into Strongman.
How do rock climbing not make the list ! 😂😅
As a former collegiate swimmer - can confirm a) running is literally Satan and b) volume is king
Basketball. They have it all, speed, endurance, coordination, skills, natural strength. The selectivity to make pro may be one of if not the hardest major sport. Genetics are in the 99.99 percentile.
I think you did Oly a disservice. Look up all the different backgrounds of CrossFit athletes and you’ll see a lot of these different sports. Mat Fraser is the 🐐
Triathlon, Football, Handball, Climbers, Rowers, I think all of thes would be abow Gymnastics.
I would definitely have rock climbing on this list.
Soccer Players have always came out on top.
They had a series where they took pro players from all sports and had them perform all different things...Soccer Players for the win
You mentioned a sprinter playing soccer and we actually have an example of that with the fastest human, Usain Bolt. He unsuccessfully tried his hand at soccer. He was OK but he aspired to play in a top league and I think he ended up signing with some Aussie team but didn't make any waves.
I agree that water polo and decathlon athletes would definitely be at the top! I think water polo athletes could definitely kick extremely well, since they literally kick against the resistance of the water for such a long time during games. I also wonder about surfing, because I've seen Coco Ho's workouts where she walks with a large rock underwater fighting the waves, and I have to think that would make her a pretty incredible athlete. Surfing doesn't really involve throwing or catching things, though.
I was waiting for waterpolo to appear up there! 😊 🇭🇺
Your videos are genuinely entertaining, keep it up
Rules of race walking says that you must have one foot in contact with the ground at all times, as visible to the human eye. So basically you are allowed to "run" if you dont get caught by judges.
Would be cool content to you you maybe do some training and attempt some of these events, lifting, throwing!
Was a swimmer through most of school, tried out the water polo club for a few months. It truly fucking sucks I gave it up hahah😊
I hope Strongman comes in and you can bring in gold for us Canadians.
There is word of mouth info on Kovacs hitting 770 for a double on bench on a recent Throws University you tube video. I honestly think he and a few of the other Shotputters could step into Strong man and be competitive. Geoff Capes a World Strongest Man from England made a couple of Olympics back in the day in ShotPut. I do think that Kovacs would surprise you if you put him in a strong man event or two if you can get him in a video.
Collaborate with Dr. Mike Renaissance periodization?! Would be cool to see both your ideas on weightlifting.
I'm surprised climbers didn't make it on the list.
They always seem to be some of best at obstacle course shows like Ninja Warrior.
Basketball players. Not all but most of them are giants who are strong, runu fast, good endurance, athletic with good coordination. Look at LeBron James and Zion Williamson, Shaq. Don't forget two of the best strongman in history played basketball as well as there is a former NBA player in This year beach volleyball from the USA. His name is Chase
Played Rugby, Water Polo, and Decathlon. Rugby is 1000% the most athletic and hardest. None of the other sports are as physical and require an all-round skillset. Swimming is a main recovery activity for Rugby. I would arrange them.
1. Rugby
2. Decathlon
3. Water Polo
4. Gymnastics
I'd put archery higher than golf, archers are stronger than they look and plenty of strength endurance and you have to be very body aware for archery so picking up another skill is easy
Mitch didn't put rock climbing on the list because he knew it would sweep the competition
He prob forgot it but climbers are good at only upperbody tbh really good at that but not as good at other stuff
@@cyber7273see speed climbers 😉
Check out how high the volleyball boys jump, in sand. Proud of my Swedish boys who won gold!
Good analysis, Mitchell. I wouldn’t have thought to include water polo. Decathletes are obviously an excellent choice, but they are somewhat lacking in aerobic endurance. They have 9 anaerobic events, and their only aerobic event is only the 1500m, and most of them hate doing it. For the women’s heptathlon, the only aerobic event is only 800m. Wrestlers and gymnasts are excellent choices, but again lacking in aerobic endurance, especially the gymnasts. Two sports that have strength, speed, agility, plus better aerobic endurance are boxing and basketball. Retired exercise physiology professor here. 🙂
I have been a lot around decathletes and trust me they have great aerobic endurance, they do a lot of long runs in the off season, you need to have good aerobic capacitiy for the decathlon because you are competing for 2 days (all day) and you need to recover fast for the next event, they have 3 jumping competitions just for those you need to do multiple sprints and jumps and then recover for the next event, also the 400m sprint is brutal you need good aerocbic capacity mostly to recover from it and then do other 5 events.
Feel like a weight lifter would transfer well to sprinting, throwing, speed skating, rugby, swimming, indoor cycling, wrestling and judo..
Weight lifting would not transfer well to rugby 7s at all
@@stan5936 Yes it would.. Rugby 7s, is a super fast game with constant change of directions and linear sprints..
Research shows that some of the best exercises that correlate with velocity and the stretch shortening cycle are snatches, cleans and squats (more specifically the reseach I read suggested front squats is better developing linear sprint speed).
Pretty much every sport Mitch mentioned would be improved with weightlifting
Strength and mobility is the foundation of all sport
@@seanashworth6750 Good points but finesse is what is lacking, it’s like saying weightlifting would transfer to soccer like yeah kinda but not really
I’d put volleyball above swimming for sure. If you took the top male swimmers and I took the top male volleyball players and we played basketball, football, soccer, baseball I bet the volleyball players stomp. Of course the swimmers would probably win in long distance running but even in short distance running I wouldn’t give the swimmers an edge.
I did not realize the race walkers were all running
There is a points system to rank the difficulty of different achievements in track and field. I am not sure how it works exactly because I cannot find what equation it is based off of, but it is used by the people who choose what odds for athletes to win.
Based on it though, the most impressive achievement by far was Kelvin Kiptum's marathon world record. The previous wr was already the most impressive, but Kiptum shattered it by 34 seconds.
Unfortunately he passed away early this year, but he set multiple records in the span of one year and probably would have broken 2 hrs if he had one more race. If he had lived to have a full career, I think he would have gone down in history as one of the greatest athletes to ever live, if he does not deserve that distinction already.
This is not true, Kelvin world record holds at 1322 points, it's literally the number 10 on track and field world records. The record with the most points is the javelin throw, 98.48m with 1365 points
@@user-ki4xw2rb8q yes. I was incorrect, but have since found the actual point scores. Thank you for the information.
pound for pound, male gymnasts
Wrestlers and gymnasts. Best well rounded athletes. Yes wrestlers can throw...and do handstands. We do handstands in practice pretty regularly. Having water polo above wrestlers hurts my soul brother.
Im super curious how your strenght compares to track cyclists, the male sprinters in that discipline do over 400kg's per leg in leg presses.
And would be super interested to see what kind of power a strongman could put out on a bicycle!
Decathlon Decathletes of course
If you look back on the 70s abc seasonal series The Superstars asked this question with competitors from all sports. Golfers didn’t do to back up your assumptions.
I've been thinking a lot on what sport is the best for the brain and cognitive benefits. I'll state my top 3 here, without explaining all my reasoning, as it would be too long. First, I stoped on curling as being the best, for the insane coordination and mental calculations. Then, I thought that acrobatics is even better, because of the mad spatial awareness and coordination. And then I came to water polo, which incorporates all that plus team skills. If I am to choose 1 sport for my kid (if I want them to be as smart as possible), that would be water polo.
would be interesting to have a list of most impressive olympic performances. Like most golds, most consecutive golds, most appearnaces, most dominant record, etc
so a couple things, would've honestly guessed wrestler, strength, speed, endurance, situational awareness, knowledge.... on a side note i would've actually put shooting first as its all pure skill and knowledge, personally i was able to score 100% on a range before hitting a 275lb bench (the concepts are basically the same) as for golf, you should check out Bryson Dechambeau and Grant Horvat
As for water polo, must of stuff under the water makes it difficult.
I’d put decathlon 1 and rugby 2
I figured breakdancing would be #1
Kinda got me thinking that there is no kick event in athletics. They throw a bunch of stuff javeling hammer, discus and theres the shot put. Would have been cool if there was a kick something fairly heavy as far as possible. It would have been fun to see the crazy quad physiques of the kickers in athletics.
Truls Möregårdh for me. Knocked out the worlds #1 ranked player in table tennis and some other good players on his way to the Olympic Finals.
What about sport climbing? I feel like rock climbing should be part of the conversation as they seem very well rounded
Genuine question. How are golf and shooting on the list but not judo?
I remember a study done on Olympic athletes years ago, and BMX Riders were surprisingly near or at the top of their testing .
What’s your take on the Romanian gymnast being disqualified so the IOC could show a DEI (all black) podium?
Wrestling. No question. A decathlete can "do things" but when it comes to individual athletic attributes, wrestlers are the most well-rounded.
No
@@joshski85 yes
@@joshski85 good one.
Yes.
I wish they did a full case study on
Aleksandr Karelin.
6'3 300lbs with abs .
Absolute Freak .
It's all going to depend on what you're looking for out of your competition. I've been around All-American decathletes and seen some very good D1 wrestlers train and in an all-around competition, I'd pick the decathletes.
They tend to be taller, faster, and are naturally very coordinated. Wrestlers tend to be explosive in short bursts and have good muscular endurance, but may not have the most "naturally athletic" build.
What I like about decathlon is that the cameraderie and the respect for your opponents there is even more prominent then in other disciplines. Essentially..you got to a lot of sh** together and you know exactely how tough that is and how much the other guy(or girl) is accomplishing...so usually they are super supportive of each other..and in a nutshell..that should be in every sport..you wanna win yeah..but you gotta respect the blood and sweat the other ppl pull into it too
Can we get Mitch to do a wrestling practice at a college?
Eddie can swim like a big fish.
I think sports with the largest talent base generally have the best athletes, because they are the most competitive. But athleticism is a tricky thing to defines, like the athleticism needed for Basketball is quite different than what is needed for wrestling so it would be hard to say of LeBron or Mijan Lopez is the better athlete.
As someone who plays Judo though, I'd say that maybe has some of the best athletes only because wrestling gets somewhat diluted by having two different styles in the Olympics - there are just way more Judo players world wide than Greco or Freestyle wrestlers, so Judo had a larger talent pool.
Rowing produces really good athletes they can do everything