Are soccer players the fittest men on earth?

>soccer

Sometime in mid-2000s, I'd say. Before that players with (few) tattoos were an exception, not the norm.

>They look like fucking criminals

I wonder ((((who)))) made them look like that

Because if they were not famous they would become thugs... Most of them come from low socio economic classes of the third world so...

he does blood donation every week, that's why.

Only the South Americans

Id go with football ( soccer for you bigmacs annihilators ) , basketball and Rugby.
Ballers dont seem impressive because you see them on TV and think they're normal, but when yo usee one in real life they're fucking terrifying.

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Soccer is a British word, short for association football. Americans don't play or talk about soccer.

Yeah cause only your niggers are fit enough to run for more than 60 mins.

Why do soccer players need huge lats?

>tsooman
also no homo but always been mirin forlan

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Look up K's ran soccer player vs AFL (Australian Football) it's not even close. Plus Aussie Rules combines several forms of fitness; vertical plyometrics, boxing and wrestling.

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great player indeed

why does a plane need wings?

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No, by pretty much all deffinitions they are not.
Best cardio are probably trathletes, best strenght is found in strongmen competition.
Best natty quads are found in track cycling on a german monster.

They only have the lowest resistance to pain I ever encountered...

he's right though, football players are weak+skinnyfat with decent cardio

and france’s entire national team

just look at Adriano he's gone straight back to living in favelas

NFL players have no cardio at all, they would be gassed within 20min if they had to stay on the field all the time and didnt have ad breaks after every play.

I'd say rugby players are probably the most overall athletic.
Potentially, but the athletes ahve become far too specific and specialized.

holy lagging arms, i've never seen a case as bad as this

yeah rugby players are probably the best balance of condition+strength. NFL players, while stronger than the rugby players, are accustomed to HIIT style training which might not carry over to longer game times.

how? They only let me give blood every 3 months in my country, every 4 months for women..

They have the best balance of power, strength and endurance, while simultaneously requiring tactics and quick processing on the intellectual side. The real problem with NFL is that there's really no such thing as a universal NFL player, there is a world of difference between the skills required for the different positions.

>men

Probably mountaineers (only had a pick of a mountain division training).

You need strength because you'll be shuttling 80+ pound packs up to altitude while kicking steps in snow or ice climbing up verticle stretches.

It's a low oxygen enviornment so get all sorts of adaptation.

People do 16-32 hour days often. I suppose they do have the motivation advantage of weather or exposure killing you if you stop.

Mountain school looks fun. Combines guns and climbing/repelling/hiking.

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Big arms are unathletic and dumb, all it does is get in the way and add heaps of useless mass. Complete and utter gymcel meme.

he trains for something where you're not allowed to use your arms. which is weird. arms are useful. people should have big arms so they can manipulate heavier things.

Yea poor guy. I guess he is really insecure about his arms.
Fucking gymcel there are people who exercise to be athletic and not win a beauty contest or get a gf

Define fit. Personality I find short/medium distance track athletes to have the ideal physique. Some soccer players will also have similar builds.

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Stupid. There is not a single sport where big arms confer an advantage unless we count bodybuilding.

football, baseball, basketball, hockey. all the biggest US sports.

How can messoi even compete?

Literally all of those are posterior chain, back and shoulders. Huge arms don't even confer an advantage in something like powerlifting.

Field fairies

Armwrestling

Ok, I'll give you that.

>amerikwans

triathlete has to be pretty fit i reckon

Yes, this is another option, as well as decathletes. But still, I think rugby takes it as that also has an element of strategy and cognition.

field sports have opportunities for rest though, you're not running flat out for the full 80/90 minutes in a football or rugby game

Yeah, right... You do realize that, unlike 99% of soccer players, Ronaldo has his own line of clothing and has advertised countless of world-class brands? His position requires him to be fit, because he's selling his image as well.

True, but it still requires top tier endurance as its not very long rest periods. And when you look at athleticism as a whole i.e. power, strength, endurance and visuo-spatial processing (often forgotten), rugby takes it.

canoeing/kayaking. There was a guy at the olympics who was all over Jow Forums for a week because his arms really were bigger than his legs.

ok fine, there are some VERY specific meme sports where arms do matter, but generally speaking it does not.

Gymcel thinks arm
Strength is strongly correlated with mass.

I have 12.5 inch arms and bench 140kg at 175cm tall. Puniceps can still be strong or athletic enough in a athletes case

Technically speaking, cross country skiers are the most “fit” athlete, as they have the highest VO2 max.

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I’d say by definition decathletes because they need endurance, explosiveness, strength, technique, upper and lower body, etc.

Nordic skiers belong in the conversation as well.

That is just one specific measure of athleticism. Sports are traditionally about traits that make you a good warrior, i.e. that which makes you a good hunter. This is a combination of strength, power, endurance, visuo-spatial processing and strategy.

Judo

Whats the point of being fit if you cant defend and are being thrown and choked out and submitted

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Theyre faking it user to con the referee into giving them a foul or if theyre winning they use it as a time wasting tactic.
Whatever happened to him i remember he was hyped like crazy in the mid 2000s when he played for Inter.

NFL linemen would be fucked if they couldn't use their thick meaty arms to push in all sorts of directions

wtf i love judo now

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what are bagels made of

Xbox hueg pumped up arms aren't an advantage but as soon as you need that upper body strength, strong arms are a must. Some gymnasts for example have crazy arms

>NO THOSE DONT COUNT THEY'RE MEMES
pipe down

Yeah it's in intervals. But soccer players run on average 10km in a game

Yeah well, pretty much.
Not in terms on pure strenght but just pure fitness.
The only thing that also comes to mind is professional swimmers.
Everything else cant compete.

you're right about the timespan.

>roiding for this

not from my cummies for sure

>irl leonardos david.jpg

This is what happens when they do

youtube.com/watch?v=IdUEEp2oA0o

Ronaldo always wears long sleeves... obviously he's vain enough to be insecure about his arms.

yes

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>When did the tatted footballer meme start? They look like fucking criminals

Baseball players are getting there, too. Every time I see Yadier Molina he looks more and more like an ex-con.

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They have developed arms that are PROPORTIONATE just like Ronald, of course a huge 140kg line man has big arms, but not disproportionately so.

>Leonardo's
>David

Imagine being this much of a brainlet

No

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How do tattoos make you look like a criminal? The CO and Eng at my command (nuclear submarine) are both tattooed to fuck. Tats are very common here actually. Maybe its just a navy thing.

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kek you got me

he looks dyel. cant believe years ago that I thought he was vig

That tat looks like shit and you’re a boot

How is afl never mentioned, niggas run like 15km a game

>When did the tatted footballer meme start?
Beckham around 2000 I guess.

US special forces, Israeli special forces, British special forces...

mah nigga

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>we own words
Lmao, brits are retarded

Oy vey

>Israeli special forces
These guys?

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>short for association football

Soccer sounds nothing like association football.

>Posts conscripts goofing off
>Doesn't get that IDF special forces and Mossad assassin's are basically the best in the biz, particularly with cover murder.

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Yes, doesnt make him less vain. He's known for having a stylist remake his hair in half time breaks and he was always looksmaxxing way before getting his own brand and other contracts. God knows how much money and time he has spent on his teeth and chin alone.

Anyways, point was indeed that he's among the 1% of the soccer players who look like that. The majority are skinnyfats with great skill and good cardio, not fitness gods like OP implies.

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Nice joke goyim... but we can see you.

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this fat fuck is among the most expensive transfers ever

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The average dead-eyed social reject that browses this board will most likely give off criminal vibes as well. At least they're rich as fuck.

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Why do you think these people don't try to looksmax just a little bit? Surely it wouldn't hurt his performance that much to have stronger shoulders, even though they wouldn't be useful in the game?

And I'll grant you that going to 10% bf would murder his cardio/stamina but I'll bet he could lose 10 pounds and not even notice it.

boxers

If he doesn't give a shit about looking good in a mirror then why bother
It's not like a multi millionaire athlete will get any real benefit from looking 10% better