What's the most strenous physical activity or situation you've been through?

[thcdru2k]

like the topic says, wondering whats the hardest thing everyone's been through physically. i'm just kinda interested in that stuff, got me wondering since i had basketball tryouts today and it was averagely hard.

[intercede007]

I'd have to say the football camp's I went to for 10 days every summer for the 4 years of High School. 3 practices a day, full contact, only 1 set of clothes, killer ants, the horrible 100 degree 80% humidity florida summers and all the gatorade you could stomach. It was cool though, because there were 40 other guys lugging on through it with you and everyone supported each other. Football (american style) is probably the most difficult but most special thing I have ever been a part of.

Basketball is gonna be fun man. Just wait till camp starts, then you'll know pain :D

[The Baron]

Running up a really steep hill that's about a mile and a half long, then running back down, stopping at an office for 2 1/2 minutes, running back up, running back down again.

All within 40 minutes in the rain.

Damn, that sucked... :p coughed up my lungs for two hours after that.

[Matthyahuw]

I dropped a doughnut one time...

[Kev Payne]

I got up this morning

[AshG]

You want strenuous? Be a student leader in the University of Tennessee Pride of the Southland Band during band camp. 11 grueling 13-hour days of copying, running, marching, rehearsals, pictures, instrument repairs, etc. will drain anyone no matter how good their physical conditioning is. I think this experience could only be topped in intensity by drum corps and boot camp.

[Kev Payne]

Originally posted by AshG
You want strenuous? Be a student leader in the University of Tennessee Pride of the Southland Band during band camp. 11 grueling 13-hour days of copying, running, marching, rehearsals, pictures, instrument repairs, etc. will drain anyone no matter how good their physical conditioning is. I think this experience could only be topped in intensity by drum corps and boot camp.

This one time at Band Camp......

[The Baron]

hey, where do you think I ran all that?

band camp. :p

[LORD-eX-Bu]

errr... "dropping the kids off at the pool", if you know what I mean.. lol, hurt like crap and felt like a redwood with teeth.:p

[Kruno]

I ate a pizza. :p

[vampireuk]

A game of Rugby I played. The strategy was to use the forwards way more than usual. Guess who was a damn forward:rolleyes: :D

[pelly]

Although Army boot-camp was tough...I'd have to say any of the semi-pro cross country mountain bike races I did would take the prize...

Any race at Mt. Snow Vermont is enough to make a grown man cry...

:D

[stncttr908]

Nine years of soccer, and track season is always a bitch.

[styles-T]

HS Football Practice...

Starts in July ends in Nov.

12 hour days of nothing but running and drilling..Hardest thing ever..

[thcdru2k]

rugby..now thats gotta be a mans sport..football without the pads. ouch.

[LORD-eX-Bu]

Mt. Whitney anyone?:D

[Tactics]

When I went for my 2nd degree Brown belt. 5 hours of cruling physical tests which included strength tests, self defense combos, throws, forms - like 8 of them, weapons training (nun chucks are mine of choice) and fighting skills which was oh soo much fun. ;)

[de><ta]

phew... the first politically free thread.:)


Most strainfull activity, mentally or physically?

Armed Corps training definitely. Any one here who has been at boot camp can tell you that. I went awol after 2 months of that hell.:rolleyes:

Yeah rugby definitely. I used to play for the state squad in aus and boy that was hard. Warm up was more like 10 laps of the oval followed by a round robin of pushup, situps and chin ups. Then you train. Uses up a lot of energy. My basal daily requirement while i was playing rugby was around 5000 kjoules a day and i am not that freakin huge too. We had to train 4 hours 4 days a week. Usually evenings once school is over. Swimming and weights were also involved. Trying swimming with 4 kilo attatched to each of your legs and arms. Even half a lap tires you out.

But in term of brutality and strictness, boot camp definitely. Especially in Singapore, you have mosquito it is hot and freakin humid. Doing that every day is not fun. A waste of my life.:rolleyes:

[Serath]

Wow I've been through lots... Martial arts for sure... playing drums is pretty strenuous... when it's super fast heavy metal :) play a 2 hour set with only a 15 minute intermission and you'll be crying... I don't think I felt anything for a week after that, though heh.

[Gehenna_CA]

A couple weeks ago I played a full hockey game where we had 6 players and a goalie. Our team normally has two full lines plus our goalie. (Its just rec hockey or else we would have 20 players and 2 goalies.) It got to the point where I just fell over just waiting for the puck to drop at a face off and I could barely drag myself to the bench and into the box. I could literally taste and smell blood leaking from my mouth and nose just from the over-exertion. I bet you I played more than 50 minutes of that 60 minute game. I felt great later, though.

[PsychoSy]

10 years ago: Slinging railroad ties loaded with Creasol in the 100 degree Motor City summer heat.

Recently: Getting the drum licks of "One Little Victory" by Rush or "Little Suzie" by Styx down. I might as well give it up until I grow a third arm or leg. Their ought to be a LAW against arachnids posing as drummers. :p

[serialdave]

Hour and a half with the Wife after the boys went to bed - thought my heart was going to pop

:p

[Spectral]

Spontaneous pnuemothorax treatments... After my lung collapsed 4 times, they had to pour a bunch of green liquid into my chest cavity through a tube for 10 minutes, then they had to get all the liquid back out.

Now, the liquid was there to basically burn the insides of my chest cavity to my lung so that my lung would stick instead of collapsing.

Talk about the most painful thing you have ever experienced.. And, they couldnt knock me out with sedatives and pain killers because in order for the liquid to be spread properly, I had to move myself around, like facing the ground, on my sides, facing upwards etc so the liquid could be spread evenly throughout my chest cavity.

Now, it wasnt excercise, but it was definetely the most brutally physical thing I have ever had to go through. The Dr. said he was amazed that I didnt pass out, although I was sweating gallons.. After it was all over they drugged me up pretty good and I was all fine again till those wore out...

[intercede007]

Originally posted by serialdave
Hour and a half with the Wife after the boys went to bed - thought my heart was going to pop

:p


LOL! Thats a beautiful thing man...gives me hope for my impending marriage :cool:

[Paulat]

Military Special services. One and a half year. You try that out for starters ... :)

I't no bloody fun running in the woods for two weeks when it's -40 Celcius outside.