Most grueling sport on your body? Well let's see... in football you can do serious injury to your brain through numerous concussions. Your knees, elbows, ankles, and basically any joint is put under enormous pressure. But so can tennis. You can get new knees, you can't get a new brain.

Boxing, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, hockey are all more grueling.

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Posted by redandblackattack

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Posted on 11/23/13 at 1:57 pm to Charlestondawg

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Most grueling sport on your body? Well let's see... in football you can do serious injury to your brain through numerous concussions. Your knees, elbows, ankles, and basically any joint is put under enormous pressure. But so can tennis. You can get new knees, you can't get a new brain.

Boxing, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, hockey are all more grueling.

grueling - requiring considerable physical or mental "effort"

Grueling

Where to begin? As noted..I said "one" of the most grueling sports on your body...tennis at a competitive level and pro level requires incredible amounts of conditioning, coordination, and strength to endure..(tour de france endurance)...pounding on the legs, ankles, knees, shoulders and elbows from repetitive motion and running not to mention all the other mechanics involved...all done for most on a hard unforgiving surface or a sinister clay surface that is impossible to run and balance on...

Yes, boxing,,and football are by nature violent sports that will inflict "punishment" on the opponent..obviously I wasn't referring to broken bones or brain traumas...I was discussing stressors on the athlete in regards to time, repetition, and balance of load...not toughness

.....you state that all these team sports are more grueling than tennis...As a multiple sport athlete, IMHO that is not true....they are team sports.....there is no comparison between playing a 2-4 hr match you must play by yourself on a 120 degree court with no assistance and little rest time and having to repeat that every day for a week to endure a tournament schedule..

When I say grueling, I consider...constant moving, conditioning, countless repeated mechanics, and stressors...and the mental challenge can be as resource depleting as the physical...

I'll give you boxing and wrestling..as you're on your own and they are super intense on the body and mind and require tons of precision and attrition even in relatively short time spans...and they are not team sports

soccer and basketball are better examples of grueling team sports that consist of very conditioned athletes that repeat mechanics.and are subject to intense attrition...yet... they load balance it as a team...

baseball...no..just no...hell no! although i will say, the most difficult thing to do in all of pro sports is probably lay wood on a 90 plus mile per hour fastball,,but...other than that...i love baseball but there is very little physical activity involved ...and I'm not so sure about hockey...

Football...it's positional...some positions are more grueling, require better conditioning and some are more punishing and challenging than others I would suspect....definitely more injuries involved...it is a team sport however...

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