What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

What's happening in your world? Discuss it here.
Forum rules
Play nice. We will be watching

Re: What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

Postby Anglerphobe » Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:34 am

They are distinct terms. I'm not an athlete, but I am athlete-like in some ways. Hence thinking of myself as an athletic non-athlete. There are also athletes who are not very athletic.
  • 7

"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive,
Thou, teaching thrift, thyselfe couldst never thrive.
So, like the whetstone, many men are wont
To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."

Anyone who has any kind of opinion fucking disgusts me.
User avatar
Anglerphobe
TCS Junkie
TCS Junkie
 
Posts: 2160
Joined: Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:03 pm
Show rep
Title: round Earth shill

Re: What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

Postby Doodle Dee. Snickers » Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:11 am

I happen to think of athleticism as a certain combination of endurance, agility, strength, competitiveness, and power, and less of whether one has entered a competition for something. I always fancied myself as something close to athletic: I can run 5 miles, sprint faster then damn near anyone I've ever met, am very competitive, and can deadlift 405 if I'm having a good day (Hopefully the latter happens with more regularity, like it used to). Probably helps that I played football, soccer, baseball and basketball before joining up with the military. I tend to think of an athlete as possessing a blend of qualities, in other words, rather than conforming to a strict definition of simply someone who plays a sport. If you tell me the average pro baseball player is more an athlete than I am, I'd find the notion strange.
  • 1

Doodle Dee. Snickers
TCS Junkie
TCS Junkie
 
Posts: 2730
Joined: Mon May 06, 2013 8:15 pm
Show rep

Re: What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

Postby iMURDAu » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:58 pm

Are they less of an athlete than you? You're not going to find many Bartolo Colon bodies in AA ball.
  • 0

“This is going to become a bad meme,” Todd observed.
User avatar
iMURDAu
TCS Chomper
TCS Chomper
 
Posts: 6752
Joined: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:08 am
Location: twitch.tv/beakstore
Show rep
Title: King of Fuh

Re: What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

Postby Doodle Dee. Snickers » Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:04 pm

True, true, I forgot the ones that do roids.
  • 1

Doodle Dee. Snickers
TCS Junkie
TCS Junkie
 
Posts: 2730
Joined: Mon May 06, 2013 8:15 pm
Show rep

Re: What is needed for one to be considered a athlete?

Postby iMURDAu » Wed May 02, 2018 10:51 pm

How dare you?

Major League Baseball has been testing for steroids at all levels of the game for well over a decade now. They've caught plenty of cheaters. And here we are still acting like there's steroids being used by baseball players. This is just outrageous at worst and at best it is wild speculation.








:D They obviously use some concoction of HGH and/or TRT. Afaik only combat sports and the Olympics care about the latter.
  • 4

“This is going to become a bad meme,” Todd observed.
User avatar
iMURDAu
TCS Chomper
TCS Chomper
 
Posts: 6752
Joined: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:08 am
Location: twitch.tv/beakstore
Show rep
Title: King of Fuh

Previous

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 24 guests