Tue Jul 13 01:17:28 CDT 2010 Boris Liberman wrote: > On 7/12/2010 9:14 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > Jerry, > > > > Actually, soccer (along with tennis) is a sport where professional > > athletes have the most balanced bodies > > Most other sports feature (or favor) certain body disproportions to > > various degrees. > > > > Arguably, that is what attracts many female viewers (for the men's > > games). > > > > Igor > > Igor, could it be that you're confusing the general training that > various athletes perform for their game? You see, I played tennis a lot > when I was a student. Just for fun, really. Say, I played 2-4 times a > week throughout several years, and each time it was between 1 and 2 > hours. I developed tennis elbow and my right hand (around the elbow > area, for lack of proper term) became visibly bigger than the left one. > If you consider the body movements of the game of tennis you will see > that it is highly asymmetrical sport. Perhaps swimmers have more > balanced bodies as it is said that swimming helps to offset the damage > that tennis has on one's body. >
Boris, I haven't seen much of disproportion in tennis players. It is reasonable that the leading hand is more developed and the muscles are slightly bigger, - but they are not that big as those of the american football players. ;-) (BTW, "tennis elbow", albeit frequent, is a medical condition, not a norm) As for the professional swimmers, - they usually have extremely wide shoulders. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
