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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought that the PP you quoted wasn't talking about GDS but laying out her own criteria for what would count as a "respectable" athletics program.  You see, football's too plebeian -- what matters is the prep school sports![/quote]

I am PP who listed sports programs of interest to me as: crew, tennis, cross country , swimming . You are right, I was just speaking in general terms of what would impress me as prior poster seemed to fall back on football a lot.  It has nothing to do with what one person may term a "plebian" sport. It is simply that crew , cross country , tennis, and swimming are very physically demanding sports that require A LOT of aerobic and anaerobic training and I respect that. Football, less so. [/quote]

Do you have some kind of evidence to back that up?

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It is from a study done on myself and all of the other NCAA Division I athletes at 10 major universities  with an undergraduate student population minimum of of 25,000 or more. when I was in college.The study put athletes in each of the sports at the school  through a stress treadmill test to yield a max VO2. The results , by sport, listed the max Vo2 for each athlete and were published as part of someone's doctoral dissertation. Every athlete who participated got the results mailed to them, like two years later....

Max VO2 is a measure of the maximum aerobic potential and cardiac output of a human subject. It is measured by having the subject run on a treadmill until their HR reaches maximum capacity ( about 210 bpm for a well conditioned athlete) , the subject then continues to run while breathing solely through a device that measures their O2 and Co2 mix of inhaled/expired air. The test continues until the subject nearly passes out or quits.

The results for myself, my team mates, all the other athletes at my university as well as collated results for all the participant schools were then mailed to the athletes that participated  about two years later. If you were on athletic scholarship , the test was mandatory ( or so our coach told us)

The results by sport showed that the highest max Vo2's ( numbers in 70's to low 80's) were found in cross country, tennis, crew and swimming. To give you some idea, a max Vo2 of 80 is widely viewed as an aerobic capacity of world class  athletic potential. A score of 30-40 is average for a human. Guess how the football team scored? I'll give you a hint, most of the results for the football team were N/A because the player had quit so soon into the treadmill run.

A max VO2 in the 80's is considered indicative of world class athletic poetential[/quote]

I'm the poster asking about evidence.  You specifically said "aerobic and anaerobic" and yet you site a study that only measures one thing.

You could just as easily decide that the measure of a "world class athlete" is how much they bench press, or the distance they can long jump, or the quality of their balance.  Each one would then lead you to conclude that a different sport is superior.

The reality is that different sports appeal to different kids.  A school that only offered endurance sports, particularly those like cross country, and swimming that involve relatively little team work and strategy, would not appeal to my particular kid.  [/quote]

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