Is a NASCAR driver considered an athlete?

[theoak01]

yupp,I think thats crazy how they can push themselves so much.

I love that avatar man that Ryan Newman crash was crazy shit

 

[AustinTX]

FUCK NO!

Next....

That is the exact thought that came to my head when I read the title of the thread.

Next topic: Are surgeons athletes? If you think NASCAR drivers are, then they are. They're basically fit, stand up under hot lights for extended periods of time, and have very good hand/eye coordination.

I guess quilters are atheletes too... sheez.

 

[Cyclemein]

Are DH's athletes?

 

[DAMIEN]

That is the exact thought that came to my head when I read the title of the thread.

Next topic: Are surgeons athletes? If you think NASCAR drivers are, then they are. They're basically fit, stand up under hot lights for extended periods of time, and have very good hand/eye coordination.

I guess quilters are atheletes too... sheez.

You're getting off from the point. The point is, Athletes are someone who compete in a sport, trying to emerge as a winner in a competition. To suggest Surgeons as possible athletes regardless the type of competition they are in is illogical.

Basically, you are dismissing NASCAR racers because of generalizations that come to your mind when the word, NASCAR, runs across your mind.

 

[AustinTX]

You're getting off from the point. The point is, Athletes are someone who compete in a sport, trying to emerge as a winner in a competition. To suggest Surgeons as possible athletes regardless the type of competition they are in is illogical.

Basically, you are dismissing NASCAR racers because of generalizations that come to your mind when the word, NASCAR, runs across your mind.

Hey, you misintrepreted my post. Agreeing with Wodin's FUCK NO was my response to your question. Everything below that was tounge-in-cheek.

This is a bodybuilding/power lifting/AAS board. You're going to get a more narrow definition of "athlete" than anyone competing in a sport, as you say. Sitting on your ass driving a car, regardless of the g-forces, vibrations, heat, noise, and coordination that takes, isn't going to cut it. You get that in lots of professions.

Other "sports" I don't consider athletes, although they meet your definition...

bowlers
badmitton players how the hell do you spell that anyway...
pool players
crocket
putt putt golf (hey, they have "pro's" too)
whatever that lawn bowling crap is called
stock car racers
those mini-racetrack racers
actually, any kind of POWER assisted racing
hell, throw in sailboat racers too
lots more too

anything where the athlete's physical prowess isn't a VERY major portion of determining the winner.

 

[DAMIEN]

anything where the athlete's physical prowess isn't a VERY major portion of determining the winner.

Of course, that largely depends on everyone's opinion on how "much" a portion of the physical prowess can be applied before he/she can be considered as an athlete. I'm sure this will lead to nowhere because we're entering a new stage of philosophy right now.

How much is, to your definition, a very major portion of physical prowess can be involved in determining the winner? 100%? 75%? 50%? Think about it, how can you possible win anything if it doesn't require any physical skill? Hell, the only way you can do any sport without requiring any bodily movement is when you are dead. Personally, I'm not interested in any of sports you just put down in your previous post but that doesn't mean I slam them for not being athletes because they don't run or work out. They are a different type of athletes, where they can excel at a certain sport much better than you can.

I know this is a bodybuilder/strength training/AAS board but that doesn't mean I can't give your minds a workout, heh.

 

[AustinTX]

How much is, to your definition, a very major portion of physical prowess can be involved in determining the winner? 100%? 75%? 50%? Think about it, how can you possible win anything if it doesn't require any physical skill? Hell, the only way you can do any sport without requiring any bodily movement is when you are dead.

Physical skill does not equal physical "prowess". By that I mean the ability to run, jump, throw (bowler's *still* don't count ) or physically exert themselves in some way to win. The fact that you get tired doing something, or have some amount of stamina, doesn't do it on its own. I don't have a set % in mind, it's a judgment call based on the particular sport, I suppose.

They are a different type of athletes, where they can excel at a certain sport much better than you can.

No question that they can perform a particular activity better than me, that doesn't make them an "athlete".

I know this is a bodybuilder/strength training/AAS board but that doesn't mean I can't give your minds a workout, heh.

Does to

 

[perkele]

NO!!!!!!! It's just an hobby for lazy people.

 

[Lumberg]

NO!!!!!!! It's just an hobby for lazy people.

If you think the participants are lazy you should see the amount of work that goes into preparing racecars for the race....not to mention the work during the race.

Even you naysayers have to agree that the pit crew is made up of athletes.

Every year they have a pit crew competition. That is truly an athletic competition.

The hardest working member of a NASCAR team is NOT the driver.

 

[StoneColdGold]

i feel that to be considered an athlete, the human being has to be the primary source of power for the "sport". so this would rule out any kind of auto racing, horse racing, etc.

i also think that there is a difference between a sport and a skill. bowling is not a sport. dart throwing is not a sport. skeet shooting is not a sport. archery is not a sport. those are all skills.