Has to be a sport already in the Olympics
None, you are competing with other humans.
If it is easy for you to compete, it is easy for them too.
And the olympics is the top of the top. So you will have the biggest competers all together.
That said, I’ve seen a lot of dad bods on Curling. That is more about precision than having perfectly toned muscles.
According to a documentary I once saw: bobsled in a Caribbean nation
Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme.
Olympians are a lifestyle that starts from a young age in almost every case. They are generally poor/supported by their family. They usually don’t do anything that is social in time or food constraints. I’m not saying they never have fun or do anything, but am saying their eating and sleep patterns generally come first. The 4 time Olympic velodrome racer I worked with in the bike shops, came to work looking like a tupperware salesman. He never ate full meals like most people. He nibbled on stuff all day long, just a bite here and there, and always healthy stuff he made. When we did group rides, he was enormous, but never showed off, sprinted, or pushed at all. He would tell you that it was not part of his schedule routine to do so. Track riders are the big guys. I’m the same build as him and I was intimidating in a kit back then, but I looked like batman standing next to the Hulk with him. He was awesome to work with, but really struggled with the desire to have a life and family against the absolute commitment of riding.
One of the fit coaches at the first bike shop I worked at used to say that the world cycling track record for the hour distance was accessible to beat. The record has been beat by someone with a higher average cadence than the previous person since something like the 1970’s. That level of cycling is really all about pain and the mental battle. Targeting average cadence would yield a simple enough target to focus on even when your brain is at something like 2% functionality from blood oxygen deprivation. I’m an idiot in just a 30 minute crit when I’m at like 5% function. I can’t imagine figuring out how circles work at 2%, but maybe someone else can.
At our gym we have a “rower drag racing” leaderboard.
Something about my size, fitness level and physiology just slots me in as one of the top 5. I can crank out a KM in a REALLY good time despite not being super strong or fit and then collapse onto the floor damn near dying for the next 15 minutes.
In shorter distances the stronger guys bury me, over longer distances my endurance gives out. But at a KM I can give it 100% the whole time and hit my wall right on the mark.
I am equally unlikely to win against olympians in all olympic events.
Curling, if we count Winter Olympics as well. Quite a few of the athletes look not nearly as athletic as in other disciplines, and I dare say I can whip up some vicious mopping.
My respect for curling was greatly increased when I walked into a room where it was showing on TV, and they were smoking (don’t smoke, kids) and someone was having a sandwich.
I asked if they had won and were allowed to celebrate right there on the ice?
My mate said, “Nah. They’re still competing right now.”
I don’t know if my mate was messing with me, or what.
But I want to believe. An Olympian who doesn’t let competing interfere with a good sandwich… Is one who has my eternal respect.
It’s the actual curling you’ve got to get good at, shuffleboard in steroids
Maybe equestrian racing. Buy an already trained horse and then it mostly knows what to do. And there’s like 50 plus competitors.
I would tank any of them but have enough dance training that if I had to compete in 2028 I would train for ballroom dance. Nothing else. Then go and dance and lose. Like, that’s the event I am closest to being able to do and still a million miles away from being competitive in it.
In terms of skill set of average person? It would probably be easiest to lose the 100m dash because you could jog it.
I have been shooting my whole life. I was on the rifle team and shot skeet and trap in high school and college so that would probably be the easiest. I would still need a shitload of practice but I bet I could do it if I had the time to shoot a few thousand rounds first. Rifles or shotguns that is, I can’t shoot pistols to save my ass.
Even as someone who hasnt done a lot of shooting, I feel like shooting and archery would be your average persons best bet. Most olymic sports require year after year of conditioning to be competitive, as well as the skills work and team training.
Shooting and archery is almost totally skills work and no team training. I think if you won the lottery and could just afford to hire coaches full time and live at the range you could probably go from unskilled to olympic hopeful in 4 years.
I mean, I’m sure you could bribe your way into the Russian basketball team as a substitute that never plays
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Is the luge still an Olympic sport? If so, I’d probably say that’s the easiest to get into. I’m sure there’s actually a lot of technique and nuance to it, but it really does look like you just kinda ride on a really dope sled.
You’ve also got to feel the rhythm and feel the rhyme
Any sport in the Athletics category
I consider myself average as a runner but I couldn’t sprint 200m as fast as the walkers walk a full 20km. The speed of the athletes at the games is mind blowing.
I know athletics tend to depend on body capabilities and training but I perceived the question to be which competition would be the “easiest” and I suppose I perceived “easy” to mean “don’t need that many rules and steps”. I find athletics to be one of the more simpler games out there. I apologize if I may have misinterpreted the question.
I meant it as what do you think would take the least effort. So for example, shooting might be easier for some people since it’s not as physically demanding. Others may find that diving would come naturally to them since it’s about spatial awareness and precision of body movements. In contrast, all around-gymnast would be much more difficult because of not only the physical demands, but also training for several events.
Well if you’re like 15 years old and join an athletics club tomorrow and train like a psychopath, its not completely impossible that you could make the Olympics in 2028.
I’m 40 this year, I’m in good shape for a middle aged dad but olympically speaki g anything physical is pretty much out for me, Id have to look at shooting or archery because thats significantly more skills based than physical exertion.
Well if you’re like 15 years old and join an athletics club tomorrow and train like a psychopath
That literally made me lol 😆
Oh sure. It’s a 1 step process: 1) get good.
Then off to the Olympics for you.
Boxing I think could be one of the easiest. Only problem being you will get punched in the face.
