Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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How much cardio is Basketball really?

ShooterUK
ShooterUK
Posts: 53
Joined: 2003/03/23
United States
2003/04/10, 12:42 AM
Do you really get alot of cardio out of playing basketball as you would running on a treadmill?
hartsoup
hartsoup
Posts: 51
Joined: 2003/03/13
Canada
2003/04/10, 02:19 AM
I'd say you get way more... on a treadmill you're just using the same motion over and over. With basketball you're getting a diversity in motion.

I've realized from experience that basketball is especially good because you can really pace yourself. Work hard and run hard on offence, do the same on defence, if you feel like you've gone to hard you can slow it down when you have the ball.

Also depends on what kind of basketball... 5 on 5 is a quite a bit easier than 2 on 2 or 3 on 3.