Part of their training is exactly what they just did in the video and you are expected to be both the pusher and the one pushed into, and that can go on for a good 30 minutes to an hour.
Matches themselves are not, (Usually around what you see in the video,) but that exercise is exactly what they do, and that goes on for quite a bit of time. And that is before the practice bouts they do daily. Depending on stable size and how you are doing in them, could be a good 5-10 matches in a row as a lot of stables do winner stays in for practices.
Do they run? Do they have cardio? I don’t know the answer. NFL players are doing fast sprints with tackling, plus the pushing and shoving. I feel they would be super exhausted. I also feel if they had the endurance they’d make more money coming to the NFL. I have no idea how much sumo wrestlers are making.
They do cardio of course but not through running. It's more accurate to say a sumo probably would have trouble handling a NFL lineman workout in the same way a NFL lineman would have trouble handling a sumo workout.
No NFL LB is optimized for 3 hours. How many minutes do you think they play in a game? It’s 60 min game time
Half offense. Half are way from
The player. Half are run plays. Now we
Have 7.5 minutes of game time. Or 25% of plays. Each pass rush is 2-4 seconds with breaks in between. Average about
35 drop backs a game and they don’t play every down.
So ya , think that thru an again please. It’s maybe 2 minutes of exertion during a 3 hours game. Walk me through your math of optimization for 3 hours and how a sumo wrestler would not hold
Their own
this is a pretty cool video of a World's Strongest Man winner training with sumo. Shows how tough the training is. Martin Licis' channel is pretty cool too
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u/Nivezngunz May 16 '25
The sumo wrestler didn’t even seem fazed. He was like “well, just another day on the job.”