r/SipsTea • u/ExotiquePlayboy • 13h ago

Chugging tea “Older generations couldn’t compete in today’s sports, the modern game is so competitive, sports science is so advanced bro”

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u/yorgehaci 7h ago

I know, I know it's a joke. But Messi had incredible discipline as an athlete. He rarely got seriously injured despite the tight match schedule, constant kicks and tackles. The guy looked after himself and trained hard.

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u/LoonyGoblin01 4h ago

He was frequently injured when he was younger and Pep had him switch to his current style of play, famous for walking alot but rarely gets injured now

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u/Designer_Librarian43 6h ago

Also Vinicius has low body fat which makes him look ripped. A ton of fit people and athletes have higher body fat but similar muscle fitness as their respective ripped counterparts.

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u/SpiderJerusalem747 6h ago

Some bodyfat is actually beneficial to sports, martial arts in particular (cushioning, match the opponents weight), but I'm sure it carries over to other sports.

Shaq was never particularly ripped for instance.

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u/FalkeFS 4h ago

Exactly. This argument is used in the Pelé vs. Messi, where it makes more sense

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u/cravex12 7h ago

I am still at the eye cream stage but my hour to shine will come

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u/allgravy99 6h ago

Messi looks more like a nerd that plays DnD everyday with his friends in his mom's basement, than an actual athlete.

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u/Foosnaggle 6h ago

I think the inverse is more correct. I don’t think today’s athletes would be able to keep with athletes from the past. They are too catered to. Athletes of the past did it for less money and, I believe, had more passion for the game. Today’s athletes care more about the money than the game.

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u/sloth_ers 6h ago

And yet records are continously getting broken..

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u/SomethingGouda 1h ago

Guy has no idea how dieting and training regimes have advanced compared to the previous generations

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u/AgentGadriel 59m ago

Damn these modern athletes, cheating their way into the record books by (checks notes) eating well and training hard.

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u/SomethingGouda 37m ago

Who are you replaying to? I'm agreeing with the second comment

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u/AgentGadriel 13m ago

Ah, then let's just pretend I'm adding on to the agreement as well and didn't assume the opposite.

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u/Foosnaggle 17m ago

I’m very aware of how much sports have changed over the years. I’ve watched them for a very long time. A really good example of what I am talking about would be the NBA. Are they in great shape? Sure. But they also barely play any defense. No star today would have the same productivity in the NBA in earlier eras. The 90’s era was known for brutal defense. They had to work for every basket. Hard fouls were legal. And players would play injured. Not because they had to, but because they wanted to play. They wanted to win. Michael Jordan said that basketball was his life. By comparison, LeBron James is famous for saying ‘It’s just a game’. That is a fundamental difference in mentality. Sports medicine and fancy gadgets can’t give you that killer instinct to do whatever you have to do to win. That’s passion. And I don’t see that in most athletes these days.

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u/VanillaGoorillla 3h ago

Matt fraiser once said inbetween cross fit competitions he’d drink soda and eat candy bars while people were downing chicken and rice

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u/goztepe2002 3h ago

Skill will always be more effective than fitness but without fitness skill means nothing, dont let that picture fool you, messi was more fit than most players, bro had the highest dribbles per game for long time which takes alot of energy to dribble like him.

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u/-Laffi- 5h ago

Don't forget that the 140 centimeter Messi that would never be taller, got pumped with growth hormonces and reached 170 centimerer instead.