Bingo, when I was in college I lifted weights and played pick up sports and my resting pulse rate was a little over 40 like 41 or 42. No one could stay with me on a basketball court or say in a pick up football game if we went hurry up.
Wrestling? I never did but I would gas on more steady state aerobics such as long distance running. At Penn State in gum class I was third in our class when we went on our first run and jogging class. The jogging teacher was I think a Penn State track coach and maybe a former Olympian or both, I'm not sure but it was around 1983 or so. Well he complimented me on how well I ran because the only two guys that beat me in a mile and a half run did approximately four minute and 30 second miles in high school.
I told him I sucked as a runner and laughed, he didn't agree with me however by the end of the class when I finished dead last in an 8 mile run he laughed and said yeah you're right. I was probably in as good of condition as anyone in that class if we talked about playing a sport, but I was no runner.
If you could get a resting pulse rate in the low 40s with quick burst activity such as high intensity interval training, why do long distance running? Wrestling matches are seven minutes where you're using strength, quickness, flexibility and your aerobics to achieve a certain goal.
