Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
January 7, 2017 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2017 at 12:22 pm by Lifelongnontheist.)
I have been heavily involved in endurance sports (run, bike, swim) and some adventure sports (Scuba diving, rock climbing) for a few decades.
When I did those things with folks all the time, religion was NEVER a topic of discussion. In fact, I rarely even heard words like "god" or "I'll pray for you".
I'm doing them less and less now because of family responsibilities, and have been spending more time online, where I DO see people offering to pray for me or others, or asking for prayers, etc...
So, for the first time since recognizing my atheism 40 years ago, I have been going to atheist gatherings. But, absolutely NO ONE at them raises their hand when I ask if anyone jogs, works out, hikes, bikes, etc.....
If I ask if anyone WANTS to do those things, there will be some interest, but they're people who want someone else to push them to do it. I'm not that person. I dont want to make people do things they don't want to do.
(Actually, I WAS that person for about 12 years, when I was a personal trainer, so people were paying me. It was a struggle the whole time, though, to have people fighting me over doing what they asked me to get them to do.) I don't want to struggle to convince people anymore.
So, that's why I'm asking who here does things that are physically active. I like everything that isn't a contact sport. Football holds zero interest for me, either watching it, or playing it.
I did see the YOGA forum, but I'm not looking for an activity where the end goal is to post pics of ourselves in tight, or a lack of, clothes.
When I did those things with folks all the time, religion was NEVER a topic of discussion. In fact, I rarely even heard words like "god" or "I'll pray for you".
I'm doing them less and less now because of family responsibilities, and have been spending more time online, where I DO see people offering to pray for me or others, or asking for prayers, etc...
So, for the first time since recognizing my atheism 40 years ago, I have been going to atheist gatherings. But, absolutely NO ONE at them raises their hand when I ask if anyone jogs, works out, hikes, bikes, etc.....
If I ask if anyone WANTS to do those things, there will be some interest, but they're people who want someone else to push them to do it. I'm not that person. I dont want to make people do things they don't want to do.
(Actually, I WAS that person for about 12 years, when I was a personal trainer, so people were paying me. It was a struggle the whole time, though, to have people fighting me over doing what they asked me to get them to do.) I don't want to struggle to convince people anymore.
So, that's why I'm asking who here does things that are physically active. I like everything that isn't a contact sport. Football holds zero interest for me, either watching it, or playing it.
I did see the YOGA forum, but I'm not looking for an activity where the end goal is to post pics of ourselves in tight, or a lack of, clothes.
