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Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
(January 7, 2017 at 12:16 pm)Lifelongnontheist Wrote: 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. Dodgy

Same, zero interest in football.......but interested in basketball and racquet games.

Anyone here into tennis ? (Federer bagged the aussie open ?)

(January 11, 2017 at 1:37 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I rock climb full time, around 200 days a year, but I exercise almost every single day in some form or another. I pretty much have since I was 18. Being active and in shape involves having an active lifestyle. I've done all kinds of sports, running, boxing, fencing, jiu jitsu, running but nowadays I pretty much just rock climb.

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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness? - by Shell B - January 8, 2017 at 12:40 am
RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness? - by brewer - January 7, 2017 at 3:05 pm
RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness? - by c172 - January 7, 2017 at 3:45 pm
RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness? - by yasalam - February 1, 2017 at 6:39 pm

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