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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
January 8, 2017 at 6:15 am
Ah...sports...
I was always more of a chair warmer.
But, since mid-2015, I started going to work by bus and returning home with a 1-hour long walk.
Last December, a cycling path was completed all the way to where I work...so now I use my bike. 40 minutes each way, everyday, with a laptop on my back.
I track most of my biking and walking activities with Runkeeper and I've logged 2200 km on there (it does "friends", so if anyone else uses that app feel free to contact me to join my list)
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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
January 8, 2017 at 6:23 am
I run, cycle, kick box and do weights but am still rather portly because I like food an alcohol.
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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
January 11, 2017 at 1:37 pm
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?
January 14, 2017 at 2:48 am
Fitness is a passion of mine. I love to workout. Especially outdoor running. I love to run. I feel completely free when i run outdoors. Like i get into this meditative state and it feels more like i'm gliding. I get the same experience when i'm shadow boxing sometimes. Like my movements feel so smooth and fluid. I've only done combat sports when i was younger. Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Traditional karate, Krav Maga. I still spend a good portion of my day training. I'm already in my mid 30's so i want to enjoy being as active as i can before age catches up with me. I still look and feel young.
Oh, and hiking. I love going hiking too. Hiking can also feel quite liberating. Being outdoors, alone in nature. Though there is always that fear there when hiking or traveling alone in an unfamiliar place. There have been times when i've gotten completely lost.
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RE: Anyone here participate in Sports/Fitness?
February 1, 2017 at 6:39 pm
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(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.
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.
Stairway to heaven ? jk
Feels like success reaching the top
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