when did you realize you were unathletic?

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:31 pm

so in high school, I was on two varsity teams, the varisty track team and the varsity tennis team. I wasn't the best on either team, and notoriously hated running and 10-20-whatever-they-are-called (run back and forth, forwards, backwards, sideways, crisscrossing, etc) but I was good at what I did. I could hurl a discus upwards of 60 feet. I could throw a shot-put about 22-25 feet. I slammed that tennis ball down the sideline in a kill shot that was impossible to get, and if determined, could chase down any kill shot sent my way and send it back as a point because you would be too shocked to react, convinced I would never get that ball.

yeah, I was hot stuff. (at least that's how I remember myself)

so imagine my surprise today when I decided to cut a corner by climbing a fence, and nearly killed myself. maybe it was just the fact I was wearing the wrong outfit, but I doubt it. I barely made it over the fence, and landed flat on my ass instead of, as I would have in high school routinely, gracefully landing on my feet. my butt is still soaked.

I'm not in poor shape. and at 5' 4" 110 lbs, I hardly am a member of the US's growing number of obese.

but unathletic? yeah. yeah, I'm afraid I have to put myself into that column now.

whatever shall I do if I find myself dangling off a cliff by my fingertips now?

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:08 pm

When I got picked last for every team at Sports Camp.

Even my little sister got picked faster because she was considered a "lucky charm."

(I may be uncoordinated, but I still adore sports.)

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:11 pm

I'm not in any teams, but I work out with my friends by sparring. Bamboo sticks hurt.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:19 pm

I'm getting more athletic, I dance as often as possible (sadly less than once a week) and pickup games of soccer are starting again soon. Plus I walk at least 2 miles a day and do various other excercises. I was getting pretty out of shape recently but since I got rid of a girlfriend who my mother refers to as "the burden" I've been doing great!

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:32 pm

I play a game of indoor cricket once a week and that keeps me going with short, sharp bursts. Occasionally I do quite well. Otherwise, I've started regularly walking around my block and down through the pine fire break a couple of times a week, occasionally jogging it when it's early and there's no one up to see me. I'm not half dead by the end of it now. Otherwise...you're kept on your feet pretty well constantly teaching young kids, so that's a fair bit of exercise right there.

And every now and then I work on the upper body when I take the kids out for a game and throw basketballs at them.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:40 pm

I get winded running about 20 yards.

Once my DDR equipment comes in, I should come back to my "Just doesn't suck" phase.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:50 pm

I realized I was unathletic stairs took the wind out of me...

And DDR is amazing for excersize, I have been told that's whay it was made in the first place was to make the game crazy japanese (so I was told) have something athletic to do... for a whole summer it was my only workout, but it was a damn good work out every time. I miss those days... =[

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:14 pm

I never really thought I was athletic in the first place.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:23 pm

Alaina wrote:When I got picked last for every team

Wow, maybe keenspace is the collective everyone picked last in PE.

I also never have played on any teams.

Levi-chan · Post by **Levi-chan** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:24 pm

I realized I was unathletic when I was try to impress this hot chick by playing some rugby. I look at her from time to time, and smile, trying to work my charms...

...Then she decides to join. She kicks the ball - BAM! It goes 30 yards or so.

And when I tried to kick the ball - BAM! It went completely vertically, then landed in front of me. My shoe ended up 15-something yards from me.

I then tried other sports, but she kicked my ass too. Even in basketball! Gaaahhh.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:30 pm

Heaven knows my parents tried ... tee-ball, baseball, basketball, track ... I stank at all of them. And if my grades in dance and martial arts are any indicator, the discovery I made in first grade is still true.

--Sij

Rianeva · Post by **Rianeva** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:40 pm

PE has always been my bane. Always. But I never got picked last for anything, thanks to political correctness. =p

Protectmyballs · Post by **Protectmyballs** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:50 pm

*weighed 250 upon high school graduation*
*down to 200 halfway through freshman year*
*back up to 225 beginning of sophomore year*
*currently (end of sophomore year) 220, running and lifting 3 times a week (started a month ago or so)*

BUT:
cholesterol, blood pressure, etc is all in the "average" or "above average (on the good side)"

So, I've been fat all my life, but I've been secretly healthy all along.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:09 pm

protectmyballs wrote:*weighed 250 upon high school graduation*
*down to 200 halfway through freshman year*
*back up to 225 beginning of sophomore year*
*currently (end of sophomore year) 220, running and lifting 3 times a week (started a month ago or so)*

BUT:
cholesterol, blood pressure, etc is all in the "average" or "above average (on the good side)"

So, I've been fat all my life, but I've been secretly healthy all along.

I've always been underweight. As a sophmore in highschool I could bench press 135 lbs, when I weighed that much...

PieceOfSkunk · Post by **PieceOfSkunk** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:15 pm

I got one hit in my last two seasons in Little League.

It was a two-run double, but still.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:24 pm

This was going to be a long winded post on why I AM in shape but I'd be lying.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:11 pm

No worries RA and any other keengal your all hot to the max! So if your feeling bad just poke your fan boys here on the forums!

Personally though I've made a nice body for myself from running away from Keenspace death bots..then I learned to slow my posts...slightly.

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:30 pm

I am atheletic....

Okay...No I'm not-I lie.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:45 pm

I've got grabmygoblin's case here - used to be pretty athletic. Track team since first grade, soccer one year, baseball one year, hurdles one year (god I sucked at that, but it was fun).

Then I hit high school.
Played lacrosse for one year - it was about the only sport my high school had then, other than basketball which I most certainly suck at.
Then, nothing.
I feel stupid getting a bit winded after running up a flight of stairs, so I'm going to see if I can fix this over the summer. Got my best friend's wedding to go to in august, and vanity insists I work out all summer to make sure I don't look dumb in a dress.
Also so I can dance all damn night without my legs falling apart.

I want to be an athletic nerd, dammit. 8)

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:47 pm

When they forced it upon me in PE.

I particularly disliked removing my shirt for football and showering afterwards.

the sick pedophile.