when did you realize you were unathletic?

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:59 pm

*K-Dawg pats his beer belly*

Yeah once I really got introduced to lady Beer. If I actually decided to actually go out and exercise I could probably be fine after 4-5 months.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:11 pm

I used to be super fat, like, 287 lbs and 5' 7".

But now I'm thin and fast as hell. It's a cool feeling knowing I can fly down the street and not get winded at all, instead of struggling to breathe after tying my shoe a few years ago. Being fat got old, and didn't help my asthma any. If my knee wasn't so crappy (injured not long ago), I could still go 30+ miles a week, instead of 15.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:01 pm

stinkywigfiddle wrote:the sick pedophile.

... but all this time I'd been thinking pedophilia was okay ... (oddly, I'd just been pointed to this article this evening ...)

--Sij

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:14 pm

Loves running around and playing randon sports for the hell of it ^_^

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:37 pm

I've always known I was unathletic. Only in recent years, with regular swimming and long-distance cycling, have I got any inkling that I might have been wrong.

You know, things like:
cycling 120 km in a day for a visit to the zoo;
swimming up to 4 times a week and noticing that, while not exactly championship material, you can keep up with the regulars;
actually being told you have an athletic build by a co-worker.

That last one kind of threw me for a loop.

Smight · Post by **Smight** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:39 pm

Levi-chan wrote: I then tried other sports, but she kicked my ass too. Even in basketball! Gaaahhh.

what about the one sport we were built to win? arm wrestling

if that doesn't work there's always steroids.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:47 pm

Luprand wrote:
stinkywigfiddle wrote:the sick pedophile.
... but all this time I'd been thinking pedophilia was okay ... (oddly, I'd just been pointed to this article this evening ...)

--Sij

What's funny is that when I went to see what sort of rubbish you'd dug up, I was 'disallowed connection' to whatever that site is!

reinder wrote:actually being told you have an athletic build by a co-worker.

That last one kind of threw me for a loop.

Ha! Same thing happened to me about two weeks ago. Met a colleague (of sorts) while walking around the block that I hadn't managed to catch for a while and after having a chat he mentioned 'You look fit'. Bugger me dead, I never expected that.

Driving Without Pants · Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:54 pm

Excluding the excercise I would get incidentally (playing sports and games as a kid), I have never voluntarily excercised once in my entire life. Not once.

Ekspiulo · Post by **Ekspiulo** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:14 pm

,when I ran off the roof friend's house and hurt my wrist

I guess that's more a matter of skill than raw athleticism, but it was a sign of worsening physical condition. Now I suck at random things I was once proud of

Out of shape? Get it all back through: Kenjutsu!
Amaze your friends, terrify your enemies, and slay the living dead* All with cinematic flair!
*If you are an extra or other non-protagonist, "the living dead" may not include zombies, vampires, or hungry ghosts.

Does anyone else practice any martial arts?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:58 pm

A bit of Bullshitsu occasionally...

Theamazingsquad · Post by **Theamazingsquad** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:55 am

I was also always the last picked for any teams.

I noticed how unfit I was a few weeks ago when I jogged about three hundred yards, and was winded for the rest of the day. This shocked me cos I’ve been doing martial arts for years, and I used to be able to jog for at least a mile or two. I injured my knee two years ago though, so that lostme a lot of my fitness.

Interesting point- I study Indonesian Silat, a Martial art which (in my school at least) focuses more on brutal skills and techniques, rather than stamina or fitness, so I could kill an entire army, as long as they attack me one by one, and leave a five minute break between each for me to catch my breath…

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:48 am

mcDuffies wrote:I never really thought I was athletic in the first place.

I'm underweight, 59 kg on a frame that's 183 cm tall (BMI is in the vicinity of 17.5). I've got no strength to speak of.

Although, recently I've started to surprise myself with being able to do more than I thought possible. (Primarily endurance/stubbornness/"threshold of pain" exercises.) Being stupid enough to voluntarily put on the greens once a month helps, it's easier to run if you're following someone, and someone is following you.

Around this time of year, the weather will be hot enough to allow me to take the bike to and from school without almost freezing to death twice or more daily, so more exercise is guaranteed.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:17 am

I started playing walleyball in 5th grade but I held out one month before I left....

To this date, the only sport I'm moderately good at is ping pong.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:36 am

about two months ago actually... I have been athletic most of my life actually. as a kid I went out for the sporting teams (upon parents requests) and it was never really my thing... imagine if you will getting into fights with jocks and such most of your life cause you were a wierdo and being stuck on sporting teams... yeah not exactly healthy.

though as one might guess I quit those early on. I have skateboarded however since I was about seven or so, surfed... and played some european sports like rugby and footsball(soccer) off and on. Also the martial arts training.

course I had to lay off skating for a while about seven or eight months ago, cause my wierdo scheduale so can't find people to skate with. anyways...

so I was doing a sit in with a local band about two months ago.. and about halfway through the set I get all winded.. I was so ashamed. needless to say after that I realized that I really need to get back into training... so since then I've been practicing tai-chi again and meditating (was not doing that either) in periods before work. Its been making me feel hella better.

now if only i could find people to go skating with.. sucks getting all old.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:39 am

I ran until I threw up once. That convinced me exercise was unhealthy.

Plus, if I want to throw up, there's always drinking.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:40 am

mcDuffies wrote:To this date, the only sport I'm moderately good at is ping pong.

Ping Pong players represent! *double pimping ping pong bat salutes*

Czar wrote:I'm underweight, 59 kg on a frame that's 183 cm tall (BMI is in the vicinity of 17.5). I've got no strength to speak of.

16 on the BMI here, that's part of the lowest two percentile according to ze World Health Organisation. Woo.

I don't feel or look that underweight though, I can tab miles and miles, it's just my strength is lacking too; all I've got to exercise with is a 5.2kg dumbbell. GIMME BIGGER DUMBBELLS! And preferebly more than one. And maybe some more food.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:09 am

Warren wrote:I ran until I threw up once. That convinced me exercise was unhealthy.

Plus, if I want to throw up, there's always drinking.

I usually eat peanuts when I want to throw up.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:30 am

When I was a kid growing up in Yuppieville, USA, sports were a vehicle for wealthy parents to channel their youthful ambitions through their children. In other words, sports were not fun. Kids were trained from infancy to play and win like soldiers for mortal combat. The concept of tossing a ball around for fun was simply unheard of. I do remember thoroughly enjoying playing dodgeball, but some of the faculty must have found out I enjoyed it because they pulled those games pretty quickly.

I've been unathletic most of my life, but I have managed to lose about 100 pounds since joining Keenspace, (and I have the hideous before pictures to prove it.) I pedal about 3.5 miles on an elliptical machine each way, ripping around 750 calories out through my pores while listening to tunes on my MP3 player and coming up with new ideas for my comic. Half the MUDrix saga was inspired by listening to the Burly Brawl track from the Matrix Reloaded over and over.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:32 am

I do SCA heavy combat. It's a lot of fun. Running around in a suit of armour and hitting each other with sticks.

War · Post by **War** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:09 am

BMI is a horrible system of measurement. It's the kind of stuff you play around with in maths when you're a kid, measuring people and getting averages. And at the end of it you declare that there's no real correlation between various measurements.

According to BMI I am 0.7 away from being classed obese. I'm apparently high end overweight verging on obese :P.