⚽ What sports do you do?

Hey!

I couldn’t find any recent topic about this.

What do you do besides unicycling?

During the last 7 years or so, I did bouldering quite intensively for 3 years before a finger injury prevented me from doing this sport again ever.

I switched to a gym club :weight_lifting_man:. It was way less fun than bouldering and did that for the sole purpose of staying in shape.

6 months after, Covid strikes, every business shut down, and I couldn’t find the motivation to continue exercising at home.

After more than 2 years without exercising, I started Taekwondo last week. I like it so far, but it’s a bit intimidating and frustrating to see that most are youngsters and are waaaay more flexible and muscular than me (I can’t even touch my feets bending forward). I know progress will be long and hard and I hope I won’t give up. I really want to keep being motivated and later invest some more time in the club, which relies a lot on volunteering, so I’d like to help in the future.


What about you guys?


edit: I’m already aware of

by @Gockie at least :wink:

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There’s other sport?

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I started to ride unicycle in the end of last year. Before that, for the past 20 years, I went bouldering a lot and went hiking or river tracing somtimes.

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I’ve done quite a few other sports, in no particular order: baseball, soccer, gymnastics, football, biking, sailing, but the only one that stuck is unicycling. I would like to get back into sailing but don’t have access to a boat right now or have much time for it.

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Over the years I’ve mainly cycled on the two wheel variant, entered many races and actually won an MTB race over 50ks, I’ve also done a bit of running but a few years ago I took up Boxing and this has been truly life changing. My fitness levels have never been so high, I feel amazing for 56yo and all the health issues I was experiencing have been negated.

I’ve also had a couple of White Collar Boxing matches and thoroughly enjoyed them.

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Over the last decade I was Dragonboat and Outrigger canoe racing…also Stand up paddle boarding and ocean racing down the northern beaches of Sydney. One event is called “The 20 beaches”.
UPD had a different meaning then…meaning falling into choppy ocean swell with the shoreline about a km or mile in the distance.
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Ah! Maybe I should have chosen that instead of Taekwondo with all of these high kicks!

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I tried a bit of kick-boxing, but at my age it’s not much fun trying to get my legs to cooperate with the need to raise them so high
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For me its been downhill MTB, White water kayaking, Kayak polo, Kite buggy, Kitesurfing and Wakeboarding over the years.Loved doing them all with downhill being hardest one to stop doing but injurys meant i had to. kite buggy was amazing fun but kitesurfing i found to be such a faff due to the equipment and lots of effort for little rewards.

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Running, currently not very structured, but typically twice a week if I don’t have a training goal, three times if I have. I’ve always had fun running, but took it from an occasional thing to running regularly during the lockdowns. I recaptured a Strava crown today for a 5.57 km long segment (which included a sub 20 minute 5k), so I’m probably going to try and build up for a sub 40 10k next spring. I love the simplicity of running, just put on shoes and go. Also after 20 years of unicycling, I find it kinda nice to pretty much have infinite information on training methods for this.

(Bi-)cycling, but I don’t know if I always consider it a sport. It sort of changes between just being a way to get around and being exercise. As a kid it was pretty much only transportation (with a bit of pride in getting around independently of my parents), then I got a retro roadbike in 2021 and enjoyed the ability to easily cover 100 +km long rides in an afternoon. Then this year I mostly used it to commute again (but with using that to build a good endurance base as a goal in mind) and very occasional longer rides, let’s see what next year will bring.

Bouldering about once a week. I’m considering increasing that to more times a week over the winter, since I’m kinda stuck at a skill plateau and it is a good winter sport (in a gym at least). On the other hand, it’s sort of been the one sport that I did without really any goals of progression for the last few years.

After being on a journey to improve my endurance with cycling and running for the last 2 years, I’m considering diving more into strength this winter. Bouldering helps to mostly keep it at a steady level, but I have the theory/experience that my body responds to strength training better than endurance training. So I’m considering either making a bit of a structured calisthenics plan for myself, or even getting a gym membership. I’ve never been very attracted to gyms, but having a place to go train that isn’t my living room or cold and rainy for the winter could be nice.

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I just took up surfing and am loving it! Though I’m getting tossed around a like a rag in a washing machine. But still fun.

I’ll go hiking, play frisbee, and ride my longboard as alternatives.

Also, although it’s technically not a sport, yoga is so helpful to feeling good and nimble. It’s helped me on and off the unicycle. Just have to be consistent with it, which is my personal struggle right now.

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I go hiking a bit (if you consider that a sport). I discovered my love of both that and unicycling in 2020.

Basically, my family decided to go out on bushwalks most weekdends (it was allowed under COVID rules here at the time), and I eventually started joining them.

Eventually I became more fanatical about hiking than the rest of them.

Maybe I’ll eventually merge my interests and try Muni.

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I play tennis pretty regular, once a week weather permitting like clockwork

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Strength training rocks! :weight_lifting_man: While it has sweet health benefits on paper, it’s boring, demanding and repetitive by definition, and you start out weak because how else would you start. But there comes a point where you notice the effect on your body, your energy level and your general well-being, which might be enough to keep you going or picking it up again later in life… which is what I just did, low-key and in a way it’s fun.

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For the past 25 years, I met my friend at the gym 5 days a week at 5am. We played squash for 10 years and then weight training for the next 15. Moving iron is boring but being 2 is a game changer. I used to do a lot of things, horseback riding, judo, tennis, etc. I started unicycling 5 years ago and it’s really my favorite thing I’ve ever done. I still guide fly fishing for salmon every summer, believe me, walking in big rivers all day is a good exercise for the legs or unicycling is a good training for river fishing.

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I’m vaguely considering going back to the gym, depending on how I’ll feel after a few weeks of Taekwondo.

There is only 2 × 1 hour of training a week, which is not enough (for me at least).

If my body crave more, I might either do home training, or at the gym, or try to sneak into the additional Taekwondo club’s time slots. They are made for promising students aiming at competitive levels, but I could nonetheless train stuff like cardio, footwork, and movements somewhere in the room, fight a mannequin (and try not to lose :laughing: ), etc…

We’ll see when the time will come and when I’m more comfortable with basic moves and a bit more fit.

Well, I’m doing pole and aerial silks, and it’s not boring or repetitive (always new skills/tricks/combos to learn). Definitely demanding though and a great all over workout. People see me with my unicycle and comment “it’s great for core strength”. Well, ok, muni or trials would be but if you are just riding on pavement it’s not really so much of a core workout. Pole and silks is much more of a workout for my core, upper body, all over really.

I’ve got a lot of these comments too. “you must have good abs”. Nah… Abs as hard as a Japanese pancake.

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Well, MrsD wanted to get into stand up paddle boarding but she wouldn’t do it herself so I bought one as well so I could do it with her…

Now it turns out that being able to ride one of these one wheeled contraptions seems to help with the SUP stuff – much to her chagrin. My pushing off from the beach, standing up and paddling away first time did not seem to go down too well :slight_smile: . My later falling off after perhaps getting a bit cocky with it all redressed things a bit though.

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I do a bit of duocycling, sometimes with additional resistance added.

Doesn’t quite count as a sport, but I also fly model gliders. Good for the fine motor and brain engagement.

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