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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dilmah G on March 23, 2010, 08:38:52 am
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So I was standing out on the field today (being of Sri Lankan parents, I'm obligated to have a small collection of Junior League Cricket competition trophies), and wondered how many HLP-ers play sport. High School P.E. classes don't count. :D
As for me, I'm a man of Cricket, Rugby Union and Touch Football, with a bit of Tennis and cross-country running to keep fit.
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I used to play squash and badminton a few years ago but since moving in with my now wife i haven’t had the spare cash (i need a new racket as mine has a good curve going) and a few years before that i did horse riding which i earned a few rosettes at local competitions.
These days the only exercise I get is when I have to walk or run somewhere :nervous: :warp:
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does being a dad to a lively 2 year old count???? :wtf:
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I do some medieval sword fighting. Not sure if this counts as a sport.
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I don't partake in sports per-se. But I ride a bike to work and back every day, distance to one direction is 4.5km or 5.5km depending which route I am in mood of taking. So by average I cycle 10km a day, takes 15-25 minutes depending on whether it is summer or winter and what road condition is. In addition, I try to exercise for about an hour maybe three to five times a week. Basic stretches, squats, abs and then use a pair of 5kg weights to train some muscles.
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Wow, Fury = Iron Man. ;)
I do some medieval sword fighting. Not sure if this counts as a sport.
T'is one helluva sport.
EDIT:does being a dad to a lively 2 year old count???? :wtf:
I think that comes under second job. :P
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I'm not half-bad at Ultimate Frisbee, but I don't play regularly. That's the only sport I can play, in any case.
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When I was in high school I participated in Football(American) and Wrestling, good times both of them. Now that I'm out of school I'm a practitioner of German Longsword and Kendo. I also try to jog in the warmer weather generally topping out at about 10 miles. Once my toenail heals from breaking it during indoor office hackey sack i intend to pick up a hand to hand.
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does being a dad to a lively 2 year old count???? :wtf:
Hell yes, it counts!
[Says the man with a 3-year-old who appears to have some secret supply of uppers.]
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Hmm...Right now, I currently practice archery (member of FITA), play dodgeball and paintball (when I can), and dabble a little in martial arts (used to do a bit of Kendo, might pick up either Tai Chi or Shao-Lin Kung Fu this summer). :D
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Do these threads pop up periodically or what?
Let's see:
Skiing (skating style, on winter) - once/twice a week, about 15-20 km by each time (1-2 hours).
Running and jogging when there isn't snow by the same amount as above.
Stretching and basic muscle exercises - three times a week, 45 min each. Includes exercises for push-ups where one doesn't let feet touch the ground (planche). And splits.
Breakdancing - once a week, 1.5 hours.
Kung fu - once a week, 1.5 hours (used to be a lot more)
Wall climbing - twice a week, 45 mins - 75 mins each.
That does about 12 hours / week.
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Forgot to mention that I don't own a car. I use a bicycle inside the city. So I should also count the hours which come along the week for all the transportation...
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I voted for Snuffleupagus because I don't exercise a lot. The only "exercise" I'm currently doing is a seven-minute walk to and from work every day, and at least twenty push-ups in the morning once every three days. It pales in comparison to what everyone else is doing here.
I love walking to bits, though. I can walk, and walk, and walk for hours on end and not get tired of it. During my vacations, that's what I try to do every morning: a 40-minute walk to the beach, 20-minute walk along the beach, and 40-minute walk back.
Thanks to the physical education lessons I've had when I was in primary, secondary school, I've tried almost all of the most common forms of exercise, including running, cycling, soccer and basketball, but by the time I turned 15, I realised that the only form of exercise that I really like is long-distance walking. On certain occasions, I would forgo public transport just to walk home.
If I'm released from work earlier, that's exactly what I'll do: spend an hour and walk 3.5 km home instead of spending 20 minutes covering 3.5 km in a bus.
I do some medieval sword fighting. Not sure if this counts as a sport.
Sounds cool. :)
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I swam in high school; wasn't the fastest guy on the team but always managed to make the cut... Still swim occasionally, but I'm still trying to get back onto a more rigorous regime. Ooh, I also did Taekwondo for several years quite some time ago- got my black belt, but stopped after that.
Also do some wight lifting, trying to get stronger, again, need to get on a regime.
Right now, my major form of exercise is walking around campus- it adds up pretty rapidly, but not sure exactly how much.
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Regular gym exercises, hiking, no sports.
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Thanks to the physical education lessons I've had when I was in primary, secondary school, I've tried almost all of the most common forms of exercise, including running, cycling, soccer and basketball, but by the time I turned 15, I realised that the only form of exercise that I really like is long-distance walking. On certain occasions, I would forgo public transport just to walk home.
Each to his own I guess. I have never been good at doing something at slow speed for a long time. But this actually reminded me of a very important lessons I have learned and share it here too, there are some people specific things that good instructor should take account. From personal experience, I have just learned that my heart rate goes higher faster than the average, but then again I can sustain a considerably longer period on higher rates. This, for example, if not taken into account, can cause bad results.
Androgeus, it is hard to say what could be good to you from the small amount of information, but you could try jogging at low speeds, not much faster than walking. The idea is that you should be able to talk to other person, while your breathing should not be audible. Perhaps you are naturally constructed for things that require a low amount of force, but good endurance? And lastly should the above be interesting to you, try and find someone who is good at endurance and ask him.
My personal experiences of primary and secondary school physical education were pretty bad. Any kind of advice was pretty much nonexistent because the physical education teachers were kind of jacks of all trades, but masters of none. The good advice started only when I started to meet people that participate in European/World level competitions.
And I do have quite a collection of memories in the personal experience library of what not to do.
EDIT: Stupid typos
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i used to play soccer, basketball, and softball (no girls allowed in baseball in my area, ugh). i sucked at all of them though. now i do nothing as much as possible.
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I do some medieval sword fighting. Not sure if this counts as a sport.
Hans Talhoffer? Royal Armouries ms i.33?
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Just gym lately. In summer time I like to take "off road" walks in the park.
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I love Irish Hurling, its a real good sport!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE
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i go to the gym once every year
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i go to the gym once every year
to rob the place eh?
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I used to play Football (six years, quit two years ago), used to be on the Track and Field team (two years, quit this year), used to play Soccer (or football, if you live in Europe. 5-6 years, quit before high school started), and am still in all kinds of academic 'sports.'
Snuffalupagus, I do did all.
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What's Soccer?
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I'm not really doing any sort of physical activity to speak of at the moment, other than trying to get myself motivated to get back into regular Wii Fit usage. I used to play tennis in high school, but it's been several years since I've done so regularly; then again, I am getting my racket re-strung this week, so we'll see what happens.
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I'm a squad leader for varsity intramural snuffleupagus.
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Indoor soccer, weights, elliptical and when the weather is good running. But despite this semi-impressive list I don't always do these every week. I need to be more disciplined.
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Hmm, it's interesting to see the community gets out of the basement every now and then. ;)
i go to the gym once every year
Lazy bastard. :P
...myself motivated to get back into regular Wii Fit usage.
:lol:
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I do just calisthenics once every other day for an hour. Then my friends ended up giving me all these free weights i can use. Enough of them piled up that i gave into them.
Enough of the snow up here melted so i'm back to my 14 plus miles a day on bike. Bikes are really fun especially when you have an infinite supply at your local transfer station free for the taking.
I'm not a big fan of running as i am of walking and biking, but i can run a 5:30 average mile time. Once did 5:08, never wanted to do that again as it was plenty unpleasurable. But seriously, **** running.
I want to get a bowflex. You get fantastic results with the resistance exercising it has in a short amount of time. The more you use it over time, the more amazing the results. I got enough free weights that i'm voting with my wallet for the bowflex.
A good question to ask is what are the reasons for working out for people that do? I do it because i like to, for myself, stay healthy, i like looking ripped, and it's a great to utilize my child hood like energy.
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Ironicly that this thread pops up now...I just started excercising a bit yesterday :P
I'm turning into a couch potato, which is bad, especially given my physique (I have a few body builder aquaintances, who said they wish they had my basic body build)
I need mhoar excercise...I really do.
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The only reason I have for working out is to feel less heavy mentally. I'm not that heavy physically, but my brain likes to expend resources thinking about things that even I don't know about.
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On the school soccer team... or what's left of it.
Just recently started playing paintball.
And skiing when I have the chance, just love the feeling.
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pred the penguin...
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Leave the soccer playing Penguin alone!
Just recently started playing paintball.
Good man. :yes:
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I Lift Beer Glasses All The Time
Dekker... ;)
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I wonder what kind of sports a penguin could play... :drevil:
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Indoor soccer, weights, elliptical and when the weather is good running. But despite this semi-impressive list I don't always do these every week. I need to be more disciplined.
Indoor soccer...
No good memories there.
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My primary is (or was i guess is more accurate) soccer. That's football for snail. I've been a goalkeeper since I could walk almost. Haven't been able to play at the organised level since high school. I try to make it out to the uni fields for pickup, but time is hard to come by these days. I'm rather pissed my mom never let me play club. I know this sounds arrogant, but I could have easily played collegiate. Some of the varsity players turn up for pickup every now and again, and I can hang with them pretty easily. I've flat out embarassed one of them :D. From there, who knows.
Now the only organised sport I play is Australian Rules Football with the NC Tigers, a team in the USAFL. (For the aussies reading this who are now wondering who my AFL squad is, it's Western ;)) I play just about any kind of pickup sport except basketball. The one sport I'm truly horrible at, I pick up most others pretty well. Ultimate frisbee is something of a regular, occasional American football. I'm in a rockclimbing class now, and I've previously done fencing, archery and volleyball. I used to waterski and I wakeboarded a bit, but it's been a long time since that. The few times I get to go to a beach, I skimboard non-stop until my feet feel like they are broken. Lots of other little one-off stuff here and there like skiing/snowboarding that I don't get to do often. A couple weeks ago, they had a ball hockey tournament on campus sponsored by the Carolina Hurricanes. That was a lot of fun. I suited up and took the net. For not having ever done that before (and playing against our club ice hockey team) I'd call it a success.
Indoor soccer...
No good memories there.
seconded. The place I play sometimes is even smaller than usual, 5v5 plus keepers. The fields are tiny, they have a dumbass rule that restricts me to a box that's not much larger than the crease on an NHL rink, and everyone who plays there (including myself :P) is washed-up and like to make themselves feel like they still have it by playing way too seriously for pickup soccer and blasting point blank shots into my scrotum as hard as they can :?
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...myself motivated to get back into regular Wii Fit usage.
:lol:
What? It's literally the only thing I've found thus far that gets me remotely motivated to work out on a semi-regular basis. It's this principle (http://xkcd.com/189/) in action. Without it, I'd essentially just sit at my computer all day.
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I play American handeg- err I mean football with some mates in a yard in our neighborhood and I was/am thinking of signing up for the team at my local school this year.
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Competitive big mountain skiing (plus a metric **** tonne of recreational backcountry skiing and park and stuff), freeride and downhill mountain biking, some wakeboarding and wakeskating, indoor and outdoor soccer, basketball, track and field and running and weights for injury prevention and to stay fit.
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I hate sports because every single one is about competition. And if they aren't, there's always plenty of self-righteous elitist faggots that ruin it for me just when I try to get into it.
Likewise, I skii the day the snow hits the ground. I absolutely love it because there's no competition and I'm by myself almost 100% of the time. Sure I go with a club, but that doesn't matter since nobody wants to snowboard with me (because I skii) and I don't want to skii with them (because they're all dickheads).
Otherwise I don't play anything. Did one year of mixed doubles Badminton in grade seven and lost my only game by a huge margin. After that I was definitely sure never to compete in anything again.
Naturally, because I'm 6'1 the teachers will not stop *****ing at me to play on the basketball or volleyball team. I'm considering the volleyball, but that's only because everybody and their bloody dog is begging me to play and I seem to be a half-decent player.
and running and weights for injury prevention
ooh, trying to get back at the bullies, eh? :P
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*snip*
I'd sooner die than get caught playing keeper in a 5v5 match. :p
High school paintball regionals today... (yeah we have that here O_o)
Won only one game, but damn it felt good. ^_^
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yeah i feel just about dead when it's over. the upside is that i get to be the field badass :cool:
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Paintball is too expensive. Me and my friends took old spring and air pump bb guns and had the great qtip wars (we shoved qtips down the barrels with no bb's of course). They hurt alright, and the qtips are re-usable.
Now today i'm amassing all the cheapie airsoft guns i can find. I love the spring powered variants (there's plenty of them out there that have great bb speed and range). What's even better is that the nicer spring loaded guns are getting cheaper (i just have the sub $20 ones). So far i bought a cybershot colt 1911 and mossberg m590 and a daisy as240 (the daisy is really high quality compared to the cybershots for the same price, and it's not chinese). Then i got some wierd ass off brand $5 dollar pistol for free i stretched the spring in to at least make it decent, and then a pretty cool sig 552 that i had to adapt the m16 clip for for free (m16 is in the garbage). Because as soon as my friends found out i was into airsoft, they're giving me their airsoft guns because they don't play anymore. I wouldn't get rid of them, they're pretty cool toy replicas in the least (3 guns free, m16 in the garbage since only the clip and rubberband was good for clipless sig552).
I originally had them for sniping the neighbors **** dogs off the property where i live, but i guess i'll host an airsoft war or two with my unintentional arsenal. Sorry if i talked too much about airsoft, alternatives to paint ball because of finances and the assholes who lie about having their guns on max velocity are a must. Hit by your normal paintball in a match stings and leaves a welt. Someone who shot you in the right ass cheek in the same match that leaves a welt and makes your leg numb for 3 hours would've had it coming for them if it didn't make me unable to walk for a bit.
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Paintball really is expensive as hell, that's why I'm only going rent for now.
Lot of guys here into airsoft... not so sure about it myself.
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airsoft would be pretty cool. i bought a walmart springer a while back that is in pretty rough shape now just to crap around the dorms with. i don't know anyone who is really into it though. when i've actually got some money, i'll probably buy a low grade AEG if for nothing else than to shoot crap in the backyard with.
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If i had a bb gun i'd be in prison
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I practice Tai Chi. Forms, pushing hands and actual fighting.
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Paintball really is expensive as hell, that's why I'm only going rent for now.
Lot of guys here into airsoft... not so sure about it myself.
It's like super cheap if you want it to be. You can buy some pretty good springer pistols and rifles for under $20. The bb's are under $7 for a bottle of 2000. Even if you get a springer pistol and and a thing of bb's and you don't like airsoft, then give it to a friend, because you definitely didn't spend a lot of money.
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I do know someone who can get airsoft guns cheap, I just don't know what I could shoot around here.
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Whoop how'd I miss this. Individual for the win. Not sports though, you might reconsider changing that to individual fitness.
I do runs, press ups, sit ups, squats, lateral dips, and where appropriate- chin ups.
I gave up paying for a gym as for the above exercises you just need a floor. Except for the chin ups. A door frame or a tree will do in that case.
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i go hunting sometimes
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I do know someone who can get airsoft guns cheap, I just don't know what I could shoot around here.
How cheap are you talking here? I mean, i got mine at wal mart. A cybershot colt 1911 120fps 22 yard range for $12 (and a laser sight). I don't think it gets any cheaper than that for airsoft. The cybershot mossberg m590 355fps 60 yard range was actually $30 for a pretty awesome springer. The problem with cybershot is the cheaper it gets the lower the quality. So there's a huge quality difference between the pistol and the shotgun. On the other hand daisy has a nice pistol 240fps 44 yard range made with all metal parts internally for $16. That really surprised me at the quality difference between the crappy cybershots (i take really good care of that colt).
Either take care of your guns, or buy really really nice expensive ones and still take care of them.
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I don't have an actual price range, but probably no cheaper than that. As I said, I only know someone who can get stuff cheap.
I saw an M16 model in a shop once for about $30, but I have serious doubts about quality around here.