Why don't you do an actual sport? MMA, climbing, swimming, long jump, gymnastics? Do you always just want to be a gymcel training for nothing aimlessly?
Why don't you do an actual sport? MMA, climbing, swimming, long jump, gymnastics?
Why don't you do an actual sport? MMA, climbing, swimming, long jump, gymnastics? Do you always just want to be a gymcel training for nothing aimlessly?
what if i get injured and I cant lift
Honestly this. I’m pretty sure I broke a bone in my foot 2 summers ago and waiting 5 days to squat again felt wrong. I couldn’t run for 3-4 months which sucked
I used to skate, if you're gonna count meme shit like gymnastics then skateboarding is a sport. Also this because I'm only in my 30s and my ankles can't take much more.
Based sk8erboi, I used to love the thrash, but the old man knees at 49 don't cooperate much with the impact anymore. Still hit up a mini ramp every so often and the skills remain, but frick the streets, that's a young man's game.
all of the sports i want to do cost money and i quit job/went back to school.
Run, row, take the kayak out in summer/early fall since spring here is really cold, go hiking sometimes to draw plants and insects, go bow hunting, go fishing. I really don't see the need for "sports" if I'm feeling competitive there's always darts, poker, bridge, rummy, euchre, mahjong and pool.
>hiking sometimes to draw plants and insects
why would you larp as some 19th century scientist/explorer
Why wouldn't you?
Mostly boredom. It's something to do other than go places to eat and look around. I don't really like drawing people or buildings, birds are nice but they move too much. Those animal/plant identification guides and apps are nice as is photography but it doesn't seem personal enough. If I make something complete enough I can even paint over it and put it on my walls or give it to someone who likes it. It's nice to have mementos in general that are made by a person.
>why would you larp as some 19th century scientist/explorer
It's based, that's why. I do the same to some extent.
I started taking boxing lessons earlier this year, it's fun, made me realize my endurance and stamina are shit though so I also had to start jogging
>Why don't you do an actual sport? MMA
I do actually.
Started MMA 4 months ago.
I like it a lot, it's awesome.
I get to spar / fight and push my cardio my farther than I do when going for a run.
Getting hit in the face is not enjoyable but fighting feels exhilarating.
If as a man you don't like a good little fighting and sparing, you're a pussy b***h.
Simple as.
>made me realize my endurance and stamina are shit though so I also had to start jogging
This.
Bodybuilders think they could theoretically fight well because they think big muscles would be a great advantage in fighting, but in reality the more muscle mass you have, the more blood is required to maintain a effort , so extra-muscle is a disadvantage when you need to last 5 min while using every single muscle in your body to it's full capacity.
There plenty of examples of this on YouTube.
It's even more pronounced in strongmen who are literal giants. They don't even last 2 min without getting out of breath.
You can improve you cardio but you can't make your heart bigger through hypertrophy like you would other muscles.
>Start MMA 4 months ago
>Now has very strong opinions around MMA
Hate mfs like this
It's just part of the process. He'll be past this stage by the end of the year.
I climb and rappel and sail.
I mountain bike. Suck at it and the bike is constantly breaking, but I like it. Getting warm enough to get back out there. But I got to put on new wheels.
I swim twice a week for my cardio. I’d like to go more but I hate going to public pools just as much as I hate going to public gyms. I have the space in my house for a personal gym but not a pool
So I have to suffer the peasantry twice a week.
And what are any of those training me for?
It is supposed to be something you like to do. That's it.
To not be an antisocial autistic spaz who doesn't know how to be friendly with other people.
Yeah man nothing as social as rockclimbing or MMA gyms. twat.
Climbing is ruined because it went mainstream and it got the reputation of being a good place to meet women
Now when you go, it's literally just filled with incels and a few hot women who are very isolated
Indians are ruining everything
I barely go bouldering these days because the gym is teeming with homosexuals. Way too busy. Frick I miss pre-covid climbing. You'd get like 20 people at a time now it's literally 200.
>actual sport
>climbing
Thought you were just going to slip that one in, huh? Anyone who has ever been to a climbing gym knows that it's for unathletic office workers making low to mid six figures to find a wife while pretending to be active.
I do rugby.
I do MMA and also lift. I could heem you and gorilla press you. Why can’t I enjoy both homosexual?
>long jump
>actual sport
Actual sports that i can do for FREE?
I dont want to keep funding bigGym. Id rather do calisthenics and some weightlifting at home.
But what sports can i into for free?
I play table tennis *is a sport* with a friend during workhours, but other than that idk what sport i can do without paying a sEnSeI for teaching me his crooked ways
As Musashi said, learn all arts without a teacher. Thats what i kind of strive for
>inb4 i die cuz war so it doesnt matter anyway
>Why don't you do an actual sport? MMA, climbing, swimming, long jump, gymnastics?
Climbing, swimming, long jump and gymnastics are more like "athletics competition". Kind of a nitpick but given that only ONE of the sports you listed is an actual PvP sport (MMA) I have to point it out.
Basketball is the most obvious (and I guess futbal if you're in a futbal country). You just show up to a court and wait for a spot to open up. Quality of the experience will vary massively depending on the neighborhood.
Tennis works also (though you'll need your own racket). All you need are public courts and a way to connect with people to use them (including sometimes just showing up and waiting for someone's partner to go home early). I assume there are local groups (facebook, etc.) for finding partners.
I do olympic weightlifting and strong athletics at amateur level.
post belly
Picked up bouldering about 6 months back after being a gymbro for a decade. Still lift same as before, but overuse in joints has become an issue I need to manage.
Surprised at the amount of cute girls, too bad I'm a fricking sperg.
>actual sport
>climbing
lmfao
putting climbing or bouldering at the same level as gymastics, mma and swimming means you're completely moronic
Why do some people on IST always get to aggressive when climbing is the subject? Is it because they get mogged by someone way smaller than them? Are they that insecure?
Culture war shit.
Most of this board is poor and brown. Climbing gyms are like $90-120 a month on average and mostly white people.
Here’s your white people bro
What do you think about trad climbing? I find it really weird how this thing that's basically the archetypal exercise in muh faustian spirit is being memed as le bad.
Only outdoor climbing is real climbing. These dyel tech losers who exclusively pull plastic in a gym with their ugly bug gf are not climbers — just glorified toddlers climbing in a glorified jungle gym
Yeah but we make way more than you and the bug pussy tight af
Lmao climbing gyms are filled with stemcels and attention prostitutes, not exactly a bastion of le aryan master race.
IST is intrinsically anti-mainstream so since climbing has gotten popular recently, anons will hate it.
But yeah imo climbing is a transient activity for most normies, people come in, get excited with the novelty of it, and then quit after a few months or years.
it's a fun hobby, but treating it as a real sport is honestly a joke, and putting it on par with sports like gymnastics and MMA is just laughable
the amount of phyiscality and training required to excel at MMA or gymnastics is not comparable to climbing.
Climbing is a sport in the same way powerlifting or BJJ is, mostly unathletic dudes who want to do something physical as a hobby
You sound like exactly the kind of person I'm talking about.
>the amount of phyiscality and training required to excel at MMA or gymnastics is not comparable to climbing
Most people don't excel at any of those. Difference is that anyone who doesn't excel at gymnastics drops out by the time they're in their early 20s, and you're probably conveniently filtering people who take martial arts classes but never get really serious about competitive MMA while NOT filtering people who get into climbing but never get really serious about it.
Nice bait gay
Product as an identity. The vast majority of IST posters don't work out. They just want to pretend to be part of a group. They think that requires them to attack other groups to demonstrate how much they belong. Similar concept to how they pretend to follow autisitically spartan regimens around diet and exercise.
>says the moron who posts some eceleb grifter
Kek
I think you meant a beautiful eceleb grifter. You kek, but that doesn't refute the point at all.
>unwed tattooed single mother who let some cokehead wannabe musician hit it raw and gave her a kid then abandoned and who got embarrassed by some troony live at Oxford debate is le beautiful
Mental illness and frick off back to r/redscarepod
great armchair psychology moron, did you deduce that from a twitter post?
Did I hit too close to home?
at least you conceded that your post meant nothing
I work as security, but want to upgrade to a nightclub rather than security at a tourist destination, they get paid more.
>see a bunch of examples of why climbing has gone to shit in the last 5 years
>omg is it because you got MOGGED
no, you illiterate curry Black person
>Muay thai 3 times a week
>Running 3 times a week
>Weight lifting 4 times a week.
works well for me and ticks all the boxes.
Climbing is not a sport.
>Doing pullups and climbing a mountain for 1 hour straight is not a sport! Now doing 3x5 with 40% range of motion on the sitting hack semi leg ass press? THAT IS A SPORT SO EPIC AND BUFF BRO!
I don’t even consider lifting in the gym a sport, you illogical homosexual. They’re both activities. Stop even pretending you climb outside. Only insecure homosexuals who exclusively climb in the gyms and started climbing post-Covid get so buttblasted when people make fun of today’s numale climbers
you should stop making up your own definition of words.
Sounds like what you’re doing to describe climbing as a sport, lil’ numale
can you elaborate?
I just want to look good with minimal effort, anon. Why are you being so mean to me?
I play footy with the lads, which doesn't really require a good body. Also OP doesn't know what a sport is.
I do both but you're right. I don't really consider llifting (not olympic weightlifting) a sport but rather an addition. People who only lifted in their lives are fricking morons. I have boxed almost all my life and even if I wouldn't touch a pair of gloves for 5 years and eat like shit I could still beat the living frick out of 99% of the people out there in a ring. I will never unlearn the skills. I will get rusty but I won't unlearn them.
*forgot to add. Link is Roberto Duran at 64 years of age.
I love powerlifting. I've considered quitting sometimes due to staleness or injury, but then I have some great sessions and remember that I absolutely love atrempting and succeeding at heavy lifts. I've done other sports, and I know that what matters most is loving the process. You can enjoy the feeling of winning a race, or a match, but if you don't love almost all the training, it's just not worth it.
I've been tempted, many times, by things like BJJ and boxing. But ngl, it's gotta be lifting for me.
Almost all powerlifters are fat or incels
Incorrect, having sex and loving life are critical components of powerlifting, even more so than good programming.
Good point, man. I agree on the training part, if you don't find happiness in the daily routine just quit.
When I work out, I compete against the worst adversary ever: myself.
With that said, I've contemplated juicing myself and then joining some adult league so I can BTFO out of every one there.
Who dis seemin seemin?
*Seemin deemin*
I run long distance
That is the purest sport there is
Who is dis seemin deemin?
climbing about on legos in a warehouse full of redditors is not a sport
Correct. If you haven't done multipitch climbing you're just doing wall-calisthenics. Which is fine, but don't call it rock climbing.
well they don't call it rock climbing, it's called competition climbing or sports climbing. the people that call it rock climbing are the ones that tard rage about it
>climb indoors
>go outside once in a while
>indoor skills translate nearly perfectly outdoors
Yeah bro they’re totally not the same shit because you’re climbing on plastic instead of rock. Inb4 some turbo shitter says but gym grades are soft, yeah if you climb less than v8 like some fat moron
believe it or not I actually train during the winters for golf and once it gets warm out switch more to cardio, lighter weight more reps and yoga.
Does anyone know who picrel is? I need to goon bad.
I started jiu jitsu and kickboxing 🙂
>training for nothing
for looks and health. sports are boring and risky. meh.
I don’t know a climber who hasn’t gotten a stupid injury in the last two years. Combat sports are for growing holes in the brain. Swimming is boring.
Lifting is the only physical activity I tolerate well that wont dumpster my body by the time I’m 40.
My sport is outlifting you at the gym so you can make seethe threads when you get home about how playing footsie with your butt buddies twice a week means you're a real athlete and much more functional than actually being strong
Because I am too autistic for team sports. I used to play football (soccer for Americans) as a kid but I was constantly bullied by the other kids because I am terrible at making short time tactical decisions and also too autistic to understand unwritten rules and any social cues on team bonding, when to do what, etc.
I am also too low T to really get into a combative mode while playing team sports, I would never foul or tackle or anything and cuck duck away from the ball. I eventually got moved to the moron team and quit shortly afterward.
The gym is one of the only activities where someone like me can achieve something and I am eternally grateful for it.
I do kendo and kenjutsu. Used to be pretty into martial arts when I was younger but quit because I wasn't super athletic but I did love fighting. Couple years in the military and that solved the athleticism and I have a reason to remain athletic now due to said martial arts.
Take the bu(jutsu)do pill.
Oh I do. Telemark skiing and hockey in the winter, mountain biking in the summer, boxing year round. Lifting is a pretty small part of my life. Telemark skiing (pic rel) is based, cause you just do lunges all the way down the mountain.
I love skiing, but I have never tried telemark. What are the factors that make you prefer telemark over conventional skiing? Can you bomb down a hill doing 80kph carving swings with a telemark set up? I have seen some videos and the skis look like they are way less stiff than conventional skis.
The one that got me into it was that it's better for your knees than alpine skiing. In a telemark turn, there's much less side loading on your knees, which if you're a really aggressive skier, means much less potential for knee injuries. I also enjoy that tele is much more challenging even when doing basic stuff on groomed slopes. I've always pushed the limits of my skiing (big hits in the park, cliff hucks, and that kinda stuff), tele offered me a way to dial back my skiing, while still staying challenging. And with modern tele setups, you can absolutely rail high speed carves, it just takes more practice, but is much more rewarding. Check out Tele Colorado's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@telecolo_), there's some really cool videos of guys doing wild shit.
You assume we don't know martial arts. Personally I like to lift so I can put more force and mass behind technique, and it also makes it easier to handcuff people as I've needed to
>Why don't you do an actual sport?
who said i didnt, homosexual moron?
>MMA, climbing, swimming, long jump, gymnastics?
read above, dumbass monkey homosexual OP
>Do you always just want to be a gymcel training for nothing aimlessly?
i love working out and lifting weights, why else would i do it? i also love cooking eating sleeping and fricking your mom but you dont see me making threads about it.
you didnt even fricking say if YOU participate in other physical activities, moron, Black person, homosexual fricking cope KYS israelite trash
But I DO an actual sport!
I play chess :^)
What sport or sports should I go for? I was considering something like boxing or swimming because I like those. But I don't like getting hit in the face even by a hand-pillow and I live in the middle of a fricking desert. And there ain't a team sport here that I'm aware of. Pretty much the only things I can figure are maybe climbing and gymnastics. I can't seem to find much of an actual sport that isn't either expensive as shit b/c you can only do it at a gym or one that requires a huge time commitment like a second job.
I train HEMA and Escrima, I'm fit and strong af from weighted calisthenics and dumbells and just want to be good at swordfighting. I also carry a concealed sword in public, I'm training to be a one man army but I'm also a Christian pacifist so I refuse to use my skills. Also kind feels cool knowing whenever I go out in public knowing that I have the dangerous skills and chiseled body of an ancient warrior, even if I'm total loser NEET. I'm still a ripped badass that mogs most men in terms of combat
holy shit you are a bigger homosexual than op
You're all massive homosexuals regardless of preferred activity.
i could be balls deep in a twinks butthole and you'd be gayer ya homosexual
You wish you ever got as deep in a twinks' butthole as I have, you limp-wristed glee club president homosexual
I swim, but don't see any material difference compared to the gym
>I also carry a concealed sword in public
pics or didnt happen
I want her to choke me to death
I train to keep in shape. I fricking hate sports and outdoors shit. Doing weights is the best time investment for potential returns. 3x 45 mins a week, no skill involved in and fricking out and I don't have to worry about it for another day or 2. If I could train less and keep in shape I would but what ever.
>inb4 muh autism or some shit
Yes but at least I'm not a disgusting fat frick and I'm in shape. You enjoy your sports. I'm going to do autismo things.
Does anybody here know who this b***h is?
Alex Puccio
Thanks, but where does she live, I need more info, and I want her to have my babies.
i used to but ive been slacking. gym is just too easy when you are lonely
i will look into starting golf and tennis again once i get my life in order and build relationships back up.
i will get a punching bag for sure when im able to buy my own house
Competing in sports is fun, i always lose motivation unless I have a specific competition to train for.
Do I start climbing or MMA IST? No experience in either and poor cordination btw
Do you want to be able to manhandled 99% of people you encounter day to day? MMA. Do you want to meet actual women? Do climbing. Women don't do mma, though they do often find it sexy you do it. But you won't meet any there. Super male dominated. Climbing is like almost half women. And all of them are cute, decently active, and fatties can't climb so they're all thinner. Easy to strike up casual non creepy conversations with them.
t. Do mma mainly, occasionally climb with gf.
good advice, thanks
Poor coordination is an issue. You dont want to get beaten constantly. A few pointers: learn to juggle, this will improve hand eye coordination and reflexes. Learn kettlebells using tsatsouline's video on youtube, it will help with athleticism and cardio. Going into mma as an athlete with decent reflexes is a totally different experience to going in as a runt.
Climbing and mma are both great, you can do both.
So what are some good sports that aren’t combat. I thought tennis would be fun but obviously I have nobody to play with. Footy, soccer and all would be cool but also no idea how to get in a club so I’m basically rotting doing 5k’s and bodyweight
just research. my club and not even club but just local sports centers or whatever have their own app or whatsapp groups where you can set your level of skill (beginner, intermediate etc) and then group of with people who are also looking for mates with similar skill. it actually works super well and its easy to connect because you both like tennis in this example and so on.
I have some weird coordination/muscle input issue that stops me from being able to hit a ball or react to movement (like a punch, or something thrown at me) properly. I don't know how to describe it, it's not a delay (I have aversge reaction time), basically my arms/legs end up in slightly different positions than the ones my brain planned them to be according to visual input, and they do not do coordinated movements.
This is actually why my life is ruined. It caused me to live a childhood of complete self-isolation as kids spent their free time doing sports, football, table tennis, table football, volleyball, all of which I am completely unable to do even at the bare minimum level, worse than even the mentally moronic kids who lived in my town. I practiced I think hundreds of hours trying to catch a ball by throwing it at a wall, and I never improved. I can't even ride a bike because I can't coordinate the balance, the pedaling and the turning, I can't even take off (but I can drive a car, at least). All martial arts are off the table, my parents signed up to karate class as a kid and after a dozen lessons the teacher told them to retire me because I was unable to learn the basic movements. I took a boxing class as an adult - same shit. I can only lift weights.
And I'll add that I don't even know what this issue is called and I can't find someone with my same issue on the internet, except people with dyspraxia but that's a different issue.
If you're "doing" long-jump, you're too young to use this board.
Is Olympic Lifting not a sport?
Yes Olympic lifting is a "sport" in the sense that athletic competition can be considered a sport (and it's more interesting and technical than powerfatting for sure). But a lot of athletic competitions like this (many track&field events also) are somewhat far afield from what people normally think of by sports. Even a simple footrace has other competitors on the track with you at the same time.
If OP wants to consider gymnastics a sport then any kind of lifting is a sport.
I'm too short for team sports and combat sports. I could do swimming, but it's frickin boring.
Never too short for Judo
I just started swimming last week at 22. It's pure hell but I love it
I played sports for 15 years as a kid growing up. I'm done with that stuff. lifting in solitude is what I enjoy now.
the whole argument of is something a sport or not is so fricking stupid. just ask "are there professional events of X activity being held and have competitors?" if the answer is yes, then it's a sport. it's as simple as that. not everyone who participates in the activity is part of the sport part of it. you may not like the activity for whatever reason, but that doesn't stop it from being a sport
Chess is a sport. Pool is a sport. Jumping rope is a sport. Knitting is a sport. Chopping wood is a sport. Typing on a keyboard is a sport. Doing vape tricks is a sport. Sitting in a sauna is a sport. Trivia is a sport.
Captcha: Y2SJW
sure I don't see why any of those aren't sports. If you're just doing it alone with no intention of competing then you're just doing an activity, if you're competing against someone then it's a sport 🙂
>If you're just doing it alone with no intention of competing then you're just doing an activity
You just described 99.99% of climbers. Most probably don't even know that sport climbing exists.
yeah, and that's completely fine. doesn't invalidate the sports aspect of it though. doing one doesn't erase the other and that's literally what I've been saying the whole time but tards just don't get it
> If you're just doing it alone with no intention of competing then you're just doing an activity
>if you're competing against someone then it's a sport
The way you've described it, one obviously does invalidate the other. I don't know what other posts are yours, but this obviously means that 99.99% of climbers are not participating in a sport, which is what much of the debate itt has been about.
Agreeing with the other guy, recreational climbing is an activity.
Same with lifting, it's only a sport if you actually compete in powerlifting/strongman/weightlifting.
You need to learn the difference between a sport, a game and a competition.
Nobody cares about sports unless you’re in (high) school, a d1 athlete, or a pro. The only sport you should be playing as a hobby is golf for networking and that’s it. Kys manchild