Escapist, what is your level of athleticism?

[lacktheknack]

I'm asthmatic, so I suck at cardio. However, I'm decently strong and can lift more than people expect.

When I settle into a job and home, I'm planning on doing three-days-a-week lifting to stay in shape. As is, I'm out of shape, but still got some kick to me.

 

[giles]

Hm, I guess I'm at my peak physical condition in my life.
I can do 12 km (~7.5 miles for you weird people who don't use the SI system) in around 50 minutes, depending on the course I take (mountain area). Guess I could be faster if I was a different build (my upper body is relatively large).
Though I'm currently struggling with side stitches which keep me from running faster, it's the weirdest thing. It's just suddenly a thing. Whenever I run and don't concentrate on my breathing for a few seconds I can feel them coming and they won't go away for the entire run. I have to constantly adjust my pace and breathing so I don't make it worse. Real pain in the ass tbh.
Still, I'd like to think I'm the fastest flat footed asthmatic around yo

I'm currently working on perfecting my handstand, my core and arm muscles are well defined. Though I feel like I'm not making any damn progress on the planche.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I am in the military, so I have the fitness tests to comply with. I do phys often (in work time... of course!) but am a bit lazy and not as fit as I could be. I can pass the fitness test though, and do well at strength tests over endurance.

 

[GundamSentinel]

As it's always been: below average. But I'm okay with that. I've never been a sports guy and it's always been a bit of a struggle for me to not get fat. Now, while I've never gotten really fat and I've been at normal, healthy weight for years, I'm not in a good shape either. But I do walk and bicycle a lot, and I can still run a mile without dropping dead, so it's fine with me.

 

[Gorrath]

I once broke a car window playing basketball...

...in an indoor gym.

Need I say more?

That's hilarious, please do.

OT: At one time I played a multitude of sports, was an amateur boxer and worked out twice a day for an hour each time. Now I'm a lazy couch potato who plays too much Minecraft.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Not unfit, but I got slack over winter and haven't been able to run as far for a while. I'm hoping to get in shape for touch footy next year so I'm working on building up a training regime of sprints and jogging, as well as bodyweight training and yoga.

My cardio needs more work, but bodyweight training has made me a lot fitter than I ever used to be. I'm trying to work my way up to handstands and one arm pushups/one leg squats.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

That's hilarious, please do.

It's not as interesting as you may think!

How to break a car window playing basketball in an indoor gym:

1) Throw ball

2) Miss the entire backboard (that sums up about 90% of my shots)

3) Ball bounces out the open back door of the gym

4) Ball hits car window and breaks it. Even worse, it was the gym teacher's car.

So, erm... the rest of that year was total hell because the gym teacher started failing me on EVERYTHING after that. I even failed at throwing a softball back and forth with a partner as fast as possible. He said I wasn't catching and throwing fast enough, but before the activity started, I TOLD him that I needed a glove to go on my right hand because I'm a lefty and I throw left-handed. He basically told me to lump it, didn't get me a proper glove, then failed me because I had to catch the ball and then take the glove off my hand to throw it back.

 

[Gorrath]

That's hilarious, please do.

It's not as interesting as you may think!

How to break a car window playing basketball in an indoor gym:

1) Throw ball

2) Miss the entire backboard (that sums up about 90% of my shots)

3) Ball bounces out the open back door of the gym

4) Ball hits car window and breaks it. Even worse, it was the gym teacher's car.

So, erm... the rest of that year was total hell because the gym teacher started failing me on EVERYTHING after that. I even failed at throwing a softball back and forth with a partner as fast as possible. He said I wasn't catching and throwing fast enough, but before the activity started, I TOLD him that I needed a glove to go on my right hand because I'm a lefty and I throw left-handed. He basically told me to lump it, didn't get me a proper glove, then failed me because I had to catch the ball and then take the glove off my hand to throw it back.

I played a fair few sports myself, but basketball was not one of them. I was an awful, awful shot. I had this idea in my head that you'd launched the ball and it had somehow ended up breaking one of the high gym windows before sailing out into the parking lot. Despite being on several sports teams and playing very well for them, I never got along with the gym teacher/coach either. He always came up with reasons why my performance wasn't up to par despite me being a very competitive, hard working player. Of course I was also a huge nerd, so I straddled the line between the two groups (jock/nerd) and got along with neither. Damn gym teachers!

 

[Danny Dowling]

I get picked last or near last for near every sport out there (football [saaaacccurrr], basketball, rock paper scissors etc.) as I'm really not any good at any of them. And that's been the case all the way through school and college and now in my current job.

Currently I am an athlete in Olympic Taekwondo and I train 3 times a day, I have a below recommended amount of fat at around 6%-9% and I weigh in at around 78-80kg.

My fitness is far far far above the average (at least I should hope it was, it is my job, like).

Nitty gritty wise I'm built for speed and explosive movement. I can outsprint all par 2 of the other olympic athletes and I'm the second best for counter movement jumping (pretty good for a white boy). And yeah I can kick really quickly. Strength isn't my thing I have virtually no bulk I look like I'm more 72kg than 80 but I can ass to the grass 110 on a back squat.

 

[Kargathia]

I hated PE and most flavours of group sports with a passion, which directly led to me not being terribly athletic.

That changed somewhat when I started practicing martial arts - turns out I love punching people. I'm still not going to run a marathon, and there's a bit of flab on my stomach (only excarbated by the muscles underneath), but I'd say I'm doing pretty well. Coordination, flexibility, and posture are all way better than they were a few years back.

 

[Danny Dowling]

I hated PE and most flavours of group sports with a passion, which directly led to me not being terribly athletic.

That changed somewhat when I started practicing martial arts - turns out I love punching people. I'm still not going to run a marathon, and there's a bit of flab on my stomach (only excarbated by the muscles underneath), but I'd say I'm doing pretty well. Coordination, flexibility, and posture are all way better than they were a few years back.

I'm a man of martial arts myself. 3rd Dan ITF Taekwondo and 1st Dan WTF Taekwondo. What do you do?

 

[Zen Bard]

I'd say it's above average.

I started working out in college (a long time ago) and dabbling in martial arts with some judo, tae kwon do and tai chi (not to be confused with chai tea).

About ten years ago I trained heavily in muay thai. That was a crash course in fitness as some of my sparring partners are now professional MMA fighters.

Then a few years ago, I got into parrkour but messed up my hip so I had to put the brakes on that.

Most recently, I joined a kung fu school...both as a way to rehabilitate my hip and because it's something I always wanted to do.

Not bad for a skinny former science nerd who was always picked last in gym. (Basically, I AM Peter Parker...except for that whole radioactive spider and super power bit)

 

[Summerstorm]

Eugh... terribad. Way beneath average.
I am breathing heavy going up a few floors. My Arms hurt when i am carrying a few PC's (I am a sys-admin... which might explain at least a part of my terrible condition)

Man, when i remember back when i was young and beautiful (eh... ok, or not) and what i could do back then... (I had about 10 years Karate-Training - Don't judge, it was the early nineties) Well, let's just say not exercising for about 12 Years and gaining +40% weight lowers your potential a bit.

I also feel bad more and more... Man i really need to get my shit together and train myself back up.

 

[otakon17]

Below average. I have horrible stamina but I'm fairly strong. I can't run a mile the entire way but if you need that big heavy thing pushed/pulled/lifted out of the way, I can handle that.

 

[samwise970]

I'd say slightly above average right now. I used to play football and row crew, in the beginning of college I was in ROTC. I'm 6'1, 170, which is a good bit more than I usually weigh. Planning on starting to work out again, but I still have a decent bench and can do 15ish pull-ups no problem.

 

[Zakarath]

I don't really do any sort of sports or physical activities apart from nature walks and skiing (And some outdoors work and swinging a sword around every so often), but I'm naturally pretty fit anyway, somehow. I'd say I can sprint decently when I have a mind to, I'm pretty agile, and my metabolism apparently really isn't interested in storing up fat.

 

[Gorrath]

I'd say it's above average.

I started working out in college (a long time ago) and dabbling in martial arts with some judo, tae kwon do and tai chi (not to be confused with chai tea).

About ten years ago I trained heavily in muay thai. That was a crash course in fitness as some of my sparring partners are now professional MMA fighters.

Then a few years ago, I got into parrkour but messed up my hip so I had to put the brakes on that.

Most recently, I joined a kung fu school...both as a way to rehabilitate my hip and because it's something I always wanted to do.

Not bad for a skinny former science nerd who was always picked last in gym. (Basically, I AM Peter Parker...except for that whole radioactive spider and super power bit)

I hear you on the parrkour. I messed myself up worse trying that than I ever did getting into the ring with people. I was an amateur boxer in the Army and trained in several disciplines of martial arts. None of that came anywhere close to beating the crap out of me like messing up while attempting parrkour.

Which discipline of Kung Fu are you studying?

 

[McElroy]

I like sports but I hate exercising. I'm still above average since the piedough generation's average is so damn low. I do well in different ball games, and my throwing arm is very precise. High-level athleticism in team sports, quite low in "actual" athletics.

 

[Cheeseman Muncher]

I am pretty unfit, but it's mostly due to my own laziness than anything else. I can run for the bus without having a heart attack so I reckon that's not too bad for being from Scotland. I like walking though. Give me a 5 mile walk through some woods over a run round the block any day.