As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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Within competitive sports, swimming works best for me, due to my extreme psychological (or psychiactric?) fear of winning. Not fear, but not wanting to hurt the other guy's feelings. I also have a problem with arguing or fighting or anything in that area that would probably follow contact sports. Only played a little soccer in the goalie position (in Brazil where soccer is king). Played some volleyball (no contact, no fights), some basketball as a kid. Eventually settled and played for years tennis at club level, with competition being playing against your friends. I won some, lost others. But, here is my point, if the adversary started to trash talk or talk any within the game environment or showed signs of being nervous about losing, my game would go bad pretty quick. I use to jog or run, but running a marathon with 35,000 others isn't really competitive, just a struggle not to die and end the darn thing. In the pool, I change...I enjoy swimming fast, I enjoy winning. I am swimming against my own previous times, trying to make a P.B. Tomorrow I will be swimming a 400 freestyle where my closest competition is about two minutes slower. However I will be trying my best to lower my previous time (although in a 50 meter pool, so it will be my baseline time, my first swim) from a 400 short pool. I am already guaranteed a first place and even a local record, but still I will swim fast because we are at the end of our regular season and I am in top form. (dang, this post is getting too long). Okay, swimming by itself will not make me lose weight (at my present low mileage) but I am fit. That said, I feel the need for some extra activity which will be running and/or cycling or both for next year as my weight comes down from 210 to 195-200 where it will be okay for me to run, not only walk or bike. Running while overweight isn't a good idea. I realize I deviated from the main thought on this thread, but to wrap it up: swimming is probably the best overall sport for any age up to death (!). You look good, feel good, have hardened muscles, you might not be skinny yet, but it will help you out in your various diets or supplementary activities such as running, cycling or pushing or pumping iron at the local gym. Sorry for the length of this post, billy fanstone.
Within competitive sports, swimming works best for me, due to my extreme psychological (or psychiactric?) fear of winning. Not fear, but not wanting to hurt the other guy's feelings. I also have a problem with arguing or fighting or anything in that area that would probably follow contact sports. Only played a little soccer in the goalie position (in Brazil where soccer is king). Played some volleyball (no contact, no fights), some basketball as a kid. Eventually settled and played for years tennis at club level, with competition being playing against your friends. I won some, lost others. But, here is my point, if the adversary started to trash talk or talk any within the game environment or showed signs of being nervous about losing, my game would go bad pretty quick. I use to jog or run, but running a marathon with 35,000 others isn't really competitive, just a struggle not to die and end the darn thing. In the pool, I change...I enjoy swimming fast, I enjoy winning. I am swimming against my own previous times, trying to make a P.B. Tomorrow I will be swimming a 400 freestyle where my closest competition is about two minutes slower. However I will be trying my best to lower my previous time (although in a 50 meter pool, so it will be my baseline time, my first swim) from a 400 short pool. I am already guaranteed a first place and even a local record, but still I will swim fast because we are at the end of our regular season and I am in top form. (dang, this post is getting too long). Okay, swimming by itself will not make me lose weight (at my present low mileage) but I am fit. That said, I feel the need for some extra activity which will be running and/or cycling or both for next year as my weight comes down from 210 to 195-200 where it will be okay for me to run, not only walk or bike. Running while overweight isn't a good idea. I realize I deviated from the main thought on this thread, but to wrap it up: swimming is probably the best overall sport for any age up to death (!). You look good, feel good, have hardened muscles, you might not be skinny yet, but it will help you out in your various diets or supplementary activities such as running, cycling or pushing or pumping iron at the local gym. Sorry for the length of this post, billy fanstone.
