Any Athletic Aspies Out There?

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I am.

Competition swimmer up to about 15. Middle and long distance runner (and weight lifter) from about 14, took up cycling in my 30s after too many years of pounding the roads..........

I rowed for a while in my late teens, but as I rowed at 'Stroke' (the rower who sits in the front seat) and everyone else just followed my timing, I don't really count that as team work

I've played baseball for six or so years, early on (starting with t-ball!). I also did some golf around that time. Eventually when that stopped, I played basketball for two years, and soon after I joined the football team for a total of five years.

I grew up in a family that's into sports, even into the extended family.

Unfortunately, I never really went any farther than average, I never really stood out, and sometimes was pretty horrible. It's because due to the physical coordination, like from AS, and I never really had many supportive coaches that showed me how to do things. I pretty much never, until the last two years of football, had a good running style. It was always pretty awkward, at one point being nicknamed "airplane". Yay? Besides that, the only other area where AS seemed affect me, is where I'm now figuring out how it played out in football. American football - the contact sport. I had no problems getting tackled (after a while haha), but I myself couldn't tackle others. I think it's because of the issues with physical contact issue I read with AS - in blocking drills, and tackling drills, it was really awkward - I couldn't initiate the hit first. Often I couldn't hit back, either.

It ticked me off for ages why I couldn't seem to do so, ticking off the coaches, even when I intended to hit correctly! But now it makes sense. Either way, I have nothing on my plate right now, and I'm so glad - so happy that this summer, I'm not waking up at 6AM every morning to kill myself on the rough practice field for 7 hours straight. Every day, except for Sunday. Then there's the drama and crap to worry about, and fighting to get play time, stuff only adding to the madness.

I'm signed up to take flag football in the Autumn Quarter in my first year of college, which I imagine shouldn't be near as stressful, since I don't need to hit somebody, so no problem there. ;D

I don't like any team sports. I tried basketball when I was 8 and I hated it. But I've been doing martial arts since I was 9. I used to compete in TaeKwonDo fighting competitions but I don't train so hard for that anymore. Now I mainly focus on practicing things that look cool for demonstrations and routine competitions, like tricks and acrobatic stuff. And for that reason I also take gymnastics and tumbleing classes which I also love.

Just turned 60. Never liked team sports. Can't throw a ball.

Started running in my late 20's. Shortly thereafter started studying Isshinryu karate.
Plugged away, wound up with 2nd degree black (nidan).
Loved the trails, was running about 50 miles a week, loved sparring and training.
Until my 50's when cartilage damage finally stopped me.
Started tai chi at 50. Began teaching it at 52.
Cartilage went from bad to cripplingly worse.
Finally at 58 the pain beat fear and I had both hips replaced.
Running, karate, gone. Weight way up.
I teach tai chi now, ride a bicycle.

Maybe I was clumsy as a kid, my father liked to point that out.
Certainly I was one of the last chosen in schoolyard games.
As an adult no one has ever mentioned it.
I've gotten comments from my tai chi class about how gracefully I move.

I think coordination can be learned. Bruce Lee started me on martial arts,
I trained one day at a time, just wanted to be a decent brown belt,
a level that conveys privilege on the mat without much responsibility.
One day at a time can take you pretty far if you just stick with it.

I suck at any sport with a ball - I did play soccer when I was younger. Now, I run/walk a weekly 5K with a local run club. I also snowboard quite a bit in the winter - I just started to enter the terrain park this past season and I almost blew my hip out on a jump I should have NEVER done. I'm trying to restrain myself from buying a new snowboard - a 2011 Never Summer SL series.

I've tried my hand at surfing and yoga - and I want to practice the latter once a week. Eventually, I want to get a road bike and get scuba certified.

Yes, I was very good at sports. Swimming, basketball, hockey, volleyball. Not expecially good in the interaction. But very good in the sports itselfs.

I exercise religiously, because I obsess over my health and because I have a lot of energy (I suspect ADHD, although I've only been diagnosed with Aspergers.) It is said that many people with Aspergers have poor muscle tone, but oddly enough, I can do 180 lbs on a shoulder machine, and 310 on the leg press...and I'm a woman. However, I have had issues with body image. Although I'm NOT overweight, I still sometimes obsess over my body shape.

I exercise a bit, basic gym stuff and obsessive cycling.
Used to play soccer until knees started complaining.

Quit gym last couple months and looking to do more body weight type exercises.
Many tell me I look very fit, wish I could use that to my advantage.

I am athletic too, most anything that requires minimum team coordination.

Attending fitness classes is the group activity with no interaction with participants.

Other than that cycling , weight training , running keeps me in good shape and healthy.
I don't think I have a coordination problem but maybe a bit clumsy.

I would consider myself athletic but not in the traditional way. I've always disliked team sports, largely due to poor coordination, clumsiness, and social awkwardness as a child persisting into adulthood. I enjoy other activities though like swimming, rock climbing, yoga, walking/playing with my dogs, and weight lifting. I stay fit and active, but I still don't like baseball.

I love to challenge myself by doing extreme hikes -- on and off trail. I'm getting into backpacking heavily, also, which I am really enjoying! There's nothing sitting in front of a nice fire after a 15-20 mile trek in he mountains to bring you a sense of peace.

I have two Freestyle medals in wrestling.

In addition I had previously been a varsity wrestler in college and played (US) football as a kicker in an intramural setting during off-season semesters. Back in my theatre days during my college years, I also was involved with a creative dance team, which was required to do somewhat of an "athletic" workout pryor to rehearsals. (In my youth I was put into classic ballet classes as therapy for coordination and so forth.)
Nowdays I live in walking distance from a major sports venue and still enjoy helping out athletic trainers when the opportunity permits for certain sports categories ranging from boxing to BMX. Some of the entertainment I do with my performing arts organisation would be considered athletic as well.

.. well, according to my heart rate, I am apparently athletic now...

There was an event at the local mall yesterday, where people could get their blood pressure checked...

Here are my results:

Blood pressure: 108 over 75

Resting heart rate (RHR): 50... Wait, what?

The person doing the test even pointed out that the test likely overestimated my RHR, as I was (2) sitting up rather than lying down and (2) hadn't completely calmed down after walking around moments before.

... As a result, my real RHR might literally be off the charts (I'm 34 years old):



This is the first time I had my blood pressure taken since I started exercising for weight loss, but I had no idea I was in *that* good shape!

Well, been getting more and more into weightlifting (strongman and powerlifting in particular). Doing so fixed my back issues up.

I was bench pressing 175 kgs back when I was doing small amounts of anabolic steroids (Test E and Deca). I can bench press 165 kgs natty now.