What other sport/exercise/keep fit do you do?

Climbing

I also, ski, ride, kayak, but climbing would be the best suggestion for you to try.

Weights, boxing, swimming & circuit/HIIT classes.

Try running. It's time-efficient, not so clarty and needs less kit. Start short and slow (like a C25K) and work up from there. I've been an occassional runner for a few years but only really got into it when I was approaching 60.

As for other stuff, I also swim, walk, paddle do a bit of yoga, weights etc. Mixing it up certainly helps keep things "fresh".

I commute to work on the bike, so that's three guaranteed days, whether I feel like it or not, then out at weekends. Bit of walking at weekends too.

Daily push ups and theraband routine, yoga, and hiking. Oh, and all the sadistic exercises my physio gave me because I'd damaged my knee by doing too much hiking.

Running.
As above, start slow and ease yourself in. But once up to speed you’ll find it’s awesome.

Gym 5 days a week (push/pull/legs/push/pull) plus a 5k run every day..walking when possible - doing the Shropshire Six Summits tomorrow, and HIIT when I feel like I need to get my sweat on.

51? You're still young 🙂

I'll be 51 in September, cycling/mountain biking for the last 13 years or so, some years I do a lot some not so much, depends what I fancy. I do commute on it most days though.

Started weight training a couple of years ago, enjoy the buzz from that.

I've been racing motorbikes for the last eight years (circuit) and I've just dipped my toe into off-road motorcycles/enduro/Motocross this last year too. I don't ever remember feeling quite so beaten up as I do after a day out on the dirt bike 😁

+1 for running as time efficient. You can get a decent piece of exercise in before shower and breakfast. Barely takes any extra time, especially compared to MTB. It also quite a nice way to see more of your local area. I was never a runner and thought it tedious but I started in lockdown to do something and actually quite like it. Usually go for a run whenever we are staying somewhere else as a good way to sightsee.

Also football. Injuries are the big issue as you get older so you need to find the right game. We've got a great session here. Not too hectic, and no heavy tackling. Makes for a good, fun game with less risk.

I started yoga in the winter when I had no interest in cycling. I've been doing 2 or 3 u tube sessions a week and feel really great strength, balance and mobility wise. It's a great companion now that I'm also cycling again for some cardio.

Nowt. Just cycling - on an E-cycle/bike too.

Lost 2 stone in the last 2 years though so ..🤷‍♂️🍰🚴‍♂️

I walk. A lot. With Henry. The nation’s favourite pastime. I estimate Henry walks about sqrt(2) more than me. But this is dependent on whether he has a ball to chase.

I also indoor climb.

Indoor climbing
It's like going to a Gym,but then you get so distracted trying to figure out the routes,you forget it's excercise....well almost 😉

Climbing - more specifically bouldering - outdoors, indoors, training for bouldering, doing rehab after getting injured bouldering.

Warning - can become an obsession

48 yo. Every so often one week of exercising might look like this, but more often one or two (or three) of them are dropped and/or reduced intensity/duration due to circumstance (work/family/minor injury/minor illness):

* 60 miles commute (total over 5 days)
* 1 x 1.5hr bouldering/climbing club/lesson in evening
* 1 x 30 minute leg strength/mobility (no weights)
* 1 x 5-6k lunch time run
* 1 x 1.5hr upper body strength/mobility (basic calisthenics)
* 1 ~ 2 x 30-45 minutes learning basic trials (riding over obstacles on bicycle) at weekend
* 1 x weekend MTB ride
* yoga/stretching whenever

Other? None. I cycle most days.

Weights and inline skating. Oh yeah, I'm also 51, not that it really matters. The guy who runs the skating events is in his 80s.

Why don't you start football again? A gang of fellahs I cycle with play once a week, they're the same age as you. My uncle and another bloke, both in their late 60's play in the same team.

Guess you might want to to do the running for a bit to build the fitness and strength some first.

Climbing mostly. Weekly local indoor bouldering wall and some outdoor trips too. I'm happy on trad, sport, bouldering, dws....it's all good.  In fact with the current warm weather I have a dws itch again. Whether I can scratch that itch given all the usual stuff to get done I don't know... but will try.

Is drinking a sport? If not none.

Whats putting you off on the bike?
Is it the thought of just spinning the pedals or worries of injury etc?

For me in the past its been fencing, thai boxing and then boxing although due to clashes currently not training, I have just started trying tai chi to go for the complete opposite since I am getting old and knackered plus its fun to try something where pure speed and power isnt considered a bonus , kayaking (mostly artificial white water at lee valley) , mountain biking, road biking (during the winter mostly) and climbing. Plus I generally try for at least 5k run a week as a balance.
Also yoga but I figure thats mostly to undo the damage of the others as I get on.

Swimming a couple of hours a week.

I've swum all my life. There's a steep curve to learning at middle age, but once you're reasonably competent it's excellent all round aerobic/anaerobic fitness. It's also great for mental health as being in the water does something special to the mind.

Can I add another vote for running? Even if you’re just sight-seeing you can cover at least twice as much distance as walking.

Starts hard, gets easier quite quickly and despite what doom mongers like to say it doesn’t knacker your joints.

* OK, who at STW decided to break the bit of the site where you enter comments?

Just thought some of you might be able to give me some ideas?

Been up the new trails at Newbold in Leam?

51 and started indoor climbing recently and I can really see my body changing for the better after ten weeks. I cannot recommend it enough

this is after nearly thirty years away from the sport

Occasional swim or gym but my other proper sport is sailing

It used to be dinghies and (other people's) keelboats but now just dinghies. It helps I live near the Solent and some great sailing waters. It satisfies my need for outdoor time, speed, buying stuff and tinkering with things.

Try as I might the sailing also regularly involves some unplanned swimming 😂

Also +1 for running, took it up a few months ago to help with my ruptured achilles. I quite enjoy it. I am quite astonishingly slow but I have now reached the point where my dog has to break into a slow trot occasionally to keep up.

Pilates, gym and swimming with country walks. Would love to run again, but knees say 'No'.

Have recently got into the routine of doing some quasi yoga crap in the morning. Basically a bit of stretching whilst enjoying the sun's rays on my skin.

I'm fortunate that I'm not getting up at 8am for work. If I were, I wouldn't have the time nor inclination to do it. I like my sleep too much.

GF occasionally runs, but my knees do not approve. Get a twinge after a few km and end up limping.

Also, over the last eight months I've tried to make a point of going for a walk most days,that is, days I've not gone for a ride. Barefoot if the ground allows. Recently trekked 15km barefoot. Brilliant.  Admittedly if I were in the UK rather than southern Europe where it's warm then I wouldn't be doing that.

GF occasionally runs, but my knees do not approve. I get a twinge in my left knee after a few km and end up limping.

I don't like admitting it, but I've been riding the gravel bike quite often. Much easier to just jump on the bike and aimlessly cruise about following my nose than a dedicated winch and plummet ride. Also good when I'm somewhere with a severe lack of mountains.

Swimming is my current favourite. I went to the river twice yesterday and will go again today. Love to paddle board but sometimes it's hardly exercise, more a float about in the sunshine. I walk loads too.

A bit of tennis, a few Parkruns and I've just started playing squash. Many of the squash club are in their 50s and even 60s

Tennis, pickleball, walking, walking football and going to have a go at sup

Gym 3 days min a week, plus stuff at home the physio has given me to do as I have a lower back/hip joint issue to fix.

Inline skating for me.  Also drumming.

I've tried doing various different exercises and the only one that lasted was some calisthenics based stuff. But it really doesn't inspire me and I have done any specific exercise for exercise sake in months. Any spare time involves skating/drumming/gaming. Focus for me is enjoyment.

I'm 50 this year, been pretty sedentary since I switched to a job with lots of travel in 2017, then took an office job so I could commute and get hobbies right before Covid stopped all that. Mrs Pondo recently pointed me towards SlimPod, and that black magic (or msybe it's just placebo - who cares, if it works?) has seen me get off my arse to start C25K and do some light weight sessions a couple of times each, this week I started a karate class (ace!) and I swim for half an hour on Sunday mornings too. I try and eat healthily (mixed success - breakfast and lunch I'm good at, evening meals less so...), I don't bother with scales, and if things are creaking too much in one department, I'll happily switch things round or take a rest day (eg, generally only running twice a week, instead of C25K's suggested thrice). Too soon to see big results but physically and mentally, I feel SO much better already.

Swimming. Only sport I've ever been marginally better than bang average at. After i broke my spine in a bike v car I was allowed to swim 3 months post accident. Limped into the pool leaving my spinal brace poolside. Proceed to lap everyone in the pool 😂 probably says more of the fairly low bar for swimming in UK than my ability in all honesty. Sadly can't tumble turn since the accident thanks to metalwork. Keep up reasonably against the more serious swimmers though. Had been building up to do a tri before the prang, but running is just too uncomfortable on my back now.

Swimming and (park) run - though not today - Swimming means I get no back problems and pushing off the wall (60 times plus ) in the pool helps me with running. Did the great north swim yesterday in Windamere - was fantastic weather , org etc - try some open water ? Great Stress reliever .

I’ll happily switch things round or take a rest day (eg, generally only running twice a week, instead of C25K’s suggested thrice

This is a good approach. As a reasonably fit cyclist it's too easy to overdo the running initially, leading to all sorts of injuries.

Tennis. In fact it's taken over from cycling in a big way. Less faff, very cheap (£55 a year lol). A better work out particularly for core.

57 here, just in from a lovely 3k walk round the park and lanes with the dog and shortly off for a swim, gym has an outdoor 25m pool, so hopefully get my standard 2k in before it gets busy in the lanes. Then into a yoga class.   That’s a typical Sat am, otherwise it’s a mix of dog walks, probs one further swim, and a few rides, per week.

it’s too easy to overdo the running initially

100%. This us what I did last year, C25k 3 times a week, plus cycling, walking and sometimes playing cricket 3 times a week. I was just ramping up my running training as I decided it was a 'good' idea to do the Great North Run, and subsequently strained/tore/generally buggered up a muscle in my abdomen and couldn't then run or play cricket. I've not played cricket since August last year, just managed to get back to week 7 of the C25k but only doing 2 runs a week generally.

I've just done my first ever park run and managed 5 miles at the Children's Cancer Run a few weeks ago. Twice a week seems to suit me better, alongside cycling. First cricket match today but only cos the team were struggling to put a team out. I've decided to spend the afternoon propping the boundary fence up 🤣

as well as xc mountain biking I run, old school PT, yoga, hill walking/hiking, singlespeed road riding.

54 this year.

I walk, occasional You Tube yoga and getting back into weights in the gym after 20 years.

Hardly ride my MTB nowvas stuff from the door is proper gravel bike type riding.

Road ride with club 2-3 times a week, funnily enough, got more into it for volunteering to suppport and marshall at events, great way to be involved with no performances anxiety

I’ve not been riding as much as I’d like recently but started using the gym 6 months ago and really enjoying that. 3 strength and conditioning classes a week and one or two sessions on my own. Swim when I have time, and also enjoy running but tend to get a bit excited and over do it, resulting in lots of niggling injuries. I also have bad knees but that’s improving with the gym work. I’ve started running to/from the gym as it’s only about a mile away.

I did spend last weekend riding 7stanes and it reminded me I should spend more time on the bike and/or generally out in the wilds.

(I’m 51)