Recommend Me A Sport

[Nobbylad]

Kickboxing. If you go through the gradings, you'll start off with basic fitness and build core strength and cardio as you progress.

Alternatively, find a local place running boot camps. They're probably the best way to motivate yourself to start losing weight and getting fit. If they're run properly you'll start off with an assessment which will give you a baseline to work from and help you track your progress.

After 8 weeks or so of high intensity interval training I guarantee you'll have lost weight and feel massively better both physically and mentally.

The other thing that will help is eating healthily (if you don't already).

Good luck with whatever you choose and let us know how you get on.

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

that's what karate was like when I went constant drills at 10 quid a lesson then told I needed 2 a week. I declined. I went for the same sort of time span and I didn't learn anything.

Yeah, it's pretty crap. Worse thing is the whole grading thing is shambolic, with 6 year olds who can barely stand up being put through to keep them encouraged. I didn't learn anything useful either. Then I started doing CXT and in one lesson I learn more than I ever did in Karate.

I've never been fitter than when I used to box. So +1 for boxing if you want to get buff.
If you just want a personal improvement then Circuit Training/Bootcamps can be good although choose wisely and try a few because I've tried 2 locally, the first was more of a social meet up, chat and stretch session. I mean at the time it felt like a work out but then I tried another which a friend recommended and its a torture session by comparison to the first but after 6 weeks of doing 2 sessions per week you cannot help but notice the change in shape and ability.

[Shawthing]

Swimming and join a club when you plateau to then get the competative element you seem to be looking for.
Exercises a wide range of muscles and it's virtually imposible to injure yourself.

[L3nny]

+1 for squash

It's indoors, it's pretty cheap to do and matches are normally over in 30 mins and it's a great workout. Problem is most matches are followed by a swift half in the club bar so you might not lose much weight.

[Bibio]

first port of call should be your GP.

you should not be getting breathless doing minor things unless you are very overweight.

Ive a couple of half decent squash raquets if you want to meet up and have a game, gets you going after a couple of games, im not very good so if you can hit the ball it will be fine.

Originally Posted by Griff-SV

American Football?

There is a team very local to you called Swindon Storm, they train on Saturdays. First session is free then £3 a time after that with all kit provided for.

I am possibly thinking of having a go myself.

Oh god i would love to have a go, only because of my rugby past and would be a nightmare laughing at anyone who thought they could run through me haha. If i did and enjoyed it i`d probably end up back at my most muscular weight of 19.5 stone lol

[andrewsmith]

Water sports

[tonyk]

Originally Posted by Bibio

first port of call should be your GP.

you should not be getting breathless doing minor things unless you are very overweight.

Please expand on your comment, I get get breathless going upstairs and running up them is a no no.
Oh and I'm not too over weight.