The real answer is: Whatever you can get yourself to do regularly.
If you don’t exercise regularly, deciding on a sport is like a picking a programming language before you’ve learned even one of them. There is no one-size-fits-all sport or exercise. It really depends on your interests, physical abilities, social circle, the weather, what’s near you, etc. This discussion might help give people ideas, but so could a list of sports. The most important thing is to get out there and do something.
Also, your quoted example sounds like a just-so story. I thought bowling and football were popular because they’re an excuse to drink with friends.
Of course, motivation is an important issue in choosing a sport. If you start running, it might be boring and not very satisfying, so it is hard to practice regularly.
But I think from a huge extensive list of sports, a lot of them can be discarded for being too risky (maybe soccer or mixed martial arts?), having no physical/mental health benefits (maybe most e-sports?) etc. So I do not think that “Whatever you can get yourself to do regularly” provides a sufficient condition for finding out whether a sport is rational, even though it is definetely a necessary condition.
The real answer is: Whatever you can get yourself to do regularly.
If you don’t exercise regularly, deciding on a sport is like a picking a programming language before you’ve learned even one of them. There is no one-size-fits-all sport or exercise. It really depends on your interests, physical abilities, social circle, the weather, what’s near you, etc. This discussion might help give people ideas, but so could a list of sports. The most important thing is to get out there and do something.
Also, your quoted example sounds like a just-so story. I thought bowling and football were popular because they’re an excuse to drink with friends.
Of course, motivation is an important issue in choosing a sport. If you start running, it might be boring and not very satisfying, so it is hard to practice regularly.
But I think from a huge extensive list of sports, a lot of them can be discarded for being too risky (maybe soccer or mixed martial arts?), having no physical/mental health benefits (maybe most e-sports?) etc. So I do not think that “Whatever you can get yourself to do regularly” provides a sufficient condition for finding out whether a sport is rational, even though it is definetely a necessary condition.
e-sports would provide no mental benefit? Here is an article with some studies that disagree: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201310/video-gaming-can-increase-brain-size-and-connectivity
Thank you, apparently my question mark and ‘maybe’ were very approriate. ;-)