Any Athletic Aspies Out There?

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I was never interested in team sports, but I am definitely athletic in that I'm a weightlifter/bodybuilder, and have also been into motocross since I was 13. I doubt I'd be any good at team sports though. It boggles my mind how any players can follow all those hand signals from the coach, umpire or captain. I'd likely tackle a fellow team member and cause a touchdown for the other team. Not to mention how bad a thought it is, that other players would be invading MY space, and bumping into me. Not good.... I'd rather get bitten by a pit bull.

Charles

I do power yoga and traditional yoga 3 times a week. I think this is very helpful because it increases coordination and balance and It works every muscle group in the body. I feel like with yoga I go from borderline uncoordinated to actually more agile than the average person perhaps.

I also used to be a good jogger being able to jog over 8 miles without really building up to it. Mountain biking was also fun and I was pretty decent at climbing the mountain faster then probably 80% of the other bikers.

Another sport I used to be interested in was dirtbiking. I became obsessed with it and learned how to repair my first dirtbike that I bought broken for $300 when I was 14.

I'm ok at rock climbing too. Its frustrating though that I can never get that good at coordination so I'm stuck just above average in several sports. Well the advantage with aspergers I guess is you can use your special interests to kick ass in life but other than that its hard.

I'm a pretty competitive table tennis player, and have been a regular at my state club for the past 3 years. Probably not going to start playing in tournaments until college, but I've won a few of the club-wide ones. Besides that I'm not big on playing sports, but I do like to ride my bike and hike.

I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned skating or hockey, other than one person saying they roller skate to work.
Both of my AS sons, ages 9 and 11, play hockey. The older brother got into hockey via a Special Hockey team in the area, but both now exclusively play on regular teams. They both compete at high levels of youth hockey, including AA and AAA teams.
In addition to being great exercise, they both LOVE skating. They also play baseball, basketball, soccer - just about any sport that can be played.

The older brother did struggle to master hockey - it is HARD to learn to skate like that and play the game at the same time. Skills that other players learned in weeks took him months sometimes. But I have no doubt that he will continue to love and play the game for a very long time.

Here's another athletic aspie. I've been into cycling seriously when I was much younger, but I was feeling very uncomfortable when riding in a larger group. Now I know why... But I still love individual time trials, and done an Ironman with about 1 week practice (I hate to run or to swim).

But now I decided to do a 212km ultramarathon run next year, so maybe I should really start to exercise some running

Btw, I can't throw. With my right hand I throw like a girl. With my left hand I'm totally unable to throw to the smallest distance (or perhaps a meter or so). I was in a rugby team when I was a child, but my only benefit in the team was that I could run really fast compared to my age on a short distance. So soon my only job was to go for touchdowns once I was able to get the ball.

I've never been athletic growing up. I hated sports and I sucked at them...horrible coordination. But I discovered weightlifting and now consider myself athletic in this regard. I workout 4 days p/week. I'm generally really sedentary. Weightlifting has helped me develop balance, coordination, confidance/self esteem as well as a muscular body which i like now because I looked like a huge geek growing up. I'm still a geek at heart.
I also enjoy playing ping pong.

I am now in my 50's and now only take an occasional walk, but I stay active in my job in retail sales, and look fit. I actually am too thin, but I look like a marathon type runner. My new doctor was surprised when he learned that I am not a runner.

I used to do a lot of bicycle riding and commuting. I also used to do a lot of hiking. I used to play golf. I was also very much into Flying Disc ("Frisbee") sports, including Disc Golf, Freestyle, and Ultimate. I also used to Hang Glide and some sport parachuting. Rollerblading and skateboarding was fun. I even went to the skate parks, but although I got up on the walls, I only rode on my seat to keep my center of gravity low. I also used to juggle, which is not athletic, but great for hand eye coordination.

I was never a fan of or exceedingly good at team sports, but in karate I was a star! I received my 1st degree black belt and was the first performer in the Mile High Karate "Black Belt Extravaganza" out of my whole team, male and female, old and young. I was only 18 then.

The only thing I couldn't do were the arial kicks. Even a simple jump side kick made me feel like I was going to blow away. As long as I was partially grounded, I did great

wow, there's some amazing stories here. I was driven to exercise ever since I saw conan the destroyer, I think I was 9? I had a pile of logs in backyard, would throw them logs from one side of the yard to the other for hours. I trained like a madman, age 12, Penni Price (hall of famer prof bodybuilder) asked me to train with her, I didn't show up/ didn't think I was worth it. In HS I wrestled for 4 calaneder yrs (hs, freestyle, and greco roman) did well, placed top 3 most tournaments. Trained in thai kickboxing for a couple yrs, joined the military, stayed in for 7 yrs as a paratrooper till my body gave out. I miss long distance running (around 20miles), esp trail running.

i played soccer on a team from age 7 to 14 then played on my high school team in grade now just horse around fro fun also love skateboardin and bmx biking gud times.