Why bother doing a sport and getting fit?

Longevity - If you are fit you live longer. In fact you could extend you life by up to 15 years.

Fight sickness - Regular excercise can boost the immune system.

Lose weight - Excercise can help you lose weight and can actually help your body cope better with the fat you eat.

Body image - Feeling fit and healthy vastly improves your body image and makes you feel better about yourself and generally happier about life.

Better sex - Apparently your levels of fitness have a direct correlation to how satisfying you find sex. The fitter you are the more you enjoy sex and the better your orgasms.

Blood pressure - being fit can mean lower blood pressure and this significantly reduces the risks of strokes and heart disease

Bowel cancer - your chances of contracting bowel cancer are significantly lessened if you take regular exercise

Osteoporosis - broken bones - regular impact sports can significantly help to improve bones density levels making them stronger.

Feeling your age - Muscle wastage, declining lung capacity and various other aches and ailments brought on by age can actually be partly reversed by a healthy excercise regime

Brain fog - Lower the risk of dementia, cognitive impairment and find yourself able to make snappier, better decisions simply by being fit

Sleep - Simply being fit, whether you have done excercise that particular day or not can improve your quality and quantity of sleep

Beating the blues - Excercise releases happy hormones - we know that but not only do those hormones help us feel happier, simply the fact that we are doing something about being fit gives us a feeling of empowerment which in it's turn makes one feel better which make you excercise more which tones your body which makes you feel better about yourself....

So, if excercise makes you feel happier, healthier, smarter - what are you waiting for?

Team/serious sports

1. Ball sports
   1. Football
   2. Australian Football
   3. Gaelic football
   4. American Football
   5. Rugby Football
   6. Rugby League
   7. Rugby Union
   8. Rugby sevens
   9. Basketball
   10. Netball
   11. Boules
   12. Bowls
   13. Curling
   14. Ten-pin bowling
   15. American handball
   16. Australian Handball
   17. Basketball
   18. Volleyball
   19. Pocket billiards (pool)
   20. Nine-ball
   21. Straight pool (14.1 continuous)
   22. Cribbage (pool)
   23. Snooker
2. Batting sports
   1. Hockey
   2. Ice hockey
   3. Baseball - four bases
   4. Cricket - two wickets
   5. Test cricket
   6. Rounders - four bases or posts
   7. Softball - four bases
3. Racket sports
   1. Tennis
   2. Badminton
   3. Racquetball
   4. Squash
   5. Table tennis
   6. Tennis
4. Gymnastics
   1. Trampoline
   2. Artistic gymnastics
   3. Majorette
   4. Competitive rope jumping
   5. Juggling
   6. Rhythmic gymnastics
   7. Sports acrobatics
   8. Trampolining
   9. Trapeze
5. Water sports
   1. Swimming
   2. Waterpolo
   3. Diving
   4. Scuba diving
   5. snorkeling
   6. Canoeing
   7. Outrigger canoeing
   8. Kayaking
   9. Surf Kayaking
   10. Whitewater kayaking
   11. Rafting
   12. White water rafting
   13. Rowing
6. Horse riding
   1. Barrel racing
   2. Cross Country
   3. Dressage
   4. Endurance riding
   5. Eventing
   6. Gymkhana
   7. Horse racing
   8. Hunter
   9. Rodeo
   10. Show Jumping
   11. Steeplechase
   12. Polo
7. Combat
   1. Archery
   2. Aikido
   3. Judo
   4. Jujutsu
   5. Wrestling
   6. Laser tag
   7. Paintball
   8. Fencing
   9. Kendo
   10. kung fu
   11. Boxing
   12. Karate
   13. Kickboxing
   14. Subak
   15. Taekwondo
   16. Tai chi chuan
   17. Fencing
8. Boards/sails/kites/chutes
   1. Surfing
   2. Bodyboarding
   3. Mountainboarding
   4. Skateboarding
   5. Freeboarding
   6. Longboarding
   7. Streetboarding
   8. Skysurfing
   9. Streetluge
   10. Snowboarding
   11. Sandboarding
   12. Snowkiting
   13. Surfing
   14. Skimboarding
   15. Wakeboarding
   16. Kneeboarding
   17. Ice yachting
   18. Land sailing
   19. Land windsurfing
   20. Sailing
   21. Windsurfing
   22. Skateboard
   23. Kite landboarding
   24. Kitesurfing
   25. Snow kiting
   26. Sport kite (Stunt kite)
   27. Aerobatics
   28. Gliding
   29. Hang Gliding
   30. Ballooning
9. Vehicle/Auto
   1. Auto racing
   2. Banger racing
   3. Demolition derby
   4. Ice racing
   5. Kart racing
   6. Off-road racing
   7. Rallying
   8. Road racing
   9. Motorboat racing
   10. Drag boat racing
   11. F1 Powerboat Racing
   12. Hydroplane racing
   13. Jet sprint boat racing
   14. Offshore powerboat racing
   15. Motorcycle racing
   16. Motocross
10. Dance
    1. Modern dance
    2. Ballet
    3. Ballroom Dancing
    4. Cheerleading
    5. Ensemble
    6. Flamenco
    7. Hip-hop
    8. Interpretive
    9. Jazz
    10. Latin
    11. Lyrical
    12. Modern dance
    13. Musical Theatre
    14. Pole
    15. Salsa
    16. Swing
    17. Tap
11. Outdoor
    1. Orienteering
    2. Canyoning
    3. Rock Climbing
    4. Mountaineering
    5. Rope Climbing
    6. Ice Climbing
12. Street Games
    1. Free running
    2. British bulldogs (American Eagle)
    3. Kick the can
    4. Oztag
    5. Red rover
    6. Walking, hiking
13. Sky
    1. Parachuting
    2. Banzai skydive
    3. BASE jumping
    4. Paragliding
    5. Parasailing
    6. Sky diving
    7. Skysurfing
    8. Wingsuit flying
14. Snow and ice
    1. Skiing
    2. Alpine skiing
    3. Cross country skiing
    4. Freestyle skiing
    5. Nordic skiing
    6. Ski jumping
    7. Telemark skiing
    8. Sledding
    9. Bobsleigh
    10. Luge
    11. Toboggan
15. Athletics, marathons and 'athlons
    1. Sprint
    2. Endurance
    3. Cross-country running
    4. Half marathon
    5. Marathon
    6. Ultramarathon
    7. Sprint (race)
    8. Biathlon
    9. Duathlon
    10. Decathlon
    11. Heptathlon
    12. Modern pentathlon
    13. Pentathlon
    14. Triathlon
16. Cycling
    1. Cycling
    2. Mountain bicycling
    3. Road bicycle racing
    4. Track cycling
17. Fishing
    1. Angling
    2. Sport fishing
    3. Surf fishing
    4. Rock fishing

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    Just to get fit

    1. Cycle to work
    2. Cycle to shops
    3. Cycle just to cycle
    4. Walk at least 30 minutes a day
    5. Join rambling club
    6. Play with the Wii fit
    7. Get a mini trampoline
    8. get a personal trainer
    9. Follow a fitness DVD
    10. Join a fitness club
        1. Yoga
        2. Pilates
        3. Aqua-aerobics
        4. Aerobics
        5. Kick boxing
        6. Pole dancing
        7. Belly dancing
    11. Swimming
    12. Take up golf
    13. Go to the park and play on the fitness gear
    14. Go for a power walk
    15. Sit of an exercise ball at work
    16. Take the stairs not the elevator
    17. Take up any of the sports in the left column
    18. Do some weight lifting
    19. Do 20 minutes of stretches everyday