>>77512027
it's catabolic

>>77512027
I like it.

>>77512027
Is 40 too late to start?

It's fun but hell on your knees if you're overweight whether its muscle or fat. over a long enough timeframe it can lead to muscle imbalance, just look at rafa nadal and the difference in size between his arms

>>77512056
Better hurry; that's game point.

>>77512061
you're not gonna be rafa nadal
>hell on your knees if you're overweight
what isn't

it is great for cardio once you can actually play a decent volley for more than a few returns.
i wish i never stopped in my 20's, i was never good but now getting back to it in my 30's i am fucking terrible but it's great cardio with elements of hiit.

if you've never played consider pickleball if it's popular in your area. it's way more popular than tennis around me and is what got me back to tennis. i can find strangers to play virtually any day of the week there's sun out for pickleball, but only know two people to play tennis with and most strangers have not been interested to play someone of my skill level.

>>77512068
Thank you, Love.
I think I'll sign up for some beginner group lessons next summer (indoor clubs are too expensive, and I live in a winter wonderland).

>>77512027
As you get older you have to find more synergies in life in order to keep the things you like afloat. Tennis is a great synergy, it's a fitness activity that's also social. Do it, it's fun.

>>77512091
what does 'synergy' mean to you anon?

>>77512078
>pickleball
if in Europe it's the same but with padel, since it's easier than tennis it has become the sport of choice among normies.
The problem with tennis on a recreational level is that you only have fun if your opponent's skill level is very close to yours

>>77512027
>no erotic tennis skirt
this is not tennis

>>77512096
I didn't really mean anything by this I thought you were kidding around anon please come back to us

>>77512221
I was just having this convo about how we are at the cusp of the natural fiber revolution. It's so uncomfortable to play draped in basically petroleum.

>>77512061
This is /fit/, there are no overweight men here. All beacons of health.

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Ultramarathons are catabolic. A game of tennis is nowhere near that.

I resent my parents for essentially forcing me to play it as a kid instead of putting me in a team sport. A lot of my autism could have been avoided by doing that.

>>77512027
You haven't seen Tennis Moot (aka Sinner)?

Bro been busted for roiding and barely bicep-mogs the average foid.

>>77512537
Could be worse, my dad forced me to play golf and didn't even do a good job teaching me due to a lack of patience and short temper. At least tennis is actually fast paced and fun.

>>77512540
>Bro been busted for roiding and barely bicep-mogs the average foid.
total zoomer holocaust just wipe all you fucks off the face of the earth

>>77512537
I was forced to play football and I fucking hated it. Team sports are gay as fuck and all I learned is that everyone has different skill levels and motivation and as long as you arent all synced up its going to be a bad experience for the few who are actually interested in the sport. At least with single individual activities you dont have to rely on other useless faggots.

>>77512027
Depends on how much you're playing. If you're doing 3-4 hour 5 set matches sure its catabolic. For the average person playing social tennis for an hour or two its more HIIT which isn't that catabolic.

Its great cardio. On my gym nights I dropped the zone 2-3 Stairmaster and just go play social tennis for a couple hours instead. You get a lot of steps from it as well just walking around during points I probably get an easy 3-4k from 2 hours + all the HIIT from playing points.

Only downside IMO is tennis elbow (makes curls fucking hurt) if you go too hard but after a 2-3 months of conditioning you don't really get it much.

I'm torn. My ideal tennis weight is around 185lbs, but my ideal aesthetic weight is around 215lbs.

>>77512027
might be a way to meet fit girls. but starting late you'll probably be pretty shit compared to other dudes playing their whole lives.

I saw something once which claimed racquet sport athletes were the fittest overall. I’m not sure that’s accurate but it’s probably pretty close. You have to be really athletic to compete in tennis or squash at a high level. I think there’s a reason it’s remained sort of an upper class coded sport all these years. Every other sport has either fell off (polo) or isn’t that athletic (golf).

>>77512056
>>77513136
Why do people care about this shit? Literally nobody cares. If you can sustain a game, people will happily play with you and have a good time, which is literally the only goal.

>>77512537
Most team sports are retarded though. Football makes you braindead with other nagging injuries for the rest of your life. Hockey is over once you’re out of college at the latest and being an aging hockey bro in some beer league is very lame. Lacrosse slightly better but more or less the same. Soccer is for turd worlders and urban-college town leftoid fag men. Basketball is for nigs and nig lovers. Crew and water polo are slightly gay coded and over after college. We’re basically left with rugby which again is realistically over after college at the latest. That leaves us with baseball and baseball is hardly a real sport plus you’re going to be playing a fat guy’s softball league in your 40s which is lame as fuck. None of the team sports you can actually play through life are worth it. The only team sport you can play as an adult that isn’t unbearably cringe, retarded, or unsafe is polo and you’re neither rich nor important enough for that.

>>77512553
kek i remember one of my hs buddies that absolutely hated showing up to practice but he went because his dad forced him to.
Looking back on it, football practice really fucking sucked cock. the helmets were never comfortable and it was hot as shit wearing pads and long socks. kinda wish i did wrestling instead.

>>77513146
I'm not being worried about being shit, just about people not wanting to play with me :(

>>77512027
Ping pong is superior in every single way .

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Achievable natty?

>>77513114
split the difference, be 200 lbs and cut, it's the goldilocks zone for "big" but not meathead big

>>77514923
>it's the goldilocks zone for "big" but not meathead big
I'm 6'5", so I was thinking my goldilocks zone is 215lbs...

>>77513335
good never fucking try stay in your hobbit hole faggot and if you ever show up to my court i will fucking kill you

>>77512027
It fucks up your shoulder, elbow, and knees if you play on concrete.

>>77512056
>too late to start
I will tell you a little secret anon : there is no such thing.

>>77515871
This
Go wack some balls anon

>>77513151
Martial arts sparring.

>>77512056
yes have fun but everyone who starts playing as an adult will have weird stiff technique, some even make it work pretty well for them. it's one of those sports where playing it as a kid puts you on a different level. Me and my brother both started playing at 4, brother went pro, I haven't played in over 10 years but I'd be very confident against a person who started as an adult.

>>77516635
>everyone who starts playing as an adult will have weird stiff technique
Is this also true for those who take lessons right away?

>>77513151
Sailing, sailing is a team sport, and it's fun and based and totally respectable even if you're a 30+ boomer talking shit and competing hard in your local yacht club's casual weekly races.

>>77513335
I don't know where you live but my city has a massive tennis center and satellite locations and strong advocacy groups I guess. They're constantly having courses and shit for (adult) beginners and holding tournaments and getting more people into the sport and making sure you have people to play against no matter how shit you are.
Just go sign up for whatever entry level group course or whatever and make friends or at least contacts to play against.

>>77517128
i've been taking tennis lessons for a few months now but struggle with making friends/finding people to play with, how do you go about doing that?
t. average /fit/ autist

>>77513151
Basketball is kind of based especially if you're a good white player.

>>77517070
yes pretty much. you can still play a decent game but you won't be pretty to watch.

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>tennis

Very popular among DYELs and yuppies hitting their mid-life crisis.

>>77515015
>tennis
>on concrete
poorfag or tard?

Will I be able to find a girlfriend playing tennis?

>>77512027
Idk anything about that i just use tennis to fuck milfs

>>77517914
you're brown