Do less young people to excersize nowdays than years ago?

[Toshiba Boy]

Eeee lad, that were nothing, we used to......

...get up before we went to bed, and that were when we were lucky!

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

But you tell the kids today that ..

 

[vernon]

Have schools ever introduced kids to potholing? Not trying to be confrontational: genuinely curious. Mine certainly didn't.

Edit: I definitely agree that fear of lawsuits has a lot to answer for.

My school used to take kids pot holing. Until their recent retirement we had two very experienced potholers on the staff.

There's still a fair amount of potholing done by schools up in the Yorkshire Dales.

 

[vernon]

There are a lot of old quarries round here which are apparently great for climbing and bouldering but I rarely see anybody aged under 25 out in them...

Perhaps it's a regional thing?

There's a large community of under 25 climbers - my son is a member of the community. The absence of climbers might mean that the quarry has not appeared on their radar rather than there's a lack of climbers.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

My school used to take kids pot holing. Until their recent retirement we had two very experienced potholers on the staff.

There's still a fair amount of potholing done by schools up in the Yorkshire Dales.

Aha, I think I see why I missed out now. There's a bit of a lack of opportunity down here on the chalk in the Sarf East.

 

[Brains]

Ask any Army Sargeant who deals with new recruits.

Since the 1970's the British Army has had to add one day per year (or a week per decade) to basic fitness training to get the average raw recruit up to the minimum fitness standard required.

Therefore a pensioner today, who joined the Army as a conscript in 1950 would be able to get to minimum fitness in 3 weeks. His grandson today would take 2 months.

As an aside, we have noticed that Scouts are now taking several hours longer to do a route up Snowdon than their counterparts did 20 years ago. The paths and the footware have improved, the fitness level of the typical 15 year old has gone backwards

 

[jeltz]

I was one of the generation that went from ZX Spectrum and Donkey Kong through to Commodore Amiga and while I'm sure most of the people that were kids in the 70's would have been more active its probably that they didn't have the availability of video games and daytime telly.

My kids (primary school) age watch TV and play Nintendo DS loads, but still have time to run around in the park near the house, play on the trampoline, and prefer their scooters to bikes mainly because we are on a steep hill. Also my daughter does gym and trampoline lessons and my son does martial arts, the pair of them are thin and healthy with a fairly good diet.

That said some of the kids at their school are alarmingly big and I think in these times where schools are educating kids about healthy living as well as knowledge the level of obesity among the teachers (at my kids school at least) sets a bad example.

 

[User482]

It's not just kids though, is it? We're a nation of fatties...

 

[ColinJ]

I live in a really nice part of Yorkshire, as you will know if you read my posts - I'm forever posting photographs of the area. I've been walking and cycling (road and MTB) round here for over 20 years and I can honestly say that apart from around Hardcastle Crags (a local National Trust beauty spot), I've hardly ever seen anybody under 25 up on the hills.

Typical - I've just been out on my MTB and what did I see? Yes, a group of young people walking down a bridleway 'on the tops'! It's still a pretty rare event round here though.

 

[Noodley]

Typical - I've just been out on my MTB and what did I see? Yes, a group of young people walking down a bridleway 'on the tops'! It's still a pretty rare event round here though.

Funny, I have only ever been in the Peak District once, and saw loads of under 25s on bikes (road and MTB), climbing hills, abseiling, walking....you sure you're not needing to go to the opticians?

 

[PaulB]

The main reason kids don't get to go pot-holing any more is that they are too fat to get through the gaps. Saying that, I can honestly say I have never ever felt the desire to go pot-holing and struggle to understand why anyone would want to.

 

[Baggy]

Funny, I have only ever been in the Peak District once, and saw loads of under 25s on bikes (road and MTB), climbing hills, abseiling, walking....you sure you're not needing to go to the opticians?

Psst, Noodley, ColinJ doesn't live in the Peak District...

 

[Crackle]

Psst, Noodley, ColinJ doesn't live in the Peak District...

Everything South of Noodley is The Peaks, then London, then the South Coast.

 

[longers]

Saying that, I can honestly say I have never ever felt the desire to go pot-holing and struggle to understand why anyone would want to.

I can, on last weekends trip up a hill I found out that Frustruck is a keen pot-holer and it was very interesting listening to him. I found out from him that the chippy who did some chippying for us at work and let it slip that he was involved in finding/opening up Titan, turns out to be a leg end in the messing about underground scene.

It would terrify me, maybe that's part of the appeal for me.

Saying that; while on a MTB ride in the Dales on a glorious sunny day we came across a bunch putting on Drysuits and did think we had better idea of how to spend a day

 

[Crackle]

I've done some potholing, easy stuff, it was enjoyable. I think once it started to go very deep or if I had to do a sump where you duck underwater and come out the other side, that would be terrifying.