Skateboarding at a skate-park with vertical movement like pumping around a bowl, or end to end on a ramp, is superb for lymph fluid activation, prolly better than a rebounder min tramp.

Cycling has done very little for me, health-wise. Its too easy so takes many hours to get fit, and core muscles are unused, and no lymph fluid activation. Mentally you can turn off on a bike and zone out.

Walking would have better, but skating for fitness is very well balanced in many respects, core strength especially and reactions and mental exercise, even though ones posture is unbalanced by preferred stance.

I’ve been researching skateboarding benefits, and they are very underrated. The up and down of a skate-park are a quantum leap of lymph fluid benefits compared to flat-ground skating.

I’m about to re-engage with skating again at 53 yrs old.

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You sound like you play tennis. You can break bones doing simple everyday stuff. Don’t belittle what people do for sport. I’ve done it for 28 yrs. I would say its a true sport.

Well my friend, you sound upset. It is physical activity.

If track, ballet, and soccer are sports… skateboarding is a sport. I have done all mentioned sports and I’ve never gotten a workout like i have riding around a skatepark for hours at a time. It works your core, arms and obviously legs. If you are too scared to be injured, that is fine. Maybe a treadmill is more your style. But to say it is not a sport is absurd.

Also, you don’t have to do the X-games stuff to get the workout. Riding down a small hill works all the muscles. Once your comfortable you can go into the bowls or pools. It’s an adrenaline rush and an amazing workout.