What sport or fitness did your mum do?

None, but she was obsessed with her weight so ate very little. She did walk a lot. Being healthy to her was being slim, even though she must have been deficient in a lot of things.

She thought I was odd to do lots of exercise and sport and actually eat.

DM was born in 1945 and played a lot of netball, she was pretty good and her team played at a decent level. Me and DSIS played too, and there was a point in time when we all played on the same team. When DM stopped playing she coached for quite a while - let me tell you it is no fun playing for a team your DM coaches 😬

My mother was born in the 1920s. She could play tennis but didn't do it regularly. I don't know what else she did before having us kids. She and I used to go swimming together in my teens and I fondly remember the rubber bathing caps with flowers stuck all over them!
She was a walker - every day she'd stride out. In her early 80s she had a couple bad falls though - tripped on a paving stone broke her arm and clavicle. Never really recovered from those.
My Dad did rugby and all sorts at school and was a very good tennis player. He had a freak accident when he slipped on court at the age of 77 - required 17 stitches across his scalp. He played a bit after that but died at 79.

My mum was a PE teacher so did loads, also played badminton in the evening for fun.
I loved it - I used to go and hit tennis balls against a wall at her school while she was doing Afterschool clubs, and I can still hear her sayings in my head when I’m playing sport. She also did various sporting holiday clubs for local kids.

Born 40s- a lot of walking and cycling, swimming, keep fit and yoga since it was still quite unusual. Now 3x weekly gym classes- I think a mix of zumba, aerobics and circuit training. All aimed at 60+ women and it's great to see her keep so active in her 70s (hope that's not patronising but none of her or my dad's family exercised outside of maybe walking the dog).

Walking to the shops and back. And taking the amphetamines that were prescribed to her so she'd 'get her figure back and manage with 4 under 5'.

She was diagnosed with osteoporosis aged 37.

Get that weightbearing exercise, everybody. And eat.

I remember her doing the class they had on TV each morning, all ten minutes of it. Was it Lizzie? Liked a unitard!

Grays perhaps that's why I have no interest in sport or exercise - the complete opposite to my DPs who were very fit and sporty. Fortunately my own DS takes after DH who is into sport.

Mine is another like @QueSyrahSyrah now she’s in poor health, with limited mobility. Seeing how limited her world is I’ve taken the bull by the horns and finally started doing exercise, I wish I’d done it earlier and I wish I’d instilled it in my dcs.

None! Well she had 4 kids in the 60s and didn't drive then, and prams didn't go on buses like now, so she would have walked more out of necessity then. But later none.

None at all, but she didn't drive so walked everywhere, and worked in fairly active jobs (eg shop assistant), so I think she kept fit anyway.

My mum used to do swing into shape in the 1980s, she also did horse riding, hiking, swimming etc. she’s now 79 and does Pilates.

My mum did absolutely zero. She hated exercise, and couldn't see the point of it. My DP's mum is the same.

She did keep fit in the library(!) and played tennis. And walked a lot. She does a lot more now she’s retired!

My mum was born in 1940 and tells me that she was a good swimmer and hockey player in her teens but was prevented from competing by her own mother, who didn't think girls should do competitive sport. She continued to swim and ice skate recreationally, go for short bike rides, and walked a lot. She took up lawn bowls in her late 40s and played at county level, and despite some significant health problems she still makes sure she logs a mile of walking most days and throws a few bowls but can't manage more than a couple of ends.

If he'd been born a couple of decades later I suspect my dad would have been a decent triathlete.

My DM was born in 1920.

As a teenager in the 30s, she rode a tandem with her BF, covering considerable distances, but all that stopped in 1939. She never learnt to ride a bike herself, which is why she was on the back of a tandem.

When I was growing up, the only exercise she did was housework and the daily 200m walk to the shops at the bottom of our road.

After my DF died and there was no car, she walked more, but I never knew her to do any structured exercise. In fact none of the women in our family did, until an aunt took up bowls in retirement.

Despite this, my inactive DM made it to 96, whereas my DF, who was equally inactive, smoked heavily and also had high levels of stress, was medically retired in his fifties and died at the age of 75.

I walk five miles or so a day, take a weekly Pilates class and exercise my brain as well as my body. DMIL did the Times cryptic every day until a week before she died at the age of 98!

Hockey, squash, windsurfing, tennis.
Stopped hockey
Started running, pilates.

Not much till she retired, she was a full time teacher so on her feet all day and she also walks very fast, she also did Scottish country dancing. She joined a gym when she retired and still goes to that in her 80s, still walks very fast, does lots of voluntary work and goes to the dance classes. She is slim and healthy, slightly high blood pressure but that's all.

Neither of my parents really did any formal sport when we were kids. My mum occassionally joined a keep fit class but she would more often than not make excuses not to go. She didn't drive and she cycled places that were maybe 1-2 miles away. She was overweight and on a diet most of my childhood/adolensce. If I was frustrated that I didn't get the hang of a sport or wasn't good at it, the stock phrase was "we're not a sporty family" and that was the end of the conversation!

Dad was more active in that he did a gardening job at weekends (office job during the week)
We used to go on walks on a Sunday afternoon but they weren't ever long or strenuous.
When my DM died he took up yoga, keep fit, personal training etc and did lots of walking.

My DM was born in the 1950s in a different country. Growing up, we would go swimming and DF would mess around with us while DM swam lengths. We had a rowing machine at home which she would use. And when she was about 50 she took up running and did a few 10ks, which I will forever be proud of her for doing. DF was in the army and took me running from about 4 years old, which has stayed with me throughout childhood and adulthood. I think it’s so important for children to see their parents doing something active because they do copy that behaviour.

Mine was born in 1936 and was a county hockey player at school and rode and played tennis apparently. I never saw it as she took no exercise other than walking and gardening by the time I was born and still doesn't. Dad was a fell runner (ran for his regiment) and did all the trips to the swimming pool etc. He still swims a mile every Friday morning....

My mother same as @QueSyrahSyrah

She was born 1934, always the “fat mum”, we did no exercise and hated it at school. I still struggle with my weight. Think I may opt for gastric sleeve.

My kids are very active with exception of one for valid medical reason (cerebral palsy).

Both parents did nothing, literally, we never even went for walk. Conversely I’m sport obsessed. No idea where I got it from. I guess it got my out of the house a lot!
I’m still very sporty and they’re still very slovenly.

My DM was born in the 1930s and did loads unlike me hockey, athletics, tennis, squash, keep fit & yoga mainly ... still does yoga at 90!