During my teens? Nothing but weights and pushups. When I was younger I had a slight build and everyone kept telling me I was "weak" and should not exert myself. So I thought screw all that I'm going to do the opposite and bulk myself up.

Ten years on the results have stayed and I maintain a fairly lean figure (daily pushups and dumbbells). Only in recent years did I pick up actual outdoor activities. It's not much... I jog 5km once per week (non-stop) and once in a month or so I swim. Every morning (except Sundays) I will do 30-40 pushups.

Too bad KL sucks in terms of good publicly accessible swimming pools, or else I'd swim more often (few times a week). By "good" pools I mean those that allow you 25-50 metres of lap swims with a deep end (at least 2 metres) because I like diving also.

I can tell many fitness buffs out there will be laughing at this. My (eventual) goal would be to be able to do 10km non-stop jogs and 20 non-stop swim laps. And do them at least 3 times per week. But right now it's all a daydream.

Health benefits? Hard to say, perhaps it's harder for me to catch colds these days. I was slightly asthmatic during my primary school days but now I rarely ever cough. Stamina has increased a bit, but not much since I'm not exercising regularly enough.

Chinwoo is impressive... the deep end was fun to dive in... but the location sucks with all the traffic.

I've tried some clubs here and there... Bukit Jalil one is okay but not deep... Sg Long has a very impressive olympic sized (?) one with fairly deep end... but all these must know somebody there first only can enter unless got $$$ to pay membership fees.

My ideal place would be an indoors pool. Heard there's one in California Fitness Mid Valley... any idea how deep/large it is?