Curious about exercise

roxylola

So I am newish to the boards, I have been tracking on and off for a while (the weight is approximate)

I aim for around 1200 calories a day and I do not eat back calories from exercise. Some days it's more some less...

Exercise wise, I get out for around 45 minutes most days with my dogs - brisk hiking (uneven ground hills etc) I have just started the 30 day shred but I have been doing some basic circuits and strength training anyway. I was a real gym bunny at one stage, every day 40 minutes weights with a bit of cardio. I am still reasonably fit. Things I struggle with are hard cardio (I can do a 1 minute run or a 1 hour walk but the bit in between is blergh!) I have always found that hard though. With he shred I was ok with most except the butt kicks, I just can't do that whole skip way they do it. I can get my legs up but no bounce.

Weight wise I am somewhere in the middle of the thinnest and fattest I have ever been, at my peak I was a uk size 4 well muscled and very little body fat. I had an extremely active job and worked out. At my worst I was a uk 12 and not at all strong or fit. At the moment I can comfortably use my 3lb weights through the shred in fact I think I may get some 5lb ones. I could do a couple of hours out with the dogs and a steady cycle or jog for half an hour without dying. Basically if I ate less takeaways and drank less I would not be so far away from where I want to be...

As for my lifestyle generally, I consider myself sedentary as I do a desk job and I could easily spend a day doing nothing if I drove in to work and did not go out at lunch time etc. At the moment though I ride a motorbike and this is where I am curious, this includes getting on and off the stand, moving it in and out of the garage etc then in my opinion riding is physically quite hard. Today for instance I rode about 200 miles in heavy wind. Came back pretty exhausted. I have also walked the dogs for an hour, spent a bit of time washing, polishing etc with my bike and did my first day on the shred. I am also going dancing tonight, I dance quite a bit, its moderately aerobic, but not anything new so not a real workout as such.

So my question really is would you consider the bike to be a sort of exercise (motorbike not pushbike - not that daft) More resistance training than cardio but although I am not going to log it I am curious to if anyone would count it as anything?

jzammetti

I see many websites that attribute calorie burns to motorcycle riding... and even though you didn't ask, 1200 calories is awfully low and you are definitely NOT sedentary.

toutmonpossible

I would not count riding a vehicle in which I was not supplying all the power as exercise. Exercise is what you conventionally think of as exercise. The body in motion, heart elevated, etc.

Have you considered interval training, that is, after warming up you alternate short periods of flat-out activity with slower activity?

roxylola

Firstly thanks for the input

Well, I have the potential to be sedentary, so I start at that and make sure I log exercise. I probably really average between 1200 and 1500 /day across a week really.

The vehicle and power thing. I was a horse rider for a long time. Not supplying the power but I had killer abs... Anything that makes me hurt like today did counts as resistance at the very least . On a day to day basis I think not so much but I think on a long ride with lots of bends and the like it may be doing something. I could make the same journey in my car and feel fresh as a daisy but equally, I could not make the same journey on a push bike so it's not that hard!