How's your exercise regime looking?... :)

Beeky85
Beeky85 Posts: 257 Member
I have decided to log what classes/gym sessions I have attended/got booked and for how long. It helps me to focus and keep going...so here we are so far....

Exercise May/June 2013 :yawn:

18th: x4 hours Aerobic Classes (3ness Fitness)
26th: Treadmill 5k run- 45mins
28th: Body Conditioning Class- 45mins & Treadmill Interval Run/Walk- 39mins
30th: 50/50 Fat Burning- 45mins
31st: Spinning- 45mins

3rd: Spinning- 45mins
5th: Spinning- 45mins
7th: Spinning- 45mins

What's your exercise regime?? :flowerforyou:

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  • sati18
    sati18 Posts: 153 Member
    Mine varies depending on how much energy i have, when i#m working, and the weather but generally i aim for:

    Monday lunchtime 5k run
    Tuesday evening 1 hr boxercise
    Wednesday or friday lunchtime 5k run
    thursday evening 1 hr circuits.

    If its really pouring down i skip the running as i run outside round a lake so it really can get very wet and slippy, i also work 1-2 nights a week in a bar so that can mean i miss one of the evening classes. I also dont usualy feel like i need to workout on the days where i do work in the bar as my friday night shift is around 7.5 hours and completely on my feet. That alone usually burns about 500 calories according to my fitbit.

    Realistically i try to do at minimum 2 runs (one maybe just 2.5k if im really tired) and one exercise class per week. I pretty much just excercise so i can eat more, although ive noticed recently that my shape has changed a bit even though overall ive only lost a couple of lbs
  • clobern
    clobern Posts: 341 Member
    This is what I do now:

    M - Stronglifts 5x5 & 30 minutes of cardio
    T - 60 minutes of cardio
    W - Stronglifts 5x5 & 30 minutes of cardio
    Th - 60 minutes of cardio
    F - Stronglifts 5x5 / 30 minutes of cardio
    *Rinse and repeat each week*

    And I am probably going to add a small workout in the morning, soon.
  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
    Currently doing a Chalean Extreme/Turbo Jam hybrid.

    I take 1 full rest day and 1 yoga day per week on top of it. :)

    But I'm only into week 2 of the 3 month course...we'll see how it goes.
  • I alternate every other day going to the gym for a half hour for cardio, and the other days Brooke Burke's 45 minute exercise video! I try to ride 7 miles every Sunday. It's really working for me!
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.

    There are whispers among the clergy that cardinal bicep curls will attempt a hostile takeover of the squat rack.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.

    I see lord Squat staging a coup against King Deadlift.....We all know he was the righful heir to the throne.
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.

    I see lord Squat staging a coup against King Deadlift.....We all know he was the righful heir to the throne.

    It could happen. He knows the king's weaknesses pretty well, but Deadlift doesn't know Squat.
  • froeschli
    froeschli Posts: 1,292 Member
    Lift & run
    rest or cycle
    lift & run
    rest or run
    lift & run
    rest, maybe cycle a little

    repeat
    whether i rest or not, depends on how sore the lifting left me. lifting typically takes 20-30 mins, running anywhere between 40-70mins.
  • froeschli
    froeschli Posts: 1,292 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.

    I see lord Squat staging a coup against King Deadlift.....We all know he was the righful heir to the throne.
    It could happen. He knows the king's weaknesses pretty well, but Deadlift doesn't know Squat.
    lmao
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Exercise Regime:

    King Deadlifts and Queen Bench Press rule fairly but firmly over Lords OHP and Squat. The lesser feifdoms are occupied by hard working peasants who assist as needed and are occasionally repressed by the violence inherent in the system.

    I see lord Squat staging a coup against King Deadlift.....We all know he was the righful heir to the throne.

    It could happen. He knows the king's weaknesses pretty well, but Deadlift doesn't know Squat.

    :laugh:
  • just_fur_luck
    just_fur_luck Posts: 141 Member
    I'm pretty unhappy with mine:
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  • kiwiwizard
    kiwiwizard Posts: 59 Member
    I'm not a swimmer, biker, or runner but decided to do my 1st triathlon so have had to learn 3 new sports and have been training for 8 weeks. Tri is now less than 2 weeks away - OMG!

    Mon: run 5K, TRX training 1 hr, pool 1 hr
    Tues: bike 20 miles/swim 1hr +
    Wed: run 5K/ TRX/ swim
    Thurs: muscle recovery day
    Fri: bike/run the course
    Sat: bike/swim
    Sun: muscle recovery day

    Diid 3 hrs in one pool session last week,, now having rhomboid issues - bah humbug
  • 1duffwf
    1duffwf Posts: 76 Member
    It's neat to see what everyone else does! Mine is:

    Daily - walk at least 1 hour (I have 2 very active dogs!)

    Monday/Wednesday/Friday - Lift for 35-45 minutes (do cardio bursts in between sets)
    Tuesday/Thursday - Run 20-25 minutes. Cool down with a 10-15 minute walk
    Saturday/Sunday - Set up walking dates with friends or ride my bike for 45 minutes - 1 hour

    Sometimes (like this week) I don't lift on Mondays so I do two a days - run in the am and lift at night.
  • VasylP
    VasylP Posts: 136 Member
    When I started back at the end of October of last year, I was really hurting by the time I got to walking for 40 minutes at a dog walk pace... Since them I have lost about 42 lbs and things in my regime have been changing, particularly with the weather getting warmer.

    Currently I go to the gym three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I primarily focus on cardio.

    I usually go three 20 minute sessions of treadmill walking.
    First 20 minutes - First five minutes warm up about 3.6 mph - at the firth minute, I stay at that same speed but increase the incline, every minute by 4 degrees - thus 4, 8, 12 then I drop down to level again, and stay at that speed for a minute, then I increase my speed by .2 mph. after a minute I repeat the incline drill each minute and then back to zero, after a minute I increase speed again.This continues until 20 minutes is up.

    The second 20 minutes is similar, however, instead of starting at 3.6 mph I start at 3.8 and after the first minute I start throwing in the inclines, but instead of going 4,8,12 - I do 3,6,9,12 and when I get to 12 I stay there for two minutes.. I then drop to zero incline, and drop my speed down to 3.2 for a minute to towel off my face, and sip some water. Then I crank the speed up to 4 mph, and repeat the incline as a way of adding intensity. This continues until 20 minutes is up.

    The third 20 minutes is sort of the inverse of the first, where the last five minutes are for cool down as opposed to warming up.
    Even though the last five minutes are spent cooling down, I try to make sure that I walk at least the same distance as I did during the second 20 minute session. To do this I usually start at 4.2 mph and increase the speed every minute by .2 mph. When I get up to 4.8 mph which is a very brisk walk I throw the incline up to 3 percent, and I maintain this speed for two minutes, then I drop the incline, and the speed to have a minute recouping. I then go up to 4.4 mph and try to increase by .2 mph every minute until I get to 5 mph which is a super fast walk or a slow jog. I have in the past had knee problems so I do try to be careful to avoid injury as that would really throw a spanner into the works regarding my exercise regime. Lately I have been able to get up to the last three minutes before cool down at 5 mph. Two months ago I would cool down at 2.8 mph. Now I find that way to slow and I can cool down at 3.8 for the last four minutes after dropping down to 3.2 mph for the first minute of cool down to wipe the painful sweat running into my eyes from my brow.

    After courteously clean the sweat drips from the machine, I get on the stationary bike for 40 minutes. and I am on course to getting to the first milestone of doing 10 miles in that forty minutes. Just like when walking the first five minutes are warm up and the last five minutes are cool down. Depending on the day, particularly of late, I play in a variety of ways with the resistance levels. Recently this has been dependent on what kind of bike ride I had on my non-gym day the day before.

    Since the beginning of the month when the weather started getting warmer in this part of the world I have been trying to fit in a minimum of three fairly long rides a week, and when we get into June I will also be supplementing gym days with rides as well.
    The two days during the week I ride, are of two different sorts, one is composed of two fairly intense rides of about 10.2 km rides to a certain land mark and then a three or four minute break and a return trip. I have been using an app called Strava for my riding for the last little while and helps me in setting goals before rides and seeing how I am doing. The other is now going to be another there and back type session of 18.5 km. Stava provides extremely rich data and allows for a number of different things like leader boards, challenges etc. Which help keep me motivated.

    Then there is the Saturday morning ride, which is at this point about 50 km, but as I get stronger I will be increasing it by 5km increments a week. This will also be happening with the short during the week rides. Those 50 km rides gobble up a lot of calories, and I will be super happy when I hit the milestone of being able to do 100 km rides again just because I can. When I was in my early to mid -20s it was not unusually for me to be up in the summer at 5:00 and on the road by 6:00 to do 100 km in about three and a half hours. I will get to that once again.

    There are days that I do some isometric work for my quads, so band for biceps and triceps... and sets of up to 8 of 50 small arm circles for my deltoids. Sometimes I do two to four sets of these while on the stationary bike at the gym.
  • pjp1125
    pjp1125 Posts: 313
    Getting better! I always work out in the am, but weight training only (mon-chest, tue-arms, wed-shoulders, thu-back, fri-legs) but my cardio consisted of 15 or 20 minutes of strolling on the dreadmill after my workout. In the past month I have added 65 minutes of cardio at lunch, and spinning or more cardio on saturdays (I usually rest sundays) It has made a huge difference. My weight loss has stalled a bit, but I am much leaner and have definitely added muscle.
  • judykat7
    judykat7 Posts: 576 Member
    I do the elliptical MWF in the am and bowflex TTh in the am. Each month I make a challenge to myself, like so may squats or planks or pushups. Each month I also pick a different vid to use in the evening-don't get it done every day but try to get 4 nights a week anyway. I also walk the dogs 2x a day everyday a mile or so.
  • mdn15
    mdn15 Posts: 145
    M: run 4.5 miles (trying to increase to 6 miles by end of summer), lift 1 hr, kick box 1 hr
    T: run 3.5 miles, lift 1 1/2 hrs
    Wed: Nike (1 hr), Body combat (50 minutes)
    Th: T: run 3.5 miles, lift 1 1/2 hrs
    Frid: leg day, 30 min stairs
    Sat: kick box 1hr, Nike 1 hr
    Sun: rest
  • RunnerElizabeth
    RunnerElizabeth Posts: 1,091 Member
    Monday- Upper body strength
    Tuesday- run and lower body strength
    Wednesday- run only
    Thursday-upper body strength and run
    Friday- run and lower body strength
    Saturday- easy day
    Sunday- long run 8-13 miles

    Currently for strength I do body weight excercises only.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Monday - 20 min Tabata; walk
    Tues - 45 minute walk at lunch, 5/3/1 in PM, post lift conditioning (usually farmer's carries or sled)
    Wed - 3 mile jog
    Thurs - 45 minute walk at lunch, 5/3/1 PM, post lift conditioning
    Friday - 20 Min Tabata; walk
    Sat - 5/3/1 Am, post lift conditioning,
    Sun - Rest day...generally active...go for bike ride, walk to favorite breakfast establishment, etc.
  • dym123
    dym123 Posts: 1,670 Member
    I just started this regime when I finished the 20 week Turbo Fire program about 3 weeks ago.

    Mon, Wed, Fri - Hiit workout/Strength Training (use Fitness Blender strength workouts, combining upper and lower body workouts or a total body workout)
    Tue, Thu, Sat - Cardio/Circuit Training
    Sun - Yoga

    I loved Turbo Fire so much I incorporated it into my new routine, along with some Jillian Michaels workouts. Lost 8lbs the first 2 weeks.
  • liftreadphilosophize
    liftreadphilosophize Posts: 180 Member
    I just make sure to do the following every week, and leave it up to either how I'm feeling or what I want to do. Sometimes what I want to get over with early in the week. :-)

    Ride bike to and from work (18 miles round trip) -- 2x a week
    Lift Push muscles -- 1x a week
    Lift Pull muscles -- 1x a week
    Run 3 - 4 miles -- 1x a week
    Yoga -- 2x a week
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    Here's what my workouts look like at the moment:

    Monday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Powerlifting Heavy- Deadlift, squat & support exercises for pulling (ala Westside Barbell)
    PM: Boxing

    Tuesday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Kettlebell 1 hour
    PM: Intervals and sprints: either track or bicycle

    Wednesday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Powerlifting Heavy - Bench & support exercises for pushing
    PM: Bicycling

    Thursday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Kettlebell 1 hr
    PM: Boxing

    Friday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Powerlifting Speed & Dynamic - Deadlift, squats & support pulling exercises
    PM: Bicycling - hills or intervals

    Saturday:
    Run 30 minutes - recovery jog /w wife & dogs
    Powerlifting Speed & dynamic - Bench & support pushing exercises
    Muay Thai: 2 hr (holding pads for fighters)

    Sunday:
    Bicycling: 3 hour relaxing recovery ride
    Muay Thai: (easy) holding pads for the kids
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    Sun/Tues/Thurs - Zombies, run 5k + any additional time it takes me to run walk the rest of my 6.5 k lake loop (a little less than 60 minutes ATM)

    mon - 5*5 deadlifts, BBrow, bench press, OHP - the goal with these is to increase weight by 2.5 or 5 pounds every workout

    wednesday : tumminello complex + 50 back squats (starting with bar and increasing weight by 2.5 pounds each workout), 50 pushups and 50 barbell pullups

    friday : cosgrove complex + 25 turkish get ups, 25 burpees 2.5 minutes of plank, 2 mins of side plank

    saturday : rest, stretch,goof off in the pool
  • Beeky85
    Beeky85 Posts: 257 Member
    Holy Cr**....you guys do some mean exercise regimes- go you!! I feel faint just reading some of them but maybe I should actually try doing some your workouts too!! Keep going guys- the weeks will fly by and before we know it we will be different people. Both fitter and healthier! :wink:
  • sugaree1202
    sugaree1202 Posts: 184 Member
    TurboFire - a mix of HIIT, intense cardio, toning, core & yoga classes

    Once I finish this round of Turbo, I'm going to add in Chalene Extreme which is strength training
  • lizziegs
    lizziegs Posts: 71 Member
    Monday, Wednesday, Saturday- run 3+ miles

    Tuesday, Friday, Sunday- strength training. Either YAYOG or a DVD of some sort

    Thursday off
  • Beeky85
    Beeky85 Posts: 257 Member
    I just can't keep away from the gym/classes. June is starting to look good.... :)

    1st: Treadmill 5k run- 45mins & Kinetic Weights
    3rd: Spinning- 45mins & Body Blast 45mins
    5th: Spinning- 45mins
    7th: Spinning- 45mins
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    i do 60-70 minutes of cardio a day