How long do you exercise
Losewtforlife4him
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How long do you exercise for and what does your exercise routine look like?
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Varies from day to day but my typical off-season week looks like....
Mon AM Gym/strength 45 min -or- indoor rowing
Mon PM Spinning class 1hr
Tues AM 8 -10 km easy run
Tues PM 1 hrs on bike trainer (intervals) in winter, in summer I'll usually take my bike to work on Monday & ride home Tues
Wed AM same as Monday
Wed PM evening off or low intensity ride on bike trainer
Thu AM same as Tuesday
The PM pool lane swimming (not very consistent with this one)
Fri AM same as Mon/Wed
Fri PM bike commute in summer, low intensity ride in fall/winter
Sat brick workout (bike ride followed by run)
Sun coached pool session & long slow run (16km or so)
but my routine is based on preparation for duathlons / triathlons, normal people don't need to do this much (it's all premised on what your goals are) for just all 'round good health half an hour daily of moderate intensity activity is all that's needed (walking, hiking, riding, swimming....your choice based on what you enjoy)
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About an hour, five days a week, strength training.2
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I lift heavy with a powerlifting coach 4x a week. Sessions go from an hour to an hour and a half. I've been known to run out of time at my 6AM session, so I come back for accessory work later in the day.
I also teach/take barre classes several times a week, so a typical week looks like this:
M: Lower Body/Barre
T: Rest Day
W: Upper Body/Barre/Teach Barre
Th: Rest Day or Barre
F: Lower Body/Barre
S: Conditioning/Barre/Teach Barre
Su: Upper Body/Teach Barre
It looks like a lot, and it is, but it's working extremely well for me. I spend a lot of time with my foam roller, and I definitely eat a LOT more food than many people here. Barre is low impact, and its been the perfect compliment to powerlifting - core and glute strength for days!
I've been doing this for a while though. Definitely not recommended for someone who is just starting to exercise to jump into a program like this!1 -
About 2 hours lifting 4x a week. Usually 1 hour spent working on my heavy lift (bench/squat/or deadlift, whatever it is for the day) and 1 hour of accessory work after. Plus whatever I feel I need for recovery in between (walking, foam rolling/stretching, etc)1
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Preferably my workouts would be 45-60 minutes but I have very limited time in the mornings before work so if I wake up at 4:30am then I can get in 25-30 minutes before I have to start getting ready. I alternate running and strength training since I obviously don't have time for both. On the weekends if I go I can spend anywhere from 45 - 90 minutes of actual exercise depending on how good I feel. I've got a 2 hour max time for the gym daycare.1
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I do strength training three days a week for about 30 minutes. Then I typically add a walk for 25-30 minutes. The other four days I run for about 45-50 minutes.1
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Mine varies. I typically do about 20 - 30 min of strength training 5 days a week (currently using Total Gym).
When the weather is nice enough I usually hike for 30-60 min a few days a week, and shoot some hoops with my husband a few evenings a week. These may or may not be on the same day.
When the weather is nice I also get exercise through gardening and yard work (we have a farm). And from chopping/splitting firewood year round. When garden/yard work isn't needed outside or it's not nice enough for basketball, I'll often do some step aerobics while watching TV to get in more cardio.
Other than the strength training, I mostly just try not to sit too much and stay active doing things I enjoy.1 -
So much "it depends!"
Lifting usually takes about an hour.
How long a bike ride takes depends how long I have and (to a lesser extent) how nice it is out. Hours on weekends.
Hiking is usually a "most of the day" thing.1 -
Mondays - Nada, that's my rest day
Tuesdays - Sunday 90 minutes each day in the mornings before getting ready for work
In the winter it's usually 35 min cardio, 55-60 min cross training
When the weather is nice I'll switch out some of those days for a hour or so of walking/jogging with 30-35 min cross training
So for me it averages 6 days a week, 90 min per day for up to a 1000 calorie burn give or take 50 cals. I'll occasionally add in an extra rest day depending on what the body wants and drop it to 5 days a week.
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3-4x per week I do 45min strength training, then on Thurs I do 1hr of yoga. I'm also generally active on my feet most of the day and walking.1
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5 days lifting 45 - 60 minutes..
4 days cardio (3 at 50 minutes and 1 at 1.5 hours, 3 of these days are on lifting days)
three weeks ago, I added in p.m walks 6 days for appox 30 minutes 2 miles.0 -
Takes me about 2:15 to finish my 4 mile swim. I do that 5 to 7 days a week.
Saturday I followed it up with a 45 minute spin class.
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It depends....
I primarily cycle and I lift a couple days per week. I was going to do some cyclocross this fall and early winter but an injury in late summer laid me up pretty good and I'm in no condition to race at the moment...so basically my season is over and I won't have any events until late spring.
Off season is nice because I can just kind of chill and be flexible and less structured in my riding...basically I can just go out and have fun...I don't take things super seriously in season, but I do train and my training is far more structured...some sessions just aren't fun.
Basically right now I'm just going out and riding...I usually ride 5 days per week...most of my week day rides are about an hour and I like to get in a longer ride on the weekend if possible...I'm hitting around 80-90 miles per week at the moment...that will likely drop some as we get into winter.
I usually lift a couple days per week...usually takes about an hour. Also, since I'm not doing any structured training on the bike I can opt to do other things like go for a hike or something else. Hiking is usually an all day type of thing...looking forward to some snow shoeing this winter...and I'm also a down hill skier...might try some cross country this winter.1 -
Bench day tends to be about 2 to 2-1/2 hours. That's mainly because we typically have 5 or so people working together. This past weekend we had 10. Bench (various types) and some lat work.
Squat day tends to be a little over an hour. Squats, (just added) ham-glute raises, and abs.
Shoulder day tends to be about an hour. OHP, rows, and volume bench.
Deadlift day tends to be about an hour and a half. Deadlifts, volume squats, and abs.
On squat and deadlift days - or the day after, which is a "rest" day - I'll ride the bike for a half hour. These times don't include the 1 to 1-1/2 mile walks I typically do during lunch.0 -
With my schedule I can only work out after work and after the kids are fed so I do between 60 to 90 minutes mostly cardio with some strength. And it seems to work for me, for now.0
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about 90 min a day, 30 cardio, 30 weights, 30 core or stretching1
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Weight lifting - 60-70 minutes x5/week
Cardio - 25-40 minutes x1-2/week1 -
It varies a lot as my job involves a lot of travel and can be quite challenging to work around. Assuming a basic, planned, work week.
Monday - Cycle commute to the local office of 20-25 miles total so about 70-80 minutes
Tuesday - Short run - Up to 90 minutes
Wednesday Short run/ speedwork - up to 90 minutes
Thursday - Theoretical rest day because I don't get back from work until late
Friday - Cycle commute to the local office as Monday
Saturday - moderate distance to long run 2-3 hours
Sunday - Long run 2-4 hours
Saturday/ Sunday runs are intimately linked so it might be back to back longs, or it might be a short/ long
What I'll sometimes do is slot in a road ride of a comparable time to the planned run at the weekend. That helps to maintain CV endurance with lower impact.0 -
I do weight lifting 3x a week for 1 to 1 1/2 hours
Other days I do arc trainer or elliptical for 30-40mins
I take spin classes here and there
Rest day is usually Saturday0 -
i don't find time 'goals' useful or motivating, come to think of it. i'm about 'give me something meaningful in real terms to achieve.' no matter how active i get, that's something i don't think will ever change. if someone handed me a bucket of time every day and said 'go fill this with [activity]' i'd have a hard time deciding whether to shoot them first and slit my wrists second, or the other way round. all the will to live just drains out of me in situations like that. so my stuff is all task-based, or i wouldn't do it.
for bike rides, i spend as long as it takes me to get where i'm going to. i ride for transportation, in other words. exercise is just a convenient plus. when i'm working somewhere, the round trip usually takes around 75 minutes a day.
for lifting, i spend as long as it takes to do the workout 'prescribed' for that day by the programme i'm on. and i do all the workouts prescribed for that week. in actual numbers, that's four individual lifts per week with accessories. a wild guess is that i could probably do each of them in less than an hour if i were watching the clock about it. as it is, i just like gyms so i hang out there much longer than that.
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Usually an hour and a half / two hours including the walk to and from the gym and getting ready.
Usually stick to treadmill, bike and cross trainer, depending on the day the amount on each changes.
I try to go to the gym every day, but sometimes it's simply to make me walk to the gym to get my steps up. As I always try and hit that 10,000 goal separately each day.0 -
when I started it was 20 minutes 3 times per week. Now its increased yet again as my goals have changed.
I've been running 4 miles twice a week at a 10 minute mile pace. Over the next couple weeks I'm transitioning that to 6 mile runs and one very longish run of 9+ miles on the weekends. Then comes the strength program that used to take 30 minutes but is stretching ever closer to an hour every other day.0 -
My cutting workout routine starts on Saturdays.
Sat: Upper Body - 1 1/2hr + 20min HIIT cardio (Barbell Complex)
Sun: Abs + Active Rest Day (walking or easy hike)
Mon: Lower Body - 1 1/2hr + 30min cardio keeping HR at 70% Max.
Tues: Active Rest Day (1hr ballroom dance lesson w/ my wife. More of a workout than you'd think)
Wed: Upper Body - 1 1/2hr + 30min cardio keeping HR at 70% Max.
Thurs: Abs + 20min HIIT cardio (Barbell Complex)
Fri: Abs + Active Rest Day
This routine (plus smart nutrition and an intelligent calorie deficit) has taken me from 210lbs in April to 164lbs @10% BF in Sept.0 -
However long it takes. Somedays I'm in and out in about an hour, but three hour bench days are not unheard of. Total for the week can range from about 6 hours to 15+ when I'm peaking and the weights are heavy and the rests long.1
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30-60 minutes every day depending on how much time I have. I do treadmill walk/run intervals and free weights mostly. Started adding in a couple of days of other cardio/strength mixed circuits.1
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Depends. M-F 30 minutes morning walks, M-Th 1-3 hour afternoon ride, Sat 2-8 hour ride (three is typical), Sun 2-3 hour ride. Don't have my walk stats, but for cycling I'm at 354 hours, 179 rides covering 5,982 miles for the year. Not much variance in my walk routine, 2.3 miles at 14.25 minute per mile pace. Occasionally I would extend that to 3-4 miles, with one really long walk this year at 10.5 miles (average pace of 14.52 min/mi).
For cycling is more varied. Mid October is end of my season so much of the riding is base mileage at endurance pace. Starting December toward end of January, it's mixed between endurance and tempo rides. February, I move on to threshold and by April, VO2Max intervals. End of June is tapering for my A event in July. August is back to threshold and VO2Max work for my B event in October. Tuesday and Thursdays are my key workouts with anchor workout on Saturdays (typically hammerfest group rides punctuated by monthly century rides). Mondays, Wednesdays, and most Sundays are recovery rides. Fridays I'm mostly off the bike. Since I didn't make the cut this July, first outing, I'm planning to do more longer rides starting January (starting with 4 hours with goal of being comfortable at 10+ by June and doubling my yearly elevation gain). Not racing anymore but need to "finish" that darn ride in July. 15 hours per week is my upper limit, typical is around 11 hours.0 -
56 years and counting!How long do you exercise
More serious answer, average weekly routine:
3 x strength/weights sessions, typically 60 - 80 minutes each.
2 x gym cardio (on average), typically 60 mins
2 x cycle rides, one to nine hours range but typically one short'ish and one multi hour ride.
Cycling mileage and duration does vary greatly depending on the season and weather. April to October outdoors as much as possible, 400 - 600 miles a month.
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I do two 5k runs (I use the term run loosely) which take 45 minutes including warm up and cool down, a short weights session in the week at the gym for around 30 minutes and then an hour long session in the gym on Saturday mornings.0
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I have a desk job so I'm not very active. The best time for me to workout is at lunch and I work out for 45 mins. I do strength training M-F.
Mon: Upper body
Tues: core
Wed: Lower body
Thurs: Upper
Fri.: Core1 -
30-60 min. 7 times a week... i mostly do cardio tho0
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