Out of interest - howmuch exercise do you do in a week?

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  • Sassymama66_75HARD
    Sassymama66_75HARD Posts: 91 Member
    Just been at this a month so still in the building phase:

    M - 1 hour with trainer - 10 - 15 min cardio warm up
    T - Rest Day
    W - 1 hour with trainer - 10-15 min cardio warm up
    Th - 30 min treadmill/30 min treading water
    F - 60 min treading water
    S - rest or hike or 30 min treadmill/30 min treading water
    Su - 60 min treading water
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    1 hour of boxing on Thursday, and a fair bit of walking. This is usually guaranteed in my week.

    Flexible:
    I try to get in a couple lifting sessions a week (at home in my basement)
    I try to get in at least one two mile run.
    Sometimes I swim.
    Sometimes I do zumba at home on my wii.
    I often have a crap load of yard work to do... shoveling, raking, mowing the lawn.
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,259 Member
    It varies depending on the season, I coach soccer and baseball and the two overlap by a few weeks. During the overlap I practice with them 4-5 days a week 2.5 to 3 hours a day, otherwise we practice 3 days a week.
    I do my own workouts 3-4 times a week for 1.5 to 2.5 hours and then on the weekend (when I don’t have a sprained knee) I run on Saturdays (after our games) and recently I started to play a pickup game of soccer on Sundays anywhere for 1 to 3 hours, hopefully when my knee heals enough I'll be back out there. My personal workouts consist of HIIT, KB routine, weight training, and an elliptical machine stint or two.
  • HBMairi
    HBMairi Posts: 84 Member
    How do you guys fit it all in?

    I get up before dawn, eat a quick breakfast, digest quietly for a few minutes and I begin. I keep going until I have to stop to get ready for work. I hate getting up early but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

    Ah id like to do that as im a morning person, but I already get up at 5.45am on workdays. Struggle in the evenings sometimes, unless I go to the gym on the way home first.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    6-7 days a week of cardio ranging from 9 minutes riding my bike to running 5 k on the elliptical (in under an hour), and everything in between. I also try to lift for 5-10 minutes 2-3 times a week. I don't always do that, though.
  • czardastx
    czardastx Posts: 127 Member
    4 mornings in the gym for weight work (usually 1 1/2 hours). 2 evenings for run (strength or speed training, usually 3 - 6 miles). 2 evenings for cycling (25 miles or less). Saturday is long run day (8 or more miles). Sunday is long cycling day (25+ miles). Thursday is my rest day.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    How do you guys fit it all in?

    Single and no kids, which helps a lot. I also just prioritize it over things like happy hour and television.
  • cuinboston2014
    cuinboston2014 Posts: 848 Member
    I lift 3 times a week for about 45 minutes to an hour each
    I do cardio at least 4 days a week from 45 minutes to 3 hours, depending on how much time I have to spare. I'm a distance runner and I LOVE long runs and can't wait for marathon training.

    i also walk 50 minutes a day over lunch, sometimes get extra runs in at lunch (about 40 minutes if I'm running so can change, cool down, etc) and try to get in extra activities like just dance, bike rides, walks etc as needed at home.

    I wake up early every single morning. I get stuff done every minute of the day. On top of work, I'm in school so right now I'm busy from 5am until when I go to bed aroun 10:30. But I love it. Honestly, once my semester is over I'll likely try to get more "fun" workouts in with my daughter - bike rides, swimming, jump rope etc.
  • jewol
    jewol Posts: 74 Member
    About an hour per day on average -- mostly running, some walking and occasional lifting.
  • minimalistmom
    minimalistmom Posts: 137
    anywhere from 50 minutes or more, 5 times a week, depending on what the schedule allows me.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    5 total: 2 lifting 3 dance hrs on Monday
    3 dance hrs on Tuesday
    2 lifting hrs no dance Wednesday
    Rest Thursday
    2 hrs of lift or dance gigs Friday
    2-4 hrs of dance Saturday
    Cardio or Rest Sunday

    so. um

    14-15 hours a week
  • czardastx
    czardastx Posts: 127 Member
    4 mornings in the gym for weight work (usually 1 1/2 hours). 2 evenings for run (strength or speed training, usually 3 - 6 miles). 2 evenings for cycling (25 miles or less). Saturday is long run day (8 or more miles). Sunday is long cycling day (25+ miles). Thursday is my rest day.

    Forgot Yoga (15 - 30 minutes) every other evening to keep everything limber.
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    I name all my exercises mens names to make it fun, but I try to get in at least a half hour or more every day of at least one.

    I do the gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays generally and Taekwondo on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. If I miss a gym day or Taekwondo due to other things going on, I go walking at night. Sundays are walking.
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    I walk 2-3 miles in the evening after work, started walking 2 miles during my lunch hour at work, go to the gym 3 mornings a week and go on 6+mile hike with my dog every Saturday. Sunday is rest day. All in all, that comes to 12 hrs a week exercising.

    ETA: I forgot about 25mins daily for stretching, rolling and core work.
  • Sassymama66_75HARD
    Sassymama66_75HARD Posts: 91 Member
    How do you guys fit it all in?

    Empty nesters we also use it as family time with our adult son and meet him at the gym 3 days a week. It was his idea for all of us to start getting healthy together.
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    APPROX 60 min - 6 days a week. mixture of strength and cardio about 60/40 split
  • bc2ct
    bc2ct Posts: 222 Member
    4-5 hours lifting & core
    15-25 hours cardio

    Wednesday & Sunday are half days
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    How do you guys fit it all in?

    I have a husband that helps with dinner, the baby, and pretty much anything I ask of him. I work out MWF, and he works out T, TH, Sat., so we switch off responsibilities. He's pretty wonderful, and a true partner.
  • KinoM
    KinoM Posts: 359 Member
    2.5-5 hours cycling a week, 3 hours boxing gym work (50%+ of that is weights), and an occasional 8k run. The gym work will be increasing once I get my exams out of the way.
  • tomwatso
    tomwatso Posts: 1,304 Member
    25 minutes a day/5 days a week.
    3 days of cardio
    2 days of strength training
  • kwantlen2051
    kwantlen2051 Posts: 455 Member
    walking, aerobics and pilates for 45 minutes x 4 days a week. Works for me. everything in moderation. Don't want to get into anything I cannot sustain.
  • carolinetayloruk
    carolinetayloruk Posts: 73 Member
    My schedule looks a bit like this

    Mon: 1.5-2hrs in the gym split between strength and cardio
    Tues: rest day
    Wed: running club, so a 2-3 mile run depending on which run i join
    Thu: 1.5 - 2 hrs in the gym split between strenght and cardio
    Fri: rest day
    Sat: morning 2 mile run/walk, sometimes go to the gym in the afternoon if i've nothing else on
    Sun: 2 hours gym again split between strength and cardio

    As well as this, i walk everywhere so depending on where i am walk between 5 and 12 miles a day.

    Put like that it sounds like a lot of exercise, but i do have a life outside of exercise, i promise!!
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    currently 7 days perweek 45 minutes perday cardio lifting ect almost any exercise really mixed up
  • RECowgill
    RECowgill Posts: 881 Member
    3 days a week, 1 hour sessions no more, sometimes less. Foam rolling and stretching as time allows.
  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    Good question! I didn't know how much just when!

    M, T, 80 minutes.
    Wends. 40 minutes
    Th,F 80 minutes
    S 80 minutes
    Su. 0 minutes

    60 minutes is lifting heavy (for me) or kick boxing(contact, point or drills)
    20 minutes are MA "forms" or Kata. Kind of like Tai Chi but sharper and faster.
    I have a routine for everything. I used Flylady to organize my day or I'd accomplish nothing. There are a lot of organizing routines to follow, for free or a fee, online.
  • lilymae71
    lilymae71 Posts: 23 Member
    I work full time, it certainly depends on your goals. I'm okay with body fat in the low 20s, being a size 4 or 6. I don't get complaints. I have a few autoimmune diseases, so my goal is being functional and looking good.

    At best: lifting almost to failure from 30-45 minutes 3 days a week and walking about 12k steps a day or doing some light jogging. I might sprint but that's play!

    When less active, walking about 10k steps a day and physiotherapy exercises from 10-20 minutes a day (I've had numerous over-training injuries and I'm in my 40s). From that, you can deduce it's 30-60 minutes a day set aside for fitness when I'm up to it. That's everyday. If I want a day off, I take it. I assume that I'll do something everyday otherwise.
  • csk0018
    csk0018 Posts: 219 Member
    My week consists of: 2 spin classes(lasting an hour each), 1 hour of yoga, 30 minutes row machine combined with 30 minutes elliptical, 1-2 runs. The days vary but I try to get this in every week. I also have a FitBit so on my rest days -- I strive to get more steps than usual.
  • ravenmiss
    ravenmiss Posts: 384 Member
    I do SL 5x5 so I lift 3 times a week and I do a 50 or 70 min Zumba class 3 or 4 times a week :)

    ETA: I work part time from work for myself so it's pretty easy for me to fit in. It's all done from home too. We have a spare room with a power rack and weights and I do Zumba on the Xbox Kinect.
  • mstripes
    mstripes Posts: 151 Member
    10+ hours on the road bike. My goal for April is 700 miles and I am 14 miles short as of this morning. I expect to be over goal after my ride this afternoon.
  • Platform_Heels
    Platform_Heels Posts: 388 Member
    Not sure. It really depends on what I'm doing. I lift every day and it can vary from just under an hour to 75-90 minutes depending on what I'm doing. I'm also training for an event so my cardio workout can be as little as 30 minutes to as much as 70 minutes six days a week.

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