Exercising with pets

Catfriend25

Tell us Your stories about exercising with Your pets

StaciMarie1974

Its hard for me to do anything on the floor in my living room. The dogs (2) think when anyone gets down on their level, its play time. Planking is almost impossible when one is sniffing my hair & another licking my ear.

justformel

hahah My dogs do the same thing, it gets dangerous for all of us if I try doing a video at home. :laugh:

BoxerBrawler

I have two Siberian Husky's and if you are familiar with the breed, they are working class and they are runners! They are bred for and known to go thousands of miles in one direction. Even my female who weighs in at about 60 pounds or so is able to pull up to a thousand pounds for around three miles.

They are also excellent trackers, hunters and are extremely well behaved on the leash in heel.

Anyway... I like to run with my female. The male is too big and fat and lazy to be able to go too far but the female is awesome. She keeps pace in heel right at my knee the entire time and she even keeps stride with me for as long as I go.

It's wonderful

Catfriend25

hahahahaha "the male is too big and fat and lazy"

Alatariel75

I don't recommend it,

Alatariel75

BoxerBrawler

hahahahaha "the male is too big and fat and lazy"

LOL! I didn't mean it how it sounded...
Well, maybe I did

He is just a big dog and has been spoiled all his life so he's become very lazy! He can run for about a quarter of a mile or so and then he can't do it anymore... just wants to lay around and be cuddled!

BlueBombers

I have an English Bulldog so I don't break a sweat taking him for a walk. He'd rather lay down on the grass and have a nap.

BlueBombers

Its hard for me to do anything on the floor in my living room. The dogs (2) think when anyone gets down on their level, its play time. Planking is almost impossible when one is sniffing my hair & another licking my ear.

^ Hah, yes!!!

BeLightYear

My cats love to show me up while I struggle to do yoga moves...........or run under my weights while I'm doing the chest flies!:bigsmile: Hard to workout when you are giggling!

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

Ummm, my pugs like to "help" with my foam rolling by standing on top of my butt while I do it.


And once I tried to take them for a walk around the neighborhood. About half a mile from home they laid down and wouldn't get up, so I carried them home. I guess they were "helping" me build strength or something.

Nette117

I don't recommend it,

hahahahaha!!!!!

action_figure

I have a standard poodle. She goes running, hiking, and kayaking with me, but she's not trained to run beside the bike yet.

melissajane83

I have two dogs. I have to lock my Boston up when I exercise because he freaks out and starts barking and jumping on me. He is very high strung. When I had a tread mill, he would run on it with me. Love him to pieces but he is a bit nuts lol.
My Chihuahua is very laid back and could care less what I do.

toadg53

I walk everyday with my terrier (half cairn/half schnauzer). I was going to try to brave the winter cold up here in the frozen north and walk the winter with her. We have wonderful walking trails here and they keep them plowed. She isn't the best walker. She is all over the place, back and forth, in front and back. She doesn't know the word "heel". Anyway, last November (and we already had snow and some ice) we were walking and she dashed in front of me, got between my feet and I stepped on her, started to fall, and was flailing all over trying to prevent myself from falling. WELL ... I did manage NOT to fall, but ended up giving myself WHIPLASH in the process. (Probably should have just taken the dive and fallen !! ) Ended up going to the doctor about a week or so later, and then to rehab for 8 weeks for neck therapy. Needless to say, that was the end of my outside walking until just a couple weeks ago when the snow/ice finally went away. Walked the rest of the winter, by myself, at the school.

aribugg

I've been trying to train my dog how to run along side with me... thus far, my only injuries are popped knee (many, many times) and a big blueish purple bruise on my leg.

its amazing, really. i used to work with an animal shelter and i had two main jobs.one, general care (potty breaks, food, water, etc.) and two, keeping everyone in line and well behaved.
and the only dog i've ever come across in the history of my life that i cant through to is my own? whhyyy? X_X

fittoday14

I don't recommend it,

that is one fat cat!

BernadetteChurch

This morning I saw a woman cycling very slowly with a tiny little dog on a lead running along beside her. It seemed a ridiculous thing to be doing on London roads during peak hour.

rieann84

I would like to go for a jog with my rescued terrier mix, but he's too stupid to know that if he darts in front of me that I WILL run him over.

GillianMcK

Ride the horse, dog runs at the side, 2 birds 1 stone!!!!!

Or should that be 3 birds 1 stone (me, horse and dog), very efficient!!

echofm1

I've been starting to run with my dog because he has ridiculous amounts of energy. At the beginning he's usually pumped to run and does fine. However, he's part sheltie, and when he decides it's time to stop (usually about 3/4 of the way through my routine) he starts to herd me to get me to stop running! He'll try to jump and nip at my ankles and bark, so I have to shorten his leash and hold him out at arms length.

Really, my dog is just a jerk. But I totally wear him out when I take him for a walk/run!

laurenawolf

I have a pit bull that I rescued. He takes me on walks instead of me taking him on walks!

MissJacquelineN

My cat sits on my back during planks... then acts annoyed when I finish. Oh, and my dog licks me in the face when I come up doing sit ups. I guess she thinks it's a super fun game or something.

sc003ro

30 Min walk a night for my Old English Bulldog

dbanks80

I have two Siberian Husky's and if you are familiar with the breed, they are working class and they are runners! They are bred for and known to go thousands of miles in one direction. Even my female who weighs in at about 60 pounds or so is able to pull up to a thousand pounds for around three miles.

They are also excellent trackers, hunters and are extremely well behaved on the leash in heel.

Anyway... I like to run with my female. The male is too big and fat and lazy to be able to go too far but the female is awesome. She keeps pace in heel right at my knee the entire time and she even keeps stride with me for as long as I go.

It's wonderful

I have a 61 lb. Samoyed and she is a lazy turd!!!! I tried running with her a couple times and when she has enough (which is like 1 mile) she sits there and does not budge. Once I had to call my son to come pick her up. And to think she is bred to be sled dog! :grumble:

But I love her so much!!!

fatalis_vox

I've got an adolescent Rottweiler puppy--He loves to go walking and hiking with me, especially if it's quiet enough to take him off his leash. (I've managed to train him out of enthusiastically trying to great other walkers, runners, and chasing people on bikes--He loves to run--but children and other dogs are proving a challenge. He just wants to play!)

But when I take him out on a run, it's like I can't go fast enough for him. We start the run with him bouncing and prancing ahead of me, grabbing his leash in his mouth and pulling as if he were chanting "Faster! Faster!" and then when I can't run as fast as he can, he settles into a kind of sulky slow trot a little behind me, as if he were saying "If we can't run as fast as I want, we can't run as fast as you want, either!"

We're working on it.

I haven't started doing actual workout routines in my apartment, but I imagine he'd want to "help" as much as all the other dogs in this thread. "Tug is a great workout, Mom!" "So is fetch!" "Hey, I've got a great idea! Do those push-ups with me on your back! That's like an extra hundred pounds of resistence!" "I'm gonna shake this rope toy around until it hits you in the face, 'kay? ... Hey, is that blood I smell?"(Yes, this has happened before. He's also smashed his big clumsy skull into my lip, splitting it and making me explain to my supervisor that no one at home is hitting me except my enthusiastic puppy.)

I may throw him upstairs and lock the babygate separating up from downstairs, or I may toss him in his kennel with a chewtoys or some peanut butter.

Josalinn

When I do sit ups, by cat thinks its cuddle time and cruls up in my armpit and then looks pissed when I do the situp. He also likes to lay beneath me when I do pushups.

Or if you look at my ticker, he will sit on my bed and glare at me while I work out.

ForCharlotte

i just recently started taking my dogs on walks with me. took me a while to find a park that wasn't crazy crowded. they have always been my little helpers though. sitting on my back when i attempt to do a push up., showing me how downward dog is really done, running up way past our apartments floor and refusing to come back down. you know good stuff like that lol

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HikeCyclist

Hahaha! Great topic!

I was doing push-ups once while my black kitten was trying to rub up against my head, arms, everything!

Then when I do yoga . . . forget it! His rubbing-up behaviors are way worse! I think it's cute

ETA: One time when I was doing an Insanity workout, he was running back and forth, from room to room, like a maniac. I think he thought that he had to "go crazy" like mommy was doing!