How Often/How Much Do YOU Workout?

SHBoss1673

my personal routine is 2/2/2/1

Monday and Thursday is HIIT training for 40 minutes to an hour
Tuesday and Friday is Full body Weight training for 45 minutes
and Wednesday and Saturday is Straight, moderate cardio for 45 minutes (plus warm up, stretch, cool down)

Sunday in the spring and summers I am either doing some activity like mowing lawn, gardening, chopping wood, or playing baseball. Something low intensity long duration usually.

this is a balanced plan, good for maintaining general body composition, not really designed to solicit significant gains in any one area (I.E. endurance or muscle mass), it's a decent plan for fat burning though, although I'd probably replace one cardio day with another HIIT day if I were to do that.

rileysowner

I'm having a hard time adjusting to the "workout" portion of losing weight.

- How many days a week do you workout?

I workout about 4-5 days a week, sometimes 6, but I always take a rest day. Three to four of those workouts are really intense. The rest are very light with lots of stretching.

- And for how LONG do workout a day?

Usually 20-35 minutes on the Intense days doing Metabolic Resistance Training or High Intensity Interval Training. On the light days it varies a lot.

- Also, what types of workouts do you do [the name(s) of the exercise(s)] and how have they affected your weight loss?

I do Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT), http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/rileysowner/view/metabolic-resistance-training-86959 You can find other information at my MFP blog as well including one of the workouts I use. It keeps the weight coming off, but best of all I see great and visible changes in my body composition. I have inches quicker since starting this, even with increasing my calories and decreasing my time per week working out which is a necessity because MRT is so intense my body needs at least a day to recover. I occasionally throw in a basic strength training workout as well on my light days.

I used to do Tae Bo and Insanity. I still occasionally do one of those workouts, well Tae Bo more than Insanity, but the 40 minutes or more working out at rather intense cardio was taking its toll on my joints. I much prefer MRT, but have to remember not to approach it like normal cardio because that would overtrain me and lead to injury.

- How long was it before you started seeing results?

Pretty much within a week for me, both with the Tae Bo and MRT in terms of weight, but with the MRT the changes in body composition were much more marked. That may have had to do with that fact that I started it when I was down to my last 15 pounds or so.

Thanks for answering (:

You are welcome. Glad to help.

TiDinzeo

I work out 7 days a week around 1 hour a day doing Wii Tennis, Wii Fit or rowing on a rowing machine mostly. Although occasionally I do something else.

I'm not sure if it's contributed much to my weight loss so far except where it's put me back in my daily limit when I've gone over calories. It has made me feel a lot better about myself which helps with motivation. I feel better when I exercise, therefore I exercise the next day.

I saw results in the first few days according to the scales, but I couldn't say how much of that was due to exercising.

leomentlines

I'm having a hard time adjusting to the "workout" portion of losing weight.

- How many days a week do you workout?


- And for how LONG do workout a day?


- Also, what types of workouts do you do [the name(s) of the exercise(s)] and how have they affected your weight loss?


- How long was it before you started seeing results?

Thanks for answering (:

I try for 6 days a week, but lately I've been getting about 5 days a week in for exercise.

On Cardio days I exercise for 40 minutes, and strength training days for 30 minutes.

I use Power 90 (p90x prequel), and while I haven't measured myself with tapes, I'm down about 8-9 lbs, and this is my fourth week in. I can't say I'm down a full pant size, but my pants I wear now are feeling looser, especially around the waist.
I definitely have stronger biceps/triceps from all the exercise though - just need to drop more fat so I can see it!

End6ame

M/W/F, 45 minutes to an hour doing StrongLifts 5x5, no cardio.

Works great! in 6 months I am down 27 lbs of fat and up 6 lbs of muscle for a net loss of 21 lbs.