How many days a week do you exercise?

elg963

How many days a week do you exercise and how long/intense?

Thanks

fridayjustleft04

5 days a week for an hour each time. I alternate between high intensity and medium.

Niveous

6 days a week for about an hour or more. Any day where I bike, it's usually 2+ hours - I really love it! But days where I weight lift, dance, step, or something else... it's between 45 minutes to an hour long.

eclaire9

Im doing the C25K right now, so 3 days a week for 25-30 minutes on the treadmill.
I'll usually try to add in 1-2 days of free weights as well.

Violet319

4-5 days. One of those days I try to go hiking. When I go to the gm I do 45 min of resistance weights & 45 min of cardio.

biged335

6 days a week right now...

Ervie317

7 Days a week with for at least a half an hour of cardio. I like breaking a sweat each day!

helenium

bump! and I exercise about 3 - 4 times a week for 45 mins - 1 hour. I wish I did more, I just don't quite know what's 'safe' (I mostly run).

Jacquelyn913

5 days a week at the gym for an hour or more then 3x a week or more for Zumba classes.

LushLoni

Generally I do 4 days a week at the gym being Monday, tuesday, Thursday, Friday depends what I have going on...

On a perfect day I do 30 minutes cardio in the gym and 30 minutes swimming, otherwise I do one or the other...

dyiaane

About 6 days a week. I change it up. I usually work out 45 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes. I do P90X, gym classes, treadmill, and running/walking outside. I like to change it up.

Egger29

Case in point.....It's not a matter of how long or how often you exercise...it's What you do with the time you spend doing the activity.

I've seen countless people in gyms, day in and day out, who are either just going through the motions without any real challenge, trying to do too much with terrible form, or overtraining to the point where they don't get any results at all.

Most people forget that exercise is a stress, and you need to give yourself time to recover from that stress which is where you get stronger. It's the Rest time between workouts that bring about the benefits and adaptations in the body....and unfortunately, the most often neglected part of people's programs.

mom2dms

I work out 6 days a week. Per my trainer, you must take at least one day off to let your muscles recoup!

Lauriee2014

6 days/week 75+ minutes. Upper body/abs with cardio, Lower body/back with cardio. Repeat. [Or sometimes upper/ower/all cardio day then repeat.] I'm rather "up in the air:" about all cardio days, even though our gym trainer recommends them. I often feel less productive on those days.

A year ago when I joined the gym I was doing 45 mins or more of cardio and 45 mins of strength training. Now I do over an hour or more of strength training with 20-20 mins of cardio.. interval style. Better results.

I think it would depend on whether you are maintaining, have lots to lose, your healthy condition, etc.

Good luck! :flowerforyou:

seasonalvoodoo

I run 3 days a week and am usually active on the weekends (hiking, biking, etc) so, I guess 5 days? But not every week. It's at least 3 times a week for an hour, though.

healthyJenn0915

I use to do 4 days a week, but recently increased it to 6 days a week! It's a hard transition cause I only get one off day in the week, but it seems to be helping! I do all sorts of different things, strength training, kick boxing, dancing, walking, biggest loser on the wii. I try to change it up and do something different! The time is usually anywhere from 45 minutes to 90 minutes depending on what I do!

ansy96

6 or 7 days for an hour or two. It's different every time, but now I'm on vacation one week and maybe I will make 2 hours workouts(tennis and jogging or jogging and jumping rope+dancing and singing ).

diol3tt3

right now I walk 3miles on a trail around a golf course at least five days a week. I've build up from 1.5 miles. I will start adding another 1.5 miles this week so that's walking around the golf course three times. And I do a zumba class every now and then and participate in zumba parties. those run from 45 minutes to an hour

achampionsheart

7 days a week....i am doing strictly cardio right now, with some hand weights when i walk...i do 80 min. on elliptical, 60-80 min. on treadmill, when i walk outside at the track that i like i do about 50-55 min., i also do 20 min. home workouts every other day....i alternate days when i do the treadmill and elliptical.....i can walk on the treadmill with an elevation of 12, speed of 4.0....BUTT KICKING LET ME TELL YA....on the elliptical i can do an elevation of 10 and speed of 3-4

Chey16

7 days a week, its one of passions/hobbies so i love to do it and i do it everyday!!!!

nishaxbaabeii

Wow i look at everybodys progrss n yu guys r doing amazing. I hope i can do the same.