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How many days do you exercise?

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  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    7 days a week for at least an hour. Run every day, strength train at night. No rest days, I can't do a rest day or I feel like I've failed & will not take it up again. Been like that for 7 months. Works for me :)
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    I work exercise into every activity I do, just put a little extra effort into whatever you're doing and you keep your metabolism up and running all day :flowerforyou:

    That's like me. I don't do 'formal' workouts. I walk to work - 30 min round trip 5 days/week. On weekends I'm normally out doing something, hiking or walking or the like. I am considering adding a zumba class just for fun but haven't decided yet.
  • I run 3 times a week. try for 20km a week and got to Zumba twice a month. would love to go more but my husband works shifts in work so i have my little girl to look after
  • rjcelmer
    rjcelmer Posts: 431 Member
    No less than three per week at the gym. I try to sneak in a forth if I can, but three minimum for an hour each day.

    On off days, I still try to get in body resistance stuff like push-ups, sit-ups, etc.
  • LindseySprake
    LindseySprake Posts: 333 Member
    6 days a week.
    Some days 3 hours some only 1, but average 12 hours a week :wink:
  • Shrinking_Moody
    Shrinking_Moody Posts: 270 Member
    Six.
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    I started waiting tables, so that's active even when i don't have a chance to actually go to the gym.

    I do aim to be purposely active every day even if it's me just dancing around my room
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    5 days, 4 strength training and 1 cardio, 30 minutes/session.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    About 12 times a week.
  • LeenaRuns
    LeenaRuns Posts: 1,309 Member
    If I said 6 days a week..I would be lying..it's almost always 7...no matter how hard I try...I can't sit still for a rest day...:blushing:

    I only take a rest day if something really is preventing me from working out, and 2x/week I have 2 a days.

    Lifting 3x/week, running 4x/week, and boxing, yoga, or plyometrics 2x/week.
  • Lrdoflamancha
    Lrdoflamancha Posts: 1,280 Member
    Cardio 6 days a week. Resistance 3 , I take Sundays off.
  • Yogi_Carl
    Yogi_Carl Posts: 1,906 Member
    I've just stepped up from two yoga classes per week and a swim in the sea once a week to include three body resistance and dumbell sessions per week (in my dungeon training cell - my garage), two abdominal workouts and my usual yoga and sea swimming. Sea swimming also includes a twenty minute barefoot run on the beach or sea front to warm up enough to enter the sea comfortably.

    It's a new thing for me re-introducing body resistance and dumbell exercises to increase lean muscle mass and metabolism to burn fat more efficiently.

    I also cycle to work on three days of the working week: 4miles total on two days and one 18 miles return trip, and try to get a 15mile cycle ride in at the weekend; weather permitting.

    Oh - I rest on Sunday!
  • vv523
    vv523 Posts: 429 Member
    7 days cardio 4 day strength training but my eating suck's!!
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Depends how you count exercise. I walk 3 mile 5 times a week but I don't count those as exercise days. My only 'real' exercise is the climbing I do once a week and the sporadic (I know I need to not be sporadic, I know) weight training I do a couple of times a week.
  • 7days.... My Nike Fuelband keeps me true to staying active each day :laugh:
  • Graceious1
    Graceious1 Posts: 716 Member
    I do about 6 days:

    Tae Kwon Do = 2 days @ 2.5 hours
    Running = 1 day @ 45 minutes
    Cycling = 2 days @ 40 minutes
    Strength training = 1 day @ 30 minutes
    Total for the week is roughly 4 and a half hours

    I always have Fridays off because that is the day I normally hang out with mine and my sister's family hang out and we eat what we want.
  • Graceious1
    Graceious1 Posts: 716 Member
    I work exercise into every activity I do, just put a little extra effort into whatever you're doing and you keep your metabolism up and running all day :flowerforyou:

    I tend to do this with my cycling
  • amez1974
    amez1974 Posts: 213 Member
    3-6 days a week just depending on what I have going on. Sometimes it is split up to-I may do a workout dvd in the morning and then go for a run in the evening. Sometimes I have a non stop day and just don't get anything in.
  • Lisah8969
    Lisah8969 Posts: 1,247 Member
    I work out 5 or 6 days a week...I put in miles running/walking 4 times a week, strength training 2 X, circuit training 2 X, stationary bike 2X and have recently added 30DS 2 or 3 X a week.
  • lilacsun
    lilacsun Posts: 204 Member
    If I said 6 days a week..I would be lying..it's almost always 7...no matter how hard I try...I can't sit still for a rest day...:blushing:


    This.
  • Amberonamission
    Amberonamission Posts: 836 Member
    4 days of intense workouts, swimming, 30 DS or Power 90 and a Lotte Burk Method.
    Then either Sat or Sunday is yoga.
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    5 usually. I workout at home and it's hard to do with the husband and kids around on the weekends.
  • jothekid
    jothekid Posts: 230 Member
    6/7...P90X program :happy:
  • No less than 5 days week. Cardio 3-4 times a week for 35 mins, aerobics dance class once week for an hour, strength training and weights 2-3 times week for 15-20 mins. If I deviate from this, I tend to lose focus.
  • kpnuts23
    kpnuts23 Posts: 960 Member
    3-4 and if im feeling fruity... 5 days! Cant say i would/could handle 6-7 days! Id get too bored of the gym so i would defs have to mix it up a bit..

    1 day arms/back 30Mins cardio
    1 day legs 30 mins cardio
    1 day full cardio 1hour- 1.5 hours
    1 day full body workout from PT. 1 hour n half

    x
  • My set pattern is basically this, AM's Mon-Fri do 20-30 minutes of treadmill, Mon and Wed aerobics class at the YMCA, Tues and Thursday 45 minutes on the treadmill and Friday either go dancing, do Wii Zumba at home or a video at home.

    I have a sedentary lifestyle from my job, and a very active/crazy family. Always something going on weekends that involve family or my five dogs.

    Don't narrow your mind into days though, I have done that before. I get a kick out of my exercise (literally) and it keeps me buzzed, but before it simply burned me out when the laziness overtook the desire to feel better.
  • 1Fizzle
    1Fizzle Posts: 241 Member
    I aim for 6 times a week, no less than 5 though.
  • At least 3 times a week and between I do a lot strength training. I'm trying to find a good yoga teacher in Roswell and Alpharetta area. I took a yoga during BGR Drive to End Hunger Conference and Michelle was just awesome. I was able to follow her instruction it just felt good.
  • Malozing0809
    Malozing0809 Posts: 71 Member
    4-5 days unless you want to count my walking to the train station a mile then to work half a mile. Then it everyday.
  • bbriscoe13
    bbriscoe13 Posts: 175 Member
    4-6. When I first started it was 6 religiously. Now, I have slacked off. I try to go at least 4 times a week. It is hard for me to go on days that I'm not working...but I do it (sometimes). Occasionally I will go twice a day too. Just depends on my schedule for the day.
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