Addicted to exercise... Anyone else?

Sounds great! Especially the rest day. Working hard, you'll need to give your muscles a break so the tearing they suffered during the 6 days can repair.

Addicted? Maybe...I would say I am "dedicated" to fitness. It is part of my lifestyle now and I love it! If it makes you happy, then exercise till your heart is content! Just take at least one day off a week.

Oh don't worry, you're not alone XD Sometimes I get a slight thrill when I know I'm up for a day of madness at the gym, or am about to go for a real killer kickboxing class where the instructor makes me feel like dying throughout But I definitely also take at least one day off *grin*

What does "gym for 90 minutes" entail? Sounds like fvck-around-itis.

If you direct this energy and toward following a tried and true strength program I bet your results will be accelerated.

If that's addiction I have some serious issues, no it seems fine to me. Honestly I wish I had more rest days, sometimes I skip my rest day to support my daugther or husband and encourage them to exercize and I regreat it.

As long as you're having that rest day you should be fine...it's more a question of your mental state, don't burn yourself out mentally with the routine and allow yourself 2 days off a week when/if you may burn out by trying too much right away. If you've been doing this a while/months, then I think you're probably past that.

My general schedule because I LOVE exercize (not because I'm trying to lose weight, I EAT a lot) :

Monday: 55 min zumba toning, 30-45 minutes run and/or combo stair climber (mostly to watch biggest loser on gym TV)

Tuesday: 55 min yoga, 60 min run intervals w/ daugther (or zumba if she's too busy w/ hw)

Wednesday: 30 min core class, 60 min active class (its a combo class with cardio/free weights/balance/core), 20-30 minutes stairclimb

Thursday: 55 min zumba, 30-45 minutes running and/or combo stair climber

Friday: circuit training weights lower body only, running/stair climbing (60 min total)

Saturday: 60 minutes group power class or upper body training at the gym if I miss power class, and 2 times a month a 1-5 hour hike (may hike and not weight train at all)

Sunday: 30 minutes core class, 30-45 minutes run

I try to take off either a Tuesday if my daugther is busy, or a Sunday if I can coordinate it to be my husband's off day too. We spend a lot of time together Fri-Sun because he isn't home during the week for work. So if one of us exercizes, we both do.

This is why if you look at my Ticker we laughed our tooshies off when I read it at Pei Wei - what more did the fortune cookie want me to do...move INTO the gym???

What does "gym for 90 minutes" entail? Sounds like fvck-around-itis.

If you direct this energy and toward following a tried and true strength program I bet your results will be accelerated.

90 minutes in the gym is

Warm up, bike 10 minutes

Leg press 2x 20 reps
Ab crunch 2x 20 reps
Row 2x 20 reps
Leg extension 2x 20 reps

Elliptical cross trainer 15 minutes

Treadmill 30 minutes

Rowing machine 10 minutes

Then floor work including weighted squats, kick squats, lunge squats, and several various ab work outs including weighted oblique work outs.

So that works out about 60ish minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of the weight and floor work.

I don't really know what 10/15 minute leg burn is... is that like resistance training? I like exercise and right now I'm going to the gym because I'm bored, but you can get a high from exercise which makes it actually "addicting" in a sense.

If the 10/15 minute burn is like running as fast you can is that part of a specific work out regimen? If it's resistance training then I'm not sure how much muscle you're building as opposed to breaking it down doing it daily + cardio.

I have a list of about 30 exercises for legs. bums, abs and arms (about 15 for upper body and 15 for lower body) I have weights at home and do things like squats, lunges, push ups, sit ups etc.

it would actually be more beneficial if you just dropped those 10-15 minutes into your 90 minutes work out. You're in hypertrophy rep range, number of sets is a little low. It sounds like you're over training certain muscle groups and it may be giving you results, but you could be getting better results if you did more concentrated volume in a shorter window.

I work out t least 90 minutes a day 6-7 days per week. On weekends or days off, I'll do 3 hours. I used to have a job where I could work out 6 hours per day and bike commute another two hours.... that was amazing... Yeah... I'm addicted to exercise. I don't really care who gives me crap about it. Does it interfere with my life? I dunno. It sort of is my life.

I am the same way. I love exercise and the way it makes me feel. I have to force myself to take a rest day. My rest day is usually on Tuesdays. Its hard for me not to get some kind of exercise in on this day but I remind myself that it's beneficial for my body to have time to repair itself. If I don't take at least one day I notice that my performance will begin to suffer