Questions for gym go-ers.

Gym member - 3 years, started going consistently in July
How often/long - 3-4 days a week 30-40 min
Favorite thing - Lifting (only thing I do in the gym)
When did I start enjoying it - When I began seeing results and progressing my lifts.

I don't belong to a gym.

I work out in a hotel gym with a personal trainer (she has a contract to train there).

I also run and I take a variety of "pay as you go" classes at different fitness studios - Kickboxing, trampoline workouts, micro-toning workouts, etc... there is an endless variety of those in NYC. It helps me entertained and it ensures I work out different muscles in different ways all the time.

Just over a year. I try to go six days a week, and I'm trying to cut down my workout time from three hours to two hours or less. Big compound exercises where I can feel myself getting stronger. Some days I enjoy it and some days I don't, but when I'm spending so much money going I'm going to go as often as I can. With the money it's costing me I may as well try to use it to become the best I can.

Been a gym member for 4 months, I go twice a week - an hour on a weekday and about 2 hours on a Sunday. I have only just started pushing myself on the treadmill to reach modest goals but I get a lot of satisfaction afterwards, I also enjoy resistance machines working my thighs and my core cause I can really feel it afterwards and it feels goooood.

I've been naughty last week and only went once and I feel really fat and sluggish, so I guess you could call that a feeling of having to go? I'm a lifelong exercise dodger prior to this so I'm really not used to it :P

How long have you been a gym member? 11 months

How often & how long do you work out for? 5 Days a week, Hour per day

What's your favorite thing to do at the gym? Heavy lifting

How long did it take you to enjoy and get that *feeling* of where you felt you just had to go? Not sure, it switched from "I should go do this" to "I need to go do this" and now im at the "I cant wait to go do this".

I've been a member for a month. I go 5-6 days a week, 30-45 minutes. I alternate cardio and strength training and have just begun to lift heavy. I wasn't getting the burn I felt I needed before. I try to maximize the little time I have to get the most workout (ie, intervals in cardio and the heavy lifting). Cardio is my chosen exercise, whether it's treadmill or elliptical. It's my therapy.

I've been a gym member for 4 yrs. I go 2 or 3 times a week.

Mon. - Yoga

Tues. - Weight training & cardio

Thurs. - Weight training & cordio or Aqua Fit or Bootcamp Conditioning.

I also use my treadmill at home twice a week & walk my dog at least once a week.

I like Yoga the best, I do the other stuff because I feel that I need to change things up to be Wholly Healthy and it keeps me from getting bored. This year I even went to Yoga classes while on vacation but I have always used the hotel gym while traveling. I've always felt the need to go. But before I had a gym membership I would take different pay as you go classes or bike or swim or something. Hope this helps you!

Member basically forever....but just got back into it seriously in May.

I go 7 days a week.

Monday - Body Combat in the morning/Yoga at night
Tuesday - Step in the morning/New Body at night
Wednesday - Yogafit
Thursday - Body Combat
Friday - Step
Saturday - Yoga (and sometimes Step depending on the instructor)
Sunday - Yoga

I've been going to a gym since the late 1980's! What got me going regularly to a gym was that in my 20's through early 40's I was an avid racquetball player. In order to get to the B league then A league player level it took a lot of practice and playing time. So my routine became for the most part to play racquetball on at least Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday or Sunday. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were weightlifting and cardio days.

I hung up the racquet in 2004 due to a back issue but never stopped my strength training and cardio routines 4-6 days a week. The majority of my workouts are 75 to 90 minutes long which includes stretching and cool downs. I love a good old stairmaster I can get a good sweat going. I had that addictive feeling from the start, in the beginning it was because I loved playing racquetball but it is now about maintaining the healthy body I have been blessed with.

Been a member for a few years but regular since May
I go 4/5 days a week
40-60 mins cardio, 30-40 mins strength
It took me about a month before I felt like I belonged there but now it's second nature.

Gym member @3 yrs
I work out 4-6 days/wk for @ 1 hour
I mostly lift weights (cardio a few days in between and after lifting)
I can't say that I have ever enjoyed working out but I feel a sense of pride/accomplishment in the way I feel and look from putting in the hard work and that makes it worth it!

How long have you been a gym member? I've been a member of my current gym since July (so about 4 months), and have consistently gone to this one. I've been a member of other gyms and never consistently went to any of them.

How often & how long do you work out for? This really depends on my work schedule, when I'm work 60-80 hours a week I try to get in a yoga video at home, but usually going to the gym falls to the wayside. I see a personal trainer every Saturday no matter what, and I do a 20-30 minute warm up and then an hour of strength training with the trainer. On a normal week (50 hours of work) I usually get in 3 or 4 hour long classes, sometimes more if I'm feeling like a rockstar, sometimes less.

What's your favorite thing to do at the gym? I am loving the yoga-type classes. I go to Bodyflow every time it's offered and I'm not working or asleep. I also love lifting with the trainer, but it's harder for me to motivate myself when I'm not with her. I am getting back into swimming, and love the water aerobics and water zumba classes, but I don't usually get off work in time for those.

How long did it take you to enjoy and get that *feeling* of where you felt you just had to go? The first two months I joined I felt like I HAD to go, mostly to prove to others that I could, then I had a month where that feeling started slipping away and I just wasn't going as often (partly because work got crazy) but after that off month, I started finding more things I liked at the gym, and I have really fallen in love with how I feel afterwards. With the yoga and the lifting I can really see an improvement in my day-to-day life as well, which makes me love working out all the more.

When I only did cardio, I never got used to going to the gym. Absolute torture. When I started lifting heavy weights, getting strong and lean became a game and I was pissed off that the program I was following had TWO rest days in a row on the weekend because I wanted to get back in there.

Favourite thing to do is squats and bench press.

Gym member - since June of 2011, which is also when I joined MFP. I started tracking and exercising the same week.

How often/long - I exercise 5-6 days a week, 30-60 minutes. When I'm training for a race obviously my long runs are longer than an hour. Not all of this is gym-time; I don't do machine cardio, so if I'm running it's on a track or outside. The gym is for lifting or group exercise classes.

Favorite thing - Lifting. Running (but that's outdoors). And I enjoy group exercise classes.

When did I start enjoying it - When I first committed, I committed. I think within a month habit and desire took over and it stopped feeling like a chore. Now it's like brushing my teeth; I do it, even when I don't feel like it. It's a habit. There are hard days but I still get my workout down, because I know that most days are good.