Exercising with pets

hahah My dogs do the same thing, it gets dangerous for all of us if I try doing a video at home. :laugh:

I have an English Bulldog so I don't break a sweat taking him for a walk. He'd rather lay down on the grass and have a nap.

My cats love to show me up while I struggle to do yoga moves...........or run under my weights while I'm doing the chest flies!:bigsmile: Hard to workout when you are giggling!

I don't recommend it,

hahahahaha!!!!!

I have two dogs. I have to lock my Boston up when I exercise because he freaks out and starts barking and jumping on me. He is very high strung. When I had a tread mill, he would run on it with me. Love him to pieces but he is a bit nuts lol.
My Chihuahua is very laid back and could care less what I do.

I've been trying to train my dog how to run along side with me... thus far, my only injuries are popped knee (many, many times) and a big blueish purple bruise on my leg.

its amazing, really. i used to work with an animal shelter and i had two main jobs.one, general care (potty breaks, food, water, etc.) and two, keeping everyone in line and well behaved.
and the only dog i've ever come across in the history of my life that i cant through to is my own? whhyyy? X_X

This morning I saw a woman cycling very slowly with a tiny little dog on a lead running along beside her. It seemed a ridiculous thing to be doing on London roads during peak hour.

Ride the horse, dog runs at the side, 2 birds 1 stone!!!!!

Or should that be 3 birds 1 stone (me, horse and dog), very efficient!!

I have a pit bull that I rescued. He takes me on walks instead of me taking him on walks!

30 Min walk a night for my Old English Bulldog

I've got an adolescent Rottweiler puppy--He loves to go walking and hiking with me, especially if it's quiet enough to take him off his leash. (I've managed to train him out of enthusiastically trying to great other walkers, runners, and chasing people on bikes--He loves to run--but children and other dogs are proving a challenge. He just wants to play!)

But when I take him out on a run, it's like I can't go fast enough for him. We start the run with him bouncing and prancing ahead of me, grabbing his leash in his mouth and pulling as if he were chanting "Faster! Faster!" and then when I can't run as fast as he can, he settles into a kind of sulky slow trot a little behind me, as if he were saying "If we can't run as fast as I want, we can't run as fast as you want, either!"

We're working on it.

I haven't started doing actual workout routines in my apartment, but I imagine he'd want to "help" as much as all the other dogs in this thread. "Tug is a great workout, Mom!" "So is fetch!" "Hey, I've got a great idea! Do those push-ups with me on your back! That's like an extra hundred pounds of resistence!" "I'm gonna shake this rope toy around until it hits you in the face, 'kay? ... Hey, is that blood I smell?"(Yes, this has happened before. He's also smashed his big clumsy skull into my lip, splitting it and making me explain to my supervisor that no one at home is hitting me except my enthusiastic puppy.)

I may throw him upstairs and lock the babygate separating up from downstairs, or I may toss him in his kennel with a chewtoys or some peanut butter.

i just recently started taking my dogs on walks with me. took me a while to find a park that wasn't crazy crowded. they have always been my little helpers though. sitting on my back when i attempt to do a push up., showing me how downward dog is really done, running up way past our apartments floor and refusing to come back down. you know good stuff like that lol

Hahaha! Great topic!

I was doing push-ups once while my black kitten was trying to rub up against my head, arms, everything!

Then when I do yoga . . . forget it! His rubbing-up behaviors are way worse! I think it's cute

ETA: One time when I was doing an Insanity workout, he was running back and forth, from room to room, like a maniac. I think he thought that he had to "go crazy" like mommy was doing!