How many minutes per week do you work out?

I do about 45-75 minutes everyday. I get up early and go down into our home gym. Its my time away from our 2 boys and a nice time to destress and gets me ready for the day.

I lift six days a week - anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes.
I do usually cardio four days a week - mostly 60 minutes but sometimes 90 minutes or more.
I'll often throw in a 20 minute HIIT session for good measure.

Ten hours is a good estimate.

I do a minimum of 4.5 hours of exercise a week, although mostly cardio.
2 hours of zumba
45 min express Body Combat
45 min express Body Pump
1 hour of Spin or Body Combat

I also walk at least 40 mins a day to and from work, but don't usually log it as I don't do it for exercise. I some times swim or run in addition to this, but these are my basic, weekly classes.

I have set my goal to 0.5kg a week as I only have a little to lose, and I seem to be hitting that pretty consistently. I mostly work out for fitness, although I do appreciate the extra calories to munch on.

I want to do more strength training and some stretch classes, but I love my zumba and Combat too much to sacrifice any of those classes.

However long it takes to get my programming done. 1-3 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Most days run 90-120 minutes.

300mins powerlifting and the accessory work so strength/weight training and once kids are back at school will add my cardio back in. Which will be about 150 mins a week.

For me it varies greatly based on how active I am outside of "working out". Also, whether it's cardio or strength training varies based on my daily activity. I don't have a set routine, other than walking on my lunch hour which I do most work days.

All of this allows me to eat more while losing weight, but since I was also doing it when I gained weight I don't give much credit to the exercise for weight loss. Diet is responsible for that.

I'm doing about 3 x lifting workouts of about an hour each, and 4 runs of about 30 mins (4 miles) each run.
So about 5 1/2 hours a week. Plus walking to and from work, but I dont really count that as exercise...

hi, according to my sports tracker i do 13-22 hours per week, but it's important to know that most of it is walking (I'm experimenting to go to work/go home after work on foot - 10 kms) and that i aim for extreme cal burns in order to be able to eat whatever i want. it's far more than normal or usual but i can gladly report that it works out well for me - i feel great and sporty and can eat 2000 cals a day

My workout time has been increasing steadily as I ramp up my miles. For each of the last two weeks I've had about 375 minutes of running and 50 minutes of walking (warm up & cool down to running). For me it's been hugely effective for weight loss. On non running days it's hard to hit my deficit, but on running days I often have a 1000 kcal deficit or greater. I now starting to let some of those big run-day deficits carry over to the non running days.

Last night I ran 8 miles from 9pm to 11pm, burning 1440 kcals. I ate until I was full and still had a 1100 calorie deficit on top of the 500 calorie deficit that MFP sets up for me.

Kimbot88 wrote: »

I am curious, how many minutes per week do you work out? How much of that is cardio vs. strength training? And is that effective for you as far as weight loss goes?

8-10 hours per week...so 480 - 600 minutes. i exercise for fitness and use my diet for weight management...this is to say that I've pretty much done the above for about 3 years now...I've lost weight, maintained weight, and gained weight doing that; the difference being how much I was eating.

I generally ride 60-80 miles per week, sometimes more...I lift 2-3x per week....this also depends on season...I ride a lot less in the winter and hit the weight room a lot more. I also cross train with a 5K or interval runs once per week and do some hiking and swimming.

diet for weight control; exercise for fitness...setting some fitness goals that are independent of weight management can really open up a whole other world as exercise goes.