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    What's your favorite exercise?

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    • Posts: 180 Member
      Power jumps and any kind of dance
    • Posts: 25,925 Member
      Cycling
    • Posts: 4,593 Member
      Smith machine and running
    • Posts: 35,479 Member
      renae161 wrote: »
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      Hey, there's nothing wrong with starting late. As long as you know your limits and are being safe about it, then I say that's great for you. It's better late then never. There was a little old man who was in his 70's in my yoga classes.

      My yoga class was mainly a bunch of mid 20 year-olds and early 30 year-olds. He did just fine. He couldn't do every move as fast as other's, but he did some moves that not even most of the men in our classes could do.You'd be surprised what some people can do despite their age or looks.

      What is this "limits" of which you speak? ;)

      (Signed) Ann T., Age 60.

      P.S. An 81-year-old took our club's learn-to-row class. He did fine.
    • Posts: 17,456 Member
      Squats
      And dog walking
    • Posts: 2,899 Member
      I don't think we have limits because of age, we have limits because of desire and commitment!

      At 66, I lift weights, run, swim and hike. My favorite is dead lifts above anything else and also leg press, I'm up to 470 lbs right now so yeah I like that a lot.
    • Posts: 10,330 Member
      Running for sure! When you spends weeks at a time unable to even walk, being able to run when you can feels like freedom and a defiant victory!
    • Posts: 2,493 Member
      Log press.
    • Posts: 760 Member
      Does bouncing in the ocean mixed with intermittent swimming count? Cuz that's my favorite. Hiking second. Deadlifts third.
    • Posts: 1,679 Member
      Cardio: Boxing
      Lifting: Back squats and deadlift
    • Posts: 11 Member
      Back exercises! I don't know what it is but it just feels sooo good when my back is sore Lol
    • Posts: 334 Member
      Sara1791 wrote: »
      Does bouncing in the ocean mixed with intermittent swimming count? Cuz that's my favorite. Hiking second. Deadlifts third.

      I say that anything you consider a workout and you really enjoy it, then yes. You could even lift 5lb weights as your favorite exercises. It's really what you enjoy the most that is still considered exercise and a challenge for you personally.
    • Posts: 760 Member
      ___sthach wrote: »
      Back exercises! I don't know what it is but it just feels sooo good when my back is sore Lol

      Hurts so good, eh?
    • Posts: 4 Member
      edited October 2016
      Walking, swimming & lifting.. :smile:
    • Posts: 334 Member
      edited October 2016
      Oh man, I've had that experience before where it hurt so good doing ab workouts. It was like a cooling effect on my abdominal area as it was happening. It didn't burn, or feel like it was aching, no I mean it felt like I had thrown on some of those cooling gel packs on my stomach. A bit sore, but so good.
    • Posts: 471 Member
      Anything Aqua.
      https://youtu.be/EFHbBVTfCDE
    • Posts: 16 Member
      Indoor bike definitely, mostly because it is very much fun, it's great cardio and I have one at home so I can watch movies or tv series while I ride and that makes time pass faster :)
    • Posts: 356 Member
      Spinning with a good instructor at my local YMCA.
      Hiking in Ireland.
      Biking in France.
      Anything that works the lats...
      Most lifting.

      But my favorite of all time? ...BIKRAM YOGA!
    • Posts: 11,463 Member
      Walking, swimming, TRX squat row
    • Posts: 334 Member
      OhMyGodAreAllUsernamesTaken wrote: »
      Indoor bike definitely, mostly because it is very much fun, it's great cardio and I have one at home so I can watch movies or tv series while I ride and that makes time pass faster :)

      I love your username lol
    • Posts: 150 Member
      Skwaats right now
    • Posts: 1,625 Member
      No better feeling than hitting a punching bag for me
    • Posts: 14,261 Member
      Lifting - incline dumbbell rows and barbell hack squats

      Cardio - walking
    • Posts: 1,639 Member
      edited October 2016
      Deadlifts <3
    • Posts: 246 Member
      Cycling, though I recently restarted rowing dragon boat so that comes a very close second.
    • Posts: 25,925 Member
      Machka9 wrote: »
      Cycling

      Followed by hiking ... then walking ... then rowing/canoeing.
    • Posts: 1,448 Member
      edited October 2016
      I can't pick one! Cycling is seasonal, running, squats, push-ups, dead lifts, HIIT class, yoga!
    • Posts: 44 Member
      Figure skating!!!
    • Posts: 5,199 Member
      edited October 2016
      i really like overhead press. just like doing it, even when i'm not doing it with a whole heap of weight. but i pay for liking the press in being incapable of squatting with anything approaching comfort. if i had my druthers about which one came 'naturally' i probably would choose to give up the press and be a squatter instead.

      deadlifts would be my second pick, and i'd choose them over the press if it was 'you can only do one lift ever, for the rest of your life.'

      on the cardio side, i'm really attached to my bikes. i actually see the appeal of running, but i've never been able to do it for long without hurting myself.
    • Posts: 2,807 Member
      Swimming. Don't feel myself sweating. No impact on my arthritic feet.
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