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what do you do as far as exercise?

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  • Gimsteinn
    Gimsteinn Posts: 7,678 Member
    I do what ever horrors my coach has thought up..
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited February 2017
    Most of my activity is just walking because higher intensity makes me hungry, but I do run 2-3 times a week because I like what it does for my mental health and I enjoy it. Every few months I would also go hiking, but that's about it.

    ETA: I also do a few minutes of body weight exercise a day. I don't really enjoy strength training so I only do the bare minimum, but I have made pretty nice progress. Very slowly, but a world of difference from where I was a few years ago. I only do 5 minutes a day of that, and that's it.
  • WyattsMomKimberly
    WyattsMomKimberly Posts: 59 Member
    Zumba is my go too. I do it at home and I rely on my fitbit for my calorie count because it figures it the lowest. I do that at least 4 but sometimes 6 times a week. I also walk on top of that when weather permits. Being in the Ohio makes the winter months rough to get outside.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    I run on the treadmill or outside a few times a week, just 30-45 minutes.
    I walk 10K steps. I bike to work.
    I do power yoga 2-3 times a week and Pilates twice a week.

    I guess with these threads, it would be helpful if we said for how long we've been doing stuff.

    I've been running for about 6 years.
    cycling and walking 10K+ for about 10 years.
    While I lifted for 20+ years...
    I've been doing Pilates for 5+ years
    Yoga for about 2 years now.

    (been at maintenance for about 15 years)

    What we "do" really does deserve some temporal context.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,111 Member
    Alternating between weights and Insanity Max 30
  • tgcake
    tgcake Posts: 59 Member
    I walk for 40 minutes, 5 times a week. My pace ranges from slow to moderate (2.8mph based on my phone app).
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Most of my exercise now is running, but I also play roller derby and do that a couple of days a week. I run on the treadmill but also lately trying outside. I also have a stationary bike, and some mats and weights, bands, a kettle bell for strength and do bodyweight stuff infrequently. Once in a while me and some friends will hit up a skate park which is super fun. I'm a bit tentative there as I'm turning 40 soon and don't bounce like I used to, but I can work up a sweat.
  • merrysailor88
    merrysailor88 Posts: 1,260 Member
    I pick things up and put them down. Repeatedly.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,940 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Lots of walking, stair climbing on real stairs, and cycling. :)

    Plus a bit of hiking, canoeing, and weightlifting.

    With how long we've been doing this stuff in mind ... :)

    I've been cycling since I was about 6 years old ... roughly 44 years. I kind of eased off a bit in my late teens, but picked it up again when I was 23 ... 27 years ago.

    I've been walking and hiking since I could walk. My grandfather was a mountain climber and my family spent quite a bit of time in the mountains hiking up trails. We also walked a lot just generally.

    I started weightlifting in my early 20s ... trained with an amateur bodybuilder for a couple years. I've been weightlifting on and off since then.

    The stairs were always difficult for me, even when I was in great shape with my cycling. So in late 2014, I was working on the 5th story of an office building, so I started climbing to work in the mornings ... and then at lunch ... and then more often, and very gradually, I built up to doing about 25 flights a day. I've been doing that for a little over 2 years now.

    And I've dabbled in canoeing a bit in my teens, and then my husband and I got a canoe in 2009. Unfortunately we haven't used it much in the last couple years.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    TONS of walking (5-15 miles a day, Or 10-30k steps) And i climb stairs a few times a week purposely. Work is very active alot of lifting heavy furniture and squats. Iff i didnt get paid for working out i wouldnt either LOL
  • U2R2
    U2R2 Posts: 260 Member
    I walk mostly. Been slowly transitioning my favorite route into a run.

    Working well for me. Down 76lbs in a few months.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    merrysailor88 wrote: »
    I pick things up and put them down. Repeatedly.

    :D lol
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