How much do you exercise?
Eva_M97
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I'm just being curious, how much time do you spend on exercise as a part of your weight loss plan? How many calories do you burn during your work outs? Thanks it would be cool if you could share 
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I do T25 five days a week (double workout on Fridays) and do a walk every lunch break (I try for at least 30 mins. Rest on Saturday, but will probably be quite active from house and garden chores. Stretch on Sunday. It's not loads but it works for me.
I end up burning somewhere between 300-500 kcals on weekdays. Weekends maybe only 100...if I'm lucky!2 -
Right now, none at all. I've been too busy and stressed to get to it. I'm eating 1600 calories per day and losing gradually. I've only got about 3 more pounds to get off and I'm 53 so I can't complain. But I do need to get back into something soon.1
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I walk just for the sake of walking for at least an hour a day and according to my garmin I burn 300-500 kcal from these walks, although I've just put my activity level to lightly active instead of recording exercise calories as I didn't like the variability of doing that. I'm losing at the rate I want to so it seems to be working out fine.2
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i don't exercise as part of a plan, but to answer your question anyway: i bike commute and i'm sloowwwwwww so that's about an hour total three days a week. and i lift three or four times a week. the lifting is just 'however long it takes me to do whatever it is', but i like the whole thing about lifting weights so i'm never in much of a rush to get finished and gone.
the actual time i spend 'under tension' (i.e. actually supporting or moving a barbell) is probably tiny. an individual repetition takes a handful of seconds to do and the 'most' i ever do for work sets is 5 sets of 5, i.e. 25 reps. the real-world time that i spend doing them is way more, but most of that time is actually 'rest'.1 -
I see exercise more as part of my fitness plan than weight management plan. I work out for 45-60 min 4-5x week, plus about 10,000 steps a day, most of it intentional walking. I estimate my calories on the conservative side, so I figure 200-300 cals for most workouts. I do strength training, swimming, and a little running.4
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Exercise makes me feel really good, and lets me eat a little bit more during cutting, so I try to get a lot of it in. I currently do 3 one hour Crossfit sessions per week (strength and cardio), 1 heavy compound lifting session at a gym, and two dumbbell workouts at home. I try and walk at least 10 miles a week as well, but thats all weather dependent. I would say it works out to about an hour a day, 90 minutes if you include the walking. I'm not sure on Calories cause Crossfit is hard to calculate, but I assume an average of 200 a day and I've been losing weight.
I ramped up to this though. I started with just the walking, then added the crossfit, then added the compound lift day, then added the dumbbells. In August I'm adding an Olympic Lifting class once a week. Start small, get used to it, see your results, add some more if you like.6 -
I spend about an hour per day. The calorie burn varies from 150 or so for weight training to over 600 for a 5 mile walk/hike. I do weight training 2x to 3x per weeks and then vary low impact cardio (walks) with interval training about 1x per week on non weight training days.2
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I try to workout 6x per week. 4 days strength training an the rest yoga or cardio. I don't know how much I burn and my goal isn't to burn more cals with exercise. To be honest if I want more calorie burn I try to increase my NEAT (non-exercise activity) and that seems to do the trick.1
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I do anywhere between 30-60 mins dancing on Just Dance for PS4, i burn around 200 - 500 roughly which is awesome every morning before breakfast. And every other day i just lift some weights ( all done in the comfort of my living room ) 10lbs down in 4 weeks 1
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I do 75 minutes on the treadmill 4 or 5 times/wk. Burns about 560 calories. One hour of yoga a week - burns next to nothing - about 100 calories. One hour of boxing a week - burns about 500 -550 calories. I exercise because it makes me feel better mentally and physically.2
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I am a little lax at the moment. My rec centre pass is sat in the drawer crying.
I usually am over there at least 6 days a week, 3x lifting, 1x yoga, 2x a drop in class or swimming.
My calorie burn I averaged out to about 200 an hour.
Right now I am purposefully moving 1 hr a day, doing bodyweight, dumbbell, walking, etc. Just so I won't suffer a mental 'arrrgh a whole hour in the gym!' rebellion in the autumn. (Exercise doesn't come natural, even though I have been doing it for years now)
It's summer, I'm lazy, and my gardening gives me a bigger workout than the gym does so my calories are the same as going to the gym.
Cheers, h.1 -
I do purposeful exercise 6-7 days a week lately. Been working out with the baby and she loves the workouts.3
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This week has been 6 days of exercise averaging 2hr 57 min/day and 1,558 cal, but it's not been done for weight loss though that is a benefit.3
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Right now, I'm doing T25 alpha daily, plus a treadmill walk. I also try to lift weights twice per week. Sometimes I can get a 30 minute lap swim in on non-financial days. Sometimes I also do yoga. It just depends on the day and how I'm feeling. Today I did an hour long The Firm video plus a treadmill walk.2
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For weight loss, none. For recreation and fitness, about ten hours per week.1
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None.I'm just being curious, how much time do you spend on exercise as a part of your weight loss plan?
But exercise for fitness, health and enjoyment comes to about 34 hours of cycling in the summer months plus about 12 hours of strength training.
In winter more like 12 & 12.
From approx 250 for an hour of strength training up to approx 4,500 for an entire day cycling.How many calories do you burn during your work outs?2 -
I run three times a week religiously, typically a 10km, a 5 miler and a 5km. I lift weights in combination with a body weight routine 4-5 days a week for around an hour a time. I also walk 5 miles each day during the week. When I'm bored I also walk on the treadmill, usually adding an extra 15 miles a week. I average around 8000 cals a week of exercise but I eat virtually all of it back now that I'm in maintenance. This in itself has given me more energy and is helping my results. Some days I'm eating 3,500 cals.4
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Right now, I'm doing T25 alpha daily, plus a treadmill walk. I also try to lift weights twice per week. Sometimes I can get a 30 minute lap swim in on non-financial days. Sometimes I also do yoga. It just depends on the day and how I'm feeling. Today I did an hour long The Firm video plus a treadmill walk.
OMG...I just realized auto-correct changed "non-lifting" days to "non-financial"...thanks phone!2 -
I exercise 4-6 times per week. I do anything from T25, cardio, or resistance training. It has really helped me with stress management. I have changed my diet and that has resulted in weight loss. It is true that abs are made in the kitchen.2
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Just walking.2
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I'm just being curious, how much time do you spend on exercise as a part of your weight loss plan? How many calories do you burn during your work outs? Thanks it would be cool if you could share
7 days a week
Some days I walk a couple kilometres and climb a few stairs.
Some days I go to the gym and take a spinning class then do a bit of rowing.
Some days I walk 8 or 9 or 10 km.
Some days I climb a lot of stairs.
Some days I walk early in the day then go for a short (15-25 km) bicycle ride in the evening.
Some days I go for medium, long, or really, really long bicycle rides.
Oh, and I mainly exercise to train for long distance cycling events.
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I don't exercise for weight loss. I also burn very little calories when I train. I'm in the gym about 10 hours per week lifting.1
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I exercise every day, but very little of it is strenuous. My goal is to either walk for two hours minimum or use a fitness glider for one hour. If I walk less than an hour, I do the glider. Between an hour and two hours, depends on how I feel. Sometimes I'll do a cardio-and-weights interval workout instead (it's not intense enough to by HIIT).
Three days a week, I do strength training, primarily with dumbbells and body weight exercises. Some of them call for a stability ball, cardio step, or ankle weights.
So, generally 2-3 hours daily.
For the record, I'm a mostly unemployed freelancer working from home, so I've got time for this.2 -
I run 3-4 times a week for 40-80 mins each time, walk my dog 1-3 times daily depending on other activities for me and my family, go to the gym 1-2 days for 30 minutes.
When I move out of my parent's house I expect the planned exercise to increase as I won't walk the dog every day any more1 -
I have a busy schedule with kids and full time university/clinical placements but have recently started trying to get either a youtube workout video or T25 into most days, more for fitness and energy than weight loss and loving it, has really helped with my upper back pain/tenseness at the end of the day!2
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Gym 3-5 times a week usually about an hour and half, 45 minutes doing intense cardio and then I do weights or mix it up but I always do both, I tend to burn 500 calories in 35 minutes2
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2hrs/day 6-7 days/week1
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Varies day to day but over the week it works out to be equivalent on 60 minutes per day working out and around 2500 calories burned over the week.
Running 4 days per week, one day is a long run (nike half marathon training plan)
Strength training 3 days per week (strong curves)
Yoga (yoga studio app) a couple days a week and swimming a couple of days a week
I commute by bike but don't record it (doesn't seem like exercise if I am in a dress...). Some weeks I scuba dive, which burns a lot of calories.1 -
I've got osteoarthritis in both knees and about 80lbs more to lose (lost 43lbs so far) so I've needed to be a little more creative in the exercise department.
That being said I've taken advantage of the summer weather and bike at least 30 minutes 5 times a week and kayak 1-2 hrs 2-3 times a week.
Upper and lower body workouts Canadian style.
I will add that these activities won't stop once the weight is lost - I'm looking forward to being able to do so much more. 3
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