What kind of exercises are y'all doing

I take spin class three times a week. I take interval classes twice a week and do barre class once a week.

jbrooks3645 wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

I run about 40 miles a week and do resistance training. My Fitbit sync handles all the calorie adjustments for me. My exercise combined with my daily walking gets me about 400-600 calories a day usually.

Your weight loss will be created by a calorie deficit. You can create a calorie deficit without ever exercising at all, but burning calories through walking can certainly be part of creating a deficit too. There is no "enough" amount of exercise for weight loss, there's just your calorie deficit (or lack of one).

Are you currently logging what you eat to hit a specific calorie goal?

Yes I am logging I have mfp set to lose 2lbs a week so it has my calories goal at 1200 a day I'm thinking abt setting it to 1lb a week bec every day that I walk I'm always starving even if I eat back half my calories burned

It's only telling you 1200 calories because you're trying to lose too much too fast, not because you have to eat 1200 calories to loose weight. Slow and steady wins this race. Too aggressive and you will burn out very quick. I would change this to losing 1 lb/week. Just my 2 cents

3 to 4 mile daily walk with my dog. 40 to 50min weightlifting 4x week. According to S Health and UA Record, I burn about 1200 cals per day. I don't count my steps for additional cals, because I have daily cal setting based on active. I generally believe my weight lifting sessions are probably closer to 200 or 300 cals, rather 500 to 600. So I usually give myself an extra 200 cals in the evening, if I'm hungry.

I burn anywhere from 0 on a rest day to 1000+ depending on the day/workout. I don't log any of them.

Is it enough for your weight loss? Dunno, impossible to say without also knowing how much you eat. It's like asking if saving $50/week will help with your retirement. Impossible to say without knowing how much you earn and what your expenses are. You're actually asking about the smallest, least significant factor.

Simplistically: Calories for weight loss, exercise for fitness and body composition, nutrition for health.

Exercise also earns you a few more calories you can eat, and potentially helps you avoid losing muscle alongside fat.

The best exercise is one you enjoy so much you'd do it even if it weren't good for you. (If it isn't fun, it will eventually fall off your schedule). The right amount and intensity is what fits in your life with good life balance (allowing time for family, job, friends, chores, etc.) and leaves you feeling energized and happy. Exercise is supposed to be fun!

I'm a li'l ol' retired lady, age 62. In season, I row on water 4 days a week for about an hour and a half, and go to spin class twice a week Each of those is good for 225-300ish calories (I'm 5'5", low 130s pounds nowadays). I also do some random biking and walking. In off season, I still spin twice a week, usually do a little weight training and swimming, plus rowing machine workouts - less total volume.

Currently ramping up my cycling distance so at the moment rough estimate of 4,000 to 5,000 exercise calories a week.

Exercise varies massively from day to day, week to week and season to season (which is why the myfitnesspal eat back exercise calorie method works well for me).

Lowest days are about 250 when strength training. Highest ever single day 4,500 for a nine hour cycling event.

But none of it is for weight loss, it's because I enjoy my exercise and the feeling of living in a fit body. Would recommend on focusing on your food intake (a sensible and sustainable deficit) for weight loss and regard exercise as a healthy habit to get into for the rest of your life - not as a short term fix.

I workout 5 days a week - walk but cycle mainly and do strength training. Have done this consistently for 6 years and for 5 of them I have been a maintenance. Exercise for me means I get to eat more otherwise my maintenance calories would be low because I'm petite - 1600 but I can maintain on closer to 2000.

I play roller derby and usually do that a couple of evenings, but we're in hiatus right now so my routine has settled a little. I do about 40 minutes of mixed machine cardio (some combo of elliptical, stairs, interval or straight runs on the treadmill, rower) 5 days a week and follow up with resistance training - I am leaning out after a year of maintenance and just hoping to keep what I got as I cut a little. Saturdays I do a trail run or long hike at a nearby regional park, and Sundays I do something random like yoga or an old workout DVD, sort of a rest. I'll be adding a little swimming in now our pool is tolerable again. On a light day I'll get 250 exercise cals, usually hitting about 350 average and 450 on a heavy day.

I do about 10-20 minutes of cardio warm up and then 3 days a week I do circuit training. Two different circuits, each include an upper body, lower body and core work out. The other 2 days a week I do my cardio warm up and lifting (focusing on whatever I am leaving out of the circuits). I usually go a 6th day, and that is just cardio. Sometimes I'll hit whatever muscles may have been missed during the week. I write out a plan for myself and change it up every 6 weeks or so, to keep myself from getting bored. The formula stays the same but I'll swap around different combos and try new exercises.