What are your exercise plans for the fall?

Hiking. Fall is the best time in Florida. imho

Increasing my endurance on my trail runs, mainly, and not having to get up at 5.30 to beat the sun to do so.

psychod787 wrote: »

Hiking. Fall is the best time in Florida. imho

YES!!!

Cycling, rowing (probably), running, swimming.

My current plan is:
Cycling 3-4 days a week. I'll probably start TrainerRoad's Sweet Spot Base 1 (low volume) once I finish the Zwift Academy rides. I'm going to try to tack on a long ride outside on Sunday as well. Logistically riding outside on weekdays isn't really an option, sadly.
Rowing: The second set of learn to row classes start in September and are three days a week.
Running: 2x a week in the morning on two of the days that I plan on riding my bike. That's what I'm doing right now (except I'm at 3 days a week) and it's working well.
Swimming: 1-2 days a week on the days I row.

I need to have one day a week off which means I will likely end up biking three days a week instead of four, but we'll see what happens scheduling wise.

I live in a concrete jungle. So the confines of a gym is the limits of my exercise.

NorthCascades wrote: »

My neck of the woods turns into paradise for the summer. The lakes warm for swimming, the high country melts out, it's wonderful. This is when it's easy to exercise, nature provides more motivation than anyone needs. But I woke up this morning to cold tile on the floor, summer is winding down.

I'm looking forward to fall color hikes and bike rides. Especially when the larches turn gold, there's a picture below. This will probably sound a little weird, but I'm looking forward to digging out my warm clothes, too.

What are you looking forward to this fall, in terms of exercise?

Love that picture! And of course, that locale!

After Labor Day, the beach club closes, so my "commute-and-swim" phase for the summer will end. It's been great, but as far as cycling fitness, I note that I've plateaued a bit with these regular 8mi R/T rides over fairly flat terrain (with occasional longer destination rides or added loops). I have continued with a 3-4d/wk in-house resistance band and bodyweight regimen in which I've also plateaued, that now serves mostly for warmup/keeping loose.

It will be back to the gym 2+ days/wk for focused recumbent cycle training, and I believe I will add in a class of either core or general workouts, TBD (not spin, as I do have some older-guy ailments that moderate my exertions). And I'll return to a schedule of varied longer rides, with more destinations involved (wider range of NJ/PA trails, and at least one scheduled trip each for family things to MD and Ottawa to which I tote my bike). We need to scope out the facility yet, but there is a public day-pass indoor pool about 20-25 min drive from here we could also use maybe 1/wk. The goal is 4d/wk of 1-2hr/day exercise. And a bit of touring around via the bike, LOL. This will take me up to New Year's, when a new plan should be put into place related to progress and seasonality.

When I started this fitness journey in January it was a combination of gym (recumbent cycling), in-house resistance band and bodyweight exercises and a progressively more demanding series of outdoor rides on the new bike. Since Memorial Day I've been doing the swim thing, no gym.

We also sail, but I don't class that activity as "exercise," really. We usually pull the boat around/after Halloween.

I’ll begin training for the San Antonio 1/2 marathon soon that’s in December. I’ll transition from riding mostly my road bike to riding my mountain bike more - I can ride rural caliche roads with little/no traffic when there is less daylight.

It probably won't change much from now - treadmill. But when it gets really cooler, I hope to do some outside walking. I live in a hilly area that you just can't replicate on the treadmill. But nothing like your beautiful outdoors.