How often do you excersize per week?

I lift weights twice per week and overall generally do some form of exercise 7 days per week - walking, hiking, trail maintenance, yoga, and in season gardening and swimming.

5X a week for me. Running and cycling mostly with 2x strength training. At 57, I’ve found my body appreciates the rest days.

5 days a week. Only cardio so far, but starting a Fitness Blender program in January. If I add a 6th day, it's usually just yoga or Pilates.

Usually 6-7 days a week of formal exercise. But I am otherwise very sedentary.

Four to six days depending on how I'm feeling, what my schedule looks like, and whether or not the gym I go to is open (it's my uni's gym and currently it's closed during the tail end of winter break). That said, this isn't some sort of competition.

I exercise everyday that I eat!

My goal is 3-5 times a week. I used to exercise 7 days a week, multiple times per day but it was not healthy.

Most of the time, I do some formal exercise (for fun, mostly) 6 days a week. Occasionally I work out twice in one day; occasionally I do something active but easy (walk, casual bike ride) on my official weekly rest day.

I will take the extra odd day off from intentional exercise here and there if I feel extra fatigued**, am too sick or injured, am traveling or real life otherwise prevents, or I just don't want to work out that day (the last usually rare). It's important to me to plan workouts so that I'm not placing the same major stresses on the same muscle groups and joints. If I have sore muscles from a workout, I'll usually keep up with the workout on a rational schedule***, maybe backing off the intensity a bit if sore, or do an alternate activity that day if the soreness/stiffness hinders movement.

That said, this is the Winter doldrums: The period where my group classes and rowing team are both on holiday hiatus, and I'm tired of my rowing machine after completing the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge. So, in the last week, which included Christmas, I've only done 4 significant workouts (plus a bit of yoga, random kettlebell exercise, and other things too small to bother counting). It's a good time to focus on creative hobbies and household stuff. NBD, back on it in a week or thereabouts.

** After 15 or so years of being active, I can pretty much tell true "did too much, maybe on bad sleep or fuel, drained" tired, from the kind of tired that will be reversed if I do the workout. The latter is more common than the former.

*** If you're strength training, it's important to follow a good program. And those Instagram/Facebook challenges where you do the same thing at increasing repetitions nearly every day for 30 days . . . those are typically a really bad plan, from a fitness perspective.

Right now, I'm at 3-4x a week (roughly 30-40 minutes depending on day), but I'm hoping to get back to roughly 5x a week (40-60 minutes)... I had a fairly long break from exercise and I'm trying not to rush back into it, I need to get some strength and endurance back

imxnianne wrote: »

I’m in complete awe right now on how often you guys work out. Do you guys take muscle recovery drinks or protein shakes after workout? My body seems to get sore after 2 days, 3 days max if I work out.

I do overall. I do an elliptical to raise my heart rate for about a mile and then I start doing sit ups and some machines and weights. My job requires walking about 8k steps a night for 5x a week. I work in a casino so my hands are always moving around and body. Do you guys think it’s because of that, that it’s making me tired as well after work plus doing the usual house chores after work? Or not enough sleep, since I sleep about 5-7 hours a day.

Keep in mind that there's selection bias at work: People who are proud of their workouts probably are more likely to post on a thread like this.

Personally, I've only focused on my all-day balanced nutrition, since my more intense workouts each are typically only an hour or thereabouts at most. (I might take a longer easy bike ride, a long row, or canoe/kayak all day, or something like that sometimes. If it's going to be long enough, I might take a snack or lunch for midway, and always have water with me (stainless steel bottle with a carry strap and covered drinking spout).)

About the only time I've intentionally eaten at some timing around exercise (beyond "don't eat a heavy meal right before a race or intense workout"!) is when I was taking a kettlebell class immediately after a spin class: I found my energy level dragged a bit in kettlebell until I started eating just a bit of something, often one of those apples-only applesauce packets. Maybe it was psychological!

If you're just starting on integrating an exercise routine on top of a busy life, start with only a few days a week (max), a rest day in between workouts, moderate intensity, manageable amount of time. As you get fitter, you can gradually increase frequency, intensity, and duration as desired. Exercise is supposed to be fun, and leave you energized for the rest of your day (after maybe a brief "whew" few minutes right after the workout). It's not supposed to be exhausting, draining, or miserable.

Protein shakes are fine if you can't get enough protein otherwise. Pre-/post-workouts are fine if you find it helps your energy level. Other than such noticeable things, nutrient timing is only important for elite athletes trying to squeeze out that 0.05% better performance. For the rest of it, it will give us a better return on investment to put our attention on good overall nutrition, and sensible management of workouts.

imxnianne wrote: »

So, I’ve been going to gym a few times a week for a couple months. I was curious how often do you guys excersize per week?

I exercise every day.

Unless I'm ill or very tired for some reason.

However the intensity and duration varies.

I run everyday. Hit the gym 4-5 times a week. One way I can tell if I'm over-trained is if I start putting off my workouts to later and later in the day or start looking for excuses to get out of it. As soon as I recognize the signs I cut back (not stop, just decrease intensity or duration) until my enthusiasm gears up again. Good luck !

Typically 5 days a week. I do couch to 5k 3 times a week and lift weights twice a week. But over Christmas I've done more running than weights just due to lack of time for both.

6-7 days, but I'll have a light or rest day in there somewhere