What exercise did you start out with til now?

During and after college, mostly running and curls....to the fast food joint and the 12oz variety.

That spurned the need for several BB video sets and my current crossfit addiction

I started with elliptical and walking, nor I mostly run and cycle.

How far back do you want to go?

Weightlifting class in high school, judo in college and beyond (til about 2004), nothing for awhile, jogging (up to half-marathons) 2008-2012ish, some yoga around the same time 2008-2012, Stronglifts 5X5 around 2014, competitive powerlifting and some yoga 2016 to current.

I started in October 2012 just walking. I transitioned to jogging a few days per week and walking the others. In February 2013 I got into the gym and added weight training to the mix. I hit maintenance in April 2013 and continued to workout. I eventually got into cycling and started training for a century ride in January 2014 for a century in May 2014...I ended up doing a 1/2 century due to a cycling crash and injury that detoured my training time. From 2014 through 2017 I did a number of endurance cycling events and races but ultimately got tired of such structured training and spending so much time preparing...not to mention time became more constrained with my kids growing and starting school and homework and soccer, archery, etc.

Road cycling and mountain biking are still my primary forms of exercise as well as lifting weights a couple times per week. Since it's winter I usually only get out on my bikes on nice weekend days and do spin classes and other indoor cycling during the week. I also do quite a bit of hiking and some rock climbing here and there. I am active most days, but I make sure I take two days for active recovery and just do light exercises like walking and/or yoga. I have two strenuous exercise sessions weekly, otherwise I would put most of my exercise as moderate intensity.

I started with at home workouts when I first started my journey about 7 years ago. I was 350lbs and I didn’t want anyone seeing me workout. I eventually overcame that fear. It wasnt easy though. I went from working out at home, to walking and then jogging. So basically cardio until I built up the confidence to go to a gym. My current weight is 275lbs.

Crawling, walking, running, cycling on a bike with only one stabiliser (could only do clockwise circles!), cycling without stabilisers, soccer, weight training, volley ball, rugby, tennis, hill walking - that gets me up to my 30's.

Squash and weight training - 30's.

Weight training and dabbled in running and rowing and cycling - most of my 40's.

Road cycling far more seriously and weight training - 50's.

I started with walking and yoga. I gradually learned how to run and did some strength training with body weight and hand weights (like 30 day shred and the firm DVDs). Now I run, do kickboxing workouts, step routines, lift heavy free weights, etc

I started with walking and running.

I didn't start riding a bicycle until I was about 5 years old.

Fat and not active as a kid, though I did a decent amount of canoeing.

Started running senior year of HS, worked up to a 10k.

Joined the crew team in college, rowed indoors and out. A lot. Continued running, did a few half marathons. Started kickboxing at an awesome competitive gym. Ran out of time & $. Kept running and rowing.

20s-early 30s—running, a few more halfs, got into hot yoga for a while.

Mid-late 30s—discovered weight lifting. Discovered my hips post 4 kids hate running. Lift 5-6x/week. Do enough cardio (stair machine, elliptical) to keep some endurance, run exactly 1 5k a year with my kids, and do obstacle races. Started indoor rock climbing and love it. Bought kayaks, starting to get into that too. But mostly lifting. All the lifting.

I started with rowing machine and some classes such as circuit training. This was several years ago when I was much fitter. Now, I do some cardio exercises using again rowing machine, bicycle, fast walking on the treadmill. For the last 2 months, I had some personal training sessions and learnt more or less some exercises using different weights. This was very useful. I feel a lot stronger but it is still a long way to get to my target weight.

I wasn't active as a kid, or an adult really. Then started here in 2013, needing to lose 100lb. Lost 80 of those walking, mostly. Then discovered running. I lapsed on the logging, put on 40 of the 80lb I'd lost, but I did keep running. So there's that!

@lorrpb I am so very proud of you! You inspire me!!

When I started out I struggled to walk on the treadmill for 5min at 3km/hr. Now I do the following

Monday: 30min PT, 3.1mile run, shoulders/arms (around 45min), 30min yoga, 30min tabata, 45min barbell (like bodypump)

Tuesday : 30min PT, chest/back, 45min zumba, 30min yoga, 45min insanity, 50min boxercise

Wednesday : 30min sprints (every other week), long run (6-12miles), 45min stretch, strengthen and release (similar to piyo, so based on yoga and pilates), 45min zumba

Thursday : 1hr PT, 30min yoga, 30-60min cardio (usually includes some kind of treadmill run), 45min circuits

Friday : 30min PT, 3.1mile run, 45 min total body conditioning class. Depending on how much my trainer has hit my legs I may also do a leg workout. 30min yoga.

Saturday : either 4mile cycle to 50min bootcamp. Or parkrun. 30min yoga

Sunday : active rest, 3-5mile very easy paced run with a new runner (around 4min/mile slower than my normal pace). 30 min yoga

I started about a year ago, just with the initial goal of getting at least a 10 min walk each day. I was living a very sedentary life and could go days without leaving home, so I set this small goal. It’s not that I couldn’t walk for longer, but that I didn’t have a reason to and wasn’t in the habit.

Then I increased my walks - some days would walk for over an hour, even two, but other days it was only 20 mins up to shop and back.

My main goal for the first 8.5 months was on better eating habits, improving sleep, and losing weight, rather than exercise.

I did try doing yoga a couple times but as I was obese at the time I found even simple poses excruciating because so much weight was bearing down on my wrists. It made me feel like a failure. So I decided I would lose most the weight BEFORE increasing exercise.

About 3.5 months ago I started the “couch to 5k” running program. It builds up fitness and skills over 9 weeks - starting with walk/run intervals, finishing with a 30 minute steady state run.

From 3 months ago, on the days I wasn’t doing C25k I started doing yoga (yoga with Adrienne, on YouTube) twice a week.

I finished the C25k program and kept running about 3 days a week, with yoga on other days. I even ran on Christmas morning.

At the beginning of this month I started the 30 Day Yoga challenge - so this month I have done yoga every single day.

Two weeks ago I started using an app to help me do HIIT at home (3 rounds of 7 mins), to increase all over strength and intensity of workouts. So I either do HIIT or run every second day: goal is to do HIIT twice a week but this week I did it 3 times because it was too wet to run.

At the moment my HIIT workout is at the easy/beginner setting but I can already see improvements, for example - being able to maintain form for longer when doing kneeling pushups.

Most importantly: I now have a very strong exercise HABIT where I get up and do some form of exercise every single morning.

I don’t need to be the strongest or fastest at what I’m doing, but I do need to move this body to keep it healthy. By creating good easy sustainable habits, I’m more likely to keep it up for the rest of my life rather than fall off the wagon when life gets hectic.