How often are you working out and for what time periods?

4 days a week about 3 hours each session.

hardly any while the gyms in our region are still closed for covid safety. 1 hour a day weekdays an hour horseriding on Sundays and it varies on Saturdays usually a long walk weather depending

I lift 4-5x per week, about an hour each session.

Depends on my goal. I do mainly strength/weight training.

Currently I'm working on building strength so I am 4X per week at about 2 hours per session. (Longer rest periods with this program, and no supersets on main lifts). This is at maintenance calories or increased calories to maintain energy and intensity.

If I'm in a maintenance or calorie deficit I'm usually 5-6X per week for max 1.5 hours but usually closer to 1 hour. This includes a lot of supersets, shorter rest periods and higher rep sets at lower weights.

When I'm adding in Cardio there is typically a 20-30 minute added 3-4X per week.

I do something every morning, first thing (after feeding the cats, of course). I'm using the workout videos in the Planet Fitness app and just doing this in my living room. I'm not comfortable going out to a public gym yet, and probably won't be for another 6-12 months, until we get a better handle on COVID and get people vaccinated.

In the Before Times I dabbled in more serious strength training/weightlifting, but I have neither the space nor funds to be able to do that at home right now. sigh Someday!

Monday - 20-minute bodyweight strength workout video
Tuesday - 20-minute cardio workout video
Wednesday - 20-minute dumbbell workout video (using ~1lb soup cans or 5lb dumbbells)
Thursday - 20-minute cardio workout video (same one as Tuesday)
Friday - 6-minute bodyweight circuit, 6 moves/30 seconds each/2 rounds (I have less time on Friday mornings)
Saturday and Sunday - ~5-10 minutes of stretching, no rules; usually full-body, occasionally target a specific area if needed

The weekend stretching is mostly to reinforce the habit and make it easier to get up and stay up on weekdays.

discolady74 wrote: »

Chef_Barbell said "4 days a week about 3 hours each session."


WOW!! That's impressive I like that as a goal for me once I finish this 4-6 week routine I'm currently in.

Haha well it takes me 45 minutes to get to the gym by bus so I like to make it worth my while. 😂

Right now (since I'm in the midst of doing the 75 Hard program - just over a week in), I have to do a minimum of (2) 45 minute workouts/day, non-consecutive, so most weeks are looking like this:

(5) days/week - 2-3 hours of [volunteer] barn chores M-F (mostly mucking stalls, but sometimes other stuff as needed) - lots of walking, lifting, twisting!

(5) days/week - 45 weight/strength training (as best I can do at home right now), with martial arts and stretching between sets.

(2)x/week (may vary) - 45 minute horse ride (hunter/jumper/dressage, not just tootling along a trail lol)

(1)x/week each (may vary)
- minimum 45 minute hike with the dog
- 5-8 hour motorcycle ride in the mountains (as a racer, my street rides are always slower speeds but focusing on skill building for the track, so again, not just a leisurely ride on the countryside)
- yoga for 45 minutes
- some other fitness video (zumba is a favorite when I go this route)

Hi -walk my dog every morning for 30 -60 minutes; take aerobic and weight lifting class for 45 min. 2x a week and just aerobic 1x for 45 minutes, and a senior strength class for 30 minutes 1x a week -involves lifting weights and moving body around, finally 1/2 hour pilates 2x a week. A lot but I don't know if or how they increase my fitness. I'm assuming they do as I'm pretty healthy. And none of it is done at top speed, more like steady pace for everything.

Varies a great deal, seasonally and for other reasons.

Right now, it's Concept 2 Holiday Challenge season, so I'm doing about 50 minutes machine rowing (with 3 about 1'15" water-drinking/sweat-wiping breaks interspersed between the 4 2k pieces included in that time), 6 days a week.

Before that, we were mostly rowing on water 4 days a week for about an hour (plus carrying boats and stuff), and I usually did something on the 2 other days (walk, bike ride, also usually around a hour) but sometimes just blew off the other days.

At the last stages before the rowing club reopened (Covid-related limitations March until late summer), I was doing 8k+ rowing machine 3 days, 6k+ rowing machine and around 40' strength training on the alternate 3 days. Early part of Covid "stay at home", I was lackadaisical. Pre-"stay at home", usually rowing 4 days a week and spin class 2 days a week. Yoga/stretching, and strength training, tend to vary in and out randomly.

I tend to slack off in Winter, have for over 15 years, so we'll see what happens this year after the Holiday Challenge. I'm old (65) and have been working out regularly for a long time (around 17 years), even while obese, so I don't stress too much about ups and downs. Eventually, if I slack off, I start feeling moody, tense, kind of unfit (after not too long a time of slacking off) and get back at it. Since that's been happening for years, I don't see a short inactive period as a slippery slope to permanent full-time couch-surfing.

Since I work from home now since COVID, I've used the 10hrs/week of commute time towards exercise and working out! Yay for me!

For the past 3months, I've been pretty focused on completing a 4day strength/weight training program + 1day HIIT designed by a YouTube trainer I discovered. The workouts range from 30min-1hr. Oh man, my newbie gains have been really motivating, and I wish I had started weight training earlier.

On top of that, I was also running 3-4x/week for 1-1.5hr plus 2x yoga (1x tennis or swimming, though the season is over for those activities now). Unfortunately, I've recently injured my knee/quad, so I am taking this month off from running, and focusing on walking for 40min-1hr daily, though frankly, it's tempting to just stick with the walking as it's a lot more enjoyable and less high impact.

Since I'm newer to this commitment of fitness and activity, I really enjoy reading this thread to see how people use their time and energy. Side question: do your non-exercising friends and family have little interest in listening to your fitness schedules and goals?

4 x per week for 75 mins resistance training
2 x per week for 45 mins mix of resistance and core
1 x per week cardio - heavy bag if I am feeling energetic, light cardio if I need a rest day

msapplek wrote: »

(snippety)

Since I'm newer to this commitment of fitness and activity, I really enjoy reading this thread to see how people use their time and energy. Side question: do your non-exercising friends and family have little interest in listening to your fitness schedules and goals?

It doesn't much occur to me to discuss it with them, unless they ask. (I don't talk about visual journaling with people who don't art journal or at least do related arts/crafts, I don't talk with people about bluegrass banjo if they don't enjoy bluegrass . . . so I don't talk with people who aren't active about my active hobbies, either.)

Occasionally, it comes up in passing, in conversation with non-active friends. ("What are you doing this weekend?" "Rowing Saturday morning, going to the farmers market after, not much planned on Sunday.")

I talk with my fellow rowers and friends from the Y about active stuff, or post about it here on MFP.

Nothing too extreme here. I have too many joint issues to do more than this -

- 7 days/ week of 60-75 minutes cardio, first thing in the morning
- usually two or three 1 hour or hour+ walks/hikes per week, depending on the weather
- dumbbell & bench training in the evenings, a few times a week