How often should you exercise?

One or two days off per week. You don't wanna exhaust yourself or burn out. It also depends on how long you work out per day and what kind of exercises you do.

I exercise 5-6 days a week. However, even on my "off days" I still get some type of physical activites. It might be a few jumping jacks, dips, or running in place for 10-15 minutes or so.

I do something like 9 days exercise, 1 day off, so not quite per week... but more often than not I listen to my body... injuries or illness - I'll try and work around them but some days if you're umming and ahhing that much and finding very little motivation to go when normally you're sat in your gym kit before you know it, then it's probably time to take a day off. If you're only doing light to moderate exercise then you could do it every day.... if you're doing mostly hard/vigorous exercise then when you take a day off, try to squeeze in a little light/moderate exercise like 30-60 mins fast walking...as a baseline guide!

Day off! A whole day once a week is a must. You are just going to hurt yourself otherwise. If you can't take a day off completely, take a relaxing walk that day, or take an off day when you are going to be otherwise busy so you are burning some calories. If you can handle two down days even better. The people i know who are in the best shape spend the least amount of time working out, why? When they do work out they work hard (HITT, heavy lifting ect.) and treat themselves right on their off time ( light exercise lots of protien and lots of rest!) You can't become fit if you just keep hammering away at yourself. You can cause damage, especially if you keep doing weights every day. That being said, I take one whole day off a week. Do light cardio one day, and weights twice a week, the rest of the time HITT. I'm just starting back at it, but thats what I've always done.

It depends what you mean by exercise, if its quite intense cardio like running, swimming etc then id say about 4/5 times a week, if its just walking or something then theres no harm in everyday! I tend to run 3/4 times a week for an hour or so then on my 'days off' ill still take the dog out etc so im still doing 'something' it just varys in intensity! Think you do need to give yourself 1 or 2 days off a week to give your muscles time to heal if your doing intense exercise as well.

For now I just ride my bike or walk. I cannot run. I sprained my ankle years ago and ever since if I try and run I get this sharp pain in my ankle. It seems like it's a certain way I place my ankle because it happens sometimes when I walk up the stairs too. Usually only in bad weather though.

Did you get that ankle looked at? That sharp pain sounds like my left wrist . I chipped a bone and ran around for almost 2 weeks thinking I had just jammed it before I even knew there was a real problem! Just suddenly it swelled up and it was only after an x-ray I found out why. The doctor said the chip likely shifted and caused the delayed reaction to the injury.
To this day, and the injury occured about 30 years ago, I know when rain is coming.