Do you exercise everyday?

I have one day of lighter exercise, and one day I allow myself to take off. It gives my body and mind a chance to recover from five tough days, and it's usually when I see my loss for the week.

I TRY to exercise everyday >.> but if I am too tired from work... not always.

I set my goals as at least 20 minutes a day; 5 days a week. I try to give myself at least ONE day off a week

I take one day off a week when I only do a stretching routine, no cardio, no resistance.

If you go pretty crazy, I would. I usually do 5 days a week, and work my 1-2 days off into my schedule (if im outta town, or workin 12-16hrs ill rest the next day). When I'm on a 2 or 3 week stretch of exercise, there's usually a pretty light cardio day somewhere in there.

In general, I think it is a good idea to have a day off - especially if you are new to exercising or it is particularly intense. It doesn't mean that you have to lie in bed all day - but if you run most days, then take a day where you go for a gentle stroll or have a swim.
Remember that when you are exercising you are causing little tears to the muscles when you put them under stress and having a rest day or a light day gives them a chance to heal. It also gives you a better chance of staying motivated and not burning out too soon.

I workout every day, and take a rest day when my body needs it only. I love to exercise, and feel lazy on days that I don't.

When I first started this journey, I worked out 7 days a week. I felt like taking a day off would cause me to backslide and undo all my hard work. It didn't take long before my body started to rebel. I over trained and I ended up with injuries. After I recovered, I started working out 4-5 days a week/60 mins each time. Every 4-6 weeks, I would take an entire week off from the gym.

Your body NEEDS to rest. It needs to be able to relax and recover from working out.

You have to take time off to let your muscles recover...working out 14 days straight might seem like a great plan but without giving your muscles time to recover you are actually not doing yourself much good working out so much. I work out 5 days a week and give myself 2 days off. I usually don't take more than 1 day off in a row and I don't take the same days off each week, just depends on my schedule for the week.

I exercise different parts of the body every day, to allow a days rest between them.

Depending on the individual , working out can be an every day thing or an every OTHER day thing.

In my experience, I once started to exercise daily. Pure cardio every day. It was stupid for three main reasons:

1) Bodies need rest periods to recover to avoid over-exertion
2) its important to work on different muscle groups throughout the week
3) Pure cardio burns fat, but building muscles in turn quickens how much fat a body can burn every day (more muscles, the more energy you need to sustain them)

I was doing the same exercise (jogging) daily, so same muscle groups for the same intervals exerting the same amount of energy a day while building no muscle.

Sure, I got MASSIVE results VERY quickly - 110kg down to 100kg in three weeks (3.3kg a week).

But then I stopped. I was burnt out. I couldn't keep up that lifestyle.

And here is the buzz word that is the crux of my post - lifestyle. When you're considering exercise and diet routines its important to fit it into your lifestyle so you can maintain it. If you choose a lifestyle that you cannot maintain, eventually you will fall back to your 'preset' lifestyle, which put you in this position of needing to lose weight to begin with.

Exercise as often as you can, so long as you don't burn yourself out. Remember: it's far better to run once a week for a year, then run 7 days one week and never again.

I always used to think you should take a day off to let your muscles "recuperate", however the fitness program I've joined begs to differ. With the program I only intensly workout 45 minutes each day and we focus on different muscle groups everyday so as not to completely wear our bodies down. It depends on if your looking to gain lots of muscle or slim down, to slim down they suggested working out every single day so as to give your muscles less time to repair and get larger. It made sense to me, so now I don't take any days off. (I also discovered that even taking a day off throws me off track, so that's a large part of why I'm a 7 days of the week sorta girl)

What has been working well for me is to have a mix of structured and un-structured days. I religiously take a spinning class 2 days a week so I know that if nothing else, I will make that minimum. Building on those 2 days, I try to fit in 3 days of less structured workouts usually 2 HIIT sessions and one medium length run (3-5 mi). If I really feeling good one week I'll work in a 6th day of a "fun" workout like a brisk walk to the starbuck's that is 1.5 mi from my house :-). As for lifting, I've broken my muscle groups up into chest/tri, back/bi, and legs and have 30 minute routines for each section. This helps me incorporate lifitng quickly and saves me an extra gym session. I find that the variety of workouts prevents me from getting bored or sore and that taking a rest day actually makes me more excited for the next workout. One thing about rest days- I never, ever couple them with my cheat day which I do onces every two weeks. I use to have an all out slacker day when I would skip the gym and eat whatever I wanted but I just ended up feeling miserable. Now I actually do my cheat day on my hardest workout day which leaves me guilt free and still ok on calories. Hope that helps!

I'm just getting back into exercising regularly myself, and I try to do something every day, even if I just take a short walk around the parking lot. I have a bad knee, so I have to change up what I do from day to day so as not to stress the knee every day, at least until I get some of this weight off so it doesn't hurt so much. I don't have lots of options since I'm not part of a gym, and we don't have room for any work out equipment at home. But between playing with my son, doing work out videos from my cable's on demand menu, walking, etc, I'm up doing something every day now. And when it warms up and the pool is open again, I'll probably be in the pool just about every day, with the kids of course.

Yup, everyday single day.

<humbled> I'm starting to consider myself an athlete again, so whether I'm on the field or not; I have to be very active everyday. I have a dozen or so workouts that I rotate depending on crazy schedules but have 'mostly-always' needed to burn off my extra energy. It gives my mind the much needed respice, if ya know what I mean.