Poll: How Often Do You Exercise & What is Your Regimen?

I do my old Sweatin' to the Oldies video just about every day, and I enter it as 30 minutes of aerobics & 15 minutes of stretching. Some days if I wear myself out biking or even a long day of cruising the malls or thrift stores I'll enter that as my exercise and skip the video. I also do the free workouts at www.exercisetv.tv and sparkpeople.com. I tend to do cardio at least 6 days a week. I do a little bit of strength training a couple of times a week on average.

I have been riding my bike for 60min for at least 6 days a week, I try and keep my average miles per hr to 12, I have some hills and flats. My first goal had been to lose 22lbs by Sep 4, I missed it by a week, not too bad, my new goal is lose 1-2lbs a week until christmas. I only need to lose 21lbs more so that I will not be overweight anymore, after that I will reasses and see where I want to go.

I know I haven't been stretching as much as I should be, I need to make time to work that in, and I need to figure out what I am going to do when it gets to cold to ride my bike outside. I am hoping to keep riding at least until the end of Sept, I go at 5:30a so it is much cooler than the rest of the day. I know I need and want to start strength training but again haven't figured out exactly how to work that in my day yet.

Demetria

my 1st goal is to lose 50 lbs by Christmas and then another 50 by July of next year (my 20th wedding anniv).

I work out on a stationary bike usually 4 days a week for 30-60 minutes (depending on how taxing my day was), I throw softball with my kids, I am doing the 100 push up challenge 3 days a week, I am doing the 200 situp challenge 3 days a week, and I add in strength training pretty much off and on the whole time because I keep a set of dumbells in my living room and do it while I'm watching something on TV.

My living room is too small to do much along the aerobic video line but I have found some neat videos on exercisetv.tv that i hope to be able to try soon.

I am also considering taking up running a little each day (as long as its not raining) to build up some stamina...haven't decided on that one yet.
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So that leaves 35lbs by Christmas? That's almost 3lbs a week. I would suggest 2lbs a week, about 26lbs total. Depending on how overweight or obese you are you may be able to do the whole 35, it's only 9lbs more. Good Luck!

Demetria

i do abs of steel every othere day than i do a buns of steel work out walkaway the pounds and a inshape video by ww i do these every day . i want to work up to the firm tape and the stair step if i can do theses i will be up with the biggest loseres

I would love to get in the 180s before New Years, that would mean I have about 20 more pounds to lose between now and then.. with that said, I usually work out 6.5 days a week. (I say 6.5 because I let myself have an off day, but I still try to get some kind of short workout in... maybe 10-15 minutes of walking or a portion of yoga or some other exercise video.) On the days I work out, I usually do a moderate-heavy aerobic DVD (something along the lines of Jillian Michael's Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism) and I try to burn around 400-500 calories on days I do cardio, which is usually about 4 days a week. I also walk on the treadmill or workout on an elliptical. On the other 2 days I try and do some strength training for about 45 minutes to an hour. My favorite, most challenging strength DVD would be just about anything by Jair Love. I usually burn about 350 calories working out doing strength because it is high-rep lower weight (5-10 pounds). Doing this routine, I have lost about 7 pounds in the past month since I joined MFP. :happy:

I work out every day, taking days off whenever I feel the need (every 7-10 days usually). I was running 4-5 days a week, rotating between an LSD run of 60-90 min, speed interval/simulated race of 25-35 min, hill program or tempo run of 50-60 min, with 30-40 min cross trainer on the days I strength train (at the park district) and 30-45 min stairmaster on alternate days or occasionally as a 2nd cardio workout. About a month ago, I tripped on an uneven part of a bike path as I was working in some outdoor runs and it led to a hamstring injury. So while I recover from that, it's just the stairmaster and cross trainer.

I do strength training around twice/wk. It's mostly a combo of free weights and machines from the limited selection at the park district fitness center. I rotate through different cycles, intensities and routines to try to keep fresh.

I go to the gym three times a week and while there, I have an intense weight lifting routine, alternating upper and lower body, with abs done every visit. I'm currently focusing on increasing my situps and the slant on the slant board as well as my pull ups , push ups, lunges and squats. This is followed by a variety of cardio (I mix it up) for a minimum of 30 mins. I log it all and every single visit, I increase something...either difficulty, distance, time, type of program, etc.

On my off nights, I have been walking with my daughter and dog, but have purchased an exercise ball and will be doing core work on 3 of the non-gym nights. My off day is Sunday, but I often do heavy yardwork or housework on that day, which more than makes up for not 'working out'.

My overall goal is to get down to 135ish with a nicely toned body. I want my health very good too.

Here's what I try to do, but it doesn't always work out. Sometimes I'll do another video or move my jogs.

Three mornings a week, I try to do the 30 Day Shred video (one day/level). Sometimes I walk after work with co-workers for 30 minutes. I also try to get in 2-3 jogs per week that are 40 minutes long (3.5-4 miles right now). I also add in the exercise bike/stepper while I watch The Biggest Loser (45 minutes). I will throw in some other videos when I feel like it. I try to take one day off a week, but sometimes I do more than that.

ETA: I get up at 4:30 most weekday mornings to do a 30 minute video before work, either 30DS, Turbo Jam Fat Blaster, or a WATP video.