How much do you exercise?

Yes but such happiness need not come from the Devil’s toy. :cool:

I ride to work and back every working day, but it’s only about four miles and it’s not unduly hilly. I try to run to (or from) work twice a week but it usually ends up being only about once a week.

Not to be raining on your parade but according to this site (http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedcycling.htm you would to be pedaling at a rate of double very vigorous (>40+ mph) to achieve 1000 calories in 30 minutes (the listed values are calories burned per hour).

I exercise daily on a free motion AMT machine and the best I can do is about 17 calories a minute.

I used to do about 10-12 hours a week with 5 hours of endurance cardio (running, swimming or cycling) and the rest split between classes (circuits, spinning, aerobics, pump) and pure weights, but I had to slacken off due to an injury. I’m working it back up, trying to get to 10 or so hours a week.

Si

I walk six miles a day, most days of the week. I also try to squeeze in 30 minute of yoga every day, but lately I have been slacking off some.

I don’t get a good “work out” from doing either of these activities. But they do get me moving.

Cycle to work four days a week (18 miles per day round trip on the bike, taking maybe an hour and a half of actual cycling) and once or twice a month I do at least a three or four hour mountain bike ride at the weekend too.

That’s about it for regular exercise, but most weekends I’ll go for a decent length walk, usually pushing a baby buggy around for an hour or so.

I do 5/3/1 four times a week in the morning and I run 25 minutes 3-4 times a week (taking a month off from the cardio ever few months).

I do three days a week of weight or resistance training for 45-60 minutes, depending on my schedule, plus 15-20 minutes of cardio. I also do at least 2 days/week of just cardio, running anywhere from 3-5 miles (25-40 minutes, plus warm-up and cool down), unless I’m training for something, in which case I’ll extend the runs.

That’s been my schedule for the past 10-15 years, but I’ve really been diligent about it for the past 3 years or so. Previously I’d maintain the schedule for maybe 6 months, then I’d be out of it for 4 months or so, then I’d get back into it. I’ve been pretty good about it lately.

I find I can only consistently work exercise into my daily routine if I do it 1st thing in the morning, which means I’m usually out of bed by 5:15 am.

I walk about 2 miles a day at lunch and depending on the time of year, I go to the beach and swim a bit. The weekly jam sessions with the band provide a fair bit of upper body workout. Finally, there is usually a semi-monthly Hash Run although the beers consumed generally negate the calories burned. :smiley:

Bike commute to work is 12 miles round trip - flat as a pancake so I make up for that by giving strava some stick.
Try to lay on 2 serious mountain bike rides on top of that - pretty good at doing the weekday one (which is a nightride atm) but it’s easy to slip on the weekend (family life means I need to get a real early start). I absolutely love mountain biking though, so I usually find a way to fit it in.

On a good week will also do the parkruns on Sat morning at 9am - nation wide thing here in the UK where you do a 3K running race at certain park venues and get an accurate time. Good fun - I’m a pretty weak runner so belting it round 3K really takes it out of me and is a great start to the weekend.

P90X! With an occasional HIT class at the gym thrown in.

Yeah, I did fail to mention that one of my 5/week is the hash, heh. On-on!

(BTW, I’ve decided that I can’t make sense of the poll options, so have voted “Pretty much that.” I will answer this next time someone asks, “How much do you exercise?” “Oh, pretty much that.” :D)

I selected “more than that”, not because I’m a committed or diligent exerciser, but because my work is quite physical. I’m a painting contractor/decorative painter. None of my workday is spent sitting down.

Also I try to walk dogs daily - in reality it probably averages out to 5x per week. More in winter because that’s when work is slower. Which can be anything from a brisk 30-minute walk to a several-hours-long hike. I’ve been incorporating some running, since I quit smoking and my lung capacity has improved. I also have a mountain bike and weather permitting, take it for a spin. A local group hosts a 15-mile bike ride every Sunday May-October along the Flint River Trail and I go when I can.

I do 40-50 minutes, six days a week on average (I usually take Sunday off). I am lucky enough to have a gym across the street from work, and a boss that doesn’t care if my lunch hour stretches to 1:15, and I take full advantage of that. My “default” is the elliptical, but I mix in weight lifting and some occasional running or spinning to keep everything well rounded. On Saturdays I usually try to do something different and outdoorsy during the temperate months, but this time of year, it becomes a clone of the weekdays as often as not.

I do an hour of yoga once a week, sometimes twice. Twice a week I speedwalk for 30 minutes each time. Twice a week I lift weights for 15 minutes each time. Once a week I do barn chores–put down hay, bring in the horses, feed the horses. That’s about 2 hours of constant movement at a low level. Four times a week I mess around with my horse (he’s retired from riding) so that’s another hour at low level four times a week. Once a week I do a high level aerobics class for 45-60 minutes.

This is what I need to maintain. I need to do more if I want to get fitter, or to help with weight loss.

I usually lift weights M, W, F and mix in 1-2 days of cardio. I also play ice hockey about once a week. I walk a couple miles each day to/from work, but I don’t really count that as exercise.

I voted “Pretty much that” because I really slack off in the winter (no swimming and hardly any bicycling when the temperature drops into the mid-50s). When the weather is decent and I have enough daylight after work, I probably average 60 minutes/6 days a week.

3-5 days a week of a bootcamp/crosstraining type class (1 hr+), plus riding my horse 5-6 days a week, plus horse chores.

I do 1/2hr of cardio and 1- 1.5 hours of weight training 5 days/week.

I must say I am impressed with the fitness levels here! The poll options were chosen because that 150 minutes of moderate intensity/wk (1/2 hr/d 5d/wk) or 75 minutes a week of vigorous intensity is the AHA guideline for a minimum level (although some better than none).

I do vigorous almost exclusively and about an hour a day 6 days a week. I do a wide variety but typically that includes weights 3x/wk or more, some balance disc work with lighter weights, calisthenics and body weight work (trying to progress to a true hand stand push ups and ring work to a true front lever), and a variety of aerobic exercises (I bike to work some days, a 15 to 18 mile round trip depending on if I make rounds that day or not, I run, sometimes as intervals, sometimes as tempo runs, and once in a while a long slow just for fun), I have a Concept II rower that I love and an old elliptical that is in the mix. For me variety is key. No typical week.