I average about 30-45 minutes a day of walking/running a day (about an hour on Sunday night because that’s when the trash is put out and that’s when I carry stuff (electronics) home that I find, using a trolley for big/far stuff, but I’ve carried small CRT TVs and desktop computers half a mile or more (then put them back after I gut them), sometimes taking 2 hours total), plus about an hour of resistance/weightlifting 2-3 days a week (not so fixed; basically, if I still feel any muscle soreness, I skip a day figuring they haven’t fully recovered yet, which comes out to about every 3 days, sometimes only one day is skipped). So that’s like 6-8 hours a week.
The joy of self selection 
On the other hand, the current BMI thread shows that quite a few posters are morbidly obese, among the largest of any of the ranges given and out of place considering the number who picked lower BMIs (tailing off up to 38-39).
Well, this may sound a little “Man Show” but I jump on a mini trampoline. No bikinis though…
As pointed out in that thread though not so far off from national numbers (other than an apparent over-representation of the underweight) and fitness is more important than fatness. But sure both threads are subject to lots of self-selection bias and hardly scientific.
I have been changing it up for a while. I run when the weather is cool. For like 2 years I did P90X and Insanity or some mix there of. Then I joined a gym and did that for about 6 or so months. I just finished a half marathon and because I’m broke and have a new puppy I’m back at the house with my P90X and Insanity until he is house trained.
I’m not particularly systematic with my exercise. Mostly, it’s walking to and from the Metro and walking the dog 2-4 times/day. I have a weekly karate class and I take the occasional yoga class. I should do more cardio, but I really don’t like to.
Basic exercises for about 20 minutes each morning and walk 10 kilometers a day.
Five days a week of about 45 to 1 hour. I had five months off with some pretty serious back issues, but I have found things I can do now, so it’s ellipticals all the way down, plus core work.
Pretty vigourus, although if I were in the shape I was in before I was forced to take time out, it wouldn’t be. I’ll work back up to that but I have to be so careful, it’s frustrating.
I’ve structured my life so I move a lot all day most days- I’ve no idea what counts as ‘vigorous’ but I’ll add it all up.
Right now my full time job is waiting tables at a busy restaurant with very heavy plates. On very busy days when I work doubles I have literally not sat down or stopped moving once between 1130am and 11pm! Usually, though, there are a few lulls where I can sit and eat, and the pace isn’t so frantic that I end the day exhausted. I also have a very-part-time job working in the cheese department of a grocery store, while less taxing it is still near-constant movement.
I bike to and from work 5-6 days a week so that’s a minimum of 6 miles/45-55 minutes daily. Additionally my bike is my vehicle, and I ride it ‘around’ for fun, so depending on where I want to go/what I want to do, I might ride it up to 30 miles in a day. I do all my shopping on my bike with a backpack, so I’m frequently carrying a load of 15 or so lbs on bike excursions. I bike so much it does not feel like ‘exercise’ though. And I am too cautious on these city streets to go hard enough to get my heart rate up.
I run sometimes, usually a 5k every two or three weeks. I’m looking to rachet that up a bit and see if I can get my mile time down and give myself some more intense cardio.
I do hatha yoga, less regularly than I should - maybe an hour or two a week. I used to do it 1.5 hours 5 days a week, but that was when I had a desk job.
Really?? No idea? That is fucking weird. It’s called “common sense”; apply it.
No need to be rude, honey. I think the ‘vigor’ it takes to certain perform physical tasks depends more on your baseline fitness than anything else.
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I ride a couple of hundred kms a week. Sometimes more sometimes less. Sometimes in one ride sometimes in three or four.
Whoops, screwed up the click. I exercise a bit more than that, but not a huge amount. I do a real workout about 2–4 days a week, depending on externalities. What the workout is varies a lot. Sometimes it’s a 10–15 minute warm up with a very intense 5–20 minute glycolytically demanding session; sometimes it’s a strength day which might take 40 minutes or more to get through, depending on sets and rest periods. I very, very rarely do longer cardio sessions. Usually it’s around 20–30 minutes. For instance, I did a 5 k that took almost exactly 25 minutes the other day. I haven’t been exercising enough lately, so I deliberately took it very easy.
I walk about 6 km round trip for work, along with the train ride. I walk more than that if I have to go shopping for anything, probably another couple kilometers.
Here’s a chartwith examples of moderate and vigorous intensity exercise that might help.
The talk test is a good rule of thumb too - if you can talk but not sing then it is moderate, if you can’t talk for more than a few words then it is vigorous.
Or get fancier and use the target heart rate measure approach. 50 to 70% of max is moderate and 70 to 85% is vigorous.
Somewhere or another I got the idea that 20 minutes/three days a week was some kind of minimal goal. Right;wrong;otherwise???
I run/jog on a treadmill 3x/week for 30 minutes. I could do more than this, but I don’t.
I’m 65 and spend an hour at the gym five days a week. Mostly cardio (gotta keep that heart healthy), but it’s pretty vigorous (at least it seems so to me) cardio.
ETA: It also counts as “vigorous” exercise according to DSeid’s Target Heart Rate link.
My goal is about 10 hrs per week usually sread over 6 or 7 days broken down by half weight training/half cardio.