Following the trend!
I exercise five or six times a week. Generally I teach one or two indoor spinning classes a week for 45 minutes, and go for two or three 5 km runs outdoors. I often have one weekend day where I get in a good 2 to 4 hour road bike ride in the foothills.
I also walk my dogs at least 30 to 45 minutes a day, and I usually walk to and from the train station for work, which is about 1 mile or so.
I feel like an utter slacker next to you.
I work out six days a week–all so I don’t gain weight as middle age settles in. I run about 3.5 miles every other day and I do either weights or power yoga or Pilates the other days. My off days always come between a run day so if anything gets dropped, it’s NOT the running.
3-6 days a week depending upon other issues in my life.
3 days I run 30 minutes usually on a treadmill
the other days I do 20 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes of walking on highest incline on the treadmill and 20 minutes of weights.
I am 48 almost 49. My goal is to stave off the middle aged spread and keep myself in the upper 25% of my age group! I would hope that people post their age here as well as I consider that a big factor.
4 or 5 times per week.
I always like to mix in a long endurance workout, and try to do one day of interval training every week – whether on foot, skates, or bicycle.
I do weight training occasionally, but usually just stuff like squats, pushups, pullups, and core work. I don’t do “body building” things.
Even on off days, I work in a decent number of push-ups.
On strenght training days I start with a 5 minute cardio period, then do free weights and machines for about 45 minutes, followed by a 5 minuted cool down.
Alternate days I do 45 minutes of just cardio.
I also cut about 1 acre of lawn with a push mower several times a week during the summer, swim laps in the pool fairly regularly, and have sex at cardio intensity levels several times a week.
Lift weights 1.5-2 hours six days, Sunday off.
Ride my handcycle 80- 120 miles/week, Saturday off.
I walk six or seven days a week, year-round. Usually it’s two miles, up the road and back, or up the road and crashing through the woods. Sometimes four miles (different route); rarely more than ten in a day. I’m older and slower than I used to be; only four miles per hour now. Mowing the lawn (about 8 months a year) takes six hours a week, pushing a 65-pound mower (the guy who repairs it weighed it, because it felt heavy to him), so I count that as exercise, too. For the last couple months, I’ve been tilling the garden an hour or two a day. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s the most strenuous thing I do. I’m using a grubbing hoe with a forged iron head to break up the turf. In the winter I like to split wood, an hour or two at a time, using an eight-pound maul (a nine-pounder is just too heavy for me to last more than 15 minutes - I get tired and sloppy and that’s how you hurt yourself).
Maybe not what you think of for exercise, but I’ve lowered my blood pressure ten points (both diastolic and systolic). I still have to take pills, but if progress continues, I might get approval to try less medication. My cardiologist was real happy with my BP and pulse (it was 62, only a little above normal) on my last visit just a couple days ago. I still struggle to lose weight though…I like food too much.
Mornings:
Monday through Friday, 4-5 mile run, 20 to 25 miles a week.
Evening:
Monday, 1 hour kickboxing or MMA.
Tuesday, 1 hour self defense, 1 hour Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu/submission grappling.
Wednesday, 1 hour kickboxing or MMA.
Thursday, 1 hour self defense, 1 hour Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu/submission grappling.
Friday, rest.
Weekend:
Saturday or Sunday: two hour strength and conditioning training. Generally this is some combination of shadow boxing, bag work, pull ups, bench press, push ups, hindu squats, deadlifts, tire flipping, rope skip, weighted wheelbarrow, farmers walk, dummy slam, sledgehammer, etc. Rest the other day.
I teach the evening classes occasionally. I’m not able to adhere to this schedule every week; some morinings I’m too busy to run, some weekends I’m out of town and just have to try to squeeze in a light workout. I try to stick as close as a can, though.
Right now, I am running 5 times/week. Weekdays are anywhere from 6 - 7.5 miles; one weekend day is longer (10 or 11). If I do a second weekend day, it’s back in the 4 - 7 mile range.
Prior to the beginning of May, I had a gym membership, so I was doing more Spinning classes and weights. I hope to be able to afford it again, but I am loving the increased mileage.
[hijack: EmAnJ, how is the other stuff going for you? ]
Depends on how long it is to my next big race and how long it is, but my general schedule involves exercising every day, evenly split between weightlifting days and running days. Weightlifting days involve one hour in the gym, and running days involve a run of 8 to 30 kilometres. I’m planning to cut down the weightlifting and up the running.
I’m 30 and recently completed my first marathon.
On a bad week, 2-3 days a week. On a good week, 5 days per week.
On the aforementioned bad week, I’ll do some cardio three times that week (some combination of running on a treadmill, an elliptical trainer and a recumbent bike) for 35-45 minutes a pop.
On the good week, same cardio applies, only with an additional two cardio and/or weight sessions thrown in, each of about 20-30 minutes in length.
Other than that, I try to be active around the house when I’m not at work. You know, instead of sitting down and potentially snacking, I make myself move around and tidy up or scrub something. Or I work in the garden, hauling around mulch, managing my herbs & veggies and such. Even better, I chase my toddler around. He gets to watch some TV, but very little. If he doesn’t burn some energy by running around like a dervish, he turns into one big discipline problem. Running after him for an hour or so is great exercise and much better emotionally for the family than having to constantly put him in time out when he’s acting out thanks to too little exercise or boredom (especially when ultimately it’s my responsibility for ensuring he gets and takes plenty of opportunities to move).
I walk for 30 minutes in the morning. In the weekends we usually got for a 2 - 3 hour walk although it’s often more of a stroll than a cardio workout. On nice evenings we’ll tend to go for a 30 minute walk again.
It’s not really enough, but I only started doing the 30 minute walks a couple of months ago and I’m proud of myself for having kept it up.
Great! I just came off of my sick leave this week and am now back at work. It’s hard to get back into it, that’s for sure. I’m still sober though, and still going to therapy and meetings.
Thanks for asking!
You rock!
OK, back to exercise chat…
Well, I’ll chime in for all the rest of the dopers that don’t want to post next to you enthusiastic exercisers. Geez, where do you get the time to do all that?
For me I run every weekday in the morning. Monday and Wednesday are 4 mile days in about 38 minutes, Tuesday and Thursday are 3 mile days in around 27-28 minutes, and Friday is a 2.5 mile day. Speeds change each day. So T and Th are faster even though they are shorter. I just went to 5 days a week after a year of 3 days a week. I’ll probably start working in some basic curls, sit-ups and push-ups in the next few months. And sometime next fall I’ll add a long run on the weekend. Goal is to do the half-marathon again next summer.
I exercise in the mornings because with two children my evenings are spent doing family stuff…dinner, bath…playing outside in the summer…swiming in the pool with them. Stuff like that.
Heh, I could never fit in that much exercise, working the job I do and having a young kid.
I work out with a trainer - one hour twice a week. I’m 40 and just want to keep myself somewhat in shape.
I go on a 20-30 minute walk every day, and I try to check out the local community centre for cardio–running, occasionally the weights room–about three or four times a week.
Geez, you guys training for the Olympics or something?
Before Christmas I was running 2.5 miles (a bit over 20 minutes) five times a week, I’ve let it slide more recently, I’m now picking it up again (when the weather lets me) though I’m down to 2 miles, I’ll be out for the third time this week this evening. I also bike everywhere but that’s not particularly strenuous.
When I was seriously trying to lose weight I was running every week day then doing two hours on the stationary bike Saturday and Sunday watching a film. (Dumb action films work best at getting the cadence up now and then in a sort of interval training fashion, Bond, Bourne, Arnie films that sort of thing). I really ought to start this again but four hours of a weekend is a lot to give up. Could be a productive way to work through my new box-set of The Rockford Files, there’s an Idea.
Running 30-35 miles/week, usually divided over 3 or 4 days. (This week Su, Tu, F).
That’s it.
I used to lift weights at the gym, but I just couldn’t get into it. I know I should be doing weight training along with my running but I don’t.
That running takes a lot of time. For example, on Tuesday I went to the canal and ran six miles up and back. It took an hour and fifty minutes. Add to that the time to get ready, drive there, get home, shower, and it’s a 2.5hr investment.
On top of that I’m trashed after such a run and pretty much useless for anything the rest of the night (though I do like to eat a whole lot of watermelon while watching TV.)
My blood pressure was creeping up, so I started a very lightweight routine to reverse the trend.
5 days a week, 10 push-ups, 15 sit-ups, and ten minutes of jogging in place.