Do you do enough physical exercise?

[twinkle]

Why and why not?

What are you doing, how often and what do you enjoy about it?

[Star]

about the only physical excercise that i do is housework. i've never had to exercese in my life to keep my shape up until the past 5 or so years. now it's catching up to me and i hate it. I HATE excersicing, never liked it.

[Stone]

I have been swimming thru my whole pregnancy I have cut down quite a bit because I am sooooooooooo tired but I am glad you posted this because I think I will go for a swim this morning

[Vautrin]

Walking, and riding a bicycle. I do it, whenever I need to get somewhere. Never had a problem with my weight (if underweight does not count), or fitness.

[RandomSkater]

I would say that I'm pretty fit.

every monday, tuesday, thursday and friday i do the following.

warm up .5 miles on an excersize bike, do stretches for my back and shoulders, excersize on bowflex, stretch again, .5 miles on the excersize bike to cool down, and then every day that I can I ride my bike anywhere from 3 to 15 miles (15 only rarelly) around town.

I'm hoping I can save enough money to buy a nice road bike next year so I can go the same speed as most traffic and go farther.

Along with all this excersizing I also am sure to drink alot of water and other fluids. Just when I excersize in the mornings I always drink atleast five 16 oz. glasses of water.

[Adonaicole]

I'm pretty fit but I have to really work at it. I have a very busy schedule so it's hard for me to workout more than 3 times a week. I run, cycle, practice martial arts, pushups and situps by the hundred. I also make it a point to walk everywhere I can and I play lot's of sports with my son. I also try to eat right and drink lot's of water but I have a weakness for sweets and cookies (that's why I have to do situps by the hundreds).

[Stone]

I've tried to do situps by the hunderds and I still don't get a flat tummy :?

[Star]

actually situps aren't too good for your back. to work out the tummy area, doing crunches is the best thing instead of situps. My niece is avery athletic and actually studied in university about this stuff and tells me all these things.

I have lots of workout videos, weights and equipment that i bought but never use it. I need a buddy to work out with to make it fun otherwise it's really boring to me.

[RandomSkater]

I have a stretch that my physical therapist gave me for toning my sotmach muscles to help my back. It works far better than any crunch or situp and it doesn't hurt my back at all, I believe it's actually considerd harder then a crunch or situp.
It's kindof hard to explain, so i'll see if i can find something on the net about it.

[Merika]

Thanks Random....I'd like to check that out.

Since I got sick....I don't do anything. Much more of this and my A$$ will be the size of Texas.

[Duke]

I don't do a thing and it's starting to show. I'm currently working through some respiratory problems and will return back to my active lifestyle when that is dealt with.

When I do have air in my lungs, I enjoy extreme mountain biking (love the big air), skiing (also big air), tennis, squash, and rowing. I'll likely be moving out of my current small apartment into a bigger place later in the summer so I can buy another home gym. I gave mine away when I moved here due to lack of space and miss it horribly. I hate going to the gym but get into a routine if I have one at home. I find that if I roll out of bed, crawl to the gym, do some bench presses, then I'm energized for the whole day.

[Stone]

I am the complete opposite, If I have a home gym I never use it.

[twinkle]

I work out in order to stress out. It's a great stress reliefer for me, and this is why I preffer jogging to almost everything else. I actually feel putting in the effort, and the air filling my lungs and all the fibers in my body exercising!


I love it, but I cannot do it regularly, I either need to change the place where I'm joggin or need to swim after a while or go biking. Of course, I come back to jogging in the end, but I'm more of an artist, really.

The biggest thing I try to accomplish is running three times a week - I can't do that yet, I'm too lazy. It's my target. that and getting tanned, LOL!

[RandomSkater]

I couldn't find any info on that stretch, so I'll take some pics of myself doing it.
I'll be really busy this weak, though, so it won't be done til atleast enxt tuesday.

[Duke]

Originally Posted by RandomSkater

I couldn't find any info on that stretch, so I'll take some pics of myself doing it.

I hope you don't exercise in the buff.

[RandomSkater]