How many HOURS do you exercise each week?

[Kevin&Randall]

Exercise 15 hours per week? WHAT? Are you insane?

I can't think of anything that feels GOOD I would want to do for 15 hours each week. I like the 12 ounce curl. I do that a lot. And I guess my body by Budweiser shows it.

Randall

 

[Banzai]

Does going to work count?

 

[RickinNYC]

Working out is for quitters I say. I have embraced my slovenly self and haven't looked back.

 

[jamieandben]

You guys and gals are so funny.
Me and ben go to the gym 4 or 5 times a week for a hour and a half. and sometimes spin class on saturday or Body pump (yes that is a name of a class)
i lost 37lb. yeah for me!
I love going to the gym now and looking at all the Buff Guys does help

 

[Viki]

You guys and gals are so funny.
Me and ben go to the gym 4 or 5 times a week for a hour and a half. and sometimes spin class on saturday or Body pump (yes that is a name of a class)
i lost 37lb. yeah for me!
I love going to the gym now and looking at all the Buff Guys does help

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!!

 

[PghLybrt]

Ok seriously does beating your car out of a capsule of ice count? Or breaking up the ice layer on the sidewalk so that you can get to the snow underneath to shovel it? (after all I have been at it for 2 hours....now it is time to get out the bobcat and really take care of the parking lot!)

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Hey! That should count! Been there, done that. Miserable work.

 

[wallyb]

Can I ask - for you 2 hours a day people-
Are we talking 2 hours of activity?

I'm only counting time on the torture devices - not down time.

I just want to know because - I thought I was doing good -
now I feel like a schlump and I need to ramp up.

 

[Viki]

Can I ask - for you 2 hours a day people-
Are we talking 2 hours of activity?

I'm only counting time on the torture devices - not down time.

I just want to know because - I thought I was doing good -
now I feel like a schlump and I need to ramp up.

I know this is going to sound odd - but I am NOT chatty at the gym! Really!

We're all super friendly and we exchange greetings and such, but the core group of us who are gym rats are serious about exercise - running over each other to sign up for hard to get into spin classes, for example - so when I record my gym time it's all motion, all the time.

For today, as an example, our spinning class was cancelled due to weather so I did 75 minutes of lower body weight training, followed by 45 minutes on a cardio machine (an ellliptical thingy). During this time I must have talked with four folk, but always in passing, in between sets, or briefly while working side by side.

 

[Viki]

Can I ask - for you 2 hours a day people-
Are we talking 2 hours of activity?

I'm only counting time on the torture devices - not down time.

I just want to know because - I thought I was doing good -
now I feel like a schlump and I need to ramp up.

Also, the most up to date research says that to get the best possible effect you want 90 minutes/day of vigorous activity.

The folk who compiled the reserach for this recommendation were so dismayed with this conclusion - fearing it would keep people from doing anything - that they came up with this strategy to frame the results: 30 mintues/day for fitness, 60 minutes/day to help you keep off weight you may have lost, 90 minutes/day to help weight loss.

Notice that this is PER DAY, far more than the old 3 days/week recommendation.

 

[wallyb]

Also, the most up to date research says that to get the best possible effect you want 90 minutes/day of vigorous activity.

The folk who compiled the reserach for this recommendation were so dismayed with this conclusion - fearing it would keep people from doing anything - that they came up with this strategy to frame the results: 30 mintues/day for fitness, 60 minutes/day to help you keep off weight you may have lost, 90 minutes/day to help weight loss.

Notice that this is PER DAY, far more than the old 3 days/week recommendation.

WOW - thanks for info.
I'm losing and losing -but maybe I should ramp up even more.
I'll just have to give up working and the DIS !

 

[Viki]

WOW - thanks for info.
I'm losing and losing -but maybe I should ramp up even more.
I'll just have to give up working and the DIS !

Good for you for "losing and losing!!!"

And if it ain't broken, don't fix it!

 

[PghLybrt]

Also, the most up to date research says that to get the best possible effect you want 90 minutes/day of vigorous activity.

The folk who compiled the reserach for this recommendation were so dismayed with this conclusion - fearing it would keep people from doing anything - that they came up with this strategy to frame the results: 30 mintues/day for fitness, 60 minutes/day to help you keep off weight you may have lost, 90 minutes/day to help weight loss.

Notice that this is PER DAY, far more than the old 3 days/week recommendation.

Oh you just killed me!! I seriously thought the more beer bottles I lifted the more I would lose!! Oh well.....

I gotta say however, I will not be letting my girl read this tread!! She is already on me enough about my lack of motion.

Oh the horror to find out she is actually correct!!!

 

[wallyb]

Good for you for "losing and losing!!!"

And if it ain't broken, don't fix it!

Yah... not to be a "braggadocio" but I'm closing in on a 65lb loss so far.
Tonight's tacos - won't help - but...