Share your exercise routines!

[Tina]

What you YOU doing to lose/maintain? What works for you and what doesn't? Share your details, please.

I have just started exercising a few weeks ago and my goal is to lose 100 pounds using WW. Here's what I'm currently doing:

7 Days per week:
5 minutes on the treadmill to warm up
15 minutes on recumbant bike (Intensity 2, random hills)
10 - 15 more minutes on the treadmill
10 - 15 minutes of free weights, crunches (not able to do too many crunches yet).

3 Days per week:
Brisk 30 minute walk with a co-worker through the neighborhood next to our office building (lots of hills). We like to finish off by walking up the parking garage ramp to our 5th floor crosswalk.

Daily:
I try to take the stairs at work whenever possible if moving between less than 3 floors.

So how about you?

 

[ZerasPride]

Hi Tina,

DH and I have been doing the South Beach Diet since 12/1/03. We love it! I use the following work out routine:

Mon-Wed-Fri - I do 30 minutes of the FIRM cardio video
Tues and Thur - I ride my exercise bike for 5-7 miles which takes anywhere from between 20-30 minutes
Saturday is a rest day (much needed)
Sunday is FIRM ab scuplt

When winter is over, DH and I plan to add walking in the evenings to this routine.

I get up anywhere from 30-45 minutes earlier each morning to do my routine and with this exercise program and the SBD I have lost 20 pounds in my first month! It's pretty exciting. I have joined an exercise challenge on another board and that helps keep me in line too.

Okay, whose next to share their routine?

 

[hammertime]

Wow working out 7 days a week that's impressive.

My plan for the new year is get aerobic exercise 3 times during the work week, either by swimming or using gym at the Y or when I'm lazing doing DDR(DAnce Dance Revolution , Play station game with a controller that's on the ground and has to be stepped on with your feet. Really good leg workout as well as gets you all sweatty.) at home. On the days that I don't do aerobic exercise I'm going to do some weight training on my arms and upper body and do my tummy exercises( I got one of those fitness balls for Xmas that I'm going to start using while watching TV.

On the weekend my hope is to do some kind of exercise. It could be bike riding, hiking, walking anything outdoorsey. Sometimes I walk to the farmers market (about 20 minute walk each way) and get fresh flowers and fruit.

Haven't done much this week. Just got back from WDW so letting my poor sore feet, ankles and legs get a little bit of a break. Was hoping to go for a swim but then came down with a cold. Feeling better today so might go to the gym but won't push myself to much.

 

[Valentine]

I belong to Curves... for those of you who don't know what that is... it is a circuit training gym... for women only... it alternates aerobic with machines... 2x around the circuit = 30 min workout... when I am feeling particularly ambitious... or stressed I will do.. 3 or 4 times around.... I really like it... and I go at least 5x a week... Now that my theatre is dark... I have absolutely no rehearsals or shows.. so I may include Saturdays also... Keep on moving all!!!

Kathy

 

[luvmydogs]

I alternate The Firm's Cardio Sculpt with their Complete Aerobics and Weight Training during the week. On weekends I do Leslie Sansone's 4 Mile Super Challenge. I try to work out everday (I'm trying to maintain my weight loss), and find that if I exercise daily, I don't have to really count calories--if I want a few chips I eat them, and don't worry so much about it. Some days I really have to force myself to exercise--there are mornings when I'm just NOT in the mood!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I go to the gym at least four days per week. I also walk every evening after dinner. When I go the gym I do a variety of workouts. Some days I do step classes, other days I work out on cardio equipment (treadmill at high incline, eliptical at high incline, spinning bike), and I also do weight training (sometimes on the same day as doing cardio depending on how much time I have). I like to go before work and then Saturday mornings.

 

[DoeWDW]

I've just started training for the 2005 Disney half marathon - I'm planning to walk it for now but may work up to running part of it.

At the moment I'm doing 3 walks of 3 miles each (M, W, F) with another longer walk of 5 miles on the weekend (either Sat. or Sun.) On Tue. Thurs. & Saturday I'm doing my Winsor Pilates 20 minute workout to stretch out my leg muscles.

 

[FonFon]

I am doing the Couch to 5K training plan on www.coolrunning.com, Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and strength training/weight lifting on Tuesday and Thursday.

 

[Octoberbride03]

Pilates is my exercise program. I do Denise Austin's Pilates For Every Body 5-6 times a week. I've just about mastered the beginner routine and I'm slowly moving into the complete routine. The complete routine works more muscles and they apparently like being integrated more slowly than my abs do.

So M-W-F is the Complete routine
and T-TH is the Beginner routine

I also walk to and from the grocery store 2-3 times per week depending on the weather.

BTW: I too am going for an ultimate 100 lb weight loss. The Pilates is fantastic for flexibility and joint movement. My knees don't crack so much anymore and stairs are easier to take when i have to.

 

[sueg]

I am a FIRM devotee, who is trying to maintain a 65 lb. weight loss, which I achieved over 1 1/2 yrs. I exercise 6 days a week. On weekdays, I use shorter tapes such as Firm Ab Sculpt (Lisa Kay) & Super Cardio Sculpt - Upper & Lower Body only(Stephanie Corley) or Crunch tapes such as Boot Camp training. Even though I get up at 5:30 AM, I only have about 30+ min. to exercise before work, so I stick to shorter tapes. I found that I must exercise first thing on workdays, because delaying it doesn't work. I recently added a WATP tapes to my mix, but I don't find that tape too challenging, so it serves as "some exercise" on a low motivation day. I always take Thursdays off. On the weekends, I do my longer FIRM tapes: Super Body Sculpt, Tough Tape II etc. I feel that exercise has become a "must-do" for me. When I skip for more than a day or two, I don't feel as well. DH & I exercised throughout the holidays (Luckily, Christmas was a Thursday). In fact, I used some vacation time during the holidays & really enjoyed doing longer tapes during the day, rather than popping up at 5:30. So I don't see a vacation as a vacation from exercise. Even at WDW, we let the walking count for some exercise (esp. DH who is a big treadmill exerciser), but I still do some free weight workouts at the less-than-great WDW gyms. I've complained to Disney that I can't continue using my exercise tapes on vacation. There is no VCR in the exercise room & they wouldn't let me borrow weights to use in our unit, because of liability concerns.

 

[LisaTx]

I'm another pilates fan.

After 2 1/2 months of pilates, my measurements are smaller than they were 10 years ago when I weighed 20 lbs less than I do now.

I have been doing Denise Austin's Pilates for Every Body but plan to add Winsor Pilates into my routine now. I also walk when I can, but it's not on a regular basis.

 

[NancyIL]

I have been working out with weights, using Joyce Vedral's books, and now her tapes: www.joycevedral.com . We have a stationery bike and a Nordic Track, too - so sometimes I use those for cardio. I just bought Walk Away the Pounds 2-DVD set, after reading about it here. My 19-year old DD just got the Winsor Pilates 3 DVD set...so maybe I'll give that a try.

 

[gshoemate]

I can't do tapes, never could get motivated and can't keep up. I joined the Y a few months back but haven't been able to go until just a few days ago because I had a terrible head cold that went on forever. Anyways my exercise is as follows:

Monday - 20 minutes on treadmill and a little of weight lifting
Tuesday - Yoga and 6 laps in the pool
Wednesday - 20 minutes on treadmill and weight lifting
Thursday - 40 minutes treadmill, 6 laps in the pool
Friday - Kickboxing and 6 laps in the pool

With a lot of stretching in between and some Ab exercises when I have time.

 

[Xtine76]

I usually work out four to five times a week. Start out with 15-20 minutes on the eliptical trainer, lift weights for about 20-30 minutes and finish up with 30-40 minutes of treadmill. Next month when I am back into the groove more I am going to start doing more running-starting out with one mile and then the next week two miles a day until I get up to four miles a day. My goal is to start running 5K races to stay in shape and feel better about myself. I used to be able to run long distances a few years ago and I am trying to get back to that.