How long do you work out per day?
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Anonymous
An hour walking. |
Anonymous
Pre-covid I would go to the gym at 5/5:30am to workout out for an hour. Get home at 6:15 or 6:30 shower and head to work. I also used to run at night, as late as 8:30 pm after the kids went to bed. These days I have been WFH so I go to the gym closer to 6:30 or 7. |
Anonymous
| 30-60 per day strength/hiit/yoga/peloton + long walks almost every night. |
Anonymous
| Do you all have a home gym? |
Anonymous
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Yeah, I am not exercising that much. I wake up early but find I am doing emails and quiet work before my perpetual zoom meeting start. Plus, I have recovery/injury issues that keep sidelining me.
I exercise 3-5 days/week. Two days a week I do an hour of taekwondo with the kids (zoom family class). That means I either can't move the day after or two days after. Still working on how to fix this, but DOMS is a hurdle. This is fairly easy to fit in, because it aligns with kid time after dinner. My kids are old enough too that one of them has to clear the table and the other do dishes, so not a job I have anymore. One day a week, I do an hour walk with a friend. Although sometimes that is the same day as TKD class so just depends on the schedule. But that gets me to 3 days. For the other two days, I am trying to do some stationary bike or jogging (10-20 minutes) followed by 15 minutes yoga because I started going to the chiro and she says I need to add it in. I got the Peleton app (we have an older bike) and trying out the classes. Now, whether this happens depends on how busy I am at work, or whether my sciatica is acting up or some other random back or hip pain because my body is trying to fall apart. My goal now is to make it a consistent 5 days and work up to a point where I am pain free and not dying after a TKD class. |
Anonymous
| 1-1.5 hours of cycling a day - 6 days a week. |
Anonymous
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I exercise 4-5 days a week and spend one day a week doing all the household errands which ends up being a LOT of steps, but usually don't work out that day.
I will do 30-60 minutes. Usually it is a 30 or 45 minute peloton and a 5-10 minute core. Some days I will jog 30-40 minutes and do a 20 minute strength class. On the weekends I like to try to fit in one 75 minute endurance ride or 60 minute bootcamp. I have a job that lets me flex my time so I do it during the workday, usually mid-late morning. I'll log in, get a feel for the day, put everything in motion I can and then step away for the peloton, come back and check in and then do the core work and grab a very quick shower. I have three kids 5 and under and in my opinion the ONLY reason I can fit it in like this is because my job is flexible. I am just not a morning person, and exercising at night is just not something I would do regularly. After I get the kids in bed and the kitchen clean all I want to do is plop on the sofa. I also credit my ability to do this with having a supportive and helpful husband who helps ensure that my making space for exercise doesn't result in tons of extra stuff falling behind. |
Anonymous
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I'm in the best shape of my post college life because i am working out less but more efficiently. I used to be a distance runner because I decided to run a marathon post college for fun - I kind of got "addicted" to long runs and for pretty much 2 decades I would run anywhere from 7-12 miles a day. Yes, it was crazy and unhealthy (it was pretty much an obsession). The pandemic was so stressful at the beginning - trying to figure out how to run with a mask, being afraid of getting too close to people, trails being overwhelmed - that one day, early on, I decided to try an online fusion yoga workout. It was a great wok out and I felt challenged (which was a shock to me - I always thought of yoga as too easy lol). Now I do anywhere from 45-90 minutes of fusion yoga, 6 days a week with 1 day off where I just go for a walk. My body feels great and if I can brag a little (this is an anonymous forum after all!) it looks really good. I'm toned all over. My legs look way better than they ever did as a runner. I have a 6 pack (it feels weird to brag but maybe this will convince some other hard core runners to try something different). Anyway, if this is tl/dr:
I work out about an hour a day 6 days a week and I am in much better shape than I was when I ran closer to 90 minutes every day without ever taking days off. |
Anonymous
| An hour or so of olympic weightlifting 4 days a week plus some dog walks, an hour of walking with the dog on the other days. |
Anonymous
Yes, I have a TRX, barbells and dumbbells, kettlebells, Reebox deck, and a peloton. |
Anonymous
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30 minutes/day on weekdays.
1-1.5 hours/day on weekends |
Anonymous
I have a peloton, super bare bones treadmill, 2/5/11 pound dumbells and one stand alone 30 pound dumbbell. I have a yoga mat, yoga blocks, and also a barbell with a set of discs |
Anonymous
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A few months ago I was working out like 3 hours a day between running, walking, strength exercises and Peloton.
I really fell off the wagon a few weeks ago and am trying to get back on now. For now my goal is at least 30 minutes of cardio a day between running or Peloton and then at least 30 minutes a day of strength workouts with 12,500 steps as a daily goal. This should yield about 90. minutes of working out and walking. |
Anonymous
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I work out 3-4 days during the week, first thing in the morning, for 45-60 min. I run or spin for 30 min then do a strength or core workout for 15-30 min.
On the weekends, I work out 1-2 days, anywhere from 1-1.5 hours. Longer cardio and strength workouts. I have at least 1 rest day each week, sometimes more depending on my schedule or how my body is feeling. |
Anonymous
Yes, I've been working out at home for close to 14 years. I have a treadmill, a Peloton, dumbbells in various weights, resistance bands, a yoga mat + blocks + strap, and a few kettlebells. I also have an elliptical because I used to do that a lot, but I don't use it much anymore. |