Minimum of 1 hour a day, up to 2.5 if I’m also taking a class that evening. I’m at the pool daily in summer at 6:45 and am home before my kids are even up or my work day starts. When the pool is closed I run at 6:30 and am home in time to shower and start work. My spouse does mornings in the school year, I do afternoons. I take a dance class 2x a week that starts at 8pm.

5-6 hours/week of heavy lifting at the gym

7-14 per week. In my 20s I exercised after work, sometimes after happy hour. In my 30s with young children, it was at lunch when I went back to work, longer on the weekends. Now that my kids are older, early morning on the peloton or outdoors. Exercise and minimal sugar is the only way I have discipline to keep my weight down. I sleep 7 hours a night.

Anonymous wrote:0 hours but maybe I’ll change that soon

I’ve been saying the same for a few decades now.

Anonymous wrote:Where do you find the time???

At night, after kids go to sleep. Some people also wake up early. Running/biking or at home workouts are completely flexible.

0 hours but maybe I’ll change that soon

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Anonymous wrote:I dont consider walking, cleaning, lawn mowing/gardening as exercise. Its NEAT. I aim for 8k steps per day. On days I mow, thats easy to get.

I lift 30-40 min 3-5 times per week plus 45 min tennis lesson/play plus 1-2 hours pickleball (just in summer). Outside of summer its 45-60min lifting 3-5 times per week.

That's fine for you but it really depends on the type of walking and work. It's definitely considered exercise. What's NEAT?

Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy expended for everything we do that does not include sleeping, eating, or exercise; and ranges from simple things like standing and fidgeting to moving about.

Over the past few years, researchers have begun investigating the remaining 110 – 115 hours of the week that we are awake as a weight loss solution, rather than the few hours a week spent trying to exercise. https://blog.nasm.org/exercise-programming/neat-approach-weight-loss

Yes I sweat and push a mower when mowing but it isnt that much different than pushing a stroller. Strollers can be 9-20lbs plus weight of child(ren). Push lawnmowers 25-75lbs (electric).

I just walk 5-6 hours a week.

Usually seven hours of formal exercise/week, plus as much walking as I can fit in. For the former, that comes in the form of solidcore, 3-4 times/week, and running or swimming. I don’t find any of these boring. I also do them first thing in the morning, typically; like PPs that time comes from what I used to spend watching TV or web-browsing. Work FT, have three kids.

Anonymous wrote:I dont consider walking, cleaning, lawn mowing/gardening as exercise. Its NEAT. I aim for 8k steps per day. On days I mow, thats easy to get.

I lift 30-40 min 3-5 times per week plus 45 min tennis lesson/play plus 1-2 hours pickleball (just in summer). Outside of summer its 45-60min lifting 3-5 times per week.

That's fine for you but it really depends on the type of walking and work. It's definitely considered exercise. What's NEAT?

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you find the time???

You make time, even if that means waking up at 4:45am.

So how much sleep are you getting?

Shirking on sleep is worse for your health long term than almost anything else. If you don’t sleep well and enough, elevated cortisol will prevent any weight loss and even drive weight gain. Much worse is the damage it does to organs to be constantly cortisol elevated.

Exercise it good, fitness is good. Sleep is sacrosanct for optimal human health.

I wake up at 5 or 6 to workout and get minimum 7 hrs of sleep. So sleep by 10 or 11. If there’s one thing I’ve “sacrificed” to get in my sleep and workouts, it’s tv. I have a long list on my entertainment apps which I haven’t yet got around to bc I don’t have free time between work, kids, etc.

Agree with all of this. I don’t watch much TV and I listen to a lot of music when doing my working out/training. I watch about 10 minutes of YouTube videos at breakfast.

I dont consider walking, cleaning, lawn mowing/gardening as exercise. Its NEAT. I aim for 8k steps per day. On days I mow, thats easy to get.

I lift 30-40 min 3-5 times per week plus 45 min tennis lesson/play plus 1-2 hours pickleball (just in summer). Outside of summer its 45-60min lifting 3-5 times per week.

Brisk long walk 5-6 days for 45 minutes. So around 4 hours.

I should start strength training. We recently moved and I did a lot of lifting and muscle stuff. It was fine and I immediately feel more toned.

Anonymous wrote:Where do you find the time???

You make the time! there are 24 hours in a day, surely you can find 1 hour to take care of your health.

In terms of boredom, I go to a yoga class it run listening to podcasts. I love that time so much that I yearn to run so I can catch up on my podcasts.

In terms of time, getting up early doesn’t work for me for a variety of reasons, but I have a super flexible job and set my own schedule, so I run or go to a class as soon as my kids are off in the morning, or if I have an early meeting, I’ll make time in the afternoon. But I set clear boundaries around my workout time as nonnegotiable. Luckily, I work for a company that is all in on wellness.