Exercising - am I the only one?

Day three of this week's fun at the gym. One hour and twenty minutes of weight training and cardio (recumbent bike, 7.25 miles.) HR monitor tells me I had an 888 calorie burn. 

Yesterday, different routine, 1000+ calorie burn. Fitbit step count for yesterday was 19,900+ steps, 8+ miles total after gym, dog walking (twice), a trip to Walmart and a 75-minute walk on the beach. The weather here has been so glorious that I've been taking the Dachshund down to the beach almost every night.

Does anyone else work out on a regular basis? What do you do, and how often?

I walk 4 days a week at lunch for 2.5 miles up and down a hill/trail near my work. 

But everyday I cook, clean, and lift a 20lb up and down the stairs!!

I am in California so it is always walking weather!!

Fraid not! I do walk a lot. We live in a small rural town and never use the car unless we are going to the next town for a major food shop. But every time I try regular exercise! I do it for a few weeks and then lapse!

I'm right there with you Kate!  I just can't stay with regular exercise.  I have so much to do anymore that exercise that isn't productive is out.  Since my DH's knees went to heck I have had to take over a lot that he did.  Never knew how the man couldn't just keep going like the energizer bunny (Did they have that commercial in the UK?)

I rake hay, feed and water animals.  I drive the tractor to cut, rake and bail hay.  I am running up and down stairs (I can now) to do laundry and with the DH's current issues that is tons.  I feed and care for parrots and clean their cages.  Keep three dogs going in and out.  Than there are sheds to build and fences to fix.  That reminds me I didn't get the pool stairs pulled and winterized yet as I need a extra pair of hands.

Nope, no regular exercise.  

Pineview, you know, you really should exercise. A sedentary life just isn'tt good for you. LOL

HOW on earth do you have weight problems??? Your life sounds crazy!  Are DH's knee issues permanent? For your sake I really hope not! And for his, of course! 

Yew, we had that advert! So see just hat your mean!

Not sure Kate, I was raised on a farm and we always had work.  I remember someone asking my Mom how the heck my sister, at 365, could work so hard and still be so big.  She was working a factory job AND had gotten her Builders license and was up on houses roofing in her off time.

We just really come from bad genes.  My whole family is big, tall/husky and hard workers.  My DH says we are easy keepers (a term we use for livestock that stay overweight with little/ no grain.)

As far as DH's knee's, he had one replaced 7 years ago that was never right.  In the process to find a doctor to re-do it, in the States one doctor doesn't want to touch a patient afer another doctor sees them, his "good" knee went bad trying trying to compensate for the re-placed one.  His new knee is already working better than the old one.  Our fingers are crossed.

Bette,

Hey, hey, hey! The important thing here is that you have a dachshund. I grew up with 3 dachshunds (though not all at the same time) and when I was at the animal hospital today with one of our mutts, I admired a little guy who was shaped exactly like a fat sausage. Good enough to eat!

OK, back to exercise. You've not the only one who works out on a regular basis. Exercise is one of the unexpected benefits of my WLS. I started small (very, very small) just because my surgeon  made me promise to do it, and ended up loving, partly because it improves my mental health so much.

I take 45-minute classes at a fitness studio 5 days a week. The class offering changes 3-4 times a year, so I don't get bored, and I enjoy being with other women in the class. If I don't show up, I know they'll all be asking why. Right now, my classes are:

Monday - cardio something
Tuesday - weight training
Wednesday - step aerobics (my favorite)
Thursday - yoga (2nd favorite)
Friday - circuit training (my least favorite)

Jean

I walk about am hour a day with the dog.

i have started to run short intervals, hoping that I can work up to running non stop (again).

my right ankle has some ugly tendinitis that flares when I run very much, but I really, really want to be a runner.

i am also going to hire a trainer to start some strength work.  I have a bunch of endurance (walked 15 miles a day for 10 days straight last month) but I cannot do a jumping jack.

i want to get back some strength and flexibility.

I work out pretty much daily.  I usually do 30 to 45 minutes on the stair machine, then about 30 minutes on the rowing machine.  I used to jog every day, but I have had two partial knee replacements this past year, so I am working back into it.  I try to fit in some strength training at least two days a week, but I don't always get it done.  I have two Dachshunds so with our lovely weather, I have been taking them on walks too :) ....but it's not really much exercise because they have to stop and sniff every five feet.

I remember when I woke up from surgery almost 6 years ago the doctor telling me to get busy with the exercise and it is the one thing that I have been consistent with the entire time.  I just feel yucky when I don't do something to burn some calories every day.

I'm just getting back into trying to exercise since being diagnosed with my lung disease 12 yrs ago. The stupid physicians assistant told me to stop all exercise so I didn't wear oit my lungs and I lived that way for many years, gaining over 100 lbs even tho I ate pretty healthy and not huge amounts. Back then I worked out 5-7 days a week, rode my stationary bike for 10-20 miles a day and working a different body part 5x a week on the Bowflex so I was in pretty good shape. Now I'm having to start all over again. However I started a pulmonary rehab recently and am using a contraption called New Step, a very fancy kinda recumbent bike thing. So today I did 20 min. at level 4 and another 20 at 2&3 level. I'm tired but I think I'll to go again. It's only 2 days a week so the rest of the time I'm on my own so that's where the hard part comes, but I have a recumbent bike so am gonna try to get in at least one more day a week.