anyone can reply, but I'm asking the heavier chicks because I'm curious what you enjoy doing. I'm feeling tired tonight and I don't want to go out for another run :C I want to do something though, I enjoy exercising now... (most of the time)
Well, I love to bike ride, so I do that on occasion, but my city is not very bike-friendly, so I can't do it at a pace that would be considered fat-burning.
For that, I'm lucky enough to have a gym-quality elliptical machine at home. Every day, I hop on it and go for at least an hour while I'm watching TV.
Jogging, running, or even walking don't agree with my knees yet, so I avoid those activities.
I swim. It never feels like work even when I'm pushing myself, and even on my lowest energy days I can do it. You don't even have to do laps, you can just walk in the shallow end or just move your body in the water.
You want to take it easy on those joints so you don't get injured. I walked, took classes at the gym and just was very careful with my movement - if it hurt (and not muscle fatigue hurt), I stopped doing whatever I was doing that hurt.
When I started, Leslie Sansone's Walk Away The Pounds DVDs/Tapes were perfect for me. Good workout, easy on the joints and could be tailored to your fitness level. My cardio was almost non-existent so I couldn't do anything that required jumping.
Sometimes I do 30 mins. on my treadmill and 30 mins. Leslie Sansone. Or some other time split of both.
Depends on the day but I do at least 30 mins of something a day. On days I struggle with the 30, I usually get in 45 mins. as I start to feel guilty I can't dedicate 30 minutes to my good health.
Usually I exercise in the morning but lately have been doing it at night as I seem to sleep so much better.
I walk on my treadmill for 30 minutes - about a mile and a half - every morning, first thing when I get up. Then, in the evening, another 30 minutes of walking, OR 30+ minutes of a toning video, where I alternate focus from basically lower-mid body one day, arms and shoulders the next. The last bit I've just started, still trying to make it a habit, but the morning walks have totally taken.
I have a collection of DVDs that work for me: Prevention Dance It Off, Crunch Cardio Salsa, Kickboxing (Jillian Michaels), Yoga for the Rest of Us, and WATP. I enjoy the dance and the kickboxing most, but kickboxing kicks my butt, so I never do it two days in a row.
When I first started, I would only do the warm-ups (usually 5-6 minutes), then I would try the first few minutes of an easy routine. I still can't do the whole of any of them (some bits are just too hard on the knees or feet, so I skip or modify them), but I can get about 30 minutes of salsa or dancing or yoga out of those videos, and about 20 minutes out of the kickboxing, and I actually look forward to them. I'm also trying to up my walking in general (finally invested in a pedometer). In general, I can only motivate myself to do a 30-minute or longer walk outside when the weather's good.
I like water aerobics. Lately I get DVDs from the library and set one out each night. In the morning, I do anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. I often modify them for my particular pain spots.
LOTS of walking, some hot yoga. Hope to start running soon. I loved crossfit when I did that, but I can't afford to keep going right now - considering looking into P90X, since I hear that's similar-ish to crossfit.
I take horseback riding lessons 1-2x a week. I do a zumba class 3 times a week and I jog 3 times a week. I plan to start adding weight training in next week.
I'm doing one session of personal training a week. Circuit training, intervals. I do a little under 90 minutes of rugby training each week - that can be anything. (And in an NSV I didn't feel like I was going to die this week!). I'm going to hot yoga once a week. I'm trying to run a couple of times a week and get in a gym session of circuit training - sometimes after a run.
200-300ers, what are you doing for exercise?
