So what non-gym exercise do you all do? I thought it'd be interesting to see the variety of things everyone does. I go out walking - lately when going on the longer walks, I take my brother's bordercollie with me to keep me moving. When inside, I sometimes walk in place, use my shake weight, and have a thigh master.
Every night my husband and I take our German Shepherd and walk/jog about 3 miles on average around our apartment complex. My hubby also bought me a hula hoop the other day. As soon as I get the hula hooping DVD I'm gonna start doing that for about 15 minutes a day to strengthen my core. Other than that I am training using the Couch to 5K app on my phone (I'm on week 2). I hate exercising, so I try to make it fun to keep me going.
I walk. I try to fit it into the day. Like I walk from the train to work and at lunch. At home I have a recumbent bike and I also have like bungie cords to work muscles. There are also the "on demand" work out shows but so far too weary of my neighbors to do that.
I recently started climbing up stairs and I've been trying to see how many flights I can do in single day... the other week I made it to a 115 floors on one day... I was going for 100 and then I still felt pretty good, so I thought I would try for 125... but I decided to not keep pushing it... so I stopped and called it quits at 115... But now I know that I'll definitely be able to do 125 soon... and I would even like to make an attempt at 150 eventually... so we'll see... and who knows I may even enter the the Empire State Building Run-Up someday...
I am active all day long with housework, cleaning, and on my feet all afternoon with students at work....I rarely sit down for long unless it's late evening...I do grocery shopping, errands, haul recycling out, laundry, stuff like that....
I like to bike ride in good weather but it's rarely good weather here yet...I also like to run and walk on a trail by the coast/tideline
But I'm also at the gym about 5 days a week anyhow putting in a pretty hard workout
Another great exercise--just sitting on the couch--is grab a couple of canned goods--(if you don't have hand weights) and do bi-cept curls. You can also use a sturdy coffee table to work the backs of your arms.
Albeit--I workout at Jazzercise 4 to 5 times a week and we use hand weights there.
Since DH and I don't have a car we walk everywhere. We get at least 30 min of walking in every day. Also, I have two 10 lbs dumbbells at home that I use for my arms and core or I just do bodyweight exercises. As far as workout DVD's goes - I've only tried Tiffany Rothe workouts on Youtube before but they definitely helped.
Everything I've done so far has been sans gym, though I am hoping to join the gym starting in June. I'm currently doing C25K religiously, I'm on week 7 and never thought I'd make it that far. I also strength train at home, I'm doing a squat challenge and sit up challenge and I do arm exercises using an app. Sporadically I'll also do workout videos- 30DS is the one I usually use. I hike a bit and would like to more regularly as it is probably the toughest workout I do. Lastly, I play tennis every once in a while and it is an exhausting workout.
The only reason I want to join the gym next month is to get some heavy lifting in....and avoid the summer heat.
I actually don't even belong to a gym. I prefer to do the Insanity workouts at my house (they kick my butt harder than any gym workout I've tried, and they're cheaper!) I also try to walk my dogs at least 2 miles a day when the weather is nice. Also I just tried kayaking and paddle boarding on Lake Erie- which was an incredible experience!
What non-gym exercise do you do?
I go out walking - lately when going on the longer walks, I take my brother's bordercollie with me to keep me moving. When inside, I sometimes walk in place, use my shake weight, and have a thigh master.
