200-300ers, what are you doing for exercise?

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  • 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)

    So what are you doing?
  • 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.

    I also started strength training.
  • 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.
  • Just did an hour on my treadmill.

    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.
  • All I am doing now is the daily working out on dailyburn.com, 15 on my stationary bike, and some situps.
  • elliptical for me!!! (I'm 216-217lbs)
  • 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 do water aerobics for an hour, swim laps, or I'll do the treadmill.
  • 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.