We’re thinking about merging this section, what do you think?

Agree with all the above. I was initially surprised to even find this topic under Health - I was searching under Fun & Games. Seemed odd to have 'Sport' and 'Exercise' under completely different categories. For many (most?) exercise is a leisure activity, not a means to an end.

I just saw this post.

Exercise is not about weight loss!!! I'm borderline underweight and someone who has struggled with eating. I have to put effort into dissociating the two things. It would actually cause me real issues to even start associating what I am doing with trying to lose weight.

For those with full blown Eating disorders this would be massively triggering. It's incredibly unhelpful.

Yep, exercise is more mental health, wellness & can help with body composition.

It isn't really helpful to lump it with fatloss, which is almost all diet-related. As in, it can aid a far better body composition but you can be no lighter...

I agree it is a bit depressing that the wide range of exercise discussions would be relegated to a sub-topic of dieting.

Could you merge them under a title like "Healthy Living"?

Thanks for listening!

I wonder how long before the weight loss posters would want us booted off especially in the marathon training season, when the thread titles would be along the lines of 'help me increase what I eat'

I agree with all the previous posters. And I have never exercised for weight loss but to benefit both my physical and mental health.
The times I have discussed nutrition on an exercise board is probably the opposite of weight loss - work out how to fuel properly for longer runs.
Please reconsider this idea.

I will leave the exercise boards if they are merged into weight loss. I do not need to lose weight. I could live with them being under something like lifestyle, but weight loss? Hell no!

I noticed this morning, when reading about fitness, in an article on the BBC, that it arranges it under health.

Not a good idea to put weight loss and exercise together.
I exercise for health , not weight loss

It’s clear that MNHQ hasn’t read the Exercise forum (or the Weights Room either).

Another one saying that this is an awful idea! I’d be happy with Healthy Living though.

I don't like the idea of exercise being in weight loss, however, I would totally embrace a new section called Healthy Living. I think you could then have sub-categories of Exercise, Healthy Eating (which is different to weight loss) and Wellbeing.

Didnt exercise used to be under weight loss but it was moved for the reasons all stated above?

I think this is a bad idea.

And I agree with many of the other posters hat I think it sends a bad message that MumsNetHQ think that exercise is only ever to lose weight.

I’d be curious to know if this was one person’s decision, or approved by many? I think the fact you thought this was a good idea shows you need to re-examine your views, both for the website and (I say this gently) in your own mind.

I don't exercise to lose weight ....

I don't associate exercise with weight loss. I think the sections should be separate

No no no no!

Exercise is quite different to weight loss.

Sorry if this sounds mean, but I don’t want to have to wade through umpteen angsts boring (to me) about losing weight (it’s simple, track calories and exercise and eat less and move more)

In the Exercise topic we do talk about weight loss but in a healthier way - the focus is in fitness and health.

I know I sound mean but I want to have the focus on exercise. And get the expert advice that other posters can give.

No!
I have a BMI of 19 and workout for the love of it! If you want add the weights room in here, but weightloss is something very very different !

Please don't

Dreadful idea and based on some concerning assumptions.

MNHQ, if you were a board aimed at men, would you put exercise in "Weight Loss'?

Women exercise for many reasons.

By all means roll the weights room and yoga back into Exercise and they can have separate threads there.

I agree with the majority that Exercise isn't about Weight Loss. I exercise every day and that's mainly for stress relief! And to improve my fitness. Nothing to do with weight loss. I would never find the exercise threads if they disappear to Weight Loss as this doesn't seem a logical place to look.

That’s quite depressing MNHQ are we only allowed to exercise for weight loss now???

You could roll some of the more specific exercise topics (weights, yoga) back in to Exercise (from whence they came), depending on what users of those topics think.

I'm not sure Life-Limiting should be rolled in to General Health, dealing with terminal situations isn't something that requires lots of answers, and it's a great, and well used, resource exactly as it is.

I would rather see exercise in General Health than Weight Loss, or in Body and Soul, as it is a much broader issue than weight