What's the best form of exercise?

Women need to do cardio, strength/weight training and some kind of flexibility exercise eg yoga or pilates.

Crossfit has been the best thing I've ever started it has made me strong, fit and healthy.

Actually a set class. To get heart rate up. And help with floor exercises too

I’d go for a good old fashioned aerobics class a la Jane Fonda if I could only do one type of exercise!

If you like outdoor activities, look for local outdoor boot camps? There are a lot around nowadays. Or canicross (with your dog?)
Local council leisure centres usually have a fair bit on and are reasonably priced, if the bigger more expensive places are out of your range.
Ask on your local Facebook page for fitness classes and see what appeals.

When you say you want to Tone up, what exactly do you mean? If you want to increase your muscle mass, you could try some Caroline Girvan youtubes (others are available) if you don't fancy going to a gym to use the weights.

Totally depend on why you want to increase exercise…... Do you want to lose weight? Build strength? Improve your fitness/health? Just for fun?

And what age/gender are you?

Body pump is a weights class or as a pp said heavy weights a couple of times a week.

I swim, walk, play badminton and at home I do treadmill runs and (machine) rowing plus yoga both at home and at a class. But I prefer solitary exercise I can mix up, do at home and has variety. The key is an exercise/s that you enjoy.

At my fittest I was doing long walks daily, peloton spinning 4-5 times a week for up to an hour, yoga 2-3 times weekly, lots of stretching.

I run (jog) and do metafit for cardio
& body pump and kettle bells for resistance. I would like to start lifting weights properly (e.g heavy) but the structure of the classes means I have to go even if I don’t feel like it and I do lift heavy enough to get DOMs

I find cycling fun

I tend to run. It’s something I enjoy and I feel like it’s the best thing for my fitness. I run 4 days a week and go to the gym 2/3 days a week to do weights and the stair master plus the odd lift class.

if you have a dog you could run rather than walk with them.

or see what’s in your local area. Lots of places do outdoor exercise classes or yoga over the summer. Park yoga is free. It won’t do loads for your fitness but when I used to go I would cycle/run there and back. Lots of free stuff to follow at home on YouTube too. I find exercising at home a bit sole destroying, but some people love it.

you just have to see what works for you.

There used to be an outdoor exercise group in my local park - I'm not an organised exercise or gym person - but I really loved it for some reason - went 3 times a week and it was amazing for toning. Even in the rain I'd turn up.

I now go to a gym 3 (ish) times a week first thing in the morning - leave the house at 7.10 and I'm back at 8.20. It's a weights class.

Walking is great - but i think you have to do a lot, with hills, for it to make a real difference and that's time consuming.

I also used to play tennis in all weathers and that was good too....

I'm off running for a while while I recover from shin splints and have found the Caroline Girvan Iron series a good programme for strength training.

I've had a few sessions with a PT in the past so feel like I have some idea of the form but CG does break it down a fair bit on the videos.

She lifts massive weights compared to me, but I am feeling the difference and work with weights that become a real effort as sets come to an end.

I bought 4/5/7.5kg dumbbells and they seem to be enough for now, plus I use a mat and yoga block and chair. Not a massive outlay.

Doing that plus walking (will hopefully get back to running gradually soon) seems to be working well at the moment. The videos, plus a warm up take about 45 mins, doable for 4/5 sessions a week.

Do something you like. At various points in time I've done
Aqua aerobics - hilarious a good laugh and a good work out
Buggy fit - as above
Swimming - when there's a nice pool available so relaxing.
Yoga - for a stretch and a relax
Ceilidhs- fun and warm you up in the winter
Hiking - nice to be outside/good head space.

I did try running a few times but I hate it and have also just gone on machines at the gym which I found boring.

Whatever you enjoy enough to keep doing. My favourite is swimming which I do about 3/4 times a week. I also like walking and using my ebike. I live in a hilly area so still getting some benefit from it. I don’t see the point of treadmills or exercise bikes when you can do the real deal outside!

I don't think there's really one exercise that is completely brilliant for everything. Firstly you have to enjoy it otherwise you won't do it and secondly variety is key is to make you strong, cardiovascularly fit, and supple.

The main things I do are yoga, football, tennis and weights. I also garden and walk the dog.

everyone's different - for me runninng and weights on alternative days work.

Pilates

Cycling! I used to be a swimmer then when I had kids I just don't have time to swim and do the drive and changing etc. Cycling is exercise right from the door, very efficient.

I use YouTube videos - a mix of strength, weighted cardio (I have 1, 2, 3 and 5kg dumbells at home) and HIIT. The longest session I do is 45 mins, most are 20 or 30 mins. If it's intense, then that is long enough!

I enjoy it, it doesn't take up loads of time or need expensive equipment, and there is always a new video available to try. I'm fit, toned and healthy. It definitely works for me!

A combination of what you enjoy. You need a cardio, strength and something for flexibility.
Even carrying heavy shopping back from the supermarket will help.

I'm fond of bootcamp workout that incorporate a short run. These are quite hard to come by though as they need the space. I've found one just by luck.

What about one of those outdoor fitness groups you sometimes see in the park? There's a group that meets in my local park- you see them doing running and body weight type exercises- press-ups, burpees etc. Instructor motivating them, cheering each other on.

Looks like a good combination of weights/running/ outdoors/ social etc (I say 'good', it looks like hell to me....)

Cycling, because you're sitting down 😁
Joking aside, I adore cycling as it became ny commute which saved me time and money. It also slimmed my thighs!

I do different things for different reasons.

Cardio - running, long walks with dogs, stationary bike, circuits.
Strength - weights and resistance bands.
Flexibility and balance - yoga.
Pure enjoyment - outdoor swimming.