How much exercise do you do ?

[TinaTwinkleToes]

I do a 30 mins lifting weights class
1 hour of yoga
30 mins step
30 mins hit
30 mins stair master
I also walk a mile there and back to my child's school twice a week

The above is within a week

I see people doing loads more exercise. How do they fit it in?

I do what I can in terms of time and what I can be bothered to commit to!
2 reformer Pilates classes a week
1 swim a week (up to 4 1-2km swims in the summer months, I do cold water swimming and the lake I go to has reduced hours when it’s cold and dark!)
2 gym/weight sessions with my son
walk daily, can be half an hour, can be 3 hours if I’ve got a quiet weekend
have a spin bike in my home office so will jump on there if I have some downtime. Used to be more strict and do 2 proper spin classes using my gym app but I’ve let that slide!

I do a 10k walk 3x a week before work.
I do Sunday, Wednesday, Friday PT sessions (2 x 1 HR, and 1 x 1hr 30min).
And a Thursday class
Normal week is 120,000 steps (minimum)
Also do the odd step challenge when I am watching TV....
I get it in by waking at 5am- I work, I look after hubby and child (am hubby's carer)....

I'm 53 and have just started strength training. It's not too late and after only 3 months I have fewer aches and pains and am noticeably more mobile and flexible. I only do 1x 45 min session pw with a PT but it has made such a difference. I also try and walk for 20 mins each day. Follow sally gunnell on installation for some basic exercises you can do at home

Walking: 10km/day
Cycling: maybe 10km/week
running: 5km/week
swimming: 1500m/week
Other bits... just spent 35 minutes weeding

I suspect the people who answer this question will be the ones who exercise the most

5 years ago other than walking the dog where I’d plod and he’d run around, I did absolutely no exercise. I’d get out of breath on the 10 minute school run. I did try to do more sometimes but I felt so unfit and self conscious I’d always stop.

I made 2024 the year of losing weight, 2025 to maintain that weight and do lots of walking and 2026 the year I get properly fit, and build some strength. I’ve got a full time job and young kids so I find it hard but I now run 3 times a week on set days so it feels I’ve committed (and family know I’m heading out) rather than try to squeeze it in ad-hoc and fail. I block out 45 mins once a week over lunch and unless it tips it down I do a brisk walk. The days I don’t do a long walk or run I do core or Pilates exercises and kettlebell. I do silly things like calf raises and squats when I boil the kettle or wait for the microwave. It’s quite a modest amount but the more I do the more I want to do. According to my Apple Watch my health has improved since I started and I’ve noticed I have a spring in my step and muscle definition.

Prior to 3 years ago - absolutely nothing other than pottering around the house. Avg 2000 daily steps 😳.

Now I'm fitter than I've every been and go to the gym 4x a week. 45mins at a time, mix of weights and cardio and a couple of lengths in the small pool. Daily dog walks if it's not pissing it down (the dog will not go out in the rain).

Prioritising cardio but really love weights and yoga. Have an active bastard of a dog. I am a Clydesdale horse more than an Arabian.

We have a small holding and a Reno house so I guess I get a lot of exercise from the constant being outside. I am fitter now than when I used to do yoga every day.

I also do yoga twice a week and I have an exercise bike and I have weights that I use if I’ve not been outside lifting and walking.

I’m 57 and retired, so have lots of spare time.
2 yoga classes
1step class
2 Les Mills Shapes
1 Reformer Pilates
2 5k runs
and walk the dog for 6,000 steps when husbands at work.
i love that im probably fitter and more flexible than i was in my 30s.

How many hours of weight lifting do you do a week? And do you use creatinine (if that’s how to spell it!) or any other supplements?

Walk dog daily (puppy, so not far yet)
Run 3 x a week
1 or 2 swims a month
Cycling in summer

Try to do 2 x 15 upper limb workout on YouTube weelkly but often fail this one!

My work have a fair few all hands off camera meetings, and I'm always on the exercise bike for those. Then I have a reasonable amount of audio-learning to do, so I can either do swimming or more biking listening to those. Then I do one weights session a week, usually blended with work - a 5m session every hour, for example.

Basically I plan for as much of it as possible to take place during work, but worse case scenario is doing an hour of work in the evening and taking a long lunch.

Run between 4 and 6km three times a week - twice on mornings when I’m working from
home, once at the weekend.
15-40 minutes Pilates at least twice a week - again, once on a wfh day and once at the weekend, if I feel like doing more then I do.
Yoga every day, anywhere from 15 to 90 minutes and a mix of restorative and more intense sessions.
I also walk wherever possible and usually walk home on the day I work in the office, which takes about 80 minutes.

I would say the key is finding ways to make it work for your life and routine. For me that means doing most activity during the week on wfh days, using my office day as an opportunity for a long walk, and running first thing in the morning else I know I just won’t go!

@Fearlesssloth I try and stick to three (lifting) days a week:

Tue - PT (weights - lower body)
Fri - GYM (weights - upper body)
Sat - GYM (weights - full body)

I don't take creatine but try and keep my protein to 120g per day which is so much more than I used to ear before I realised protein was a 'thing'

I don't do exercise as such, don't belong to a gym or club, don't do classes nor actively tick boxes on so many steps or whatever, no fitness tracking.
I am active though, at work I'm on my feet a lot back and forth to the warehouse, at home we have a 300ft garden some of which is veg plot, so I'm up and down that a few times to, and I do walk the dog x 2 or 3 a day, total at least an hour and a half. Mucking out a horse probably 2-3 x a week, and in the summer months I usually swim for an hour a day (200 lengths when up to full swim fitness) every day in my neighbour's pool. But nothing that's really heavy or hard work that normal people would call 'exercise' that raises the heart rate. Certainly doing far less than the OP because it's not a class and dedicated high energy output it's more casual just being active as opposed to sitting on the sofa scrolling on a phone (which is sooo boring, oops best get back to work!).

Well only a few are going to say ‘none just what I do to get though the day’. Which is likely the truth for the majority of people. I know one friend who does actual organised (gym classes, running) exercise. A few who like to go for daily walks. I used to have a PT twice a week and do a Pilates class but can’t afford her now. My son (22) jogs most days, plays footie and kickboxing a couple times a week, plus has a job where he doesn’t sit down. But middle aged friends? Just the one.

My PT didn't quite believe me when I said I skipped the gym to garden and do DIY, but then lockdown happened.

When we were able to do sessions outside in the garden, I showed him some of the tools weighing 1.5-2kg, the actions, the carrying back and forth (before you get to the 40kg slabs I was laying), and he was never unhappy for me to skip the gym for 3h gardening again.

I'm 55. I do around 8k steps a day walking the dogs, and I've got a studio bike that I try to do 35 to 40 minutes on daily. My target is to do a minimum of 50 miles a week on it.

‏You do three hours a week plus walking which sounds fine?

I go to the gym 4 mornings a week, twice a week is cardio and twice a week is strength.

I can hit all major muscle groups across those two strength days (each session is around 30 minutes) and I’m making steady gains in terms of increasing the weight every few weeks so I think thats fine.

Cardio is 45 minutes on the bike, I can see steady improvement in regards to gradually lowering hr for increasing effort so it’s enough to make a difference.

The main thing I’m missing is high intensity and I plan to build that in to my routine down the line.

4 x 45 minute hiit classes early morning before work
walk the dog a minimum of one hour a day (sometime split over 2 walks sometimes 1

Exactly. Looking at the people in my street, my colleagues and my friend group, no-one is doing more than walking the dog, maybe a couple of trips to the gym a week, maybe a bit of running, and a couple go horse riding. They're fitting that in if they can on top of f/t work, hobbies, family commitments, house stuff etc, and other times they're too knackered after 10 hour days and just want to read or watch telly.

Two Pilates, three Yin yoga, one Hatha yoga, one cardio/ weights and two dance clsses. Nearly 76. Have skiied once and going again next week.

I'm a dog walker so I do around 15-20k steps a day during the week.

I do absolutely fuck all at weekends

2 hours a day 5-6 days a week but am currently training for an event. Work PT and live close to gym, older kids.