To ask how you stay fit

[ADayGivingMeHope]

I like food!
But I also like to stay fit so I have to work out very regularly.
My workout routine isn't fun. At. All.

What do you do to stay fit?

Pilates once a week
Zumba twice a week
Aqua zumba once a week
Aqua aerobics twice a wee
I also swim ,walk ,cycle and tend our allotment .Have lost 6 and half stone since August 2016 ,trying to make healthier food choices and dumped the wine for gin

Week not wee !!!

Off work today so have just planned a 70km cycle route.

MrsWolf so it's true about people weeing in the pool then?

That is an amazing weight loss. Very well done. I bet you feel amazing!

I go running before work and also swimming and spin in my lunch hour (we have onsite gym which makes it a lot easier to be motivated). I also walk to and from work which is 2.5 miles each way.

Purple don't fret. These threads always only attract MNers who exercise loads. Nobody ever comes on and says "I do nothing. I'm unfit and unmotivated". In reality, around half of the uk population do no exercise at all, ever.

Well the point of the thread is that the OP wants to exercise and is looking for ideas of ways to keep fit, so surely she's looking for answers from those that do manage to do so. Coming on to say I don't do any exercise (for whatever reason) wouldn't be very helpful would it?

Neither is saying to someone struggling to find motivation and time "I do eleventy billion classes and run 400 miles a week and cycle to wales and back every day" either.

It's also had the effect of making a couple of other posters feel shit. So.

And I did come on and say what I did anyway

I'm lucky as I have a long commute with a buggy in a hilly city, so I walk 4.5 miles every day and try to do it as fast as possible to push myself. I also have a personal training for weightlifting and I've just started training for my first 10k,s so I'm also running a few times a week.

It's really hard to fit in time for yourself when you have little kids, there's always so much to do! My dh used to travel for work all the time, but it's not too bad lately, so I'm seizing the opportunity to get some me time!

I get up at 5am to fit it in. To me it's non negotiable though - but it's hard!

I'm baffled as to why people saying 'I run/swim/cycle' makes other posters feel shit - why?

Agree it's easier when the kids are older. When they were younger it was mainly half hour run a couple of evening a week when my ex got home from work and on weekends we'd each have a child free 2-3 hours (or more if needed for something special to exercise whilst the other had the kids. Exercise has always been important to me and current and exhusband. If something's important you fit it in. Our classes and need for exercise are as important as the kids'. Some parents get in to the trap of only letting the kids have activity time in the evenings and weekends and forgetting about themselves.

Saying that doesn't make them feel shit per se. But a couple of PPs said they felt shit that they don't have time to fit stuff in and that makes them feel shit when they see other people are walking to mars and back 3 times a week and they're wondering how others can and they can't. So I just pointed out that the people on this thread are not typical because most people don't exercise much at all so they're not doing anything "wrong" as such. That makes sense in my head anyway

I walk the dog every morning from 6-7am. I run 2 or 3 nights a week with DS1 and the dog. I swim twice a week late at night when the DCs are in bed depending on DH's work. We have a cross-trainer and treadmill in the garage, too, for times when DH is working away.

I love food, though, so need to burn myself out if I'm to continue eating like I do. And DS1 has ASD so needs lots of physical movement/exercise to tire himself thoroughly which gives me an incentive to move more.

I don't think there are many people who couldn't fit in a 15-20 minute hiit workout a few times a week......it's rarely time that people lack, it's motivation. As for complaining about having no energy, that's why people exercise! It GIVES you energy! You are lacking in energy precisely because you don't exercise....

Fell madly in love with weightlifting.

I don't run. Plays havoc with my pelvic floor and also left me with knee and foot issues. I walk a lot, but no running.

Tea how did you start off? Did you follow a plan?

I have weights (heavy Ones) at home but I've no idea where to start.