How much exercise do you do?

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Just that, how much exercise do you do a week? I definitely don’t do enough but just wondered how much exercise people really do around children/work etc?

Run 15-20 miles a week. No strength training or anything else, I don’t have time for more.

I walk 14 mins to work and then back again 5 times a week
I spend all 8 hours a day running around after 20 preschoolers
I don't do any other exercise
Apart from general housework and gardening
I have no weight or health issues

Very little! I aim for 10000 steps a day and do a few squats with weights but that is it

Insancerre when I worked in the preschool I would hit 12000 steps easily, all that getting up and down off the floor must count for something too

I work FT and have 3 primary aged kids. I swim before work 4x a week (1km which takes 30 mins), do yoga the other 3 days. I aim to average over 70000 steps per week but that varies from 3k on a lazy Sunday to 15-20k on the days I pick the kids up from school (2m walk).

DH walks the kids to school everyday then cycles to work. Runs a bit but not masses, his commute is his exercise. I think the key is to build exercise into your day so it becomes a normal part of your routine. But also you have to do exercise you love so you want to do it and feel better after you've done it. And it's important to model good behaviours to the kids, they all do organised sport.

Most of my colleagues do regular exercise, I see people at the leisure centre all the time and there are running groups etc at work and our SHE department do a lot of events to encourage healthy living. Highly educated workforce, I work in Pharms, half of R&D have a PhD, so ties in with what lljkk said.

6/7 x a week

That will change wen I return to work in September though, but will never be less than 4x

Without it I feel bereft!

This was my Fitbit dashboard from yesterday. Includes an 11k run but the rest is from school run and walking to shops and back. Didn’t use the car once

Wow, I am surprised at how much exercise people do. I thought my 2 classesper week were good! I need to do more!

My 2018 New Years resolution was to do an hour of pilates, an hour of weights and 2 x 30 mins cardio per week. I then added in 1 x 15 mins TRX as well. I’ve found it really helpful to have that as it gives me a focus to tick off each of those. I’ve done it every week so far .

The weights is usually with a PT but if I don't see him I do a body pump class instead. Cardio is a mix of x-trainer, swimming, Nordic walking, treadmill. I always do 10k steps. I work full time but dc are teens which helps (as does having a fairly basic gym at work where i can slot in the odd cardio session). One or other of the dc will often come to the gym with me, which is nice.

I positively like the Pilates, the rest I am at best marginal about, which is a big improvement from not liking it at all. Am early 50’s and just have to do it.

Wow, I am surprised at how much exercise people do

The government reccomendation is to do 150 mins moderate exercise or 75 mins vigorous exercise a week plus strength exercises at least twice a week. If you have a sedentary lifestyle thanks to work you basically should try and do 30 mins exercise every day of different kinds.

I walk my dogs up and down hilly fields for 45 to 60 mins at least 10 times a week (DH will take them out if hes off work), we do a 6 to 10 mile walk every weekend. I do weights for 10 mins each day. I walk constantly across my three 12 hr shifts per week and I'm generally busy and moving when at home, until 7.30pm when I sit and knit until bed at 11pm.

In a normal week I run two or three hours, spin 45mins, walk dog one hour a day, HIIT class once a week. I try to do some core, squats and so on but have let it slip.

I like feeling fit-I have energy to enjoy life rather than just dragging myself through it. When I'm injured I feel really out of sorts-restless and moody.

I have 4 dcs and work part time. I'm slim but burn 2600 cals average a day according to Fitbit so I eat tons.

Lots of people I know work full time, have dcs and do more than I do.

Before I started exercising I thought I hadn't got the energy or the time. I wish I'd realised earlier that it gives me more energy and time, as you get more done when you're firing on all cylinders.

Sorry to preach, I wouldn't in real life, but you did ask!

I walk my dog, and work 3 days/week in desk job, usually do about 17000 steps/day, bit less on workdays. Don't really get out of breath for any of it though.

Each week I do 3 x body pump, 2 x spin classes, 1 body conditioning class and 1 circuits class. I've recently added in a 5k run (jog ) and yesterday managed a 10k (wanted to see if I could)

My children have grown up and left home so no commitments there. I work 4 days a week - 11 hour days and pretty active days as I'm a nanny to 3 kids. I go to the gym straight from work on 3 of those days. A couple of years a go, before I picked up my gym habit I would just go home from work, eat tea and collapse of the sofa. I didn't believe I would have the energy to do anything else. But keeping active actually gives me more energy.

I have a healthy bmi but it's towards the top end so ideally I'd love to loose a stone but I like cake and chocolate too much. The exercise makes me hungry and I find it too easy to make the wrong food choices. Considering the junk I eat I'd be a couple of stone heavier without the exercise.

I work part time Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Dcs are 5 & 3
I do 4 spin classes and 2 circuits a week. I'm miserable if I don't exercise.

I'm by no means a fitness junkie I just like the buzz it gives me afterwards

I would do more I could

I live in London so walk everywhere, do about 15,000 steps daily. I go to the gym for about an hour 4 mornings a week and most Sundays we do something active as a family like swimming or bike rides.

Nowhere near as much as I did pre kids but enough to keep me in good fitness

Work full time and have 3dcs
I work out four to fives times a week. I do weights, spin, step and boxing classes.
Exercise keeps me sane.

Milon Circle twice a week, aquafit once a week, cross trainer or exercise bike 3 times a week, physio exercises twice a day. I had orthopaedic surgery 5 weeks ago so this is just rehab. Once I am back to fitness (9 months to a year) that will switch to spinning x3, body combat, body pump and a dance class. I have a two small kids (2 and 5) and work 24-28 hours a week.

Hahahahahah in my original post “I’ve started a spin class” hilarious I thought I was doing alright.
I do walk to work, which takes less than 2 minutes but run around after my 7 month old and keep on top of the house or walk with him in his pushchair every day!
Have a very strong feeling I am not doing enough

I run 5-10k three or four times a week (longer run at least fortnightly when training for half marathon)

Pilates class weekly, and usually at least one other class

I've been having a break from another sport I do, but am thinking of going back in the summer (more time to play with in the longer evenings) which would mean another one or two sessions a week.

If I can't do all/some that (eg recovery from injury) I would aim to up the amount I walk.

I wouldn’t stress OP

When mine were that young, i didn’t do any formal exercise

As time marches on, you will have more time and inclination. Now I work out pretty much every day and fittest I’ve ever been.

Loads.

I do 11 gym classes a week. Also cycle 4 miles twice a week. Walk the dog 3 miles 3 days a week.

I swim 1 mile once a week, spin class once a week, shred or body coach dvd before everyone else gets up on the other days. But I do have at least one day off a week. Other than that... School run 1 mile round trip 6x per week, 10 min walk to work from the car park 3x per week (and back at the end of the day obviously).

2 dc, 4 and 7.

This is the most exercise I've done in years, but I've been doing this for around 12 months now and feel good for it.

5 one hour sessions in the gym: mix of cardio/weights/yoga.

I went from the dizzying heights of doing absolutely nothing at all three years ago...

To running three times a week (about 20km), walking DD to school and from after school care every day, trying to get in a hike or walk as much as possible and generally choosing to do more.

Started, didn't stop. I feel much better. Don't tell all the people who told me I would though. I hate people being right.