Just wondering how much exercise everyone is fitting into their schedule, if any at all.

65 mins of cardio, six days a week. Joined a gym 11 months ago and I go religiously. BTW, I was a certified COUCH POTATO 12 months ago!

I run on the treadmill twice a day. Ends up being a little more than an hour per day. I've noticed that the scale doesn't move as easy now but I physically can see the inches that I have loss running. Water retention is a bitch when your use to scale watching

I have a minimum weekly "goal" of 210 minutes. 30 minutes per day average. I just checked my activity tracker and for the last year, I've averaged 558 "exercise" calories per day.....I don't exercise every day, but over the course of the year, it evens out. (203,526 calories for the past year) Minute wise, its right at 50 minutes per day average over the last year.

ExerciseCalories with average2014-04-11 (4849).xlsx

These are numbers from LoseIt!, but pretty close to my HRM tracked numbers, which show 189,xxx calories of exercise.

Edited April 11, 201412 yr by catfish87

I'm waiting for my exercise partner to arrive now. We try to do 80 minutes -- switching off treadmill, recumbent bike and BowFlex -- goal is six days a week but with weather, kids, etc. we have been averaging about four. And some days we only go 60 minutes but trying to eliminate that short-cutting. Now that it's nice outside I want to get a bike and add that in. I meet a friend at a lake to do outdoor walking a couple of times a week. So it varies, but I just know I have to do it. Joint pain can get me down but five minutes into the exercise and I feel so much better, plus overall pain profile is greatly improved by movement. Gardening will start soon. I do a lot of that -- lots of fruit trees to prune, beds to rake out, etc., but this kind of non-cardio exercise doesn't help with either the weight loss or the pain. Unfair!

Just know wherever you start is great -- a walk to the mailbox or around the driving circle, ten minutes on a treadmill then another tem, etc. Don't be alarmed by the people out there who do massive amounts of exercise as that can definitely feel impossible to achieve, at least for me. But it's true that it starts to get exponential quickly -- the momentum really builds and boy do those inches come off. My exercise togs are so big on me it's ridiculous.

I do 30-40 minutes of a walk/jog combination right now, 7 days a week. I want to add to it, but finding time is hard since I work full time and have a kid in girls scouts and softball. You just have to start somewhere and work your way up.

I do about 60 min to 90 min a day

I walk two miles on the treadmill every day. Takes about forty minutes.

Try finding 1-2 activities that you really like so you' ll stick with it, and try tracking your food in My fitness pal. com. I take a swim class 3x week and run 1-2 x weekly. I love anything outside, so being able to run ( slooooooooowly) is an absolute joy for me.