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How Many Miles Can You Do?

I was wondering how many miles you exercise daily?

Is it walking/running/jogging outside or inside on a treadmill? Do you use a bike?

When you exercise on a treadmil or bike, Which do you focus on more? the time/carlories/miles ?

I was told to go slow at first, Don't try to push for A LOT right off the bat. Because If I get to a standstill, I might try to kill myself to go that extra mile or two.

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Question 5 days after sugrey when do you start exercising and how much? thnaks

Hey Slack,

My doctor said to start walking the day I got home. It was a full 6 weeks before they told me I was OK to use the elliptical.

Make sure you use this time to let your body heal. I've actually learned to enjoy walking thanks to the time I spent doing it after my surgery.

Congrats and good luck!

Now, my next goal is to do a 5k! I just hit the 1 mile mark (continuous running) so I'm on my way! It was only a few weeks ago that I struggled with a quarter mile. No aches or pains... just a little sore in the left hamstring sometimes.

Yay for NSV's!!!

Oh that is reassuring to me. I just started the couch to 5Kprogram yesterday and just thinking of running a mile still seems way out of my reach. It is good to know that it can get easier quickly!

I have no distance.... I do the 20 minute cardio solution on the body for life challenge 3 times a week and 3 sessions of weight training too.... I take Saturdays off.... Can't get down all the meals that they want, but I'm happy that I'm making really good progress with my aerobic capacity....my distance started off as 2.4km for the 20 minutes... this morning.... 7th session I did 3.18km in my 20 minutes.... the good thing about it is that it will always be challenging, because it's about my perception of exhertion, not what the machine says it should be.... you can look at the cardio plan at

http://www.bodyforlife.com/exercise/cardiotraining.asp

Prior to surgery, i had not ridden a bike in twelve years.

a week after surgery, i hopped on one and rode about a mile and a half...eventually i got to where i was waking up just before sunrise and riding the bike eight miles along the seawall to greet the sun. Now that im home i ride my bike back and forth to work, then in the evenings i sometimes take the long way home to just ride.

I have a gym membership, and when im not "TOM"ing im there in the early mornings with thirty min on treadmill, thirty recumbent bike (diff than riding leasuirely outside) then thirty on the strength training machines three times a week.

I could live w/out the gym membership, but i cant tell you how much i enjoy bike riding. Not competitive, not as a sport, but just to enjoy the outside.

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