How do you exercise?

[Dwood]

I just got back from a beastly bike ride and I am still panting and sweating from it... been getting back into the/a routine of biking roughly every other day or so such that I can get and stay in physical shape... (4/5 months before prom... *hint hint*)

What do you do to stay in shape, if anything?

[Jean-Luc]

I've been real bad for the last couple of months (and my body shows it), but I'm a fan of bike riding. Now that winter is coming, I'm going to be hitting the gym a few times a week to get back into shape.

[Limited]

Well, every weekday I walk to uni and back, 1 mile each way. Some days I do the trip twice, so 4 miles a day.

I go jogging fairly regularly however recently the weather has been attrocious so havent been able to.

I go to the gym quite a bit, housemates trying to get me to go 3 times a week lol, with my busy schedule its awkward.

To be honest, my exercise over past few years has decreased, so far though my weight has not increased. I'm 9 stone 1lb at the moment (which, I want to get to 10 stone).

[Heathen]

I dont. I eat all day and still weigh 25 lbs.

[mech]

I play basketball and then lift weights at the gym. Also like to tear up the football field with exercises, and yoga.

[StankBacon]

lifting up beer cans to my mouth.

[Sel]

god youre a fucking redneck

weights

[ODX]

Normally I ride my bike too, which I got back from around an hour bike ride, but yesh, it's getting to be fucking cold outside.

So, I'm swimming now, some of the best shtuff you can do, I believe. Although, the temperature doesn't change much, the water is like, 50 degrees.

[StankBacon]

god youre a fucking redneck

weights


rofl.

but really.. i lift weights, rollerblading and hiking, but with winter coming, those two are pretty much out of the question for now.

[Hunter]

Well, walk up there stairs, then down a long corridor to my bedroom, climb the ladders to my bed (bunk bed, how childish), sit down. Then pick up an Xbox360 controller, hold the middle button, turn TV on. Move thumbs and fingers for about 5 hours. Done.

Nah, just kidding. Every so often I use my weights, but I walk to and from college everyday, takes about 40 minutes. I used to bike, takes 20 minutes then, but I keep breaking it :/

[Ganon]

running after school
sit ups and push ups while watching anime
some light weights before bed

gets me some, hth

[Cojafoji]

i jump rope for 15-30 minutes a day. i try to walk 2 miles every day, but i don't get the chance tbh.

e: lol fat guy jumping rope. no but srsly.

[Llama Juice]

I skateboard to and from school every day. During school I usually take a break or two from work and go out and skate for an hour or so each break period. Then again after I leave school I go back and play for another hour or so before skating home.

There's a spot behind the school that they let us play where there's an asphalt transition leading up to curb. It's pretty swell.

[t3h m00kz]

I bike to and from work, it's a mile uphill both ways, always on the highest gear. Even when accelerating.

Then I come home and twitch my wrist for a perfect 3sk.

[paladin]

The only thin I exercise is my right hand.

[Llama Juice]

^To open your diet coke?

[SilentChaos]

concerts:realsmug:

and biking.

[STLRamsFan]

Copied and edited from another thread since basically everyone knows what I do :realsmug::

I run, enjoy training for different races (even though I really don't race a whole lot). My workouts vary depending on the day. I varies from continuous runs, tempos, intervals, and even long runs. It just depends on when it's scheduled. I do warm up and cool down, always need to get my legs going and shake off my workout. After most runs I do strides which are basically comfortable sprints. The strides are to help with leg turnover and such. My mileage has been in the mid 40s lately but hope to get it to or close to the 50s by mid December. Don't want to risk aggravating it again.

As far as my lifting goes, I do two sessions a week. Push and pull, no legs because of the stress it put on my legs. While it works for some, it just didn't work for me. I'm planning on adding days of body weight exercises, used to be consistent doing it but stopped during my tampering for my ten miler. I do work on my core but could be a little more consistent with it. Happens to be my least favorite area to workout. I'm possibly adding pilates but I'll probably worry about that later on when class isn't being such a pain in the ass...

And finally, I do some polometrics. These I typically do during my warm up or cool-down during my days of speed work. They're mostly drills to be quite honest. While they don't show results right away, it's the long term you have to keep in mind. Your explosiveness off the line can sometimes play a role in your race.

Right now I'm doing a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving. It's only a 5k (3.1 miles) and should be a lot of fun. Totally pumped for it, seeing old friends, thanksgiving, food, can't get any better than that. :)

[PlasbianX]

I exercise everyday just by walking to class. My classes arent exactly that far apart, its just what I carry with me. I'm an art student so I carry around a portfolio filled with all my artwork. In all honesty it probably weighs a good 20 pounds. When im not at class, work is a workout with all the lifting and walking I do. When I'm at home, air guitar / drums all the way lol.

[Llama Juice]

http://www.llamajuice.com/img/SkateFS4A3.png

I so pro.

[Needles]

I walk around my whole neighborhood a couple of times, then do sit-ups and push-ups later in the afternoon. Also, having ROTC at school helps :D.

[Heathen]

I meant 125.

I dont way 25 lbs

[CrAsHOvErRide]

I dont way 25 lbs
Get out of my weigh!!!

Sorry :P

[Higuy]

i dont do anything.. though in school I play alot of basketball and football during gym every other day, but thats about it. i'm not even fat, i way like 120 lb's, and i eat so much shit every single day its not funny. and suprisingly, I can still run the mile in like 6.7~ minutes too.

idgi

[That Guy]

Two to five mile runs, bench presses, shoulder shrugs, leg lunges, loading a backpack with around 80 pounds of crap and then sprinting with it, quarterdeck exercises (if you all don't know what these are, it's how we got punished in USMC recruit training; pretty much, you run in place, do push-ups, mountain climbers, side straddle hops (jumping jacks), crunches, and bends and thrusts for up to fifteen minutes without stopping, switching exercises extremely quickly), dumbbell presses, military presses, and pull-ups.

5'9", 162 pounds.

[blind]

I have sex and carry 24's the 15 blocks from the beer store back to my house.
yeah.

[MetKiller Joe]

Uncle created this workout in high school:

10 push-ups x 10 per day - until it is relatively easy for you
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20 push-ups x 10 per day - " "
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30 push-ups x 10 per day - " "

^Repeat until you are up to your desired quantity per day. He got up to 50.

I also jog sometimes 1-2 miles, but I usually run everywhere just because and that keeps me fit.

[Invader Veex]

I walk sometimes and occasionally ride my bike to school & back. oh, and I roller-skate. That's it.

[Geo]

Push ups, and weights. And in place of sit-ups I do the ab ripper X method. You guys should look it up if your into killing yourself for the sake of a 6 pack. :iamafag:

[Dwood]

Epic bump is epic.

HOWEVER- The post is relative ~dont ban me~ Thus:

Finding out that my University has a weight room publicly available to all students, I started going there instead of just doing nothing in the ways of coordinated exercise. This week I will manage going about 3 days of the 6 it's open... I think a 3-a-week is a pretty good idea, tbh.

Abs, up from ~30 to 60 pounds, in those weighted sit-up machines (20 reps or so)
Calf Extensions ~170, 30 reps or so.
Biceps - I totally didn't pay attention to how much I was lifting at beginning, or now.... LOL. Something around 70 at this point. Started at around 40.

What's a good rate of return when it comes to working out?

[TVTyrant]

The weighted sit-ups don't do anything tbh. Use a med ball and do side exercises. Elevate you back and legs off the ground so your only on your butt, and move the med ball from as far to one side as you can reach to the other. This will work all your obliques. As far as pure abs, do 100-200 sit-ups, high crunches a day, or more if that makes you more comfortable. Another good way is to use a bench that has angle adjustment. Adjust the angle so its directed toward the floor, and then use a 5k med ball and raise all the way up, and then proceed to do the full range motion twist. doing this will work all of your core muscles, and will provide more stress, than that machine can. Try to do about 50 of these.

Calf extensions are good, but don't forget that you should do squats too to develope dat ass as well as strengthening your thighs. Squats will work out very muscle in your leg systems, and are the ONLY legit leg muscle building technique. If byour doing about 170 on the calf raises, try starting at 185 with the squat rack and move up in about 10 pound increments, until your doing five and its VERY uncomfortable. that perfect weight should be doable, but will make you feel like pooping yourself after 5 (yes that is the proper way to put it, it puts stress on your bowels when you put ALOT of weight on there. I rep around 400 to finish off).

Biceps sounds good. Are you doing hammer (standing with your thumbs pointing up at flexed position) or sitting? Sitting will more directly work your Bis, but hammers will get Delts and Tris into the workout as well. Don't forget the bench either. Its really good for making your pex ook big, which the ladies love if you've got dat ass and a string core.

Fake E: Don't forget to warm up properly and stretch before and after you lift. Bike riding works, but nothing is as good for you as a string run. Run 3 miles if your just doing a run, and about 1 for your pre and post lift. That way your burning away the residue of acids that build up on your muscles, and kills the fat inside of them.

E: I mean 1/2 pre and 1/2 post.

[Cortexian]

I walk.

Up and down the stairs in my house, to and from my computer/bed/fridge/freezer/oven/bathroom/microwave/etc.

[Bastinka]

Every single day of the week except Sunday and at least an hour each day. Right now I do:

Monday - Chest, Back and Abs
Tuesday - Plyometrics
Wednesday - Arms, Shoulders and Abs
Thursday - Yoga
Friday - Legs, Back and Abs
Saturday - Kenpo



Edit:

Uncle created this workout in high school:

10 push-ups x 10 per day - until it is relatively easy for you
\/
20 push-ups x 10 per day - " "
\/
30 push-ups x 10 per day - " "

^Repeat until you are up to your desired quantity per day. He got up to 50..
http://hundredpushups.com/

This isn't good advice for anyone because your muscles will stop building as it becomes a natural movement, sort of a muscle memory kind of thing, and will not do you any good whatsoever. You have to switch it up so you adapt, in a way, thus introducing a new form of the same stimulus. (i.e. Military (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvdd0rPTiU#t=0m14s), Diamond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkW7OYYjFYs), Decline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS_JeBgbn0) and Dive Bomber (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttk8RdiIHzA#t=0m38s) push-ups.)


As far as pure abs, do 100-200 sit-ups, high crunches a day, or more if that makes you more comfortable. Another good way is to use a bench that has angle adjustment.
It's better to set your own goals as opposed to having an amount which someone might not be able to do, or do it wrong. By wrong I mean do a set, pause for 30 seconds, do a set, pause, rinse and repeat. This, again, won't do you any good. You should work a selected 2 or 3 muscles and rotate between (i.e. 10-12 Push-ups, 8-12 Pull ups, 8-12 dips and repeat in that order 3-4 times then switch to different types of push-ups, pull ups and dips).

Most importantly, do not work the same muscles every day. Allow for a one day, 24-hour, rest and recovery time for those muscles.

[Cortexian]

I find pushups to be 100% mental, at one point I was able to do 100 clap push ups (on your up you push of from the ground and clap your hands) with no preparation on a dare/bet that I couldn't do it. Another time I did 150 regular ones.

I do 50 pushups a day/20 situps, not really a way to exercise though as your body gets used to it.

[TVTyrant]

It's better to set your own goals as opposed to having an amount which someone might not be able to do, or do it wrong. By wrong I mean do a set, pause for 30 seconds, do a set, pause, rinse and repeat. This, again, won't do you any good. You should work a selected 2 or 3 muscles and rotate between (i.e. 10-12 Push-ups, 8-12 Pull ups, 8-12 dips and repeat in that order 3-4 times then switch to different types of push-ups, pull ups and dips)..

Oh for sure. I agree with all of that. I'm really out of conditioning currently, so I'm not going to be fully go either. I was just suggesting some ways (as someone who was a high school athlete and has studied athletic training in college) that he could improve his regimen was all.
Yeah, do not FULLY work out the same muscles daily. It's good to do SOMETHING though with them. Really light hammers can soothe sore biceps. Use 20lb dumbells and stretch your sore pex etc. I had a couple buddies who just signed their letters of intent to play college football, and when we would work out we'd do bench, heavy curls, and tris in a rotation mondays; light curls, back aquats and some other types of squats tuesdays; heavy cardio wednesday, with light leg lifts to ease the tension; and then do mondays on thursday and tuesdays on friday. I got pretty damn strong, and those cardio days made me quite a bit more in "shape". Of course, both of those guys are fucking ridiculously strong, and much faster than I am, but working out with them gave me a challenge.

[Syuusuke]

Are you using p90x exercises bastinka?

Also interval training (3+ milse) on elliptical or treadmill or even outside... should be last but I normally do intervals first. After that I do full body workout, everyday I focus more on a different body parts. If I focus on abs one day, the next day itl'll be arms, then it'll be abs again or something else. Even with intervals, dont need to do it everyday, or you don't need to do a set of miles everyday. Plyometrics are also every other day with dead lifts and box-squats at 1.5x the weight...3 sets, 3-5 reps, great workout.

[Bastinka]

Are you using p90x exercises bastinka?
Spot on, mate.

[maxluke]

There are so many ways for doing the exercise. In those ways first I am playing cricket for maintain the body. Then I am going to the gym. Then I am doing the exercise there. And then I am doing yoga for half an hour.