| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/23/2009 7:36:31 AM | | I go between 5-7 days a week. I want to get back into the routine of going a couple of mornings a week (in addition to going at night) to do a quick cardio before work. I was going to go this morning, but I couldn't settle and go to sleep last night. So, when 4:30 came, I just rolled over and went back to sleep. :( | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/23/2009 10:35:46 AM | I find I spent more time eating and resting/sleeping than working out. That is actually a big secret... or maybe not a secret at all. I eat 6-7 meals a day, drink tons of water.
To the people that are busting their butts in the gym for hours per day: "It's not what you do HERE, it's what you do OUT THERE (in life, away from the gym)."
So anyway, the answer to the question on how often I visit the gym (which has turned my life around, from 270 lbs. of unhealthy death to no medical problems anymore, no medication, no doctors...) HIIT = High Intensity Interval Training.
Monday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Tuesday: High Point (BFL Method) full upper body: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps/Back/Biceps/Forearms = 1 hour.
Wednesday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Thursday: High Point (BFL Method) full lower body and core: Quads/Hamstrings/Calves/Abs/Lower Back =- 1 hour.
Friday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Saturday: High Point (BFL Method) full upper body: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps/Back/Biceps/Forearms = 1 hour.
Sunday: No exercise. Eat whatever the hell I want, as much as I want.
The next week the body part days flip:
Monday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Tuesday: High Point (BFL Method) full lower body and core: Quads/Hamstrings/Calves/Abs/Lower Back =- 1 hour.
Wednesday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Thursday: High Point (BFL Method) full upper body: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps/Back/Biceps/Forearms = 1 hour.
Friday: HIIT Cardio for 20 minutes.
Saturday: High Point (BFL Method) full lower body and core: Quads/Hamstrings/Calves/Abs/Lower Back =- 1 hour.
Sunday: No exercise. Eat whatever the hell I want, as much as I want.
So per week: 4 hours per week total is all I spend working out. Once and a while I'll just see how long I can run on the treadmill for a cardio last. Last record was 6.33 miles, 70 minutes (3 minute warm up and 10 minute cooldown included) average 6.0MPH, 1066 calories (I don't believe in the accuracy of that).
I honestly believe people work out too much and don't do the right things when they are not in the gym. I used to work out like everyone else and tried to eat what most would consider "normal" ... but turns out you have to eat MORE, eat MORE OFTEN, SLEEP ... and when the weekends come? No more party time. HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT? What are your GOALS? Look in the mirror, VISUALIZE YOU ... WHO ARE YOU, AND WHO DO YOU LOOK LIKE? Be YOU.... mirror yourself INSIDE to OUT.
Mike
ps Canadian girls are hot! Spent a lot of time in the GTA, was engaged to a Canadian long ago. I miss Toronto, Hamilton/Stoney Creek, Niagara Falls.... | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/25/2009 11:29:10 AM | i started the gym 2 weeks ago, im on my second week now, iv been going 6 days a week for however long it takes to burn 1000 calories which takes about 3/4 hours, i hoping to get my times down the fitter i get. when i first started i was 20stone 6pounds, i had my weight in on saturday and now i weight 19stone 12pounds, with a total lose of 8 pounds in 1 week  , iv kinda become obsesive with the gym and uber watching what i eat now, i havent had no chocolate, crisps, cakes, sweets, fizzy drinks since day 1 and im feeling ggreeat!  | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/25/2009 12:40:14 PM | Well, I'm lucky enough to work at a gym so I'm there 6 days a week ;)
I workout 6 days per week ... cardio 6 days and weights 2-3 days depending on what my cycle is. There are times throughout the year where I'll do only cardio for a month or so and then pick the weights up again.
Right now I do HIIT 4 days and one long-cardio routine (45-60 mins) a week, but I also do either a 20-mile bike-ride or a 2-3 mile jog outdoors on my "day off" from the gym, so I really am doing cardio 7 days a week.
For my weight routine, I'm currently only doing CrossFit and have been since January ... takes me anywhere from 10-30 minutes to complete my routine; I log-in to the CrossFit website on my lifting days and do (or try to do) what they've got up for the day ... though, if anyone knows anything about it, it's TOUGH, so if I can't do what they've got set I'll do my stand-by CrossFit workout which is what's called 10-to-1's ... 10 Deadlifts, 10 Clean and Press, and 10 Shoulder Press with no rest between, then 9 reps, then 8, then 7, all the way down to just one rep with a 60-second break between each round and MAN is it tiring!
I do take a week off every 8-10 weeks and I am CRAVING it by the end of that week! | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/25/2009 5:42:29 PM | Two years ago when I first joined my local gym, I went six days a week. I was able to keep that up for about 1-1/2 years, but then I completely burned out! I stopped going for an entire month. Although I started back, I cut way back, only going 2 or 3 times a week.
It seems like that break did me a lot of good. Taking the time to just stay home, read, rest and not feel overly-committed, was refreshing.
I'm back now to 3 days, then rest 1, 3 days, then rest 1. I'm going to try this for awhile switching up my routines: upper body, lower body and then a full workout. I do just about an hour of cardio every session and then mix free weights and equipment.
I live out in the desert so I get a little extra exercise walking and playing with my dogs and keeping my acreage (yard) cleaned up. The thing I miss most, being out of the city, is having a pool. I love to swim. I can access a local pool at the condo complex where I had a studio / office, but it's pretty small for laps. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/25/2009 7:20:59 PM | I've had off and on shoulder pain for years which made working out at the gym quite uncomfortable. The chiropractor I saw introduced me to the basics of bodyweight training and I really enjoyed it, so I bought "Never Gymless" by Ross Enamait and I've been working out weightless in the convenience of my home ever since. Ross is an excellent writer and his book has worked wonders for me. My shoulder pain is all but gone, I have a blast every time I work out, and I'm stronger than I was when I worked out with weights.
To be honest, though, sometimes I miss the sights and sounds of the gym - you know, the people! If you've been to a gym for more than five minutes you know the =type= of people I'm talking about. There's the bodybuilder who screams like he's in labor, the cell phone lady who exercises her mouth more than her muscles, and my personal favorite, the guy who hurls dumbbells like he's trying to launch them into orbit. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/26/2009 6:42:37 PM | The only reason I'd join a gym is because I dont have a pool at home.
Everything else, I can do at home or head to the college's Rec Center for free because I work there. Weights, Yoga Mat, Stretchy thing for resistance workouts.
I have yet to try the Rec Center, but I enjoy doing things at home: Run around the park with my neices and nephews, scrubbing my home and car, taking care of my less abled family member, Running around town doing things, Walking the trail at the beach and hopefully soon I hope to replace most of my car travels with a bike for more distanced transportation (More than a 20 minute hike to the store kind of traveling).
I'm also active in volunteering in a community garden and in working with children. That alone a mother will tell you burns your buns.
I have a trial membership that is about to expire at the end of the month. I could care less. I'll miss the pool and sauna, but that's the extent of it. I can always go to the Rec Center or the YMCA Community Pool for free or a cheap couple of dollars in the summer and the suntan is free!
I can see where some like the use of specific machines for sculpting. But my lifestyle only requires me to be proactive and enjoy life at the same time. But I do agree with someone here that posted once you stop going regularly, you start to loose motivation and have to work at getting it back again.
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/28/2009 2:56:46 PM | | Cardio kickboxing is a great stress relief and burns about 500- 900 cal. I do that after work and do Cardio step on weekends but the sauna is my little treat after my work out. Cleans out all the impurities. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/29/2009 7:31:59 AM | ...but the sauna is my little treat after my work out. Cleans out all the impurities...
Saunas can be relaxing for some but make sure you are replacing all the water you are sweating out.
It is always great to reward yourself with a treat, but a sauna can not clean out impurities. That is just marking information from the sauna people.
... Sweat does contain trace amounts of toxins, says Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a professor of dermatology at St. Louis University and founding member of the International Hyperhidrosis Society, a medical group dedicated to the study and treatment of heavy sweating.
But, Glaser, adds, in the big picture, sweat has only one function: Cooling you down when you overheat. "Sweating for the sake of sweating has no benefits," she says. "Sweating heavily is not going to release a lot of toxins."
In fact, Glaser says, heavy sweating can impair your body's natural detoxification system. As she explains, the liver and kidneys -- not the sweat glands -- are the organs we count on to filter toxins from our blood. If you don't drink enough water to compensate for a good sweat, dehydration could stress the kidneys and keep them from doing their job. "If you're not careful, heavy sweating can be a bad thing," she says.
Sweating definitely won't help clear the body of mercury or other metals, says Donald Smith, a professor of environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, who studies treatments for metal poisoning. Almost all toxic metals in the body are excreted through urine or feces, he says. And less than 1% are lost through sweat. In other words, you'll do far more detoxifying in the bathroom than you ever could in a sauna....
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-skeptic28jan28,0,7913944.story | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/29/2009 10:59:50 AM | | Never, I got my lil home gym. Thinking about joining a gym, though, just for the social aspect of it. Maybe I'll catch me a fish there? | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/30/2009 11:09:50 AM | I work at a gym, so I'm here 6 days a week.
I do cardio 5 days,
yoga 2 classes,
pilates 6 classes,
and I dance about 8 hours
per week.
I love variety! | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 6/30/2009 2:10:52 PM | | I have recently upped my amount of time in the gym to twice a day, 6 days a week. First session of the day is just abs and 30 minutes stairmaster to get my metabolism cracking. Second session is freeweights for whatever body part I am training as well as more cardio. I WILL! break the 10% plateu! | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/1/2009 4:20:09 AM | | I love to hit the sauna after a good workout too - however it's not for sweating. I like the feeling of heat in my bones and muscles after a good stretch; sometimes I like to stretch again when I get in there. In fact if they would just hold a yoga class in my gym sauna that would be perfect for me. : ) | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/2/2009 2:26:54 PM | it used to be 5x/week: 3 upper & 2 lower. & then it moved to 6x/week: 3 day split. 1 split day 2x/week.
but now that i'm teaching, i'm really trying to manage some sort of split. but it's impossiblye, as i'm starting to sub all the freakin' time. so, my training is unfortunately having to be pt on the backburner.
meh. @ least i get my daily exercise in. teaching (& personal training, in the near future) acts as an "insurance", 'cause it gives you a solid reason to be there. hah. but when i wasn't teaching, i just ignored my mind telling me that it didn't want to go. (however, that was...like...1% of the time, as i genuinely enjoy fitness.) i would plan out what tracks to listen to. ignoring your mind is the best thing you can do. all you gotta do is listen to your joints. if they're aching, you obviously gotta take a day off. but if your mind tells you that it doesn't wanna go, who cares? go anyway. just go. & you'll be happy you did once you're done. reaching your goals isn't supposed to be easy, unfortunately. =/
another tip: take a group exercise class instead of doing your own stuff in the gym. or go for a bike ride. exercise is universal. i.e.: you don't have to go in a gym to reach your goals, whatever they may be. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/2/2009 6:13:30 PM | Zero times a week.
I used to have a memebership and was going MWF. It was a pain as it seems every one was on a MWF. It was hard to get into a routine as the equipment was taken. I finally let the membership lapse after about two years. Toward the end I hadn't been in a couple of months when the renewal came.
The problem for me was time, and then the occasional ache, pain, or injury.
I have since bought a home gym which gets used 3 days a week. (40-45 weeks of the year) | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/2/2009 8:20:38 PM | | I just started back after a month off. Had a spill on the bicycle, (stupidly going too fast on wet pavement), and took about a month for arm to heal. Now I hope to go 3 or more times a week. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/2/2009 8:35:33 PM | | ^I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the image of some guy tipping an excercise bike over at the gym until I got to the "wet pavement" part and realised this was not gym-related. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/3/2009 8:30:55 PM | I never go to a gym- there's not one in my town anyway. :(
I exercise every day at home around 2 hours, though. | |
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| How often do you visit the gym?
Posted: 7/4/2009 10:02:35 AM | | About 5-6 times a week. However, there are some days when I swim (and don't go to the gym) but I included it in the number of gym visit. It's exercise, and my gym doesn't have a pool so I swim at a rec centre. | |
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