<p>I’m a walker. I tried to be a runner C25K, but I was awful at it! Might give it one more try now that the weather is so nice & cool.</p>
<p>I second MiamiDAP, that the most fun I have EVER had exercising was walking the “track” at the top of a cruise ship thinking how fortunate I was to be there! But Miami, what kind of exercise can you do for two hours per day?</p>
<p>Did anyone see this? It’s not what you eat – it’s when you eat it:
[Meal</a> times may affect weight loss success – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs](<a href=“http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/29/meal-times-may-affect-weight-loss-success/?hpt=hp_t3]Meal”>http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/29/meal-times-may-affect-weight-loss-success/?hpt=hp_t3)</p>
<p>I love exercising while on vacation if it’s possible. H and I went for long walks on a path along the waters edge every morning while in Key West last spring. It wasn’t exercise, it was ecstasy!</p>
<p>I swim for at least 1.5 hrs (on my “fast” day, on my slow day, it might take i hr 40 min.), right after, while passing thru the gym, I do weight machines for about 15 - 20 min., unless my machines are busy (I will not wait and now many just sit there texting between sets, but I refused to be driven nuts, so I just go). Most of days we also walk. I can walk very fast, and I wish to walk 4 miles, but lately it has been about 2 - 2.5, unless I walk at lunch time and home with my H. after I come from gym. I used to rollerblade a lot, I love that one also, but I continue falling and hittignt the ground badly, so I cannot make myself go back. But rollerblading is a great fun.<br>
While on vacation, I walk barefeet in a water for several miles, do not know how long, since this type of walk is much slower but so much more fun. We can do it only around 6am, it get hot in Mexico. I love to swim right after breakfast while pool is empty (for about i hr), we play lots of ping pong (not sure if this is exercise, definitely lots of fast jerking around the table), we snorkel many times a day, right off shore in a soup of thousands of fish, but this is not exercise, for sure, just pure fun. I love to hang parallel to some school of huge fish and watch them, the way they behave is absolutely facsinating. We have huge amount of underwater pictures and videos. We always go to Mexico for 2 weeks and basically stay on a beach for whole day. We eat so much there, that I usually gain at least 7 lbs. It is useless to watch what you eat there, the food is so good and desert is the best.</p>
<p>Hope this thread hasn’t died yet ;)</p>
<p>I am joining you guys! This year for lent I decided to take on a challenge instead of depriving myself of something (wine, chocolate, cheese etc) - I promised myself to exercise every day. Today is day 3 and I am really sore, but I think I found a really nice workout, makes me sweat but I do not feel like I am about to pass out 
It is one of Jillian Michael’s 30 day shred videos. It last only 20 minutes, which I think is perfect for me and my super busy life. We will see how it goes! :)</p>
<p>Good for you!!! ^^^^</p>
<p>Kelowna, glad to have you here!
Really great to get some exercise in every day. I usually am only getting 3-5days/week.
On exercise days, I’m putting in 1.5 hrs…but NOTHING on off days.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Anyone here take barre classes? I use to take private Pilates classes when money wasn’t so tight about 4 years ago; haven’t really exercised since 
A new barre company opened nearby so I thought I would try that; if I enjoy it I am more inclined to keep with it. Working out at a gym just does not do it for me, whereas my husband and son work out 7 days a week; my daughter not as often, but she still works out.</p>
<p>My husband actually listened to me when I talked about tryout out the barre class, so he bought me a gift card for Valentine’s Day; guess I really have to go now! ;)</p>
<p>There is a new barre company (studio? storefront?) in our town.
I’m curious to know what it’s about.
but not curious enough to wander in there…</p>
<p>I get in 30-40 minutes of cardio 3-4 days per week and 1-2 hours of strength training twice a week.</p>
<p>This is the first time I’ve looked at this thread. I’ve just been skipping over it up until now. I found a BMI calculator online only to discover that I’m now considered to be officially overweight. I need to lose 9 lbs to be considered healthy weight again. I’m in my mid 50’s. After going through menopause, I’ve gained probably 20 lbs. I’ve been thin my entire life up until recently. I was able to eat whatever I wanted. I used to be a gym rat, but haven’t worked out in the gym for years. What can I say? I’m stuck in a rut. I just can’t seem to get myself motivated to start eating right and exercising. My favorite form of exercise is walking although I find I can’t walk as far or as fast now that I’ve put on some extra weight.</p>
<p>The extra weight has not caused any changes in my cholesterol or lipid panels. I’m not pre-diabetic. My blood pressure is on the low side.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me advice on how to get myself motivated?</p>
<p>Aqua
Can you do it just to see if you can? I dug out the dress I wore to my DS1s First Communion. My goal is to wear it for his college graduation in 13 weeks. You may not have a big date or a cute dress as a goal, but maybe set a fitness goal like walk 6 days out of 7 for 2 months or work up to increasing your distance by 20%. Having something tangible to chase helps me</p>
<p>Recently my husband and I were out on a walk around town, and I stepped into one of those barre places to see what it was. I think they let you try a class for free.</p>
<p>Seeing the discussion on this thread I decided to do a search on Google. I checked out a few pages on one site and wondered when I saw the picture of abs work. This looks kind of like the way we were told we shouldn’t do sit ups anymore, years ago. Not sure. What do you think?</p>
<p>[::</a> pure barre technique ::](<a href=“http://www.purebarre.com/pbt-abwork.html]::”>http://www.purebarre.com/pbt-abwork.html)</p>
<p>The picture there is fine. The old problem is in lying with your legs flat or over the edge of a flat weight bench and doing situps - this can cause back problems fairly quickly. I see people do that at the gym - on decline weight benches or flat benches that have an attachment to hold your feet at a 90 degree angle. A proper situp bench has your knees up to form a right triangle with the bench with the right angle formed by your leg segments. Holding your knees up works too and it’s a tougher exercise.</p>
<p>I like the idea that just 20 minutes a day will increase your overall health. I wouldn’t be worried about not walking as fast, but not walking as far seems to me a real sign that you aren’t as healthy as your numbers indicate. </p>
<p>If you aren’t particularly motivated I think it’s helpful to either have an exercise partner who drags you along (dh makes me go to the gym every weekend) or to have some form of exercise that just seems so easy to do that you can throw it in multiple times a day. On the serious exercise thread last year a poster challenged us to do do 100 kettleball swings a day for a month. It didn’t have to be a heavy ball. Once an hour or so, I got up off my chair and swung the thing 15 times. I lost two pounds that month. For the last two months I’ve been working on a challenge to do 1 pushup, one kettleball swing, one goblet squat and adding one a day until we feel we can’t do any more. I never thought I’d do 47 pushups (today’s number) in one day, much less that I could do 20 in a row without stopping. On January 1, I’d never done more the 12 at a time and never bothered to do more than that a day. Having the kettleball right there in my living room helps me to remember to do these challenges. And it takes less than a minute to do a set.</p>
<p>Those are not sit-ups, just very small movements with the head; your back does not come up off the floor. Pure Barre and Bar Method are the two companies I am familiar with; each have locations all over the country.</p>
<p>I have been getting to the gym about 3X/week. Still eating too much though, so my weight isnt cooperating. Have to get into shape for upcoming ski trip! Yes, I know the exercise could contribute to muscle weight-- but probably only in my dreams, in my case!</p>
<p>New here–not sure if anyone has mentioned Kettlebell–I bought some from Amazon and some DVD’s and am really enjoying the workouts. It is suppose to burn calories at a very high rate. I also do ellipitcal 45 minutes 2-3 times a week. I use Weight Watcher E tools when I am seriously trying to go down. I do not care for sweets so am lucky there. I have 5 lbs to my last goal weight and have lost my momentum. So I will be visiting and hopefully get cracking again. I am visiting a friend in mid March so have made that my timeline.</p>
<p>Eons ago when they had us do the president’s physical fitness test, the one exercise I could do well was the sit ups, lol. This is probably why I can remember when they told us to no longer put our hands behind our head but put arms across the chest instead.</p>
<p>Resurrecting us from page 10 to say thank you to Garland who recommended the book Smart Women Stay Strong. I’ve purchased it, read it and did my first set of exercises yesterday. I think this is a program I might be able to stick with! And, I found a neighbor who wants to walk one day/week. Hey, it’s a start and, for me, who has been doing NOTHING in the exercise area, this is significant!</p>