<p>Don Rumsfeld doesn’t sit at his desk and he uses a pedometer to count his steps every day, sometimes using a treadmill to get to his 10,000 step goal. I like a noon time soccer or basketball game a couple of times a week, but find myself huffing and puffing through parts of the game. What do you do to stay in shape?</p>
<p>My husband and I go walking several times a week, at least when the weather is nice. Our quiet deadend street is about one mile if you make a whole circuit, so we usually take the dog with us and go twice around.</p>
<p>I’m a mall walker and a weight lifter.</p>
<p>along with going to the gym and taking my dog for a walk a billion times day- I try and not use my car for errands if I have time /or park a ways away.
I found I am suseptible to exercise asthma if I do most of my exercise outside- hence the gym- plus I find I am competitive- and when I am at the gym I work out longer & harder than if I just worked out on my own.</p>
<p>My best friend and I walk every morning (well, M-F) for an hour. Five a.m. comes pretty early, but I always feel so good once I get home and hit the shower. I go to the gym two or three times a week. You would think I would be in fabulous shape, but I’m not. I let myself go way too much before I started doing these things. If I could just stay away from food …</p>
<p>While at the game today (Titans … lost 
), I had to go to the lost and found to see if my sweatshirt that I left at the last game had been turned in. I then was walking up the ramp very quickly so I wouldn’t miss kickoff. As I passed a family, I heard the father say, “Wow, she’s in better shape than me.” I have noticed since we started walking several months ago that I don’t get near as winded as I once did.</p>
<p>A colleague and I walk for an hour at lunch 4 days a week. We find that not only the walking but the time out in the sunlight are good for us. When we get to work it is dark and when we go home it is dark, so we make sure to bring our snowpants and facemasks and hit the road for our daily quota of light.</p>
<p>Everyone who works at a desk or spends a lot of time on CC needs to read more about this guy. Here’s one article, but google his name, and you’ll find others. He has a Rumsfeld approach about not sitting down, but with an interesting twist.
<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8132086[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8132086</a></p>
<p>I also don’t sit down at work…I prefer standing stations, a la Rumsfeld. It makes me more efficient, but it also keeps me in more-or-less constant motion throughout the day. Other strategies: Walk the dog, even if you don’t have one (that’s a Laura Ingraham joke). I walk my dog twice a day, about a half hour each time, with no time out for “recreational sniffing.” If he has to go, fine, but we don’t stop to decode all the secret messages from the other dogs. I’ll drag him away if I have to, no time for it. I do a half-hour Nautilus circuit two or three times a week. No chatting, no stopping between machines. I play tennis twice a week in the winter, hour sessions each time. More in the summer. I also spar at least once a week–full contact kick-boxing, but not trying to kill each other. Rumsfeld is a good exercise model, IMO, even if you don’t like his politics. Perpetual motion, or the closest you can get to it, will keep you in shape.</p>
<p>Pilates. I’ve done every exercise program known to man and I swear my body has changed (for the better!) with Pilates four times a week and some cardio thrown in three days a week.</p>
<p>Walking up Bascom Hill twice a day!!!</p>
<p>When I went to Madison for my job interview the taxi dropped me off on Park St. at the bottom of the hill. I took a look at that thing and asked myself: “Do you really want to work here?”</p>
<p>Perpetual motion, or the closest you can get to it, will keep you in shape.</p>
<p>I think that is what has kept my neighbor still in hiking shape at 92 years old!</p>
<p>Runner - as my screen name implies.</p>
<p>I had been walking about 1 hour 5 to 6 times a week for a year. About 7 weeks ago, my husband and I joined a gym and now we lift weights (nautilus and free) several times a week for an hour. Two weeks ago, we joined our city’s masters swim team, so now we swim for 70 minutes MWF. Hardest thing I’ve ever done physically! I have a new appreciation for my daughter’s club swim team workouts and for her ability in the pool. I am one of the slowest swimmers of the masters group, which actually has some current world record holders in the 40-60 age groups and a bunch of tri-athletes, and it’s pretty humiliating but I am determined to stick with it and improve. I learned how to do flip turns and can now swim pretty hard for about 200 yards without pausing. But mostly, I’m just gasping for air. I think my walking helped me to keep the pounds off but it really didn’t do that much for me in terms of cardio and muscle tone.</p>
<p>Running 3 to 4 times a week, usually in the early mornings. About 3 to 6 miles, depending on whether it is a weekend day or not. Run in 5K races several times a year and usually place in the top 3 in my age group. Have done masters’ swimming on and off and love it, but can’t handle the pre-dawn workouts at this point; maybe someday again.</p>
<p>Do yoga 1-2 times a week and Pilates occasionally. Lift weights at the gym about 1 time per week, twice in the cold weather months (December and January 
). </p>
<p>Basically, never stop from morning to night. May sit at my desk for a few hours a day but that’s it. Take stairs whenever possible over elevators, walk in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Did a half marathon a few years ago and am thinking of doing a triathlon this year or next (through Team in Training). </p>
<p>Love to hike in Yosemite but haven’t been there in too long. Also ski sometimes, and biked around town until my bike got stolen a few months ago–have been too busy to replace it.</p>
<p>Lift weights 2x/week.
Walk for 1-2 hours in an open field (not a level path) 4 or 5 times/week; walk on level paths 2-3 times/week, also for at least an hour.
Sprint a few times while I’m walking.
Practice canine agility (which involves a lot of twisting/turning/sprinting) 2-3x/week. </p>
<p>I also <em>try</em> (and mostly succeed, but life is too short to never eat ice cream or cake (or beef!)) to eat sensibly.</p>
<p>I only eat AIR and drink WATER and still gain weight :(</p>
<p>Walk to work, and most other errands (PO, library, some shopping, church, etc.) Longer hikes when I can fit them in. Bike 3-4X a week in the summer, but lucky to get out at all when it gets darker and colder. Kayaking about once a week from late spring to early fall. Weights 2X a week when I remember.</p>
<p>I run 5-10 K 4-5 times a week.</p>
<p>Any one try Bikram yoga- the one you do in a heated room? Thoughts?</p>
<p>20 minutes of treadmill 5x weekly. Not much but it keeps my weight down.</p>
<p>I am already always in shape. Round is a shape.</p>