Mostly just asking this for a college assignment since I’m a student there, and this is the one I picked out of the twenty I came up with.
Feel free to also answer why you do such exercises, describe the last time you have engaged in physical exercise, and provide any additional thoughts.
Hiking, for me. There’s a variety of trail difficulties, so you can do something more casual if you want to, and aside from the great cardio, you’re out in the beautiful outdoors.
Same for me, hiking is my favorite way to exercice.
Sex
I was waiting for this one. 😂
I scrolled too long to find this lol
Running. I do it 4 times a week, and my last time was yesterday. I took it up late in life, and found that I love it. Imagine my surprise, given that I’d spent my life telling myself I don’t like doing physical activity
How long do you run? I tend to get bored while doing any monotonous activity. That’s why I don’t like walking. I run a mile or real regularly. But want to run for longer without getting bored.
I don’t find it monotonous for some reason. At the moment, my longest runs are about an hour, but in the before times, I used to run longer than that
Walking the dog is all I’m capable of at the moment. Trying to walk an hour at a time, twice a day. Some days it works.
If you can do 2 hours of walking a day you’re doing far better than most people.
Even an hour of walking would be better than most, if that’s all you’re capable of then you’re capable of plenty! Keep it up!
I go to the gym three times a week. I started working out to lose weight and improve muscle mass and tone, and because I fell out of love with running. Last time was yesterday - bench press, overhead press and chin-ups. There’s something primal about lifting heavy weights that makes it enjoyable (much like the other poster said about boxing).
I take Hippocrates’ “walking is man’s best medicine” advice when it comes to physical activity. It’s good for the body and mind and also good for interacting with people.
He said it but that lazy bitch never walked hardly at all!
Cycling. I don’t (yet) have all the fensi equipment nor an expensive bike and don’t do long, exercise-like laps. It is much more incorporated into my daily life. I have an oldschool road bike which I use for my commute and then every day after work go around the city with it for some hours (with small breaks for say shopping/eating; ca. 25-30 km per day). Longer rides on the weekends (average ca 100-120 km per weekend). Never was keen on sports but was always into little daily adventures and this combines the two. Last time: yesterday.
I believe this is the best way to live. Exercise for the sake of exercise is in my mind a first world problem to San event.
I would rather incorporate stuff into my daily life do I don’t need to think shot it, or carve out time for that.
Playing Switch games while walking on a treadmill. I always found exercise boring before, but the split controller of the Switch makes it easy to play while walking.
I have found I don’t even notice I’m walking and look forward to it since I’m actually looking forward to gaming.
Dark Souls while walking is the best. I’ve walked about 140 miles in the last month.
Cycling. It suits my personality best. I love some alone time with my music/audiobook for an hour or two and it doesn’t even feel like exercise.
Cycling. I love to just go out and discover the countryside on a bicycle and climbing mountains to descend them again.
Jiu Jitsu. Really fun to grapple hard against an opponent. Unlike striking sports, you can practice pretty hard and mostly avoid injuries. There is a thinking component and a mental strength component making it much more fun than other workouts I do.
Human chess!
Grappling is great because not only do you need to learn strategy, patience, set ups, push pull, etc; you also have to train your body to do what your mind is thinking.
If the body is capable but the mind is weak, you suck. If the mind is capable but the body is weak you suck. And if both are weak, your just like me!
Also it’s gender semi neutral. Women can absolutely dominate against men using skill. Same with Davids vs Goliaths.
Yeah same here. The problem is that as I get better, I put in a lot less effort. I lost like 15 pounds from white through blue belt. I’ve gained back 8 during purple. On my way to being a stereotypical bald fat brown belt.
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Swimming laps
First, why do you like to do swimming laps? Also, when is the last time you have engaged in physical exercise, and do you have any additional thoughts?
I like swimming because of the no impact when swimming. Another reason is because its like meditation for me, I don’t think about anything else when I swim. The last time I engaged in physical exercise was on Thursday so 3 days ago.
It’s also swimming for me. I used to swim combative during my time in school, but stopped after I graduated. I didn’t do any sport regularly for about 10 years and picked up swimming again a year ago and I love it.
It gives me a break from every day stress. Once I’m in the pool, all the noise gets drowned (literally and figuratively). I totally agree that it’s like meditation. Concentrating on your breathing and feeling your body float in the water you either think about nothing, letting your body do the moves you practiced a million times over and over, or you try to feel every muscle and the feedback of the water to try to perfect your stroke by making small adjustments. No distractions, no phone in your pocket, no music in your ears, no one trying to talk to you. Having my routine and knowing how long it takes I don’t even have to check the clock.
Also I like that you don’t have to rely on the weather. There’s no excuse not to go because it’s too hot, or raining or whatever. In an indoor pool you always have the same conditions no matter what.
I know it’s a typo, but “swimming combative” makes me think of 007 fighting someone underwater lol
Climbing. Go three times a week and it’s just fun and challenging. Gives me a chance to get off my phone and just enjoy the activity.
Do you do rope climbing or bouldering?
Indoors or outdoors?
Mostly top rope these days but I’ll boulder if my partner isn’t available. And indoors, much more available.
There’s a bouldering gymn near my house and my fourth-grader has gotten really into it. She would rather swim when the pools are open, but once the weather gets colder we’ll be there every weekend. I can do all of the beginner tracks and most of the 0-1s, even some of the 2s, but the difficulty goes up to 16 and the climbers who do anything above 5 seem to be thinking about the sport in a way I cant even visualize.
I’m no where near a pro…intermediate at best. I generally climb v-grades around 7-8. I know this feeling you’re talking about very much. Sometimes I revisit where I was, and where I’m at, and what once felt impossible to even imagine now just feels intuitive (of course it’s all relative, as anyone climbing v10 and above look like magicians to me). It sort of just happens naturally through practice and experience. Learning a skill is so wonderful!
God bless all you people who have time to exercise.
My commute is my exercise, so is my job, so is a lot of the time I spend with my kids.
You don’t need more time, you don’t need separate time, you just need to be more active in the things you already do.
With two desk jobs? How?
Well the main problem is the desk jobs, honestly, but bike commuting is a straight improvement to your day.
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I don’t know if you have to go into an office but I work from home so I guess I have the privacy of being able to put a cycle under my desk and I do that for 30 minutes at least in order to burn off some calories. Has to be 30 minutes or more too. Never under that amount.
I still find it hard to do it for 30 minutes though. I miss days all the time.
I do work in an office, in a reception area so it’s extra hard alas.
A company I worked for years ago had several “walk stations” - always thought it was a good idea, but companies rarely bless IT with such improvements to quality of life.
Lmao we have a bat infestation. I don’t think we’ll get that fancy.
do you work in an office located in the jungle?
Running from the bats could prove to engage the core and legs.
dude you have time. you’re posting on lemmy, it’s a matter of priorities, not time.
I’m at work haha. I work 60-70 hours a week and I have a knee injury and I’m tired.
I can definitely understand that. It’s a wierd paradox, though, that getting exercise will actually give you more energy, and the mobility you gain will make injuries heal better. If you can do a simple bodyweight workout just for a couple months, you won’t regret it.
exercise has never ever given me more energy.
Like work out with weights?
Like do 3 pushups, plank for awhile, 3 elbow dips, and 3 pullups.
I’m impressed by you!
Do body weight exercises at work instead of Lemmy.
Only if you want to though.
My work area is not conducive to that unfortunately. I’m on the phone pretty much all day so I can Lemmy with my hands while listening to hold music.
Wake up earlier and do it in the morning when you’re not tired, and don’t do knee exercises until it heals.
Exercise only works if you make it a routine/lifestyle, like brushing your teeth. It’s one of the few things in life that is all positives with zero downsides.
I don’t mean to make excuses, but I leave at 730 am due to commuting via transit, get home at 5, walk my dogs and eat, and work 6-9 pm every night as well. It’s a lot and getting up earlier than 6 am would really start to take a toll on my mood due to a psychiatric disorder. It isn’t that I haven’t thought of it but there’s really no space in the day. I do try to walk the dog long distances on the weekends when I just work my one job but the free time during the week just honestly isn’t there.
I suggested waking up earlier because I don’t know anything about your life/schedule. You’re the one who knows it best, and the one who knows where to find 15-30 minutes to do some exercises. Working two jobs is tough, but people do it all the time while still managing to fit exercise into their life.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to tell you what to do or shame you into working out. It’s your life and if you don’t want to work out, then that’s fine.
I just want to point out that when someone thinks they “dont have time” for working out, they’re wrong. It’s never about time. It’s like if someone told you they don’t have time to brush their teeth and shower every day because they work two jobs, need to walk their dog, and have a bad elbow. Would you take that justification seriously? Exercise is just another routine.
