Do you exercise? If so how.... yoga, running, walking,....

[Heather Shay]

I walk every day and and enjoy nature. Also facial pilates When it rains I do yoqi - a combination of yoga and qigong.

[atlantis63]

noe. I am the deffinition of a coutch potato

 

I'll walk if it's nice, but not too exercise, usually because I need to go somewhere. honestly prefer driving anyway

[RhondaS]

Elliptical for about half an hour. 

Walk around 4 miles a day. 
 

 

[Brook J]

Usually cycle about 40 miles (64 km) per week

 

[Astrid]

QiGong and TaiChi (via Zoom) plus walking and various exercises focused on whichever part of me may need to be addressed 

 

Keep moving!

 

Astrid

[awkward-yet-sweet]

I used to go to the gym, but got out of the habit during Covid and didn't take it up again.  I've been further hampered by TBI from an assault, and a broken ankle earlier this year that kept me off my feet for 6 weeks, and cautious thereafter.

 

These days, I sometimes go for a run around the fields where I live.  Maybe not a run as much as it is a "scamper."  Because when the grass is tall in the fields, it doesn't really get beyond a jog with some hopping over obstacles at the same time.  Not fast, but takes a lot of energy to do it.  And I end up falling on the ground a fair bit.  I also swim in the pond.  I have been doing bodyweight exercises especially since last year, relearning how to move.  So, pushups, situps, etc...  Plenty of work in the garden raking, hoeing, and digging. 

[Ema- Goodenuff274]

When I was younger I used to play all sorts of sports, but life eventually got in the way.

I've just got back into running, well, currently a slow jog, but have just hit my first milestone of a 5k.

Part of the joy is getting back out there,  stretching my legs and getting my lungs and heart really pumping, but a huge joy has been to finally swap my dull, ugly, shapeless joggers and t shirt, for my much more feminine 3/4 Capri running tights, and a selection of new pink and purple tops. Finally I've been able to get out running as myself, and it feels better to run 100metres as myself then 10k hidden in my old masculine clothes.

[Mirrabooka]

I never played any sort of sport apart from 10-pin bowling casually, decades ago. I was a pretty keen jogger from about 20 years ago and preferred running up hills. The past couple of years it has been riding a bike and walking. I've slowed up a bit recently due to circumstances but I have promised myself to get as active as I can again.

[Ema- Goodenuff274]

5 hours ago, Mirrabooka said:

I never played any sort of sport apart from 10-pin bowling casually, decades ago. I was a pretty keen jogger from about 20 years ago and preferred running up hills. The past couple of years it has been riding a bike and walking. I've slowed up a bit recently due to circumstances but I have promised myself to get as active as I can again.

Then a big well done to you. I've started and stopped and started again so many times over the last few years. I usually head off as if I'm.still in my 20s, but end up picking up an injury cos in truth I'm in my 50s and just can't do what I used to. This time I've taken it slow and so far so good.  The best starting point is to do what you've done, decide to do it for yourself, and just see where you end up. Good luck

[Ashley0616]

Walking is all I can do now. My knees are shot. I was able to run half a marathon but never a full marathon. I'm on the treadmill for anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. I used to go on longer. It all just depends on how my body will take it. I did try yoga and might get back on it again. My body could use some stretching. 

[gemmalouise]

I just love walking, I walk at 06:00, 12:30 and 18:00 every day.  Then at weekends will go for longer walks.

[Petra Jane]

I had quite a physical job for almost 30 years, then was basically forced out by new management. Since then I ended up putting weight, and a few inches on around my waist until I was taken seriously ill. After being released from hospital I was told to simply walk into town each day which I have done for the last 8 years.

I’ve lost all that extra weight, all the extra inches by doing so and am feeling healthier and am told I look really well these days. I still have to take my (many) daily meds and be careful to keep away from infections, covid and the like, but I’m fitter than I’ve been for years, and can fit into my UK size 14 skirts which makes me very happy.

[KathyLauren]

Not enough.  I used to walk the dog (a greyhound) every day.  But she got old and died, and I walked less.  Then I got pneumonia.  After I recovered, I was under doctor's orders to walk 30 minutes a day to help my lungs recover.  Over a year, I managed to get that up to 50 minutes.

 

But we moved, and there isn't any walkable route near where we now live.  Not counting our own street, which is so short you could walk it in a couple of minutes, the only roads are high-traffic, two-lane roads with no shoulders.  So I haven't walked any distance regularly for a couple of months. 

 

My wife and I sometimes go hiking on the old railway trail.  It is weird driving there to walk, but it does give us some exercise.  I used to do yoga once a week, and I am thinking of going back to it.  It isn't very aerobic, but it is good for flexibility, and my lungs can't handle a lot of aerobic activity anyway.