How much exercise a week
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I do quite a lot because I cycle to work and I try not to hang about. I also run once or twice a week 6k or more and recently took up stuff like triathlons and anything that will push me physically where I'll get completely filthy 
How the hell do people find the time do this?
Leave the house at 8am get home at 6pm. Make dinner clean up done by 7:30. Sit down for 30 minutes so 8pm. Do an hours work/hour gaming 9:00pm, prepare for work next day, have bath/shower 10pm. Read/Internet/Watch Newsnight 11pm then bed. Rinse and repeat.
Time on weekend yes but most of that is either spend recovering from a hangover or doing more work.....
Do you guys actually have a real job?
Leave the house at 8am get home at 6pm. Make dinner clean up done by 7:30. Sit down for 30 minutes so 8pm. Do an hours work/hour gaming 9:00pm, prepare for work next day, have bath/shower 10pm. Read/Internet/Watch Newsnight 11pm then bed. Rinse and repeat.
Time on weekend yes but most of that is either spend recovering from a hangover or doing more work.....
Do you guys actually have a real job?
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Hardly any at the moment, although my job involves carrying ladders about all day so I suppose that's at least something.
My biggest hurdle is sleep. If I get woken up or the kids get up too early and disturb my sleep cycle, I can kiss goodbye to exercise later on because I feel too tired to bother doing it.
Oddly I'm in the process of turning my garage into a home gym, I hope that motivates me some more.
My biggest hurdle is sleep. If I get woken up or the kids get up too early and disturb my sleep cycle, I can kiss goodbye to exercise later on because I feel too tired to bother doing it.
Oddly I'm in the process of turning my garage into a home gym, I hope that motivates me some more.
I generally get to the gym by 6pm after work and stay there till 7.30, by the time I'm home and eaten its about 8.30, still leaves me 3 and a half hours every evening to bum around my house, watch TV and game etc before I go to bed!
I generally go mountain biking somewhere on one day of the weekend too.
Looks like you have plenty time in there to go for a 30 minute run but are choosing to game/tv/internet instead? It wouldn't be hard to squeeze something in.
I'm normally home about 6, out for a run, back by 7 and eaten by 8. Rest of the night is then free to laze about or work.
You make time.
Dinner+ clean up takes an hour and a half? Lol. Just knock the gaming away and that gives you a free hour. If you want to do these things you just take the time (saying that, I'm a filthy student pahahaha)
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7:30 to 9:30pm on Tuesday and Thursdays train with team
40 minutes individual recovery jog/cycle on Wed and Fri
70 minutes match on weekend, usually with a good 30 minutes exercise pre-game
20 minutes recovery exercise day after match
So probably around 6.5 hours a week currently.
I have to fit my exercise around my work, and it just takes commitment
My Mrs does a very similar routine on alternate days, so its pretty hectic!
40 minutes individual recovery jog/cycle on Wed and Fri
70 minutes match on weekend, usually with a good 30 minutes exercise pre-game
20 minutes recovery exercise day after match
So probably around 6.5 hours a week currently.
I have to fit my exercise around my work, and it just takes commitment
My Mrs does a very similar routine on alternate days, so its pretty hectic!
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Not as much as usual cause of work but usually gym 2 or 3 times a week and biking on Sundays (though weather is getting rubbish so soon to be gym on Sunday too) and some weights/press ups/sit up etc at home when I can be bothered. So in hours somewhere around 8 hours a week.
Plus if the weather is alright (Read not tipping with rain) 3 mile walk for work each day too. All this and I am still a fatty cause food is so nice haha.
Plus if the weather is alright (Read not tipping with rain) 3 mile walk for work each day too. All this and I am still a fatty cause food is so nice haha.
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I get home at about 17:20 and straight into my gym for 40 minutes.
Before 2008 I used to run 4.5 miles home from work so by around 17:10 I had done all my exercise unless I decided to add a bit.
Perhaps you could delay dinner by 30 minutes and get some exercise in at 18:00.
9 miles a week with a seven and a half stone dead of weight on the back of the push bike - cutting the grass (approx 1 hr per week), swimming for 1 hour twice a week, vacuuming the house top to bottom twice a week, chasing my daughter around the house and in the garden - loads and loads, loads of other stuff I can't think of......
Not much
Not much
5-6 km run 3 - 4 times a week - 105mins
1500 m row 3 - 4 times a week - 105mins
some pressups and situps 3 - 4 times a week - 45mins
some dumbell use 3 - 4 times a week - 45mins
Sometimes mix it up and swim, cross trainer or bike
Sauna/steam room ??
300 mins
~5 hours
Some weeks I will go only twice but others 6 times a week. When I stop going to the gym I get lazy and dont bother doing pressups, situps or using dumbells at home
At the moment im going about 5 times a week
Once a month is a big dance night - 7 hours of dancing soon melts off the pounds!
1500 m row 3 - 4 times a week - 105mins
some pressups and situps 3 - 4 times a week - 45mins
some dumbell use 3 - 4 times a week - 45mins
Sometimes mix it up and swim, cross trainer or bike
Sauna/steam room ??
300 mins
~5 hours
Some weeks I will go only twice but others 6 times a week. When I stop going to the gym I get lazy and dont bother doing pressups, situps or using dumbells at home
At the moment im going about 5 times a week
Once a month is a big dance night - 7 hours of dancing soon melts off the pounds!