Re: How much exercise/activity do you do each week and what\'s it get you?
[*]Planned workouts: 6 hours, 5-8 times @ 45 to 75 minutes[*]Volleyball: 4 hours, 2-3 times @ 2 hours, most weeks[*]Light sabre battles: 1 hour, 2-3 times @ 30 minutes[*]Random playing/training: 1 hour at least.[/list]Typical total = 12 hours.
There is an occasional huge upside to this. I will take very accurate measurement over the next week for a single, but precise, data point.
Summer time can result in frequent days with 4-5 hours of volleyball, but then sometimes the other things get slighted a bit.
Nothing can combat my dietary intake of Wendy's triples. I am happy with myself and my body. Of course a little more muscle or less fat would be preferable. After my gallbladder failure I heavily reinstated Dr. Pepper into my diet, and just last week, re-eliminated it(my only source of soda, carbonation, and caffeine). This is a large factor in my body composition fight, typical DAILY consumption was 2-4 liters.
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Please explain the light Sabre battles. My son and I hack away at each other with the ones he has but I am assuming you mean something entirely different as he is significantly smaller and you have no kids. Maybe not. If so one more reason why I think you're a cool guy.
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A friend of mine, the one I went running with yesterday, has 4 kids: 6, 4, 4, 1.75. For halloween they were Queen Amidala, the twins were Luke and Leia, and the little dude was Yoda; it was the most awesome thing I have ever seen. And there were 2 lightsabers left over from the deal. And for Christmas, they bought me some Socker Boppers to use as shields and extra clobbering power. They provide me with quite a bit of general activity each time I see them. A few weeks ago, I was about to move something in their house out of the way so we didn't break it, and they told me, "Only adults are alowed to touch that!" I finally convinced them that I am an adult, then they told me that "Only mommies are allowed to touch it." I moved it anyway then clobbered the crap out of them!
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Hey, I haven't seen any Light Saber battles in your log, Buk!
For me currently:
Running: Approx. 7 hours per week
Weight Training: 2-3 hours per week, more likely on the 2-2.5 side right now.
TOTAL: 9-10 hours per week
GETS ME: I'm a lean 175-pounder +/- a couple of pounds. I'm happy with where I am, although many who focus on weight training and want some bulk would consider me to be too skinny. The weight training counteracts the degradation of muscle associated with long distance running enough to satisfy me and apparently keeps me from whittling away back into the 160's or lower weightwise.
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RT - 3 or 4 x 30-40 min.
HIIT - 3 x 20 min.
Group Cycling - 1 or 2 x 45 min.
XC Ski (in season) - 60 min.
or
Road Bike (in season) 2 - 4 hrs (or more)
TOTAL - 4 - 6 hrs +/week depending on the weather.
GETS ME - Personal satisfaction; increased strength; better overall level of fitness; but not the body I want. For that, I have to better manage my intake.
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Lifting 3-5 total body sessions per week lasting 30-60 minutes.
Cardio / ESW = whatever I need to fill in to reach 5 hours per week. 30 minute strength session followed by 30 minutes moderate cardio, 45 minutes strength followed by 15 minutes sprint intervals. If only 3 strength sessions in a week, I get two 60 minutes low intensity cardio sessions walking with my wife. If I hit the gym 5 times, no extra cardio.
Structured yet flexible. At 35 years old and working 50-60 hours per week, 5 hours is about all I can recover from.
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Chris, I am currently training for my second of a series of three marathons I am running between Dec. '05 to April '06. Essentially all of my runs these days are 6 or more miles, maxing in the low 20's (a run that long occurs about every 3-4 weeks - most weekly long runs are between 15-18 miles). I'm running 6 days per week, with weekly mileage totals in the 50's. I do a couple of pacing workouts each week that may include several miles at a hard effort, 0.5 mile intervals broken by brief rest/walk periods, or longer tempo intervals of 1-1.25 miles broken by rest periods.
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Dave: It's great you can keep muscle on while running that much. It's encouraging to know that the lifting can help; I need to log a few more miles each week to help drop a few pounds (because I know that will work for me), and I'm more confident what little muscle I have can stay on as long as I lift.
Do you cycle your eating at all, such as a bit more on lifting days?
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Chris, no, I don't plan any specific days for extra eating. My daily caloric intake is approx. 3,500 with some variation (usually when it varies, it's more). Interestingly, my weight has been fairly stable even with additional running and little change in food intake.
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strength training 2 hrs a week 3, 40 minute sessions
cardio vascular training 1 hr a week, 2, 30 minute sessions
and walking 1 hr a week, 2, 30 minute sessions
What does it get me? A generally good feeling that hopefully some day after I'm old it pays good dividends
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Weights - 2.5 hours per week
Swimming - 2 hours per week
Running - .5 right now, building up to 1.5.
That's 5 hours, but I also average about 10 hours of home renovations and building during the winter, and did 15-20 hours a week of home construction over the summer and into fall helping a friend build a house and gutting and renovating my basement.
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weight lifting - 3 x 35-40 minute sessions per week
cardio - HIIT, steady state, swimming, jogging, running 3 x 40-45 sessions per week
walk the dog - 4 x 2 miles (30 minutes per 2 miles)
Total time spent... approximately 5 hours per week.
What's it get me? One overweight, kinda strong Mac [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I'm working on an additional 2-3 40 minute cardio-type sessions per week but time is in short supply.
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3 weight training sessions 45 minutes each
2 HIIT session lasting 15 minutes.
Lots of running around after my kid on the playground or elsewhere.. 4 hours each session.
It gets me the nice looks from guys and gals [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] kidding.. also gets me the strength to carry on a hectic schedule everyday.. gets me a smile when I stand in front of mirror to check if I can fit into my clothes which are more than 10 years old.
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I am currently do 6 45 minute sessions for a 4.5 hour a week total. Since I just started the program January 2, I'm not sure what it is getting me. Either I am drinking too much coffee or my endorphins are going crazy, because my energy level is through the roof.
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I do 3 lifting sessions a week. 45-1 hour each including some warmup and stretching.
I do 2 core/cardio sessions. 6 sets of abs, 2 sets of lower back 2 sets of obliques. then either 30 min of intervals or 1 hour of running.
On the weekends we always get out once, but sometimes twice to go hiking with the dog. these are lazy 2-4 mile hikes with some messing around on the rocks or some light caving.
If I get off of this routine, I start feeling like crap very fast. I can drop a day or two a week, or take a week off here and there, but any more than that and I have trouble sleeping, staying awake at work, and have a general bad attitude.
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Dave: I have considered the half, but have no interest in the full. Maybe for my 50th birthday. That gives me 4 1/2 years, enough time to try to do it with some sense of decent time, rather than just finishing it.
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planned.. and pretty accurate
2 x 1h15 minutes weights (whole body workouts)
2 x 30-40 mins cardio. (HIIT or Hills) (after the weights)
1 x 60 mins cardio (Hills)
1 x 1h30 group fitness (Super Workout)
1 x hiking or skiing 3-5 hours.
(I am replacing the group fitness and 60 min cardio with xc-skiing as much as I can these days)
additional 1 x dance class and dance evenings. varied intensities. (don't count these as workouts)
Yes.. I think it gets me the results that I want.. escpecially since I love the workouts and cardio anyways.
How much exercise/activity do you do each week and what\'s it get you?
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