[mark3274]

me I am a gym rat and do about 50 minutes of cardio each time.

I am also a certified trainer, a cscs, and teach spin classes 3 times a week at my gym. I have about 10-30 students in each class on a regular basis and I have them spin for 50 minutes with a 10 minute cool down time.

my favorite cardio machines right now are the cybex arc trainer and the precor 100i and elliptical.

If I was rich one day I would open the ultimate gym at least 30,000 sguare feet of the best equipment and class space money could buy. I would make a gym that the members love and update the equipment on a regular basis not buy something and let it sit for years like many gyms do.

[TazziRN]

I am in shape..........................



















"round" is a shape................

[ranaazha]

I love the way I look and feel after I exercise, but I HATE actually getting to the point. That hurdle is the WORST for me!

Exercise has always been an up and down battle for me. I'll go 100% for a period of time, then get tired of it.

I have flat feet which, in addition to my feet killing me, causes problems in my knees, hips, and low back. While I was precepting in school, I was in so much pain after 1 clinical day, I couldn't imagine doing this for life!

Once I started working as a nurse, though, I realized that exercise would actually make work MORE physically tolerable for me. I have a gym membership, but I prefer to exercise at home.

I do 30 mins of cardio (treadmill, moderate pain, high incline) to increase my cardiovascular endurance (I have asthma, so breathing better always helps!) which helps to strengthen my thighs and help my posture, in addition to strengthening my arches.

I also do 2 sets of pilates videos. I alternate days for my arm & leg workouts, and do the back workout (not nearly as physically demanding, but it helps my posture a ton).

This isn't much, but (in comparison to nothing!) it has helped incredibly. Although I'm drained at the end of a shift, my body doesn't hurt like hell. I'm not dealing with back problems either, since my posture is so much better than ever before.

[nurturing_angel]

I like the way exercise makes me feel too. I love the treadmill and the eliptical the best. I used to do strength training and should really start doing that again.

[Buttercup7507]

My favorite ways to work out? I love dancy complex choreography at home videos(particularly Cathe Friederich). I love challenging myself to learn the steps and once I learn the routine, I feel so good about it, it can be sooo fun.

My favorite way to strength train is working out to the Firm videos, they are excellent for overall toning.

[suanna]

My hospital opened a gym on campus for employees. Not much- mostly cardio workout machines and some resistance equipment, but ot is overbooked every day! What I wonder is why not just pick up an extra 4-8-12 hrs on a medical floor-lots of walking, weight lifting with turns and you get paid time and a half!

[zuzi]

I love dancing gym classes , LOVE IT! But my way to stay in shape is TO BE HAPPY and swimm , and walk and bycycle (not now because I don't have one), and skate and DANCEEEEEEEE and as soon as you are happy, you could do everything to be in shape! Driving is a also a method! LOOOOOOL! Stay happy! Muscles, body sculptural and grumppy, not for me, round and happy, could be an option, looooool, important is to be happy! Saluti!

[llg]

Originally Posted by Buttercup7507

My favorite ways to work out? I love dancy complex choreography at home videos(particularly Cathe Friederich). I love challenging myself to learn the steps and once I learn the routine, I feel so good about it, it can be sooo fun.

My favorite way to strength train is working out to the Firm videos, they are excellent for overall toning.

I'm TERRIBLE at the complex dance choreography as I am just not at all "light on my feet." So I use the Hip Hop Abs videos for that type of thing. The choreography is simpler. But I also like the Firm videos for a little strength training at home.

I'm just not a gym person -- don't like doing exercise in public -- don't like the idea of coming in contact with everybody else's sweat and germs -- and don't like spending the times driving there, etc.

I wish I could afford a real home gym.

[Tweety]

I'm the opposite of llg, I can't discipline myself to work out at home. I buy my gym membership 3 years at a time so I'll force myself to go to get my money's worth. I'll do a wide variety of machines for weight lifting and cardio. The germs phobia doesn't bother me. Denial is best when thinking abou that. LOL

I do yoga classes for flexibility, but confess I haven't been lately.

[TheCommuter]

I go to my local health club several times weekly for a mix of cardio and weights.

I'll get a basic full-body workout with free weights twice weekly (squats, calf raises, trapezius shrugs, bent-over rows, bench presses, shoulder raises, bicep curls, and tricep extensions). It takes me about 45 minutes to get through this workout, which is why I only have time to do it twice in 1 week.

I also obtain 35 to 60 minutes of some form of cardio exercise in the form of either jogging, stair-climbing, power walking, or the elliptical machine.