What is your exercise regime?

Just curious, about how the nonstandard gamers are doing.
I am fighting against assuming the shape of a pear, and am curious how I stack up.

my normal routine is running 3 miles on a treadmill, and crunches about 3-4 times a week and either legs or arm weights (sometimes)

My usual 3 mile time is 31 min
my fastest is a mile in 8:30 (which by the way is how long it takes to do a mile at a double move)

My exercise routine is to chase my two children and occasionally contemplate restarting an exercise routine.

Between work, part-time Master's program, two kids, and a teacher for a wife who always has papers to grade or lessons to plan, there just are not enough hours in the day to get anything going on a routine basis. That was the best part of being laid-off, the time to work out.

Someday I'll get back to it...

Repeat to self: I am NOT Homer Simpson, I am NOT Homer Simpson

In order to avoid looking like Homer Simpson, my wife and I took two steps.

1.) We went on the Atkins diet. We are both in danger of diabetes and thought it was a good lifestyle change. I've 30 lbs due to diet alone, and I'm not constantly hungry anymore. Despite all the meat, our grocery bill went down due to less food intake.

I have to STRENOUSLY recommed thorough research before attempting such a diet. It is very easy not to get all your nutrients on the Atkins diet unless you are mindful of such.

2.) We maxed out our Sears card and made a workout room with an elliptical and a recumbent bicycle (and a big TV, which was more important than I thought.) I do 40 minutes to an hour these days, buringin 250 or more calories at a shot. I lost 5 lbs right away doing exercise. We want to add a weight machine, but finances cause us to wait.

John "d20fool" McCarty

At the moment:

jumping to conclusions
raising false expectations
running my mouth off


In reality very little - need to get back to running as I used to do 4-5 hours a week regularly including 1 hour+ on a sunday. My best times were around 7min/mile in training and 5:45 min/mile in races.

As I posted in Old One's thread, I bought a PS2, got two dance pads, and picked up Dance Dance Revolution (extreme).

It's a dance game, and quite fun to boot. It's hugely popular in the arcades. And yes, it's helping us to lose weight. It's a great aerobic exercise, and it actually tracks calories burned.

I walk about 3 miles a day (not specifically for excercise reasons, but it has the same effect!), and I've never had a sweet tooth. The two combined keep me in reasonable shape, although I smoke.

I also use weights a couple of times a week, although not too seriously.

After being told that I had high cholesterol, high blood pressure and being a prime candidate for diabetes (both of my paternal grandparents had it), I started the Atkins diet and exercising. My biggest weaknesses is pasta (I love goulash) and potatoes (I love mashed potatoes with lots of butter). I am eating more fresh fruit (bannanas, oranges and apples) and veggies (salads, olives, corn, carrots, green beans, peas, beets). I have also started to eat more fish (I still hate catfish...blah) and buffalo burger. The local grocery store finally started selling buffalo burger recently but we have a restaurant that sells buffalo burgers (I just take off the bun). I also exercise for thirty minutes each morning (mostly stretching, sit ups, touching toes and lifting light weights). When the weather is nice, I walk for fifteen to twenty minutes. I started the end of the summer last year and went from around 270 lbs to 220 lbs. My cholesterol is down but I still have to take two different pills to keep my blood pressure down. I do take a daily multi-vitamin.

I run a couple miles out in the woods behind my house every day. I've never been overweight or such, heck, I'm one of those thin people that everyone thinks never eats. Its just nice to get out in the woods with less people and a few alligators.

Mon., Wed., and Fri. I lift weights w/ a friend of mine to keep ourselves motivated. We hit each major muscle group in a 1-2-3 lifting pyramid. Which means I do reps of 8-6-4 from low weight to high weight. We also do interval cardio training on various machines to keep our adrenaline levels raised. Interval basically means we do 5 minutes "warm up" and then we sprint for 45 seconds, and then back to light jog for 90 seconds and continue this switch for about 15 minutes until we do a 5 minute "cool down". The interval cardio burns around 210-240 calories in total, but the real nice thing about the interval cardio routine is that it excels at burning fat. I will also do cardio of some kind on tues., thurs., or sat..

My diet is the Abs Diet which I would recommend anyone check out on Amazon or at a book store. The diet is just a good guide to things to eat which help your body naturally burn fat as it stokes your metabolism throughout the day, and doesn't leave you hungry.

With all that said I guess I'm sort of a gym rat...but find that with this routine I get things done faster and seem to process things better. Guess I'm sorta making myself seem like a health nut so I will mention that I quit smoking a week ago, and this is probably the 29th time I've quit so who knows if it will last.

I'm basically 5' 10" 175, w/ a body fat of 13%. I'm trying to get that body fat under 10% though. Alway's been a thin person... lucky me! Yeah, metabolism! The hardest thing is not downing about 12 mountain dews during a game session though.

... I've more gone to a healthy diet. I really only run when chased.

Every morning and every night, I have the juice of half a lemon in hot water. That's the basis of my new diet. After a few days, the lemon juice began to modify my eating desires. I've gone from drinking at least a dozen cokes a week -- and more like 4 dozen -- to not being able to stand the stuff. Yogurt is now more appealing than it has ever been, and I eat it near-daily. Not the sweetened crap, but the nonfat nonsweetned stuff. Just add fruit.

I highly recommend lemons (which are, btw, one of the world's healthiest foods) as an addition to anyones diet.