How many hours per week do you workout?

I recently read an article that states that if you are exercising more than 7-8 hours per week, you could be suffering from exercise addiction and be doing more harm than good to your body. How many hours are you logging per week for exercise?

Per week, I get around 4 1/2 - 5 hours of exercise. Three hours on weight lifting (60 min x 3 times a week), and one hour forty minutes of cardio (three 20 min SS sessions after lifting and two 20 min HIIT sessions on non lifting days). I make sure to take 2 days off per week where I do no exercise at all. My off days are Tues and Sun.

New question: How many hours do you spend running tangents out to left field?

Original Post by amethystgirl:

New question: How many hours do you spend running tangents out to left field?

 

 6. But I try for 8 taking a small lunch break. ;)  Tangents, esp. the ones out in left field, ROCK!  :p

I recommend doing tangents out to left field in high intensity intervals as my mailman told me that's more effective than doing them at steady state.

I think Vyperman7 may suggest doing HIIT tangents, sprinting from left to right field then walking back to left field again. :D

Original Post by fitnessgirll:

 WTF! Are you getting your mail? haha

Whoever gets home first get's the mail out of the mailbox that our mailman leave it in...

Original Post by fitnessgirll:

Is he training for something//professional - competitive bodybuilder??

professional non-competive letter carrier? 

Original Post by jturnerx:

I recommend doing tangents out to left field in high intensity intervals as my mailman told me that's more effective than doing them at steady state.

 LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!! LOVESIT!

Oh my  - this is way over my blonde head.

Funny stuff though!!

I workout about 7.5 hrs a week:

MWF = 60 mins. weight lifting

TTS = 90 mins. cardio

Original Post by fitnessgirll:

Original Post by floggingsully:

Original Post by fitnessgirll:

 Holy Crap! :0 Is that consecutively or 3 in the AM and 3 in the evening?

 Well, there's a half hour lunch break in the middle of it, but it's pretty much consecutively, 10am - 4:30pm unless he's got some overtime then it could go all the way to 6:30pm.

 WTF! Are you getting your mail? haha

Is he training for something//professional - competitive bodybuilder??

Are you kidding? Or just really dumb?

I do 4 hours: 30-40 minutes of cardio 4 or 5 days a week + an hour-long muscle strength/endurance class 1 or 2 days a week. My number is a bit low but I am not trying to lose weight.

Original Post by fitnessgirll:

Min of 10... a lot higher when training for races/marathons. Always take one day off a week - sometimes two.

Today is my day off for the week - including not going into the gym -it's where I work- yay!. Plan on sitting by the pool or rather lying on a raft in the pool, listen to awesome music with some even more awesome friends and an adult beverage in my hand.

 You work at a gym? I do as well. Which one do you work at? I work front desk at the I'm at.  The job sucks, but the one thing I can say about it is that it caused me to get back into working out again. I figured that if I couldn't walk into the next room and exercise, that would be pretty damn bad. My main problem was always driving to the gym. Once I was there, I was cool.

Original Post by vyperman7:

 You work at a gym? I do as well. Which one do you work at? I work front desk at the I'm at.  The job sucks, but the one thing I can say about it is that it caused me to get back into working out again. I figured that if I couldn't walk into the next room and exercise, that would be pretty damn bad. My main problem was always driving to the gym. Once I was there, I was cool.

Santa Monica is my main fitness facility...I also have a smaller fitness studio in Webo [W Hollywood] and I travel back and forth bt the two running the day to day business as well as training clients [I am a personal trainer].

Glad working at a gym got you back into fitness and health. May be instead of driving to the gym, you should SPRINT to the gym and then casually jog home. heehee. Sorry, I can't stop - just playin wit ya!

I like women with a sense of humor. You crack me up. I actually just did my HIIT sprints a few hours ago. It kicked my butt today.. LOL

All I did from 16-23 was workout. Then when I got injured I fell out of it, and even after I healed I only back into exercise sparatically at best. Then from 25-27 I got back into school down in Southern California and put on a lot of weight down there. After I came back home, I lost more than 30 pounds. But it was mainly due to diet and little exercise. So when I got the job at the gym, it finally gave me the motivation to get back into it at the level I used to be at. I am determined now to stick with it and not go back to being so out of shape.

That is very cool that you are a trainer. Has the economy being in the state that it's in, affected the size of your client base at all? Some people may see personal training as a luxury item and avoid doing it. The trainers I talk to at the gym I work at, and at Gold's where I usually workout, say that times have been tough for them.

I do Bikram's hot yoga classes (90 minutes) 5 days a week, and cardio/strength training at the gym several days, so total 11-12 hours of exercise each week. I feel healthy, not "addicted".

I am almost 8 months pregnant and I still workout for an hour or more a day, yet sometimes only 45 minutes.  Getting off your butt, moving, and sweating daily, or 4 to 5 days a week is healthy in my opinion. If you were healthy and active before your pregnancy you are able to maintain your routine as long as you listen to your body, I had to end HIT training, sprinting hard core, and a few other things slowly.  But the doctors recommend at least 30 minutes to an hour DAILY  of exercise for pregnant women, preparing your body for labor is not an easy task.

I have always been active, like most I love the way it makes me feel and it is my "me time" of the day.  I take spinning classes 3 days a week, do the elliptical the other 4 days and about 20 minutes of weights 4 days a week.  I can not wait till after I am healed from labor (hopefully 4 to 6 weeks) to go back to HIT training though.  20 minutes of 1 minute-if I can make it-all out sprinting, with a 1 minute, maybe minute and a half-recovery.  Talk about much more bang for your buck!   And the results beating running for 45 minutes straight in my opinion, and hey not everyone agrees with me.

I usually go up to 15 hours a week, with 2-3 hours a day, six days a week (one rest day).