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every night: more heaps of pushups
random 1-2 days per week: mess around with some freeweights
life: pursue activities like mountain biking, hiking, running, etc. Also do manual labor whenever the opportunity presents itself. Digging ditches is not below me just because I can write software for six figures...
a) I walk almost everywhere
b) Electric standing desk
c) Using a body weight exercise app 3–5 times a week in the morning, doing ~20 minutes of exercises.
a) and b) are side effects, I do something else, so it doesn’t bother me. c) is harder to stick to, but it’s short enough that I can push through it.
a) Helped that I wasn’t half-dead after years without any proper exercise, b) and c) really improved my back pain.
Since this is Hacker News, and might fit the demographic, I built an abacus, specifically, for this task. Every time I make a lap, I increment it accordingly. That way I have at least some idea of the speed that I'm going.
I commute to work by bike and love it.
I'd love to hear from parents with 3+ kids in rural areas (i.e., no gyms).
I've got a set of gym equipment I keep at the end of my garden (proper gym equipment is really robust).
I'm up at 5am to do a either 10KM or an hour on a spinning bike plus some resistance work and after the kids go to bed, I do a small amount of kettlebell work.
The principle is... before they wake-up and after they go to bed, and also to get your own kit.. Its relatively cheap also.
So many people seem to hate Crossfit, and while some of the criticism is valid, it has been the only thing that was easy to stick with for me, mostly due to the community. Many previous attempts of going to the gym alone regularly failed after the motivation faded a few weeks into it. For all it's flaws, I still recommend it to newcomers. The best program is the one you stick with.
I started adding more olympic weighlifting practice 1-2 years after starting Crossfit because I felt like I didn't get enough practice for the more technically difficult lifts like snatches from Crossfit alone.
I'm 72 years old and diabetic. There are significant limits on what I can do. My wife and I will do 30 minute walks 5 to 7 days a week. We go fast enough to get my heart rate up to the lower end of the aerobic zone. I also do strength training at the YMCA 3 or 4 days a week. I use the machines rather than the free weights. I worry about getting injured using free weights. I can't do many of the exercises other people…
So exercise improves my mood and energy level, and the effect can last anywhere from 24-48 hours. This can INDIRECTLY help you eat better as you aren't using foods (e.g. sugar, fat, caffeine) to boost you in one sense or another. I find that a mix of resistance training and cardio mostly on zone mid-high zone 3 or low zone 4 works best (high zone 4, or zone 5 seems to have a detrimental effect both in recovery and du…
Have you tried Ring Fit Adventure? It seems like exactly the game you're after.
I don't own car and everywhere walk or take public transport, even to groceries with backpack on my back. Though I work from home so not much movement besides walking kid to school and ocassional grocery 2-3 times a week plus some walks on weekend. My current BMI is around 19.9.
I am trying to do my very short daily routine of various moves (like 15 pushups, 15 squats, 22 pushups against the wall, front/side leg kicks and other hand/neck exercides, etc.) without any equipment at home, but recently failing since I don't really see benefit (been exercising this way every day unless extremely unhealthy for like 2 years and haven't seen really any improvement in anything).
I've used some Android offline exercise app with short videos to get inspired about the moves, but later uninstalled it, don't remember name and don't use Play store, so can't find it, it was quite old app, but free and offline.
EDIT: found it, this is the one I can recommend
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bodyweight...
I have a repeating Todo to bike at least 500kcal on that blasted machine.
The TRX is just awesome and takes away every excuse. What is left is you bs, fears and frustrations. Dealing with those is just as worthy as exercising.
Need to lift weights? TRX. Core? TRX. Stamina? TRX.
Another trick I learned: make three workout routines. One for when you can hardly get out of bed. One for when you feel fine. One for when you want to storm the heavens.
You get to give yourself an A grade for doing the routine that fits you on that particular day.
All in all I went slowly but steadily from 120kg to 113kg over the pas 8 months. In combination with intermittent fasting. Especially cycling at the end of the fast seems golden.