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 Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:11 pm
How do you exercise? It can be as simple as just getting through the day, or as intense as personal training.
What types of exercise would you like to try if you had the time/money/ability?
I'm currently lucky enough to afford working with a personal trainer for five weeks. We're working on my range of motion with my knees. Most people can squat from a standing position. I can't go more than a few inches. We're working on that, and also toning up my body.
If I had the ability, I would LOVE to figure skate. I think they look so graceful, but also badass, spinning through the air. I always loved watching it in the Olympics. Sometimes when I hear a good song, I'll plan out an ice-skating routine for it. Unfortunately, whenever I get on the ice myself, I'm way too terrified to do anything more than clutch desperately at the wall and attempt to hold on for dear life. rofl
I would also really like the opportunity to dance more. I've done a few hip-hop classes, and Zumba and bellydancing classes, and I miss them.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:42 pm
I would love, love, love, love to learn how to dance, for real. Unfortunately, I'm a total klutz and would be a danger to myself, my dance partner, and everyone on the floor, so I settle for flailing about my living room alone. xp
I love to walk, especially early in the morning or late in the evening when everything is quiet and still. It's just very calming and meditative for me. It's less fun when 'walking' means 'dashing from class to class while carrying an overstuffed messenger bag over your shoulders' but I don't mind that so much either if I have music. heart
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:56 pm
Currently, my only "exercise" is rushing to and from classes and meetings and events on campus. Sometimes I walk into town if I have time. This morning, for my Health/PE for Elementary Teachers class, we walked to the elementary school a couple blocks down and joined in with a 5th grade PE class. Let me tell you, PE classes nowadays are a ton more rigorous than when I was in elementary school!
If I had time and equipment and location, I'd play badminton for hours.
If I had my old PE class, I'd play floor hockey.
If I had grace and confidence (and if I'd brought my swimsuit to college), I'd go swimming.
If I weren't afraid of heights, I'd go rock-climbing.
If I had time and family around, I'd go hiking in places around my campus.
Maybe if I had patience, I'd try yoga? But I'm really much more of a SMASH THINGS person.
If I had balance and discipline, I do some kind of combat/defense thing.
If I had more skill, training, equipment, and time, I'd play softball because that's what I liked to do with my dad when I was little.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:49 pm
i go to the gym a lot - well, 4 times a week, unless i went less the previous week and am going more to make up lost days - and spend about an hour on the bike and the elliptical. this isn't fun, exactly, but it does the trick. i don't feel lazy. i also walk home from there, which is about a mile and a half (with a big hill at the end). other days, i just walk home from the train, about a half a mile up that hill. i used to ski and snowboard a lot back when i lived at home, because home is vancouver, and it's worth doing. here, what's the point? the hills are all tiny and far away. and anyway i'd want to bring my equipment over; renting is expensive, time-consuming, and the boots never fit right. i do love that, i'm good at it - could get better at moguls, though - and i love the feeling of going fast under my own power. if i had the skills, i'd play roller derby. i tried out last fall and didn't make it, but my husband has made a deal with me that i have to try out again next year (it's too late for this year). more going fast under my own power - although i'm not fast enough yet. and not balanced enough - i wiped out HARD at tryouts when one of the pros was trying to take a whip off me. the result:  it's glorious, though. i haven't been skating in about a year, and i'm starting to itch to get back on wheels.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:56 pm
Mostly, I walk, but I'm sometimes not able to because of a problem. I also do pushups and other assorted exercises every evening and morning and secretly dance around the house. I want to go to a gym but this poor high school student can't really afford it at the time. D:
I also love to swim, but I can't do it as much as I have bright blue hair that gets killed in any kind of chlorine. It goes WHITE. ;~; So no swimming for me, really. Ice skating is amazing, though.
OH, OH, I also want to learn belly dancing and pole dancing, but they both cost munnies and I'm still a bit too self-conscious to try either.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:45 pm
This too is sacred Oooh, the excersize question. What do I *like* to do? I love yoga and bellydancing, walking and hiking. I HATE to bike. HATE it. I also love to swim and do aquabics. smile If I had the money/time/energy, I wouldn't mind doing bellydancing regularly with aquabics too. I walk back and forth to school two times a week or so right now and it's about 2 miles. It's a gorgeous bit of trail, mostly, along the MacIntyre river that goes onto campus. I wont call it a hike because it's a paved flat trail but it is in a natural setting. love as thou wilt
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:14 pm
This too is sacred So I went to the U's pool tonight. Very nice facility for swimming, sauna, locker rooms with showers, the whole nine yards. It was great. I did a few laps on the 'short' end of the pool (it's a rectangle), then did a few on the longer side. It definitely got my heart racing and I think maybe I might have a couple of muscles speaking up I'd forgotten about, but overall it was a nice time. The sauna afterwards was especially nice. heart A real sauna too, not one of those ones at a hotel with no steam and all heat. My parent's house has a sauna built right into the basement and I didn't realize how much I missed it until I stepped into this one tonight. Hopefully I'll get back to the pool sometime this week again since I wont be here for the Thanksgiving weekend. (Canada's Thanksgiving is this coming weekend). love as thou wilt
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:24 pm
I love swimming. I think swimming might be the best excercise there is. The water makes you feel light weight I suppose and you get a full body workout without having to strain yourself.
Also go skating in the winter just to move around instead of staying at home.
Skiing, trying to plan a trip to go skiing so that should be fun. I tried Snowboarding last year but it was a total workout for me sad having to push myself off the ground only for me fall back down.
But I would like to get back to the gym soon when I have a better income comming in. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:54 pm
Iceh2o Snowboarding last year but it was a total workout for me sad having to push myself off the ground only for me fall back down. The thing with snowboarding (says the girl who got her mom to BREAK HER WRIST trying it... best daughter ever!) is that the learning curve is really easy. You spend the first day falling down every 2 seconds and it's miserable and you always fall either flat on your face or flat on your back, which sucks, BUT once you get the hang of turning, you're basically set for life. You can fine-tune your technique from there, and get more comfortable on more challenging slopes, but there's really nothing else to learn. Learn to turn and learn to stop and you're hollywood. I guess what I'm saying is give it another shot!
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:25 pm
That's good advice, Kermie! (Is it ok if I call you that?) I've always wanted to try snowboarding but I'm too scared of breaking my legs. whee Maybe I'll give it a shot someday.
Lately I've been playing DDR at night after Gabe goes to bed and doing some pushups. I can't be the only woman in the world with uneven breasts so I'm hoping that building up the muscle on both sides will help to even things out.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:23 am
I just gave up on all electronicts exept the computer, and i only get on it about an hour a day so.... It seems to be working xd
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:22 pm
No movies, no tv either? Interesting! I spend way too much time at my computer. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:12 am
I reeaaaally want to be more active this year, guys. I'm thinking of starting swimming this month, while I'm still off school. I could even walk/bike to the nearest pool here at home. I asked my mom about getting a personal trainer (together?) this summer--we did it once... before shipping me off to fat camp (joint decision)--so I can hike around Spain and all the museums and stuff I'll be visiting.
Any suggestions?
Keep in mind: poor, short-on-time college student. Also, very self-conscious when it comes to getting red-faced, sweaty, and out-of-breath around a bunch of people, especially people I know and will have to see again.
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:06 pm
Does your college have a REC/gym center? Is it close by?
I try to go to mine for an hour a day on the elliptical machine.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:32 pm
I've been thinking of it. The only thing is I have a family history of bad knees on my mom's side (her mom got a knee replacement last summer, getting the next one in a while--my mom has had three or four surgeries on her knees and still has problems--my older sister is developing knee problems, partly due to horse-back riding) and back problems on my dad's side (my dad, his next older brother, and my older sister again). So I'm not sure which machines are safe for me.
And then, of course, there's the insecure fatty issue. :/
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