Are You Getting Enough Exercise?

When it comes to healthy living...exercise and fitness are very important. But it's not always easy to find time to squeeze an exercise regimen into our daily lives. And in the winter months it's even more difficult.

Do you exercise? Or are you more of a couch potato? Would having a better idea of the amount of calories burned with different levels of activity be helpful? It might help you find an activity that actually appeals to you.

Sheila Viers writes about the calories burned with different activities...

So how do you know what exercises and activities are going to give you the biggest bang for your calorie-burn buck?

I have put together a list of various activities to give you an idea of how each affects your burn. Sitting still (aka at rest), most people expend roughly 1-2 calories per minute, depending on your body weight, sex, etc. I have included both activities that burn a lot of calories, and also a separate chart that shows activities that don’t burn very many.

Here are more women blogging about exercise and fitness.

Check out Fit Bottomed Girls...

The Fit Bottomed Girls don't take anything too seriously—including fitness. Here, two regular girls share their trials, tribulations and adventures in staying fit to help you know what's good and what's whack when it comes to working out.

Sue is Workin of Fitness...

I believe being healthy goes hand in hand with feeling good about yourself and being happy. If you’re not happy, then you’re most likely not exercising and eating healthy. Ever since I started working out again, I’ve felt more happy and everyday I know that my body is looking better as a new day approaches.

Fat Fighter TV has the Top Ten Fitness Trends for 2009...

This year’s most popular workout looks like it’ll keep kicking booty in 2009 - Boot Camp-style workouts still top the American Council on Exercise’s (ACE) just-released list of next year’s fitness trends. Also at the top - ACE says fitness buffs will try to get more bang for their buck in this tough economy. Here’s the entire list - I look forward to it every year!

Study finds high intensity exercise reduce abdominal fat...

In this study, twenty-seven middle-aged women with a body mass index of about 34 (a BMI of 30 or greater is considered obese) and with metabolic syndrome completed one of three sixteen-week programs. One group of seven participants did no-exercise training (the control group), a second group of eleven participants exercised 5 days/week at an intensity less than or equal to lactate threshold and a third group of nine participants exercised 3 days/week at an intensity above lactate threshold.

At the end of the sixteen weeks the researchers found that those performing high intensity exercise significantly reduced their total abdominal fat, abdominal subcutaneous fat and abdominal visceral fat. There were no significant changes in either the control or the low intensity exercise group.

Zandria wrote last week about how she doesn't like early morning workouts...

When my alarm went off at 6:05, I seriously contemplated getting out of bed. Then my brain said, "Why are you forcing yourself to get up? It’s not like you’ve never gotten up early to exercise before. You already know what it’s like." So I burrowed back under the covers and slept for another hour. (Also, I place some of the blame for this behavior on the temperature. It’s much harder to get motivated to go outside at 6am when it’s only in the high 20s outside.) I did, however, go jogging that evening after I got home from work.

Is it possible to manage exercise and fitness in a bad economy?

From Budget Smart Girl's Guide To The Universe - Workout On A Budget...

One of the main things I missed was using the club’s indoor track during the winter. Every lunch hour I’d head to the club with my Walkman and listen to music while I walked one or two miles depending on my schedule. After we dropped our membership, I searched around for walking DVDs and discovered that Leslie Sansone specializes in walking DVDs www.lesliesansone.com I can still wear my headphones and listen to music or an audio book and it’s almost like being on an indoor track again. Best part about it, I don’t even have to leave the house now.

What are your thoughts on exercise? Love it? Hate it? Tolerate it? Let me know in comments.

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