I thought it might help motivate us all to do more in the way of exercise if we keep a running thread as a fitness log. We can use it to record any fitness activity we do, and encourage/applaud each others' efforts.
Any and all levels of fitness welcome - as are recommendations of good forms of exercise to take up.
I have high blood pressure, so I need to do more exercise and lose some weight (quite urgently).
Today I leapt out of bed - OK, I heaved myself out of bed - 
, got to the gym, did 30 minutes on the exercise bike and 30 minutes in the outdoor pool. The sun was shining, and, honestly, it was glorious. Not to mention how pleased I was with myself. 
Granb Have just read about your loss and feel so sad for you. DH and I lost our first babies many years ago now, and my heart goes out to you and your family. You should be very proud of your charity efforts - fantastic 
I didn't feel like going to Pilates today because I've had an eye infection and feel very tired, but the Dr said it was OK so I hauled myself to the class and I'm so glad I did. As usual it was fantastic. We have 'machines' and loads of apparatus and every week is different. Our instructor is a physio - very good looking - who makes you do that little bit extra and even today I came out feeling energised.
Has anyone tried a mini-trampoline? Don't laugh...they're not the sort you buy for the grandkids but proper excercise equipment for real grown-ups of any age.
They cost about £30 from Decathalon and I can honestly say it's money well spent. I have been using mine for the past 2 months. I do half an hour a day before work each morning (I 'jog' on it, rather than jump though - jumping makes my bones rattle these days).
The beauty of them is you don't suffer from the impact injuries you get with some types of excercise and you can watch TV while you're doing it. I usually resort to 1 or 2 pre-recorded episodes of 'Come Dine With Me' and drool at the (sometimes) lovely food whilst I'm getting rid of the unwanted spare tyre.
I thought it would be really difficult but it's really not - and believe me I am the original couch potato - consuming a nice glass of wine, a slice of pizza and a large cream cake is the most excercise i usually get but i really enjoy it as it's so do-able.
Up to now I have lost just over a stone and am now down to 9st 7lb. I'm, only 5' 2" so need to lose at least another half stone.
Oh and they're good for improving your balance too!
For a long time I used to swim 1–2 km every day, but for well over a year I haven't been doing so – too busy in a variety of ways and other bits of life taking priority. Recently I have noticed that the jeans I always wear and which I used to pull up and down without bothering to undo the fly are feeling a bit tight. I seem to have acquired something of a spare tyre, partly, I would guess, through not going swimming regularly and partly, perhaps, from giving up smoking at the end of last year. (There was an article in one of the papers recently that said scientists have worked out that the average weight gain when smokers give up is quite a lot more than previously thought.) I am also feeling flabby, saggy and generally unfit so when a friend suggested I should come to her health club for a swim, I trotted along. I have now joined and am using both the pool and the gym every day. The gym is a bit new to me and I am taking it slowly until I am really at ease with the machines. I do half an hour in total, using the treadmill, reclining bicycle and the elliptical thingy with the two foot pieces and the handles. I haven't quite got to grips with this last thingy as you need to keep your rhythm regular – but then I've only been doing it since the end of last week. After my session in the gym, I swim my kilometre and then relax with a session in the steam room followed by the jacuzzi. I already feel better for this and intend to keep up the regime, gradually intensifying it. Apart from anything else, having paid my membership fee and bought new trainers and socks, I am far too mean not to make full use of them.
It sounds wonderful, absent!
.... but I have been to Zumba, and am swimming in a friend's pool this afternoon. Perfect to get that endorphin kick which I badly needed this morning.
I've been trying to do a lot more brisk walking but today the rain is relentless!!
Good for you absent. In my assessment when I joined the gym they told me how far I could let my heart rate go up and that I mustn't let it go any higher. It meant that I had to do everything so slowly which might be why i was so bored. A few years after I gave up I discovered that my thyroid gland had grown into my chest and it may have been that which was the reason my heart rate went up so quickly. I shall be watching your progress with interest and if you are still going in a year's time I might have another go. Now that puts pressure on you to keep it up!!
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