What do you do to keep fit?

I also have 2 kids and 3 very lively young grandkids 4,7 and 8 years old.
They will insist on me running after them and kicking footballs ( and that 's the girls) etc.
I wish my kids had had them earlier when I was younger and fitter. (Sigh)

I'm 68 and try to keep fit.
I'm lucky in that that I live on the side of a hill, and apart from the wonderful views, I get fit mainly by walking down into town and then back up at least three times a week.
It's especially good when I walk up with two bags of heavy shopping in each hand and then I walk the 95 steps up from town and try not to stop for a breather on the way. However, some days are better then others, but I have lived here for 30years and grateful I can still do it.
I also do Zumba Gold once a week and Pilates, and really enjoy them.

I keep fit by walking round after my hubby who has Dementia and cant remember where is glasses and walking stick has been placed apart from helping him with many other misplaced items. As soon as my bum says Hello to a chair he has lost something else.
I cant walk very far anyway because I have a stress fracture in the bottom of my crumbling hip but he certainly keeps me going from morning till night.

I should mention that I am 85 and hubby 87 and I am his carer.

...and I need to read instructions on smileys..

However, my spelling doesn't improve. I hate predictive text (angry)

I do a yogalates class on Tuesday, Zumba and Pilates on Thursday and have no guiolt at all. It enables me to attack the wine and gin over the weekend without too much impact wink wine

62 and had three children. I do Pilates twice a week, Aquaerobics once a week, I cycle - try to do a longish ride once or twice a week, and may just cycle to Pilates or go out for a couple of miles if the sun is shining. If I have not done much exercise I go out for a half hour walk in the evening....and have just enrolled in Body Pump after DD dragged me to her class when I was with her in Australia....will see how that goes! Feel better if I do something active, although basically I am a lazy person and would happily curl up and read a good book!

Whoops, TerriBull, I read that as 61.2 children.

Also read jing's comment 61, 2 children.

I walk the dog for an hour each day, although with his sniffing and pulling, it's more a case of 'slow, slow, quick, quick, slow ...'

It gets us out of the house though.

I am 79and have had 2 children, have been going to the gym regularly for past 25 years. Don't do classes but do about 15 mins weights and Pilates and 35 mins either rowing, crosstrainer or walking on jogger( not running). Do this 3 times a week.

I am 66 and have 3 sons and 3 grandchildren. My husband and I try to go to the gym 3 times a week for approx. 90mins on Mon/Wed/Fri and we do a 3-4 mile health walk on Thursdays. But tbh I am not generally a very active person. All the things I like doing are done sitting down, i.e. knitting, reading, doing sudoku and crosswords, hence why I try to go to the gym regularly! Hopefully what I do is enough to keep me reasonably healthy for the next 20 yrs or so!!

I agree with monanny that dog walking is brilliant because you have to do it whatever the weather. I also go to the gym at least once but usually twice a week as it helps to keep me comfortable. If I leave it too long my back and shoulder start playing me up. The gym I belong to is full of pensioners and there's no lycra so I don't mind going. Good luck with the fitness crusade Heirofhtedog

Just read jingelbellsfrock comment - I am nearly 64

Get a dog if possible. I now walk every day without thinking about with my dog. Minimum of two hours and sometimes 3 -4 hours. I must do well over the 10,000 recommended steps. Get a good pair of walking shoes, you feet need to be comfortable doing that amount of walking. I suffer from osteopenia so need to do weight bearing exercise. I sleep well after all this walking and my dog does too!!

I try to get out with DH and little dog every day for thirty minute walk. I have a lung condition so it is difficult when it's cold,a wind..takes my breath away. I am really on it with what I,what we both eat. Super healthy food, always have done that. Most recently all but given up alcohol, though staying with old friends this weekend...eeeek

I've still got Lizzie Webb and Jane Fonda videos as well.

No I didn't mean you! It was about all the posts.

60 (years old), 3 (children) and not a lot (what I do to keep fit).

I have fads that don't last - I've got all the gear for zumba, running, weights, trampetting, hula-hooping, yogalates etc in the cellar gathering dust and getting in the bloody way. I've also done all the body.... stuff in the past. All of them the best thing since sliced bread when I first got into them.

I walk, aiming for 5k steps a day on average, and usually getting well above that. And I love dancing. But that's it at the moment (till another fad takes my fancy ).

jings - did you mean me? I did give my age and I have had two children. I don't think I've changed like buggery but am certainly not as lithe as I once was!

These posts might be slightly more interesting if posters stated their age.

As I might have mentioned before, things change like buggery after seventy.

And how many children have you given birth to?

I've been wondering about Pilates. I play badminton twice a week and walk for 40 mins on the other days, so I'm fairly fit. I had a total hip replacement this year which was very successful but I am a bit stiff in the knees, for example, it is not that easy getting out of the bath. I am 71. Do you think I'd manage Pilates and how would it benefit me? All advice welcome! PS Is it all done on the floor - if so, that could be a problem.

I walk with a friend three mornings a week. We walk quickly and have built up to three miles now. I definitely feel better for it and look forward to going. I used to go to the gym but I can't afford it now I'm retired. I prefer walking too.

In a week my classes are
Monday Legs bums and tums
Tuesday Body Pump
Wednesday grandchildren
Thursday Body Conditioning
Friday Body Attack
with the occasional 30 mins on treadmill.
(Not to the standard of the of the younger mums in the class but I do what I can and adapt).
But the real exercise is the chat and the coffee afterwards!! Don't feel guilt then. Wish it made me thinner but its not happened yet. Will keep trying you never know....... Pigs might fly.

I learnt to swim 3 years ago and managed 34 lengths last week. Pilates once a week too plus riding my bike whenever possible, also gardening and a 3-4 mile walk Sunday morning.
I keep promising myself to have a 20 minute walk everyday too but somehow it never happens.