What do you do to keep fit?

I do Pilates, body balance( a mix of tai chi, Pilates and yoga) 2 or 3 times a week and swimming at least once a week. My DD bought me a waterproof MP3 player so swimming not as boring as it used to be. I can plough up and down quite happily for 30 minutes listening to Roy Orbison etc. You have to make exercise past of your routine, and it becomes really enjoyable.

I am 65 and have two daughters and 6 grandchildren ranging from 11 month old surprise twins to a nearly 13 year of! Oh yes and I have Parkinson's Disease and a wonderful husband. So I do yoga on Mondays and help younger daughter all afternoon (she has the twins and an 8 year old and a 10 year old). Tuesday's is usually a walking morning and then picking up another granddaughter and meeting eldest at their home, giving them supper and waiting there till a parent comes home.

Wednesday is Zumba Gold morning, Thursday Tai Chi and Friday walking with friends. All these exercises help to keep the symptoms of PD at bay.

I used to teach aerobics until I had to have cancer treatment that lead to infection, hip and knee replacements etc (a very long story!) But I wanted to say that I’m back to exercise and attend jazz dance, Pilates and teach low impact dancearobics to a bunch of mature ladies like myself at our local village hall. Thankfully the Lycra and tight leotards of my younger days has given way to jogging pants and baggy tee-shirts so I never feel out of place. My advice is find something that gets you moving, wear what’s easy to move in and listen to what you body tells you feels right and go for it!

My best way to keep fit is to get my husband to drop me two miles from home on his way to work! Can't walk any less whatever the weather as I have to get back home!! Have got a fitbit which is very motivating as I can tell if I have a fit day or a lazy day by quickly checking steps. Did break my little toe in the summer and have been a bit lazy since but definitely going to improve!!

I am encouraged by you all. Although I walk most days I probably don't push myself enough for it to be of any great health advantage so starting tomorrow I shall get up that little bit earlier put on my trainers and walk for 30 minutes at a faster pace than usual. As I live by the sea I can enjoy the early morning view across to beachyhead.

Hello everyone!

Well, where to start? With my age, I guess.

I've just turned 78 and I have to say I feel like a 40-yr-old!

I've always kept myself reasonably fit - used to cycle 10 miles to work and back. When I retired I joined a gym for a while - never very keen on it, though. About 7 years ago I gained access to a small exercise pool, and, as well as swimming, I would jog round it as fast as I could for about 20 minutes at a time. (Can't run on the roads, my knees won't take it.)

Then a couple of years ago, I was inspired by the good folk on Mumsnet - principally a poster who styles herself BigChocFrenzy - to take up weight-bearing exercises. So I found a website that featured home-based exercises - I didn't want to go down the gym route.

(I got into Mumsnet looking for a forum on Intermittent Fasting - the 5:2 diet, which I began in Feb 2012, losing 24lbs in the process.)

I started a series of exercises in Nov 2013 unable to do a single press-up - but now, when I'm fit, I can do 4 sets of 20 press-ups with 8kg on my back. I can also do 5 pull ups at a time and I swing a 9kg kettlebell around.

For the past half a dozen years I've run a food blog, so when I started exercising (and fasting) it seemed natural to blog about it there.

I said earlier, 'when I'm fit' - what I mean by that is that I'm still recovering from a hernia operation 4 and a half weeks ago - and I've still got another week and a half to go before I can resume my weight training.

I firmly believe that anyone can take up exercising at any age. And the more you do, the more likely it is that you'll have a healthy old age. That's certainly my goal!

I'm nearly 69 and walk everywhere because I don't have a car. I've tried all the usual exercise routines, Yoga, Pilates, etc., but I think walking suits me best. I found Yoga difficult and I was only in my thirties, but I did enjoy Tai Chi for the over 50s and would do it again if I could find a class in my area.

I'm 65 and recently (three months) widowed. I've taken up Indoor short mat bowls. Play Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Each session lasts three hours. We usually play 20 ends and that is a fair bit of walking. I am feeling the benefit and it gets me out of the house.

I bumble about on the boggy braes where I live, do some housework and gardening, go for walks. It's enough.

I took up running when I was 59 yrs and did 2 half marathons. I now go for short runs as often as I can manage it. I try to walk 10000 steps a day, which I have managed on average since January. I go to a Zumba class.
I keep meaning to start swimming again.

Atticus I was amazed reading that. Well done you. Good luck with your hernia recovery. I have alpha 1 lung disease, it makes it harder to get about, there always seems to be a small hill/incline... puff cough!
But at 63 I walk every day with DH and little dog

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I go to a belly dance class once a week. I think it helps to keep me supple as there is a lot of stretching. I also have a large garden which is hard work

Like many I walk a lot, 2 - 3 miles a day, uphill and down dale, on the footpaths around my village, I also do a lot of walking just in my normal everyday life. I very rarely sit down much before lunchtime.

I also enjoy swimming and try to swim at the local pool at least once a week, then there is our large garden, which is almost entirely my responsibility. I also have a set of flexibility exercises that devised for myself and do every day. They take about 10 minutes

"old dog"!

I am in early 70s and trying to keep fit but since becoming a widow and moving to a bungalow I find now that if I have to use stairs it hurts my knees. I have never really liked exercise but know I must do some, so make myself go for short walk most days. I can swim (only breaststroke without getting hair wet!) so I do 20 lengths twice a week - unfortunately it does give you a good appetite so have to resist choc on way home in car. Wish I could lose some weight, I know that would help

I am in early 70s now, and swim twice a week, 20 lengths breast stroke. I prefer this to walking. My daughters think I'm mad, as when I started swimming 2 years ago, I went to Sports Direct to ask for a swimming hat. I had in mind the one I used to have in the 50s, it was lovely with petals on and a strap under chin which really fitted well. They looked at me with amusement as though I was demented and showed me the modern ones. I bought one but what a disappointment, its like half a balloon, and as I have longish hair and a bun, I struggled to get it on, and then it gradually came off, so now I don't use one, I swim with head out of water as I don't want to get hair wet, its difficult enough to keep it coloured.

To stay fit and healthy it is very important to daily exercise for 45 minutes and should also look after that we eat a proper healthy diet staying away from junk and fast food.

i complete a power walking DVD three times a week, for an hour each time followed by some weights for my arms. I also walk to town about 3 times a week its only about 10mis away but after walking around the shops and back home its at least a minimum of an hour. Gardening involves lifting, digging, bending up and down and i play bowls three times a week. I use to go running but found i was developing a lot of pain in my feet which meant taking painkillers each day, now i dont run i dont take painkillers. I do miss running though.

I dislike exercise but feel I ought to so..I play tennis one a week, sometimes a zumba class, sometimes a yoga/pilates class.

Pilates is good. I feel I ought to do weights or something too.

I walk the equivalent of an hour a day, briskly.

I use MFP and if I've overdone it on the food I put on Absolutely 70s and have a little disco at home.

I try to walk 10,000 steps a day and bounce on the trampoline when no one's around.

It's the best exercise in the world for the pelvic floor muscles ever invented - far better than Kegal exercises.

We try and do a five or six mile walk a couple of times a week, and I go to aquarobics for an hour on Tuesday morning, which is the best non stop workout I get. I hate swimming lengths, but love this. I'd go twice a week but can't fit it in with the school run. The rest of my leisure activities are pretty static - once you've hurled twenty yards of fly line out onto the water in an onshore wind, there's nothing much to do except wait for the fishies to swim by! Climbing in and out of rivers can be pretty tough, and at my age, pretty dangerous, so I choose my rivers for their ease of access these days! DH can't do steep hills now as his knees are buggered, so that has restricted our Peak District walking to lower level stuff but I'm okay with that.