What do you do to keep fit?

If you have a partner who is inclined to exercise then you are lucky. Mine works very hard. He gets up at 5.30am every day and does not return home until about 6pm or even later. He will not exercise at all, not even at the weekends.

If he did, I would do more.

He exercises his finger though.. on the remote

I'm a lazy sod too. jenn you don't sound like a lazy sod to me.

I try to walk an hour a day. I frequently fail. However I play tennis once a week, and do a zumba class once a fortnight.

I dislike walking for the sake of it, so try to make it a part of my daily life.

I'd like to do weights, to tone up my arms.

im 65 I retired 5 years ago and thought I was doing enough exercise by walking my dogs daily and swimming 20 lengths 2/3 times a week as well as looking after my horse but realise it only takes up a couple of hours a day and the rest of the time I am a lazy sod.Exercise for exercise sake just doesn't appeal I know walking is the answer but I cant resist the car keys when shopping and classes are not for me. roll on the winter when mucking out is a good daily workout.

This was just my short walk to help others follow the trail for this Saturdays Cycle event have every year, our eigth, starte by my good pal Colin and I.
youtu.be/D3N_9bBoPOc

At just seventeen I'm quiet fit for my age so far so good as the saying goes. I ride a mountain bike called Rocky like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35Y0GWwXX0&feature=youtu.be

That hill was very steep and the horses made it near imposible to climb as it rained the night before.

At just seventeen I'm quiet fit for my age so far so good as the saying goes. I ride a mountain bike called Rocky like this:https://youtu.be/T35Y0GWwXX0

Blinko
Have got a Fitbit for my 80th birthday from DSandDIL! I am thrilled. On another thread a daughter was asking for ideas for a birthday present for her Mum. I promised to report on what I received,well there is one idea!
Look forward to start using it tomorrow.

Retired last July and have tried to do 3 excercise classes a week at the leisure centre. Sh bam total body tone and fit steps. Haven't lost any weight but I do feel better for it. I have fit bit zip and I feel some thing is missing if I forget to wear it! I try to do 10000 steps a day. We are leaving the area in 3 weeks so will have to change the routine. I am 64 and have 2 children.

Wow, Winifred01, that's inspired me for a start!

Just 80, have been going to gym regularly for 25 years+, Don't like classes but use weights and bands,then either treadmill,rower or cross trainer,go to gym 2 or 3 times a week.

One child, 66, 2–3 kilometres in the pool daily. Heaps of exhausting childcare.

I went to a 'taster' Pilates class, then on my own to be assessed. if you have particular problems tutors can do a 'worksheet' just for you, or join in with a group.
Go the same day weekly for an hour, and do what suits YOU.

I'm 64 with 3 children. I started exercising when I retired 3 years ago as I was stiff, arthritic and had RSI. I did a weekly exercise class, a weekly swim and walked 10,000 a day. I had to stop at the beginning of the year due to severe prolapse. I had a hysterectomy and repair in February and back to walking but not swimming or exercise class. I will have to avoid some exercises (and heavy lifting) for life, as I don't want another prolapse. I think we have to keep active, even if it's housework and gardening rather than formal exercise, once we retire. I don't think I would age well if I was a couch potato.

My sister tells me they have a trampette. I'm wondering if that's a pocket sized lady of the night (as they say) or - more likely - a miniature trampoline.

DS bought me a Fitbit for my recent birthday (69, since you ask). It's linked to an app on my ipad. You wear it like a watch and it logs what you eat (which you input) and how much energy you expend in a day/week/month, takes the input from the cals burnt and hey presto, you can monitor how much weight you'll lose/gain if you carry on doing what you're doing. It even measures activity whilst sleeping and quality of sleep.

All very interesting and it puts you in control.

The OH is gadget mad and he's so taken with it that he has bought one too.

...started not stated! Just saying it doesn't confer much benefit! ?

I'm 64, I've had three children. I study Shotokan karate, training two or three times a week for 90 minutes and teaching it once a week. I've been doing that for 20 years. It's largely an individual activity so it's never too late to start! I walk my dog twice every day except Sunday, when I allow him a day off! I've just stated Tai Chi. Sometimes I jump up and down on the spot just because I feel like it. I have a weighted hula hoop which comes out now and then but it's a bit boring.

I too walk. My daughter bought me a fitbit (other models available!) and since then I am 'rewarded' for my efforts. It gets me up and moving even when I am down.

Lynne

Has anyone seen the YouTube video of Gillian Lunne exercising? Wow! She's 90!
I do Pilates twice, sometimes 3 times a week and walk in our hilly city every day. I bought some Sweaty Betty leggings with some of the money my parents gave me for my 70th last week. Expensive but a change from black and I refuse to do baggy or Lycra. Going to start swimming at our spa in the mountains next week. They do a cheap deal so it isn't as indulgent as it might sound but you tend to get the pool to yourself.

Keeping healthy and exercising regularly when I retired from work five years ago became a goal. I had been enjoying yoga classes for a number of years during my working life, so it became such a treat to be able to join classes in the morning and not at the end of the day.

So, in my late 60's I started taking tennis lessons - hadn't ever played - and after the course finished I took my courage in both hands and joined a local tennis club. I"ve met some like minded ladies who were better players than me - but not that much better - so now I play regularly in foursomes two or three times a week.

Even though I am now nearly 74 and sometimes have creaky knees (from tennis) or achy shoulders (from downward dogs) I'm not complaining. The payoff is that I feel pretty satisfied with my level of fitness these days - but the best part is that all this effort has given me a whole new group of likeminded friends - most of whom are at the same stage in their lives as me.

Disabled so just daily swim

Pilates Pilates Pilates!!! Excellent - I am 66 and wished I had started this years earlier. My body absolutely thrives on it . . . and has changed shape [interestingly no weight loss!] something that years of playing 5 hours of tennis each weak never did. I miss it dreadfully when something pops up that causes me to miss it.
And the star pupil is a 77yr old who has had 3 hip replacements and remains a wonderful example to the rest of us. And as to getting up and down we have an 88yr old who can do that with ease and get her leg almost up to the ceiling. Lots of different issues with the women . . . strokes, heart ops, hernias etc and our teacher allows for it all with individual instruction for each one of us so that we advance at our different abilities. I love it!

Having retired recently, and spending time catching up with friends over coffee and cake, I was determined not to pile on the pounds, so I do some form of exercise every day.
I walk/jog in the morning, then do some of the yoga poses I like best, do some weights, and ab exercises, I try and vary it and add in some wii games. I put on my music and do any necessary chores around my flat to the music, it really helps you get motivated.
I make sure I have me time over a long lunch then have a nice long walk in the afternoon, no matter what the weather, I listen to my MP3 to put some spring in my step.
I give myself the weekend off and enjoy nice treats (be it yummy food/cakes or glass(es) of wine) without the guilt as I feel I've worked for it! Good luck ?

I do my post natal exercises (tummy squeezing etc.) every morning first thing and then I walk for 40 to 60 minutes every day.

I also Hoover, dust, iron, cut the grass, wash the car and pursue a range of quite energetic tasks which must count something towards an exercise quotient.

But that's it. At three thirty I stop, have a cup of tea and a slice of cake and do nothing else but potter.