Do you workout as much as you should??

I have always hated exercise, I dislike anything that makes me too hot. I’ve never set foot in a gym, I can’t swim, and the exercise bike I once bought was hardly ever used.
But I’ve always had an active job, enjoy walking, and always do my ten thousand steps.
I’m sure in an ideal world I should do more, but I wouldn’t want to waste my very valuable time doing something I really wouldn’t enjoy.

I get out with the dog every day after work for about 30 minutes., and try to alternate yoga / weights. It's hard when you work full time. Unless I do the workout right away when I get home it will get put on the back-burner.

I find on a nice day DH will tempt me with a cider in the back yard. The dog will get a walk afterwards, but the other will get put off. I do love yoga though.

Wow! Have you seen the latest research about the link between intense exercise and motor neurone disease.

An active, everyday life is best. No need for workouts. My mum making beds, doing the washing, walking to the shops, carrying the load home, doing the garden would have said she didn’t have time?

Monica is saying what I thought when I read this thread re having to have a workout which sounds very American to me as in' have you been working out'. Bleugh. I do know I should and must keep active if I dont want to seize up altogether but going to the gym or using equipment at home is not going to happen here. I have a fairly active day with usual household chores as I do most things every day, I play golf at least twice a week which takes four hours and is about a 5 mile walk with lots of swinging the upper body, we go for walks in the country when the spirit moves us which is most weeks. That's it for me. I may take on a Pilates class in the Winter when golf is more sporadic according to the weather.

I walk 10,000 steps every day fortunately its an exercise I enjoy.

The thread I read before this one was titled "Being told what to do." Co-incidence? I think not.

I don't workout at all and never have done. I wasn't keen on games and PT at school, but I did both (reasonably well) because they were in the timetable. After leaving school, my only exercise was dancing (quicksteps, foxtrots, jives, waltzes, in smoky dance halls) and speed walking from Waverley to Chambers Street to reach my seat before a lecturer started speaking. I never again went near a games pitch or a gym, except for a short period in my fifties when I accompanied a friend to a "women only morning" once a week at the gym, followed by a game of badminton or squash (her idea, and she always won)

My future husband sometimes went rock-climbing, but I never joined him. We went on some very pleasant long walks together, taking our children with us once they arrived, but the object of the walks was to see the countryside/scenery/ landmarks, not to "get fit". When he died after nearly fifty years of marriage, I kept up the walks, but they have gradually got shorter.

I am now over 80, and my body is getting less efficient in various ways, but I reckon I am at least as healthy as many people I know who have gone to a lot of trouble through their lives to keep fit. What they have achieved by all the workouts is to get strong in all the muscles that they have exercised. Their body health is no more than mine if you add up all the muscles and organs that make up their bodies.

As a child I loathed PE and any form of exercise. I was rubbish at sports, too small to get the ball over the net in tennis and the last one to be picked for any teams (humiliating in the extreme). Roll on my early 40s and I fractured a bone in my foot while on holiday in France. On my return I had a bone scan and hormone test and not only was I menopausal but had osteopenia.
Even then it took me years to realise I needed to exercise to strengthen my bones. I was put on HRT and sent away. Then I had further fractures - to my wrists, one very spectacular one Christmas eve which needed repair surgery. However I had begun to exercise sporadically and go to the gym, trying to lose weight and get fitter and healthier (I was obese as well!)
And then finally lockdown arrived. I did Joe Wicks daily and pulled a muscle. Then I joined a local online exercise group and did Early Risers aerobic/HIIT/ weights mix three times weekly and one or two Pilates classes. I also acquired a FItbit and ensure I do as close to 10000 steps daily, whether inside or out.
I'm a convert. Late in life I know and maybe too late to recover my bone density but the decline is slowing and I'm fitter. I do weights to strengthen my muscles and am trying to include balance exercises to prevent further falls.

Sorry for the very long post but I was very late to the exercise party and now I'm doing what I can most days. Still probably could do more. I had begun going to the gym pre-lockdown but not now. I would love to learn to swim but don't feel safe enough yet. Whatever we're doing, it's probably never enough, but life balance is vital.