longer excercise

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Registered: 01-04-2007
longer excercise
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Wed, 02-21-2007 - 12:57pm
So I was watching the Today show yesterday and they were talking about women's heart health. The two speakers said that women who are trying to lose weight should excercise 60-90 minutes a day rather than the 30 minutes a day that most people suggest. SO what do you all think? I am working on about 60 between cardio and weights, but there are days missed in there for whatever reason. Oh and I have seriously seen the link between strength training and weight loss. I have not been doing weights for a few weeks because of sick kids and this and that and my losses were all less than a pound per week. I went back to faithful weight training this last week and have lost 3lbs!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 3:34pm
For me personally, I have to get myself to exercise in that 60 - 90 minute range five or six days a week or I really don't lose. I honestly feel like overall my diet is in check and my water intake is pretty steady and that's the missing link. When I drop down to 30 minutes I'm lucky to maintain even if I'm crazy strict about diet. Good luck! Annie
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Registered: 02-23-2006
Wed, 02-21-2007 - 4:08pm

I was exercising about 30 mins a day, and I have worked it up to about 60 mins. (3 days a week 45 mins cardio and about 20 mins weight, 2 days 60 mins cardio.)


I'm hoping it will help, because I haven't really lost anything lately.

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Registered: 03-06-2004
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 8:01am
Ok, I can understand the thing with working out 60-90 minutes a day...You are burning more calories which in turn makes you lose weight....In a perfect world one could work out that long each day, but with kids, work, school plus the duties of keeping the house in order, who actually has the time!! So, my question is....does this 60-90 minutes have to be done all at once to see results or can you break it down to 2-3 30 minute sessions throughout the day?
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Registered: 02-22-2007
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 5:00pm
You can definitely split your excercise up. There have been a lot of studies showing that you don't have to excercise all at once for it to be effective. I might be mistaken, but I think even taking 10 minutes here and there to climb stairs or walk briskly can count towards that 60-90 minutes. Of course, the more intense the excercise the more calories you burn, but like you said there are a lot of time constraints that prevent us from being able to hit the gym for 1 1/2 hours every day.
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Registered: 05-08-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 9:16pm

I am definitely meeting the 60-90 minute guideline each day, but----if all you have time for is 20 minutes, then doing 20 minutes is better than doing no minutes.

I think its easy to get into the 'all or nothing' way of thinking - if 'they' say do 60-90 and I can't, why bother? If I ate unhealthy this afternoon, I might as well eat junk for supper...and then you're off plan and off track and feeling bad about yourself...

For me, this journey has been about a huge number of small, consistent changes. I started with exercise three times a week, once for an hour, twice for 30 minutes. To sustain the weight loss, I've had to keep increasing the duration/difficulty of what I am doing, but it gets easier and easier to do things that are actually harder. In fact, no matter how hard I try, I can never get to that level of pain of the first six weeks...

Good for you for getting back to strength training - I love how my arms and legs feel after lifting, and I actually have a pretty well defined set of muscles in those areas - plus I can lift things that I never thought possible.

So if you can find the time to exercise 60-90 minutes on some days,go for it - if you can only find 10 minutes three times a day - go for that...it will all add up.

Best wishes on your journey!
SJ
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Registered: 02-06-2006
Mon, 02-26-2007 - 6:30am
One thing I can NEVER do is a 60-90 minutes workout everyday. I don't care what they say, I can never get to that level and frankly don't want to. I can't see myself taking away 1.5 hours a day for exercise, even if it's staggered. That said, I do get good results with 30 minutes of exercise 5-7x a day

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