exercise - is this enough?

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Talk about aiming low.

Your plan seems perfectly adequate to make you fit enough for general life and means you should remain a similar weight and be healthy assuming your diet is also good. If you want the psychological effects of taking part in activity I recommend doing something more intense a couple of times a week. Also by doing these walks and weight sessions alone you might get some me time but you could also become bored by the regime and lose interest as well as missing out the important social aspect of exercise.

Hope that helps.

the more exercise the better really (up to a point obviously) so it just comes down to your priorities and what you're prepared to put up with to maintain fitness, I'm sure most people find it harder once they're out of uni and working as you'll just have less time and be more tired

what I mean really is that to me you don't seem like you're doing much, however my lifestyle is pretty active, compared to some people I know you'd be doing pretty well, asking in a fitness forum you're going to be asking a lot of people who do a lot of exercise so your answers will be biased

the only thing I would say is what weights do you have because 'I have a small set of weights at home' to me doesn't sound like weight training, it sounds like you've got those little 2kg things that women use so they don't get bulky and wont really do much more than moving your arm around with nothing in your hand... if you just want to do a bit of something at home doing a bunch of squats and stuff is still much better than nothing although I would suggest if it's fitness you're concerned with it might help to try and do a bit of cardio at some point?

first of all thanks for your reply and your help! I think the thing is because I naturally don't put weight on easily it would be really easy for me to eat whatever and be sedentary but still look the same - because I'm just trying to be a bit healthier, rather than lose a certain amount of weight and have a goal weight it's harder to get motivated - especially as I loathe most exercise and would rather be curled up with a good book and a cup of tea haha. Like I said the only things I really love and can keep up with is walking and weights.



you know it's funny because before I went to the gym I thought I was active because I walked everywhere. Now after having been a gym member I feel really inactive only doing low intensity stuff, I really think it's a matter of perspective. But I feel like I'm on my feet a bit more than the average person - I'll walk into town every day for my job, walk to the supermarket and back with my shopping bags, walk to the train station, etc.. so I'm probably walking for at least an hour just doing errands and going about my day.

So then what I'm trying to do is fit an extra hour in either walking just for exercise, or going on the stepper machine - usually the latter with our English weather - and then doing weights exercises too.



ha - that's exactly what I do have, a pair of small 2kg 'women's weights'! But honestly, I had never done any type of weights before I started using them on a regular basis, and I found it really hard at first. Now I'm using them every other day, have been doing so for a few months, and despite hours of cardio at the gym not really making a difference, for the first time ever I have 'toned' (yes I know it's a fail word) arms and even my mother said she could notice a change! So they're clearly doing something.

The kettlercise class is pretty intensive - it is almost like circuit training but with kettle bells. You have to do short sprints, squats - I'm always out of breath afterwards and definitely out of my comfort zone, but I suppose that's the way to get fitter.

Bit late to the party here but hope I can help a little!

You seem to have exercising down pretty good, the only thing I could offer you really would be variations to the routines you're already doing as I don't imagine there's a need to increase the volume or frequency if you're not looking to slim down and are simply maintaining weight.

Touching on diet briefly, the main point I want to make without getting super detailed and boring you to death is to simply look at your energy balance equation- calories in vs calories out. To a degree, regardless of what you eat, if you obtain a calorie deficit you will lose weight, and vice versa for a calorie surplus. How you will actually look and feel is another matter entirely, but simply speaking if you take in more/less calories than your body needs to operate then you will lose/gain weight

So yeah, just try and match your calories in versus your calories out and that will prevent you from needing to increase or decrease the amount of exercise you do. Oh, and hat off to you maintaining a healthy lifestyle!

You seem to be doing fine i think you can start kettleball exercises at your home itself you can buy them from amazon , nextonly.uk or even from ebay at really cheap price.Its best thing to do early in the morning, Since you already walk,eat proper food maintaining weight wont be an issue as long as you r not changing your diet.Kettleball exercises are really good & great thing for your body.Hope this helps you.

the more exercise the better really (up to a point obviously)