Non-Trads, What is Your Typical Exercise Routine?

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I do a morning crossfit/bootcamp 5 days a week, run 2 days a week (more if I have a race coming up), and do Ju Jitsu 2 days a week. I also do a fair bit of hiking, biking, and snowboarding on the weekends depending on weather and free time.

I have friends who only do 16oz. curls too, just depends on what you want to do.
 
I always work out first thing in the mornings, otherwise I'll never fit it in my schedule. I spin or run a few times a week (depending on the weather), HIIT three times a week with the nike training app, and yoga once a week.
 
Signing up for races, running or triathlon, helps hold me accountable. A lot of bars have running groups that lend to meeting people easily. I've met a lot of friends through training and try to coordinate our schedules so I'm more likely to workout.

Right now I'm focusing on strength training, so I've been using bodybuilding.com which has free plans. You can download an app and track your progress. Working out first thing in the morning and ensures I'll get my workout in and then I can just enjoy time after work. Sometimes, I'll lift on my lunch break. Lucky enough to have a free gym downstairs and an hour if I take it.
 
Wow you guys are hardcore. I'm gonna speak for the weenies and say I either run a half an hour or walk an hour with the border collie every day. Not by choice.... She's a border collie.
 
I'm in the gym lifting 4-5x a week for about 1-1.5 hrs. Starting to up my hours now that I'm done interviews.
 
Mornings, 6 am. The only way for my class and study schedule to work out since that is priority #1. Yeah getting up at 530am in this winter sucks, but it gets easier once you are in a routine. Also no young kids in the gym, so I spend no more than 1 hour in there.
 
I'm in the not-hardcore camp. I live in a very rural area where the only gym is way more expensive than I can justify.

Got a Fitbit a few months ago, make sure I get my 10k steps at all costs (being in challenges with people in my lab helps shame me into walking). 3-4 times a week do Zumba or routines from fitnessblender.com in my living room for 45-60 minutes when it's cold out.

I try to run 2 miles when it's mild out, but I suck at running and my trek through Zombies, Run! is usually more like Zombies, Walk Kinda Fast!
 
I always try to run at least a mile before bed daily. It helps me to keep me sane and does wonder to help me sleep well too. To me, repetitive excercise is a form of meditation in its own rights.

jil lin, may i ask why you are taking survey? To see if there's a correlation between excercise and admission success? 🙂
 
Mad Jack said:
Lifting my laptop and putting it on the table before I watch 6 hours of lectures. Repeat 7x week.
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Along those same lines, I was going to say I start the day doing lunges -- lunging at my alarm clock until I reach it. I then also do a fairly intense obstacle course in the dark each morning until I ultimately am cleaned up, dressed and out the door.
 
quant_risk said:
I always try to run at least a mile before bed daily. It helps me to keep me sane and does wonder to help me sleep well too. To me, repetitive excercise is a form of meditation in its own rights.

jil lin, may i ask why you are taking survey? To see if there's a correlation between excercise and admission success? 🙂
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Umm, sure, if you say so. LOL

To see what is working for most non-trads, exercise-wise. I'm with you though. Exercise is a form of meditation. Forces me to push stressors out of my mind for a while, and then my head feels more clear. Don't listen to music. Don't want to go to the track with anyone that wants to talk. Just push myself to clear my head and see how far I can go.

Running before bed would is tough for me cuz I'm already so wound up. I have done it on off shift though, cuz there's little time to make it work before being in by 7PM, with the other stuff I have to do.
 
Sticking to an exercise program has always been tough for me, especially when another big time commitment comes up like finals or something of that sort... So, until last week when my road bike was stolen (which will be replaced shortly) I began bike commuting everywhere I could by bike. Not only is it an efficient form of transportation, it also saves a lot of money, and ensures you get a workout in at least twice a day, most often 3 to four sweat sessions. It became such a part of my life that it was necessary to ride to the MCAT (leaving the house at 6:30 am while it was still dark and below freezing) so I knew I'd be wide awake, feeling fresh and motivated. It's a damn nice feeling riding on a full-time convertible, even when braving cold, wind, or rain.. just dress appropriately.

I also just added a triathlon training course to my school schedule, mainly to bump me into full time status, but also to work on my achilles heal of swimming which has so far prohibited me from doing a triathlon.

Sound mind, sound spirit, sound body. Keep em all in shape, folks.
 
I do all that I can to find ways to understand and creatively achieve at least the minimal exercise requirements each day, so that I will have some chance of continuing them when my hours become uncontrollable in MS3 and beyond.

Here's an excellent overview of what I have identified to be the most evidence-based requirements:
"Exercise, Health And You: How Much Is Enough?" - Jeff Novick, MS, RD
https://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=447958#p447958

(I hope you find the information at least as worthwhile as I have.)

However, since I have a bit of time before MS3, I tend to indulge a little bit more in exceeding the minimums.

Unfortunately, the biggest challenge for me will likely be to wean myself back down to the minimums, both psychologically and physically, particularly as I will likely need to try to adjust my calorie intake accordingly, which is likely to be bumpy.
 
There is time to exercise? Lol

Seriously, I stop at the gym on the way home and at least try to get in 30 minutes of cardio or weights alternating days
 
Wow....
Yoga twice or three times a week.
 
beluga_whale said:
Do u even?
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Ditching my gym membership and investing in some home equipment has been the best thing for me. I frequently break up my study sessions by walking outside and doing a ~30 minute routine. Highly recommended if you have the space for it!
 
Unconventional lifting 5x a week. Horse riding 2x a week and will go back up to 4 spring, summer and fall. Lost 40 lbs since the summer :banana:
 
Dressagequeen 247 said:
Unconventional lifting 5x a week. Horse riding 2x a week and will go back up to 4 spring, summer and fall. Lost 40 lbs since the summer :banana:
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🙂 What kind of "unconventional lifting?" Horseback riding...awesome. 40 lbs is amazing.
 
I used to lift in the gym for 1-2 hours 5x a week. And before that it was baseball 6-7 days a week with conditioning and work out 4-5x a week. I dabbled in those crossfit gyms for a bit but I'm very against that style of exercise. High reps on strict form exercises (in a competitive/lets do this is fast as we can environment) is eventually a recipe for disaster even for people who have a decent lifting background. Now I mostly do kettle bell work and body weight exercises at home for about 30 mins.
 
4 miles 4x a week, recently started lifting...i hate lifting, but i've realized i need to 🙁
 
Homework on the elliptical works for me, followed by one quick set on several muscle machines.

It's all about efficiency.
No time wasted in between sets (since I only do one set a day on several different machines).
No time wasted on cardio since I study while doing that.
 
Gauss44 said:
Homework on the elliptical works for me, followed by one quick set on several muscle machines.

It's all about efficiency.
No time wasted in between sets (since I only do one set a day on several different machines).
No time wasted on cardio since I study while doing that.
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Might want to do a couple more circuits on the machines each of those days, even if it means cutting down the machines and rotating them over the week.
 
ridethecliche said:
Might want to do a couple more circuits on the machines each of those days, even if it means cutting down the machines and rotating them over the week.
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Not if you max out and lift as much as you possibly can lift 6-8 times in a row to failure. Do that every 2nd or 3rd day per muscle group (rotate muscle groups to provide recovery time/growth time) and it's a great workout!
 
Gauss44 said:
Not if you max out and lift as much as you possibly can lift 6-8 times in a row to failure. Do that every 2nd or 3rd day per muscle group (rotate muscle groups to provide recovery time/growth time) and it's a great workout!
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No offense but evidence doesn't support this.
 
on PubMed.

One maximal set of 8 of one run through only per session of each exercise isn't as optimal as 3 circuits of close to the max for that exercise. I said do less machines to that poster since I figured time was limited.

This argument is so far back in the stone ages for ex phys that I'm not going to derail this thread. I go to other forums for that talk, but this is just wrong.

Go lift a weight 8 times for totally unrelated machines then call it a day? Really? Lol
 
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