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And a lot of it is down to this forum. I picked up on the "Are there any Runners Here" thread and have got into running as a result of it. I'm off to do my 4th parkrun shortly and really looking forward to it. If anyone had told me last year that on my 54th Birthday I'd be running 5K I wouldn't have believed them
On a negative note, so far this forum has cost me -
1 FitBit
1 pair running shoes
1 exercise bra
1 set of body composition scales
1 Running app for my phone

I'm with Caroline and Traciknits - I don't like exercise but I am doing more of it. I put it down to the trauma of always being the last to be picked for the netball team at school !

Am definitely enjoying exercise more since starting 5:2. More energy and stamina, and breathing is easier while swimming, cycling and running.

I put it down to the trauma of always being the last to be picked for the netball team at school !

Oh Jed, that was me for any sport, but I especially remember kickball in grade school - just totally demoralizing!

I love to walk, so that is my exercise of choice. Since I broke my leg last year, I haven't even tried to run much faster that a skitter across the road to avoid being hit by a car! I have been tracking my calories and exercise on sparkpeople.com - and they have short (6-30 min) exercise sessions I've started doing once in a while now.

I've always run/walk even though I've spent most of my adult life overweight. I don't think the amount has change much since I've started 5:2 but it has gotten easier since I'm carrying around 45 or so less pounds...

I don't have any problems exercising on fast days...although I don't have any 'energy surges' like some people claim.

I did a 36-hour, liquid-only fast which ended yesterday morning, and today I've swum my first-ever, non-stop mile.

I felt washed out after the fast, but picked up over the course of the day.

Since starting this WOE, I have found that I can breathe more easily when swimming, cycling and running, and have more stamina.

I am in my late fifties, and achieving more now, sports wise, than I ever did in my twenties.

I did our local charity walk on Sunday a week ago, 17 miles in total if you include getting there & back, all on one cup of coffee (fasting day) with a small lunch afterwards. Felt great, and nearly maintained 4mph the whole way.
Went to the climbing wall on Tuesday and did OK, biked 19 miles fast on Thursday and did parkrun 5k on Saturday in a rubbish time feeling really weary...
For some unaccountable reason I also lost about 3 lbs in the week, when I am supposed to be maintaining...
This Sunday, though, I already felt better and managed a new PB on my bike 15 mile circuit so I guess I just needed one more rest day before parkrun!

I am enjoying exercise more - I am only doing more walking but I find I am trying to find ways to walk for longer and that I miss it if I don't go out!
I do Pilates too and that is slightly easier now I am a bit lighter.
I also find myself getting restless if I sit for too long - not like me at all!

More, I think. I started this just over a month ago and every single day since then except onge (when I was laid low with a cold and fever) I have done SOMETHING. Mostly it's been time on the exercise bicycle watching a TV show (which some friends tell me isn't "really" exercise but I figure it's better than nothing, certainly better than watching TV completely sedentary if nothing else, and I was getting up to 48 minutea a go). Sometimes it's a long walk of an hour or more and I've also recently started "shredding". They say it takes 3 weeks or so to make something a habit and I like to think I'm there now. I'm trying hard to find ways to work more exercise in to add to my shredding - yesterday I made us all go for a long walk and today I felt cold so instead of sitting in a hot bath, like I normally do, I changed my clothes and got on the exercise bike for half an hour, and felt toasty for a while afterwards. I'm happy to be moving about.

I have actually been getting a bit slack the last couple of weeks and my weight loss has increased in the last 2 weeks. Not sure how that works. So for me I have gotten more lazy but my weight is going down faster at least in the last few weeks. I lost a few kilo's before I started this way of losing weight. I was exercising almost everyday and losing very slowly . I have actually lost 1 stone and 300 grams the first 3 kilos were prior to this way of dieting and the last the 5:2 way. I eat what I like on my 5 days and do the fast on the 2 days and exercise has gotten slack but I want to change that and not be so slack. But I find it odd I am actually losing faster without being so disciplined with the exercise.It's almost giving me the wrong message lol.

Don't do gyms anymore, I'm retired so since starting this WOE I make sure I'm busy on fast days. More gardening, extra walking, whatever I can find to keep busier, so although not going to the gym, probably getting more (work) exercise

I only been doing 5:2 for nearly a month now but find I am doing way more incidental exercise than previously.I'll park a bit further away at the shopping centre and I'll walk to nearby shop instead of driving.
I never been much for exercising in the past really a bit of an unco where sport or exercise concerned( thus I'm to the point of having over 100lbs to loss).
Confession time last year I bought a twelve month memebership to a local 24hrs gym because I thought yes I'll go late night/early morning no one need see me, truth was I was to scared to actually go in there ,only time in the twelve months that I paid for that I actually went in was( I had to have hubby with me) for the induction night after the looks that night I thought I would be laughed at(probably really irrational but that how it felt). I would like to make exercise a part of my life in the next twelve months that one of my goals.

I only been doing 5:2 for nearly a month now but find I am doing way more incidental exercise than previously.I'll park a bit further away at the shopping centre and I'll walk to nearby shop instead of driving.
I never been much for exercising in the past really a bit of an unco where sport or exercise concerned( thus I'm to the point of having over 100lbs to loss).
Confession time last year I bought a twelve month memebership to a local 24hrs gym because I thought yes I'll go late night/early morning no one need see me, truth was I was to scared to actually go in there ,only time in the twelve months that I paid for that I actually went in was( I had to have hubby with me) for the induction night after the looks that night I thought I would be laughed at(probably really irrational but that how it felt). I would like to make exercise a part of my life in the next twelve months that one of my goals.

Gyms can be scary places! I always hated the idea of going to the gym because of all the gym-bunnies happily hopping all over the place and not breaking sweat. Thought that I'd look like a floundering whale next to them. Then I realised my only other option was teams sports (shudder) or lessons. I opted for the gym and found that nobody really pays the blindest bit of attention to you. Gyms are self-centered places, it's wonderful

I wish you the best of luck with exercise This is the first time in my life I have ever enjoyed exercise, I actually like feeling out of breath and working hard. My friends are wondering who I am!

I've been to loads of pilates, yoga, stretch classes over the years, so understand the principles of regular stretches, crunches etc, but have never stuck to doing them outside the classes. But for the last fortnight I've done situps every day, and stretching several times a week, and its becoming part of my routine. I think this is because I now believe there is a point, it felt like a drop in the ocean against my weight in the past, but now I believe I will get somewhere closer to my pre-baby body.