[MK Chris]

At the swimming pool I'm having lessons at, they have a candlelit swim with gentle music afterwards. Always seemed a bit pointless to me.

[Andy B]

I don't know if it counts as excercise but I walk most places. Train station takes about 20 mins, work takes about 10mins-half an hour depending on which shop I'm in. That's about it for me really....oh and walking the dog generally about an hour each day.

May not seem like much but I'm a fast walker. I can do Waterloo to King's Cross in just over 1/2 an hour.

[Vivienne]

God, tophs, that sounds like heaven!!! I'd love that.

The only thing, I don't like is "aqua aerobics", where you are doing things with boards and stuff. It's really quite pathetic. I got thrown out of one session, because I couldn't hold the board down with my feet, found it wildly amusing (The Instructor didn't!), and I was asked to leave.

[pjordan2000]

I got my puffin badge when i was younger

[Vivienne]

Well done, pjord.

Another thing is step exercises. That's cool.. You can do those in time to the radio. R1 (useful for many purposes).

[AndyJ]

My excerise involved walking up and down the stairs at work, to and from the car, and between pubs on a fri/sat night.... also my right arm gets a good work out........................ lifting pints to my mouth... Thats about it for me....

[Vivienne]

Even walking up & downstairs is cool... You can get one of these pedometer things, and apparently most people are surprised when they see the readings, just how much ground they actually cover in a day.

[MK Chris]

pjord.

That's how you say Borg's first name if you have a cold, isn't it?

[AndyJ]

I do quite alot of walking at work, in the morning it starts of with the stairs, by 3pm its the lift... every time!!!

[pjordan2000]

pjord.

That's how you say Borg's first name if you have a cold, isn't it?

I'm not quite sure how that's pronounced to be honest....i prefer PJ as i'm being honest.

[Yudster]

Funnily enough, I can hear everything perfectly normally. But then, I just got my ears cleaned recently.

Actually, it's probably more to do with pool than the sound itself, my local pool is always really noisy and screechy anyway, so music would be awful - I imagine most pools are not like that.

[Bruvva]

Oh, I also do 2-3 spinning classes a week. Well, I did. Not done that so far this year but I'll start again on Friday. It's bloody painful but you feel good afterwards and I have a crush on the woman who teaches it.

[Yudster]

I quite fancy having a go at that, but how is it different from just going on an exercise bike?

[Bruvva]

I quite fancy having a go at that, but how is it different from just going on an exercise bike?

It's difficult to describe how it's different but you're not just sat on the saddle, you stand up, lean forward over the handlebars, that kind of thing. It's more of a group thing with the instructor shouting instructions, telling you to increase the resistance, peddle harder or whatever. It's a very good work out.

[Andy B]

Oh, I also do 2-3 spinning classes a week. Well, I did. Not done that so far this year but I'll start again on Friday. It's bloody painful but you feel good afterwards and I have a crush on the woman who teaches it.

Plate spinning? Spinning wool? careful of that needle on the end, prick your finger on it and you could fall asleep for 100 years....I ain't kissing you so you wake up!

[Vivienne]

Has anyone tried yoga? I didn't like that at all. It's supposed to make you feel nice and calm, but it made me feel very angry. Plus, there was a chair exercise in it, and I managed to overturn the chair. Nightmare.

[MK Chris]

You sound about as coordinated as me.

[Bruvva]

Has anyone tried yoga? I didn't like that at all. It's supposed to make you feel nice and calm, but it made me feel very angry. Plus, there was a chair exercise in it, and I managed to overturn the chair. Nightmare.

My old flatmate Lynn did that for a while, she said it was most disconcerting as everyone got so relaxed, they all started farting.

[Vivienne]

Oh dear, bruvva!! The woman in the video was a really cool type, and I was sure it was all going to go really well, but it was just so annoying. You actually have to have a lot of patience to work your way through yoga exercises, I would say.

[Sunny So Cal]

Had they been smoking special cigarettes prior to the yoga, Bruv?? I've never heard of that.

I've done yoga, Viv, and I'm not a patient person. It's really good exercise. You wouldn't think it from looking at the pictures, etc, but it most certainly is. It really strengthens your inner core muscles, too, which helps with your posture and it helps with the pelvic muscles you use during sex. One of its touted benefits is increased sexual pleasure because the floor muscles in your pelvis get worked. Supposedly they are difficult to train with most exercise regimes.

Other than yoga, I run on the treadmill, lift weights and cross train. I think Yud's boxing sounds brilliant!

[Vivienne]

O, so it helps with sex, I may give it another go then!! I didn't realise that.

[Sunny So Cal]

Look for any regime that says it strengthens your pelvic floor muscles. I even think there's been books about yoga training for sex or at least DVDs. I know in my New York Magazine there was an advert for one called "Better Sex Through Yoga" -- I thought that was a pretty eye-catching title.

[MK Chris]

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[S4B]

Running, except my legs tend to explode if I do it too often.

Also, I'm running a book on what S4B's reply to this will be

Cheeky git! My favourite exercise is lifting boxes of books!

[S4B]

I can't imagine you look like a whale in anything!