[Vivienne]

Sara Cox was discussing exercise at the weekend, so I was wondering what type of exercise do you lot like best? And why?

[MK Chris]

Table tennis, biking, running, swimming, the multi-gym thing, the cross-trainer, the rowing machine. I think they're the main ones.

[Bruvva]

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

[MK Chris]

My bet is "I don't have time to exercise, I am too busy working more hours than there are in the day, even though the shop makes enough to employ somebody else to take some of the work away from me."

[Vivienne]

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

I'm only recently into running. I don't actually like it (prefer to swim).. I read in moyles' 2nd book though that few people actually like running, they just do it for the buzz afterwards. Tend to agree

[MK Chris]

I say swimming, I'm learning to swim at the minute but I think that counts.. after I've learnt to swim, I'll be doing it fairly regularly.

[Ballbag]

Sara Cox was discussing exercise at the weekend, so I was wondering what type of exercise do you lot like best? And why?

Sex.

[Vivienne]

Good for you: learning to swim is very important, esp. if I boot you into a large lake! :0)

[Ballbag]

I find it astonishing that people can get to adulthood still unable to swim.

[Vivienne]

Actually, Balls, so do I.

[MK Chris]

To be fair, I could sort of stay afloat, but I had no technique and wasn't very confident. My mum made me take lessons as a kid, but I wasn't very good and hated it.. I pestered and pestered to give up, so she made me do up to 200 metres and then let me give up. I've been snorkelling in the Mexican Caribbean and swimming with dolphins, but obviously I had a life jacket on, so it was a bit different.

This time I wanted to learn, so I'm doing better. Mrs Topher is a very good and very confident swimmer.. in fact when she was a kid, she got to the point where she had to choose between doing swimming or table tennis competitively. Fortunately for me she chose table tennis!

[Vivienne]

You would naturally stay afloat, Tophs. This is where people go wrong, and wind up drowning. If you just relax, you would go to the surface naturally.

[MK Chris]

This doesn't happen with me, possibly because I have a complete inability to relax my muscles.

[Vivienne]

hmmm.. maybe some hypnotherapy may help, tophs. ?

[Yudster]

I swim, but I get very bored doing it. I prefer running, at least I can listen to music while I do it.

I don't like most gym-based exercise, I always seem to end up hurting myself, but last year I started boxing, which is brilliant fun and probably the best total body workout I have ever found.

I play squash, which is fun except when Mr Yudster (who plays at a fairly high level, he does international open competitions from time to time) plays properly, because then I can't even see the damn ball let alone hit it.

One of the best forms of exercise, because it's also useful, is digging my new allotment.

[Vivienne]

At my pool, we can listen to music whilst swimming. The have the radio near the side of the pool. Mon-thurs, it's local radio, but on Friday, they have radio one.

[MK Chris]

One of the best forms of exercise, because it's also useful, is digging my new allotment.

You don't have a garden Yudwuk? Or too small for a vegetable patch?

[Console]

At my pool, we can listen to music whilst swimming. The have the radio near the side of the pool. Mon-thurs, it's local radio, but on Friday, they have radio one.

Wouldn't the noise of the water drown out the sound of the radio?

[Vivienne]

Actually, it doesn't ... the radio is loud.

[Boboff]

I am with Yuds, exercise is, Vacuuming, Mopping, Cutting down trees, washing cars, powerwashing paths and patios, Splitting Logs, decorating, Sanding, walking the dog, digging, forking, weeding, turning, weeding, drain clearing, Chimney sweeping, getting the logs from the shed to the Lounge, brushing the horse, cleaning the chicken shed, cutting grass, strimming, mending fencing, laying hedges, concreting driveways, building walls, laying carpet.

All good exercise.

My Father always said why would I exercise when I can get someone to pay me for it, I agree with that sentiment, but did enjoy squash once upon a time.

[MK Chris]

Squash is fun but I'm rubbish at it.

[Yudster]

Tiny little garden, and it doesn't get enough sun to grow anything significant. I am thinking seriously about putting a shed and run in the small space I have available and getting a few hens. A friend of mine has a garden not much bigger and she has twenty hens and ducks in it - I think that's too many, I only want four or five (we get through a lot of eggs), I'll have to have a think about how I could make it work.

[Vivienne]

I'd quite like to try squash too. And that paintballing thing in the woods.

[Yudster]

At my pool, we can listen to music whilst swimming. The have the radio near the side of the pool. Mon-thurs, it's local radio, but on Friday, they have radio one.

Wouldn't the noise of the water drown out the sound of the radio?

It just adds to the general cacophony of echoing noise and become indecipherable "white noise", splittingheadache-tastic.

[Vivienne]

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