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Exercise.  How do

Exercise.  How do you get your daily exercise?  I've (happily) started cross-country summer training (and I ran 45 minutes today! :D) which is definitely alot of exercise!  We run, stretch, do ab workouts and lift weights.  When I wasn't involved in training though, I would run around neighborhoods, bike ride, go to a local gym, etc.  So, what do you do?

 

Swim laps, cut the grass, walk.

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submitted by R~D~, 15
(June 30, 2011 - 10:54 pm)

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Sometimes I get it when I go on a cleaning spree, that can give you a lot of exercise. I have been trying to get my siblings to play tennis with me and in the fall I will start doing tennis lessons again. Outside I usually play with my dog and do cartwheels and handstands and things like that. And when I get enough people I play volleyball and I play basketball with my friend. And then I have this series of exercises that I do. And that is about it.

submitted by Lizzy, age 14, Texas
(July 1, 2011 - 9:58 am)

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submitted by Top
(July 2, 2011 - 2:15 pm)

I have started horseback riding and I write, dance, hike and walk and ride my bike to school every day. I found out that I can't do push ups (If you ever saw me do them, you'd crack up), so I need better stomach and arm muscles. We have a tennis place near us so I may start lessons! It sounds fun. I also want to jog with my friend because I am a... Bad? runner. :)

@Robyn D.- You mean cross-country running, right? Do you have to run fast? 

submitted by Elizabeth M., age 12, Germany
(July 3, 2011 - 8:01 am)

Horseback riding sounds so fun!  Yup, that's what I mean.  No, you don't have to run full-speed like you're sprinting, because we typically run 3 miles for races and you couldn't sprint that whole thing.  You really have to pace yourself.  It's fun... well, the running isn't that fun, but everything else about cross-country is! :D 

submitted by R~D~, age 15
(July 3, 2011 - 11:30 am)

@Elizabeth M.
You're not alone...I can't do pushups either but my little sister Mimi can do clap pushups and laughs in my face when I try. She's the sporty sister but I'm the indoor read, write and dance. As for excercise I dance and swim. I also read and write which is excercise for the brain right? Next week I have camp though and I'll be hiking, swimming, archery(ing?), running, volleyball playing, doing soccer and basketball plus tons of other sports...its a Catholic all girls camp.

submitted by Christina M.
(July 3, 2011 - 11:52 am)

@Robyn D.--I just started! It's major fun! Cross-country sounds a bit like something I may try. 

@Christina M.--HAHA! I'm not alone. I'm like you. Writing is also exercise for the fingers! :)

submitted by Elizabeth M., age 12, Germany
(July 3, 2011 - 1:16 pm)

I can only do about ten push-ups and even that is really hard. I am hoping by the end of the summer it might be twenty or thirty. (I highly doubt that will happen.) But my handstands are getting better so maybe it will happen.

@Christina M.: I went t a camp like that for three years. It was also a Catholic all girls camp. Unfortunately my last year was last year. What state is the camp in?

submitted by Lizzy, age 14, Texas
(July 3, 2011 - 3:10 pm)

@Lizzy
It is in California. It's for Catholic girls grade 5th to 9th. Then 10th graders are the counselors...it's sooo fun. This year the theme is WonderLands and I got AdventureLand cabin...YAY!

submitted by Christina M.
(July 4, 2011 - 10:01 am)

At the moment, I'm practicing "girl push-ups". I also need to learn how to cartwheel... Who can do those?

submitted by Elizabeth M., age 12, Germany
(July 4, 2011 - 10:41 am)

@Elizabeth: I can only do girl push ups (or knee push ups) and I'm terrible at them.  Last year, towards the end of cross-country, I was able to do about sixty of them... now I can barely do five.  But I just can't do regular ones.  Hard!  Gosh, I can't do a cartwheel either.  Not that I really try.  If I did try, I could probably do one.... Are you flexible?  I'm NOT... AT ALL!

submitted by R~D~
(July 5, 2011 - 10:56 am)

I can do a cartwheel. I actually started practicing when I was about seven so I got pretty good. I can also do a one-handed one, but I can't do a somersault. I find that very disappointing.

submitted by Lizzy, age 14, Texas
(July 5, 2011 - 5:40 pm)

@ R~D~

You're just like me!  I can't do a push-up or cartwheel (I've been trying since I was 5) and I'm not flexible.

I get my exercise in by dancing (which I've been doing a lot of lately b/c of my drama camp) and playing outside.  And I exercise my brain by reading.:)

submitted by Analesia, age 12, being a Disney geek
(July 5, 2011 - 6:15 pm)

@Robyn D.- Sixty?! I got tired at twenty yesterday (though, I am making progress)! I'm flexible in some ways, but in others not so much. It really depends on what I'm doing... 

submitted by Elizabeth M., age 12, Germany
(July 6, 2011 - 10:36 am)