How is your workout going?

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All of you who determined to start exercising and working out - how are you going?
I need inspiration! I think with me it's motivation and finding something that isn't really unpleasant.
I'm recovered enough from the surgeries now, my pain condition was cured, I'm off the pain medications, I quit drinking, I have no more excuses! What I do have is a bit of excess weight (I'm not overweight in terms of numbers, but definitely have too much fat on me for my liking) thanks to the medications I was on, so it's unnatural weight, and I was bed-bound for months while I was ill and thus, any muscle I did have before has withered off. I'm looking to lose the excess fat, gain heaps of muscle, be fit and healthy, have more energy and feel better!
I'm very self conscious about my body, especially the fat issue and how weak my body has become during convalescence. I'm fundamentally not used to moving around anymore and have become very sedentary, and I have to learn how to trust my body again as I couldn't when I was that sick.
I thought it probably best to start out with something simple, like walking. Walking can be great for weight loss, it's easy to do and not too demanding for me just starting out, and doesn't attract attention to make me self conscious. I'd love to swim but I'm just too self conscious at the moment.
I also thought of starting up weights, but try to be patient and start with a low level and work up. My arms have got very scrawny and I'm self conscious about that, too.
I'm impatient to get into it and start seeing results and start feeling a bit less uncomfortable with myself, but I have to keep in mind to take things slow, or it'll be too much and I'll end up stopping because it's too hard or unpleasant, or I'll overdo it and hurt myself. Exercise is unpleasant.
So, how are you all doing with your workouts? Have you kept up with it? Have you improved? What exercise have you found that keeps you fit and you can actually enjoy? How do you exercise - what do you do, when, how often, and how do you fit it into your life? How do you stay motivated? What advice would you give to someone just starting to get into shape? If this is going to be a chore, I can see it being short lived and I really do want to get in shape and be more body positive.

My workouts are nonexistent now. I had a shoulder injury and had to stop any upper body workouts for a couple weeks and then school started and I have absolutely no time now to do any exercise. I miss exercising and if it wasn't for school, I'd go back to Shaun T and Max 30 again. I'll restart once school is out, but I'll have to modify some of the push-ups so my shoulder doesn't go bad again.

Find some exercise you enjoy so you'll keep doing it. I do all home workouts and usually hard ones so I keep working on getting better.

I do all the workouts from Beachbody. com.

Hi, C2V!

My workouts are going great! I hate the gym, so I do workouts in my own home with adjustable dumbbells I bought. I used workout videos from a fitness couple whose company's name is Fitness Blender. Their videos are free on youtube and on their website, fitnessblender.com. They have low impact workouts for people just starting out. I love them! They've really been helping me get in shape without having to leave my house.

Still sticking with it now for about 3 than months. Definitley feel better physically than I have in years. Lost about 40lbs since early may. I've surprised myself that I've kept up despite going through the most difficult emotional time of my entire life.

I've been fortune enough to sign up for personal training. It's more of a circuit training regiment, but it's different every time.

A good place for workout ideas are online apps, Daily Burn, or Oxygen magazine (for women). I would find a way to incorporate weights in your workout, because it really helps with mobility and reducing injury by strengthening weaker areas.

I finally found a routine I can stick to. A few years ago I got a video from Men's Health that has three 15-minute aerobic workouts on it. I do one of those once or twice a week. I like following along with the people in the videos, and it's hard to justify skipping something as quick as a 15-minute workout I can do at home.

I also have adjustable dumbbells in my basement and I copied some worksheets out of a book of different workout routines that take about 20 minutes to complete. I do this a couple of days after my aerobic workout. I made it a goal just to complete the workout. I used to get frustrated about not improving (increasing reps or weight).

My wrists started to get sore from doing pull-ups on a straight bar, so I got a pair of gymnastics rings with adjustable straps and hung them from my ceiling. Those are good for doing pull-ups and dips.

Decent, I guess, (still have to cut out a bunch of crap from my diet, though).

Been going on the treadmill about five days a week.

I've been working out on a personal schedule for about 2 years now. I do everything at home, I've got a pair of dumbells to work with and there's a running track pretty much next to my house. It's about 4 days a week on average, cycling through upper body, abs and legs.

The first few months were mostly figuring out my exercises, This was usefull to find many exercises. Improvements were more notable in the beginning, like I was able to increase my weights way more often. My form when lifting weights wasn't great in the beginning either but that got better fast. I had alot of muscle pains in the beginning too, but those are really a lot better now even after an intense workout.

I'm not always motivated when I'm working out, mostly not even. Sometimes I kinda have to drag my mind to it, but I know I need it. It's better for my mental health, sometimes even completely relaxes me.

Advice would be to not try to lift too heavy in the beginning. Make sure your form is right, once it is and you can get your desired repetitions then raise it and work your way up to your same repetitions again, rinse and repeat. Also remember that some days you'll be better then others, don't be too upset if you can't get the same results everytime. Stick with it, don't expect big results straight away. It's something that gets better over time.

I go to buy bus

It has its ups and downs.

Whenever an opportunity comes my way when I'm on campus, I go to the campus gym and get on the treadmill.

This is usually after class finishes for the day. When I'm at the gym, I get on the treadmill and that's it.