Do you also lift/train?

No but I do plan on changing that (for the long term, not the "brief couple of weeks then give up" routine I've been doing for years)

Don't have a desire to be supremely muscular or anything, just for health reasons.

@nbunited...No, sadly my cinnamon binge isn't always on the healthy side. I was asked one time, if I was stuck on a deserted island and could only have one food, what would it be. I said, without hesitation...Cinnamon Rolls. 🤣😂

Hahahaha you’re a man of good taste

It's a little odd, but even when my lifestyle is "sedentary"... I work as peon of the department of Road Maintenance, can be a heavy work sometimes, using shovels, pickaxes, sometimes real axes, handcars, so in a weird twist, i dont pay to get into gym, they pay me for exercising... Plus, im from Mexico, so you can guess the weather and work conditions are not so easy.

I do boxing and resistance band training. I keep nutrition mostly in check. I've dropped 50 lbs over the last year. Plan on another 15 and I'll hold right around 210

Congrats for losing that weight. I have been going through the same thing.

Yes. As another thread like this I said yes! ;)

I'm strict about nutrition but only have time to train 2-3 days per week. In the summer I almost exclusively focus on cycling. In my 20s I would do bodybuilding exercises 5 days a week and was much bigger but I am so busy/tired from work now that I can really only find the time and energy to workout on the weekends and the very beginning of the work week.

i usually train 4-5x a week with some kind of side of volleyball or another activity. i'm considering restarting BJJ after "quitting" after getting covid (is it really quitting if you only did it for a month?). i had some injuries in 2018/2019 (the onset of symptoms from hip dysplasia) that forced me to stop what i was doing at the time, and then covid hit and I got really out of shape. spent the last year doing a body recomposition and now its been mostly getting my diet in check to lose fat, nearly back in the 210s from a high of 222 and not too far from my preferred weight in the low 200s

I lift pretty dedicated 4 times a week. Nutrition could be better. So not an option in the poll.

Yes - 2 days on, 1 off, else I don't recover sufficiently.

I'm older and not in the best of health so I do bodybuilding, because it emphasises effective exercise with proper technique rather than raw strength. I avoid injury that way.

Doing it partly for health, partly for vanity, though I'm never going to be jacked with a 6-pack - just not my goal.

I'm at the gym about 2-3 times a week. I do it just to look and feel good, though I wish I could be more discipled in the nutrition area.

pretty intensely , cardio 6 days a week like high intensity interval training and swimming,running.and weights for like 5 days a week.just love staying in shape

Competitive bodybuilder (classic). Train 6x week, regimented diet

I do, but since i fucked my shoulder i can only do handful of excercise and keeping it lightweight

Yes. Some of you guys may like being a flabby, emasculated schmoes but not me. I train at least 4-5x/week. As of recently, 6x/wk.

I have to stay fit for military reasons. Definitely not a gym rat but I do what I need to in order to outrun (often literally) my drinking and vaping. I have a medium build but I'm on the thinner side of it. Which is probably why I prefer more of the fitness figure/girl next door type rather than the enormous ladies a lot of guys on here seem to like.

Me no lift train. Train too heavy. 😜

It seems to me that there is a lot of overlap between the first and third choices in this poll. Training 2-3 x per week with no regard for nutrition (depending on how you train) will yield similar benefits to a sedentary lifestyle. The second choice describes the training regimen of a dedicated athlete.

Yes, that's 90% of the reason why I consider women who workout attractive. It correlates.

I did until I fell off the wagon. At least a physical job sorta counts towards it at times

I've been weightlifting for almost 20 years. I cycle training programs (powerlifting, Olympic lifting, bodybuilding).

I recently started training again. After struggling for 4 or so years to gain weight, I finally broke 60kg and now I'm 61kg (for 4 years i was 54-55kg, last year i was 56-59kg and now I'm finally gaining weight). Since I was muscular when I was younger, I'm gaining muscles quicker.

It seems to me that there is a lot of overlap between the first and third choices in this poll. Training 2-3 x per week with no regard for nutrition (depending on how you train) will yield similar benefits to a sedentary lifestyle. The second choice describes the training regimen of a dedicated athlete.

If this were true then a lot of people who train 2-3x a week could just stop altogether without feeling any guilt at all. The logic being that if 2-3x a week takes effort but has no benefit for you whatsoever, and you're definitely not going to be going all the way (6x a week with careful nutrition), then you might as well do nothing at all.

I think the reality is more likely to be that 2-3x per week, if done consistently, will have health benefits for yourself even if it will not get you to the level of the women on this site.

Nope. I've never been to a gym

I used to train 1x a week in a fancy gym. Last year I switched to a normal gym and now I'm going 3x a week. All due to the rise of fit girls in the normal gym 😉