What exercise or activity empowers you?

FitBoop · 12-01-18, 12:05 PM

Dance classes, tennis and ice skating always empower me. All of those activities make me feel like Superwoman afterwards. Some spinning and heavy lifting workouts are empowering, too.

Vintage VFer · 12-01-18, 12:28 PM

Hiking is my favorite activity. If I can get a nice long hike in, I feel like all my other fitness activities are worthwhile.

bubbles76 · 12-01-18, 12:39 PM

Plyometrics. I wasn't always able to do plyo, and sometimes it can still be difficult. When I am able to do plyo moves I feel like Wonder Woman!

Anything that reminds me of my military days like pushups (all varieties), sit ups, and pull-ups.

rhbrand · 12-01-18, 01:01 PM

Heavy lifting for me. Things like deadlifting more than my body weight for multiple reps just makes me feel like Wonder Woman.

Pam · 12-01-18, 01:10 PM

Being able to hike into a beautiful area and being able to do outdoor projects (which for me living in a forested, mountainous area is carrying logs and rocks and seems most often it’s uphill

) motivates me.

Edited to add: Probably the most motivation comes from people who are older than me and who are still active.

DCW · 12-01-18, 03:34 PM

I love doing my boot camp classes, Essentrics, and long walks.

Doing these physical activities makes me able to reach around my kitchen, stoop down, improve my balance, rake leaves, and do yard work.

Calistro · 12-01-18, 04:09 PM

These days...

just getting through a workout empowers me

Demeris · 12-01-18, 04:33 PM

Walking is my go to, BUT I have added in ONE weights day a week for the past 5 weeks, and it has been energizing me in ways I didn't know it could.

macska · 12-01-18, 04:49 PM

I love love love not too easy hikes the most. After that kettlebells and moves from up and down and back and forth from the ground. I feel very empowered and accomplished after doing deck squats combined with kb snatches and burpees. Then I lie on the floor crynig for my mummy - just love that feeling!

How could I forgot to mention a good yoga class as well!!’

cecififi · 12-01-18, 05:50 PM

heavy weight training always inspires me.

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12-01-18, 12:05 PM
FitBoop VF Supporter Join Date: Nov 2001	What exercise or activity empowers you? Dance classes, tennis and ice skating always empower me. All of those activities make me feel like Superwoman afterwards. Some spinning and heavy lifting workouts are empowering, too.

12-01-18, 12:28 PM
Vintage VFer VF Supporter Join Date: Nov 2001	Hiking is my favorite activity. If I can get a nice long hike in, I feel like all my other fitness activities are worthwhile. __________________ Goal:250 / Done:91 POSTURE CHECK!

12-01-18, 12:39 PM
bubbles76 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Jersey	Plyometrics. I wasn't always able to do plyo, and sometimes it can still be difficult. When I am able to do plyo moves I feel like Wonder Woman! Anything that reminds me of my military days like pushups (all varieties), sit ups, and pull-ups. __________________ "You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are - if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs." - Jim Butcher, Zoo Day

12-01-18, 01:01 PM
rhbrand Join Date: Nov 2001	Heavy lifting for me. Things like deadlifting more than my body weight for multiple reps just makes me feel like Wonder Woman. __________________ Check out my Blog Link in Profile on Home Page

12-01-18, 01:10 PM
Pam Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Colorado mountains, USA	Being able to hike into a beautiful area and being able to do outdoor projects (which for me living in a forested, mountainous area is carrying logs and rocks and seems most often it’s uphill) motivates me. Edited to add: Probably the most motivation comes from people who are older than me and who are still active. __________________ Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it. Ron Fletcher

12-01-18, 03:34 PM
DCW Registered User Join Date: Dec 2016	I love doing my boot camp classes, Essentrics, and long walks. Doing these physical activities makes me able to reach around my kitchen, stoop down, improve my balance, rake leaves, and do yard work.

12-01-18, 04:09 PM
Calistro Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: United kingdom	These days... just getting through a workout empowers me

12-01-18, 04:33 PM
Demeris Join Date: Dec 2006	Walking is my go to, BUT I have added in ONE weights day a week for the past 5 weeks, and it has been energizing me in ways I didn't know it could.

12-01-18, 04:49 PM
macska VF Supporter Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NJ	I love love love not too easy hikes the most. After that kettlebells and moves from up and down and back and forth from the ground. I feel very empowered and accomplished after doing deck squats combined with kb snatches and burpees. Then I lie on the floor crynig for my mummy - just love that feeling! How could I forgot to mention a good yoga class as well!!’ __________________ 12 marathons 2 ultra marathons (50k) PR: Mohawk-Hudson Marathon 3hr 40min "You finish when you are done not when you are tired." David Goggins

12-01-18, 05:50 PM
cecififi Join Date: Mar 2011	heavy weight training always inspires me.