Ah yes, this is a very interesting topic to me. I try to exercise whenever I can, but even then it ends up being not as much as I would want, simply due to me not always having the time and/or energy for it. Nowadays I take about an hour-long walk about four times a week, and a couple of short strength-training sessions a week as well. This seems to work okay for me, given I'm not playing any really rigorous sports or trying to lose or gain weight. But of course there are still some things I have trouble with.
First of all, I don't like jogging at all. I've actually had my knees become sore after a jog, and I don't want to ruin them. I also don't like how the rest of my body just keeps bouncing up and down in jarring motions all the time. It's not a good feeling. Sometimes when I'm out on a walk, I'll throw in some brief jogging spurts, but that's all I can handle at a time. I largely prefer walking over hills to jogging on level ground--in fact, I've found walking uphill to have similar effects to doing multiple low-intensity squats. And of course, it always feels refreshing to run down the hill afterward. Whee!
In my strength training at home, I'm really cheap, in that I use everyday items like hammers, boxes, and my school backpack in place of weights. Or I do things like lunges, squats, push-ups, and crunches without any weights at all. In most of these exercises I do 3 sets of 10-20 reps with about 15-30 seconds in between, though I usually have to diminish the number of reps as time goes by due to fatigue. Usually the whole routine comes out to be 20-40 minutes long, depending.
However, whenever I do any sort of weight training, at some point my heart rate goes way up, almost to the point where I feel like I'm about to faint. Whenever this happens, I rest for a minute or so and then continue, but often times I still feel a bit light-headed afterward, or feel a tightness in my chest. It seems to happen more often if I use heavier weights, which is mostly why I don't use them as often as I want to. I don't know if this is normal, or if it's because of my small size or something. Initially I thought it was dehydration or lack of energy, but drinking more water before/during the workout and having a snack beforehand didn't seem to help either.
Of course, it might also be because I'm underweight, which I honestly have no real goal of fixing because I consider myself pretty healthy otherwise. I've also had a lot of people in my family start out thin but then become overweight starting in their early to mid-twenties, so part of the reason why I've been trying to exercise more lately is to prevent this from happening to me as well. And also so I can prove to people that I'm not as weak as I look.
First of all, I don't like jogging at all. I've actually had my knees become sore after a jog, and I don't want to ruin them. I also don't like how the rest of my body just keeps bouncing up and down in jarring motions all the time. It's not a good feeling. Sometimes when I'm out on a walk, I'll throw in some brief jogging spurts, but that's all I can handle at a time. I largely prefer walking over hills to jogging on level ground--in fact, I've found walking uphill to have similar effects to doing multiple low-intensity squats. And of course, it always feels refreshing to run down the hill afterward. Whee!
In my strength training at home, I'm really cheap, in that I use everyday items like hammers, boxes, and my school backpack in place of weights. Or I do things like lunges, squats, push-ups, and crunches without any weights at all. In most of these exercises I do 3 sets of 10-20 reps with about 15-30 seconds in between, though I usually have to diminish the number of reps as time goes by due to fatigue. Usually the whole routine comes out to be 20-40 minutes long, depending.
However, whenever I do any sort of weight training, at some point my heart rate goes way up, almost to the point where I feel like I'm about to faint. Whenever this happens, I rest for a minute or so and then continue, but often times I still feel a bit light-headed afterward, or feel a tightness in my chest. It seems to happen more often if I use heavier weights, which is mostly why I don't use them as often as I want to. I don't know if this is normal, or if it's because of my small size or something. Initially I thought it was dehydration or lack of energy, but drinking more water before/during the workout and having a snack beforehand didn't seem to help either.
Of course, it might also be because I'm underweight, which I honestly have no real goal of fixing because I consider myself pretty healthy otherwise. I've also had a lot of people in my family start out thin but then become overweight starting in their early to mid-twenties, so part of the reason why I've been trying to exercise more lately is to prevent this from happening to me as well. And also so I can prove to people that I'm not as weak as I look.