What is your favorite form of physical exercise?
Tracy
When I was in my 20s and saw the older folks (they must have been at least 35!) doing yoga at the first gym I joined, I thought “why would anyone ever do THAT?” It looked so boring and the opposite of a workout. Today yoga is my favourite form of physical exercise. I like fast yoga, slow yoga, hot yoga, room temperature yoga, yoga classes, yoga at home, long yoga sessions and short yoga sessions. It is way more of a strength workout than I ever imagined it could be. Second to yoga as far as “exercise” activities are swimming, resistance training, and running. But I also love walking.
Nicole
Anything that takes me out of my head and makes me feel positive – usually running or lifting weights.
Mina
So hard to choose–tight race between trail running, mountain biking and cross country skiing! You can sense the theme–an activity in which the earth is directly beneath my feet, unmitigated by concrete or a building floor. And open sky above my head; blue, cloudy, snowy and most other conditions.
Martha
Oddly enough, it is cleaning the garden. While I love training with weights because of the focus, I get immediate gratification from seeing the impact of my efforts in the garden, and feeling the hard work that I need to engage in for those results. I’m not wafting about like some Victorian matron snipping a rose here or there for the luncheon table. I’m moving pots, clipping unruly weeds, hauling waste, and bags of dirt.
Sam
Riding bikes, obvs.
Cate
This is such a complex question. It’s about whatever shifts me from stuck in one gear, grinding up a hill in a too-low gear, to being in flow and generative regard for my self and soul. Sometimes it’s disciplined, like a strength workout at the gym, or a planned run or ride in zwift. And sometimes it’s just like remembering to breathe and tuning into my body in found moments. Like I was walking back after dropping off my car to get the winter tires put on this morning and I let myself become deeply aware of how the crisp air made me feel alive and awake and strong. That’s what I love.
Elan
Dancing! 🪩
Christine
Taekwondo and yoga are my favourites but dance – goofing around to music rather than something choreographed – is pretty fun, too.
Diane
I like activities that involve precision; things like dance and swimming where the exact angle of my wrist or my hip position makes a big difference to my performance.
Alison
Running, and running, and running. In that order.
