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Thread: How many hours do you estimate you've spent in the gym?

post 1690728373 09-26-2023, 07:37 PM
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How many hours do you estimate you've spent in the gym?

Was it worth it?


Roughly 5 hrs a week for 18 years for me = 4,680 hours or 195 days. That's just weight training, and not the 5 hours/week playing bball which would double it.


Definitely felt worth it throughout my 20s, entering my late 30s, I'm becoming less convinced.
post 1690728603 09-26-2023, 07:42 PM
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I'd say 6-8 hours a week roughly. For 6 years maybe. Yeah it's worth it
post 1690729533 09-26-2023, 07:59 PM
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5-6 hrs a week for 39 yrs.

Stay with it because it's worth it.
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post 1690729733 09-26-2023, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted By kimm4⏩
5-6 hrs a week for 39 yrs.

Stay with it because it's worth it.
That's some dedication right there.

I have the same years logged in, but have never been consistent, for one reason or another (vaginitis, projects, deployments, etc).
post 1690729973 09-26-2023, 08:08 PM
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By freshman year at college I spent about

1.75 - 2 hours in the gym 6 days a week

2 days at the psu gym to do heavy dumb bells

4-5 days at planet fitness

But? I’d typically head in to the gym throw on my beats

Tan for 12 minutes

1 mile warm up on the treadmill

And then the rest of the time on weights

I spent almost 9 years at psu

About 8.5 years total

But towards the end of hs I was like 2-3 days per week didn’t actually become dedicated until freshman yr at psu

Haven’t lifted since I graduated because of no meds
post 1690730213 09-26-2023, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted By ACEofBASED⏩
Definitely felt worth it throughout my 20s, entering my late 30s, I'm becoming less convinced.
54 checking in to tell you you've got it backwards. Lifting/exercise is the fountain of youth and gets more important the older you get. Everyone I know who goes to the gym regularly and has a decent diet, looks younger than their age. I have friends a decade younger than me and their kids think I'm younger than their dad.

I also have a lot of professional friends with high incomes and almost all of them don't work out, are fat, and look old.

When you stop exercising, you start aging.
6'5" 210 lbs, 10.9% body fat

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Bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things.
post 1690731123 09-26-2023, 08:32 PM
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Probably 7-8 hours a week for 20 years.

Also only counting weight lifting and not any cardio, which I also technically do in the gym.
post 1690731223 09-26-2023, 08:35 PM
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Approx. 7800 hours.

5 hours per week x52 weeks x30 years.

43 now. Started when I was in 8th grade for football.
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post 1690732273 09-26-2023, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted By PaulJerome⏩
54 checking in to tell you you've got it backwards. Lifting/exercise is the fountain of youth and gets more important the older you get. Everyone I know who goes to the gym regularly and has a decent diet, looks younger than their age. I have friends a decade younger than me and their kids think I'm younger than their dad.

I also have a lot of professional friends with high incomes and almost all of them don't work out, are fat, and look old.

When you stop exercising, you start aging.
Logically, I know you're right. Seeing the diminishing returns and my body actually going backwards as the age outweighs the work, is tough.


Thanks though for the inspiration. Repped.
post 1690733663 09-26-2023, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted By PaulJerome⏩
54 checking in to tell you you've got it backwards. Lifting/exercise is the fountain of youth and gets more important the older you get. Everyone I know who goes to the gym regularly and has a decent diet, looks younger than their age. I have friends a decade younger than me and their kids think I'm younger than their dad.

I also have a lot of professional friends with high incomes and almost all of them don't work out, are fat, and look old.

When you stop exercising, you start aging.
I'm 33 and already see it at my age. A guy I work with always claims I will lose my gains when I "get to be his age."

Plot twist, dude is like 6 months older than me and he's been saying the same thing for 3 years.
post 1690749363 09-27-2023, 07:36 AM
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What worth are you talking about? If it is about looks, then yes. I look stunning, so fkn love myself.
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