I do weight and other strength exercises, but I skip them more often than I get them done. It's the one thing I find the hardest to make sure I do.

I've tried doing other types of workouts but I just hate it. I love to ride and that's it.

Physical activities I engage in on a regular or semi regular basis:

Martial arts training
Weight lifting
Yoga
Jogging
Lawn mowing (non-riding, non-self propelled mower) *
Snow shoveling (No snow blower)*
Pilates or other core training exercises

*Don't scoff at these activities as being real exercise. A large lawn can take more than an hour with a push mower. Your heart rate will be elevated and you will work up a good sweat! Snow shoveling is also very strenuous exercise. Many folks consider these activities to be too hard, and so use less strenuous methods (riders or snow throwers) or get others to do it for them. My plan is to push the mower and shovel the snow for as long as possible because I believe it is good for the body.

EDIT: Good thread/poll Dnvr!

My job requires a LOT of walking. I also do some abdominal work and sometimes a few pushups. I've got some dumbbells here but seldom use them since my back operation. Other than that, I follow the Eddy Merckx principal: RIDE LOTS!

I try to mix it up pretty regularly. I ride road and trail, play racquetball a couple times a week, get in a few hikes with the dog, heavy weights in the gym once or twice a week and lately I've been using a dvd series called Insanity (mix of intense cardio, core, stretching and balance). By doing so many different things I think I get a better overall workout and look forward to each activity. Some days I double up and get in an extra workout.

I know! That's why I pay to have my two acres mowed at my weekend retreat.

Total Gym resistance training. I use to do free weights but kept getting injured.https://www.totalgym.com/Default.aspx?

I swim, bike, run. I rarely do resistance training. I am pretty fit overall. Actually swimming is my core exercise, cycling and running revolve around swimming. Of course, just over one year ago I was attacked by friendly pitbulls and wound up with a broken femur so I cannot run and probably never will be able to again. So, I bought an elliptical trainer and substitute that for running.

I like bicycles, I like riding bicycles, I have been a cyclist forever. But, swimming is my core exercise. Of course, in the fullness of time I can see that cycling may not always be an exercise function but instead or in part a transportation function. When I retire I hope that I can live in a place that I can cycle to the library, coffee shop, bookstore, Best Buy to gawk at what I cannot afford, hardware store and any work type job I might want to have (so I can buy stuff at Best Buy that I cannot afford).

LC

Fascinating - all but 9 of the many respondents engage in some sort (light, moderate, intense) of "resistance" training and all but 6 engage in some sort of cross training. 11 folks engage in "intense" resistance training, and 6 do "a lot" of cross training.

As I remember polls and discussions in the past, this is a significant increase in individuals who do other physical activities in addition to their bicycling!!

Wonder why?

WOW!!

Oops... I xc ski, so I guess I shoulda said "no weight training", not "no cross training". And the ideal answer for me would have been "no weight training, but I know I should". Maybe this winter...

SP
Bend, OR

I do other activities. If you call that "cross training", then I guess I "cross train".

I don't go to a gym. Never have, never will. If I can't do it outdoors, well it just isn't getting done.

Well, I just saw this thread! Senility is creeping in on this side.

Anyway, I think the numbers will show that medium to intense resistance training does the best in slowing aging, and in my opinion, combating arthiritis too. Those two are a biggee to us older folks.

I also have one bicycle dedicated (well not completely) to a trainer and I also have a set of rollers. In the winter I spend a lot of time on those two.

Having done all three, swim, bike run, essentially all of my life, it is not only that I enjoy swimming more (I like being able to tun my brain off, I cannot do that cycling or even running) but the constant resistance from the water adds to it's benefits, IMO, they are significantly better than running or cycling, not to dismiss either of those as a form of exercise but what I am saying is that if I could only do one, then the one would be swimming.

Even before I could walk, and certainly before I could ride, (broken femur, non union) I was able to get back in the pool. My atrophied leg began building muscle quickly and I am positive got me back walking and riding sooner than had I waited until I could ride to begin to work out again. The swimming got me going probably two months sooner and my doctors were amazed at how quickly I recovered given the damage to my leg.

I do want a home gym but I belong to the Y, they have a climbing wall and some other fun stuff, it does not cost much and I have no aversion to automobiles, trains and planes. If it takes a car to get me there, no problem. But, I do hope to someday be able to live where I can ride to the Y etc.

LC

Classified my cross training as "moderate". I run 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes, and do some modest weight lifting; also walk and do day hikes. Cycling has been my top exercise in terms of total time spent at it, but the running is a more intense workout.