What's the thing you look forward to most doing at the gym? As far as exercises, classes, etc.?

Do any of you train a certain way or follow any type of program?

...Just a curious fitness nut =)

In the morning, I do weights. I developed a program of exercises that works opposing muscle groups in sequence. At night, I run/walk for a block. It seems to be working well for me. I've lost most of the flab I gained while recovering from surgery. :)

Parkour. (Run, jump, climb, go.)

DC training AKA Dogcrapp, I do the advanced three way split.

I like to move extremely quickly thru my workout! Regardless the excersise I do them strict and fast thru the reps and little rest between sets. I ussually include burnouts at the end!

Not having to be inside the gym... I do a weights at home to keep from being a stick (which i assure you looks goofy as all hell because I have very broad shoulders) but my workout is mostly jumping on the bike and taking off for a couple hours... very therapeutic and relaxing. Unfortunately, riding that long starts to burn muscle mass very quickly.

beer and chips

and if I'm feeling really ambitious a donut

hmmm...I'm pretty sure it's not normal for cardio or aerobic exercise to burn muscle mass. Ya might want to see someone about that.

Heavenlyboy you are wrong. Fast paced aerobics will in fact burn muscle for people with non-elite genetics.

Well it burns for everyone, just burns faster for some than others. I'm not sure how fast mine burns off but I worked hard for these arms working on 200 pound truck tires and since I'm not working now, I'm not giving them up that easy.

It's supposed to start around 45-60 minutes into an aerobic workout that your body moves from your carbs supply to fat and muscle tissue. Basically, like burning fat, it draws muscle from all over the body. When you do an even workout, the rebuilding process replenishes what burns off, but when you do something like cycling for two hours, your arm and upper body burns but does not get the workout it needs to start a rebuilding phase while the legs get all the major workout. Right now, I pretty much push myself to muscle failure on the bike - there have been several times I've had to make it up the hill by my house pulling up on the pedals as opposed to pushing down because my legs were too tired to push or be stable if I stood.

one solution to this is to eat on the ride, but I'd rather do a weight workout the nights I ride during the day to offset it so I burn more fat on the ride. I'm still about 40 pounds over where I want to be for serious riding (target is 180 at 6'2"). Less weight means less drag and easier up hills.

clean/jerk