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by ithinkinstereo 3332 days ago
I highly recommend doing a basic weightlifting program. I find lifting weights, and the goal setting/tracking involved, to be much more engaging than cardio exercises.

If you don't have access to weights, get a pull-up bar and some pushup handles.

I saw a huge improvement to my overall health and physique doing a basic pull-up and pushup program.

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I have a membership to the local YMCA, but only have an opportunity to go once a week since I live in your typical unwalkable/no-public-transit suburban area and don't have a drivers license. Used to go a couple nights a week when my daughter still napped and stayed up until 9PM since we could go as a family and have dinner afterward, but now she's in bed by 7:30/8:00 and there isn't enough time.

Another year or two and things will be looking different again, for the moment getting some exercise on a daily basis is still a better spot than where I'm at.

Invest in a $20 pullup bar. Every time you pass it try to bang out a few reps.

I went from doing 10 pushups, no pullups to being able to bang out 100+ pushpus and 50+ pullups over the course of a day.

I can now do prob 50+ pushups and 10+ pullups in one set. Took me less than a year to get here.

I was the kid in MS/HS that coudn't even do one pullup!