What fats consider a rigorous exercise routine My mother today berated me for "working out too much". I go to the gym 3-4 or sometimes 5 times a week if I'm lucky. I do stretching and yoga at home on the weekends. Hardly rigorous, unless you're 150 pounds overweight I guess. But the part she berated me about? The fact that every day I walk on my treadmill for ten minutes right after I wake up. 10 minutes of walking on a treadmill is strenuous exercise to a hog. To any normal sized human being, a ten minute walk is just a normal part of a day. What the fuck.