Full time workers, when do you go to the gym?

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  • aloranger7708
    aloranger7708 Posts: 422 Member
    Right after work ends!
  • 19kat55
    19kat55 Posts: 336 Member
    I'm not a morning person, so after work for me.
  • fit4justme
    fit4justme Posts: 92 Member
    I change at work and go as soon as I get off. I have been saying I am going to go before work for 2 weeks now but my fingers always find the snooze button.
  • ccburn5
    ccburn5 Posts: 473 Member
    At work every day by 8:00 so its 5:30-6:30 am for me, M, W, and F. I try to squeeze in a run or two on an off day at least once a week as well. You can do it! Its just as simple as getting a routine down and sticking with it.
  • knk1553
    knk1553 Posts: 438 Member
    Currently immediately after work, change at the gym, workout, then go home, no way I could go home first, I would never go. Although I am trying to now do both morning and evening since my workouts are taking me almost 2 hours, do an hour in the morning and an hour after work so I'm not getting home and eating dinner at 7:30/8pm.
  • tuffytuffy1
    tuffytuffy1 Posts: 920 Member
    I go during lunch, the gym is a block from my office. I have a personal trainer and I see him once a week for a half hour. Now that work isn't as crazy, I'll try to go to him twice a week like I used to.
  • pjp1125
    pjp1125 Posts: 313
    I go at 6 am and I am at work by 8. I go again at lunch to get my cardio in. Gym is 2 blocks from my office.
  • AnsiStar
    AnsiStar Posts: 165 Member
    I'm lucky enough that my gym is opposite my work building, so when 5 rolls around I roll out my chair and into the gym :) It's stupidly ideal. And it's a better gym than the one I used before I started here!
  • ThePinkPenguin
    ThePinkPenguin Posts: 138
    I mostly work second shift, so I go in mid-morning on Tuesdays/Thursdays, then on other days, I either go to Zumba on Fridays (my one weekday off) or do DVDs at home when I work day shift. I don't really like the thought of eating dinner and going right to an overcrowded gym. I use either Saturday or Sunday as a rest day.
  • beniky
    beniky Posts: 24 Member
    I work 9am - 4pm M-F...I set my elliptical next to my bed...so as I open my eyes in the morning...I can't avoid it. If I skip it in the morning - I am on it the moment I get home. During the school year...kids have to be dropped off at 7am...so I hit my office gym before work. No excuses.
  • SpleenThief
    SpleenThief Posts: 293 Member
    Depends on what I'm doing. Right now I mix things up a lot. A few runs per week - typically in the morning before work, sometimes right after but BEFORE I get home. If I get home from work I lose momentum and there will be no run.

    Found a yoga class early enough to do before work.

    Kettlebells are typically an evening thing as is swimming,.
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    Lunch hour 90% of the time. When it won't work, I go before or after work, and when that won't work I make up the session over the weekend.
  • jollyjoe321
    jollyjoe321 Posts: 529 Member
    I go in the evening before Dinner, since I'm already out!
  • Mirandadee12
    Mirandadee12 Posts: 11 Member
    Right after work. I don't go to the gym though. I usually will go for a walk or go hiking in the woods. I feel it relieves my stress of the day better than going to the gym and running on the rat wheel.
  • JamieM8168
    JamieM8168 Posts: 248 Member
    I go in the evening and bring my son.
    My gym has childcare from 4-8 pm and I get out of work at 4:30 so it works out perfectly.
  • Me2FitMe
    Me2FitMe Posts: 1,285 Member
    I workout at home. Getting up between 4-4:30am and working out until ~5:30. I own several videos: Zumba, Hip Hop Abs, Tae Bo and others.
  • rachelakai2
    rachelakai2 Posts: 51 Member
    I work out in the mornings! I wake up at 4:15am, leave the house by 4:45am and get to the gym by 5am.
    It's such a great feeling to get your workout done and out of the way. After work is family time :) ( I have a 5 year old as well)
    I also feel like when I work out in the mornings I make better food choices all day.
    Good Luck!
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    I'm either doing 2 out of these 3 videos at 4am or when I get home from work at 4:30 PM: 30 Day Shred, Hip Hop Abs or Zumba

    Along with the home video workouts, at work we have a full sized gym and locker room, so I'm there from 10am-11am M-F (If I have meetings, then the next best time to go is around 2:30) and I'm on the Eliptical, Arc Trainer and Treadmill.

    On the weekends, I pick 2 of the videos mentioned above at around 7 am, then go with my fiance to the gym around 9.
  • LBNOakland
    LBNOakland Posts: 379 Member
    I mix it up. Love to do fasted cardio. I get up at 4:45 M-F and walk the dogs with a friend. Have done that fro 12 years. When done, I work in the garden or hit the gym. Mondays, I work with a PT so straight after work. On lift days, it is harder to go in the morning as I do not like fasted lifting as well. I run out of energy. I used to enjoy going about an hour after dinner. My kids would go and work out with me. My PT just moved to a new gym that isn't 24/7 so I have to go when he is ther. Forces me to lift in the morning before work or change at work and go right after. Still trying to adjust.

    Yoou really just have to be flexible with it. If you make a rigid schedule and can't go, that makes your brain say oh well I tried. Instead, you find the time and go. Go some in the morning and some in the evening. Take your son and see how he does, if your gym will allow. Mine has been pretty flexible with that but my youngest is 11 so I know that is a big difference!

    Good luck!
  • jadedone
    jadedone Posts: 2,446 Member
    Although I like the idea of going after work, it is super crowded, and easier for me to make excuses not to go. So I find I am more able to be consistent if I put it first. And it is way less crowded.
  • BHKLEIN
    BHKLEIN Posts: 104
    In the summer: go outside!!! Walk, jog, run.... whatever you like best but get outside. Go hikings, swimming, biking... anything that requires you to move your body. Not only will you lose weight (depending on how much your eatting), but you will soak up some rays, maybe get a tan and feel a lot better then sitting in a stuffy gym with sweaty people! You really don't need to pay for a membership in the summer. Get some resistent bands and work several muscles groups! Go to the gym in the winter if you can't get exercise equipment at home. It's very hard to find time when you work and esp. if you have kiddos at home. I find it easier to do workouts at home and eventually got some equipment like a weight bench with the leg press, exercise bike, treadmill and some free weights. You don't even have to buy these new. Having several different options to exercise works best for me. I get bored doing the same thing over and over and so do your muscles. You need to continously up your exercise so your body does not get use to. Get a calendar and put the days your going to exercise and stick to it! If you are busy a day that your suppose to exercise move your exercise to to another day that's free. Scheduling the time makes it easier to commit to it! If you exercise before supper, I suggest eatting a small snack like a handful of nuts or half a protein bar so you don't get light headed during exercise.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    I either get up at 5:00 a.m. or I workout when I get home in the evening before dinner time.

    Depends on how lazy I am in the morning :)
  • ready4anewme13
    ready4anewme13 Posts: 23 Member
    I've been doing the at home workouts so I will either get up around 5:30 and do my TurboFire workout or I'll come home after work and do it. I sometimes will workout in the morning and at night depending on how bad I did over the weekend. :)
  • aepdx
    aepdx Posts: 218 Member
    I get up at 5am and exercise until about 6:30. Sometimes I bike ride, sometimes I go to the gym, sometimes I do Fitness Blender workouts, etc. It varies. I get to work at 7:45. On my lunch break, I walk for an hour. After work, I do yoga a few days a week. Try to get up earlier, it sounds like a pain, but it isn’t a big deal.
  • blampman1978
    blampman1978 Posts: 9
    I go after work. I work 10 am-7pm and it takes me 15 min to get to the gym and I generally stay for an hour or so. Lately I've been lazy and the way my clothes look is proof.. to tight:(
  • skeo
    skeo Posts: 471 Member
    I work 8am - 5pm. I usually go after work, but I found that the crowd is really bad in the afternoon after work, and I can't do all of the things I want too; so I just recently started waking up at 4:30am to go work out by 5am. The benefit of this is, I get to work a bit earlier, and I can leave earlier, so I can prep and sleep for another early day. Also benefit for me of working out early, is I have more energy to start my day, when I was working out at night; and would leave around 8pm, I found I had energy for a few hours and it through off my sleeping schedule. lol
  • DoctorCheeba
    DoctorCheeba Posts: 28
    I usually work out at home, for me the gym is too inconvenient. On my usual days, I go for a 6km run in the morning before work and then directly after work I'll come home and work-out for an hour before I do ANYTHING else. Otherwise I get distracted and caught up in other things and then I don't feel like it :p
  • dcmitchell01
    dcmitchell01 Posts: 76 Member
    Usually after work, around 5. At Golds' there's a kids club where the kids can go while I work out. I will usually pic them up at daycare and head to the gym. My girls love it, they call it the "kid's gym".
  • ucabucca
    ucabucca Posts: 606 Member
    I work either 8-4 most days a couple I woke later so I do cardio in the gym at 5:30 and I am still working with a trainer spot checking on other areas 2 times a week at lunch break. i love doing it early and being able to know how much I need to eat back and can spread it out over the day instead of in the hole at night. It was hard to figure out what to eat before I went to gym but have found a granola bar is enough and stay away from protein until afterwards. Is this an issue for others on eating before? Anyone else have other suggestions on food for before I really hate granola bars but it need to be something to grab and go for me.

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