How do you squeeze in time to exercise?

wickedboots

I can't figure out how to carve out enough time to really exercise. How do you all do it?

BTW, not much I can give up at the moment to accommodate for exercise. I am tapped out.

daffodilsoup

If you want to do it, you'll figure out where you can make time. Wake up earlier, go to sleep later, work out during your lunch hour - everyone is busy, but you have to make the time for it.

petes287

My alarm goes off at 4:30am

BrianSharpe

Between 2 competitive soccer playing kids & running my own business time is a precious commodity for me too. It all comes down to priorities, if exercise is important you'll find the time (it may involve getting up earlier in the morning but.....)

126siany

If you really and truly have no time (can't skip a half hour of television, etc.) then just try to add more activity where you can throughout the day. Park your car farther away so you have to take more steps. Don't use elevators or escalators and take the stairs instead. Do some pushups and situps when you get out of bed before you hit the shower. Walk on your lunch break if you get one. Do squats while waiting for the microwave. You get the idea. It won't make you an endurance athlete but it will add activity.

PhillyTD

Baby steps. Start with a 10 minute walk at lunch. Or take the stairs instead of an elevator. Work your way into a defined workout. Somewhere in your day you CAN give 10-45mins to exercise....if you want to.

drmerc

I squeeze one out when I get home from work

eryn415

Over the last 2 years or so, I've gone from getting up at 7, to getting up at 5:30. I just walked during lunch. I bought a used treadmill and have it in my garage. I jump on it for 10 or 15 minutes sometimes. I keep hand weights in my desk at work and use them for squats, curls, side bends. I am ridiculously busy, but I squeeze in any few minutes I can. It feeds on itself!! I love working out. It makes me feel like a million bucks.

myownadvice

I get up a half hour earlier each work day to do JM 30 Day Shred. It's a 25 minute video and then I'm right back on schedule. On the weekends, my family makes sure to do something active like kayaking, running, hiking, or even just walking around the mall. You have to just make it part of your regular schedule. Believe me, it's worth it!

PrettynWitty12

I walk to and sometimes from work. It's a total of 19 blocks one way...if I don't so anything else I do this lol. Good luck

hsmaldo

I walk 3.9 miles during my lunch hour. That's really all I can committ to during the day. I already wake up at 5 am to get everyone out the door and go to bed at 10:00 after getting everyone to sleep.

Restybaby2012

Like Daff says.....if you want it, you'll find the time. I work full time as an Investigator, I have a social life, family , friends, kids, grandsons a "Killer" cat (thats her pic over there<~~~~~~~~~~~ and I MAKE the time after supper before my shower every single damn night whether I feel like it or not. I try to workout 6 nights a week. On the weekends I try to squeeze in two sets a day, though not always successful at both.

You'll feel better once you get into it. The rewards are fantastic. Please try.....every day in some way.....even if its just 10 minutes

MrsAgi

yep - get up earlier.

Sadly the baby has also decided to get up earlier now, so I have to get up even earlier, and feed him first,then wake hubby up while I go for a run, come home, shower then wake the rest of the kids. Hubby loves that! LOL

Most people do have some down time in their routine. I've just started going to the gym in the evenings - I used to have a n hour's relax/TV before bed. Now I have an hour in the gym instead:)

CynGoddess

I make time, get up earlier, go to bed later. I don't find the time, I make it.

tnjackso1

My alarm goes off at 0345 and I'm in spinning class at 0530 mon-thursday..... I walk on my 15min breaks and my 30min lunch break... You have to make time.... oh, I also park far from the stores and walk fast whenever and whereever.... I also have a great support system on here and people do challenges all the time.

Come on and join in... I've learned to make activity fun otherwise I want do it!!

Lina4Lina

Plan ahead basically.

aaeros

I can't figure out how to carve out enough time to really exercise. How do you all do it?

BTW, not much I can give up at the moment to accommodate for exercise. I am tapped out.

Hate to say it, but you've already given up. I would tell myself the same thing. Now I've made it a habit to hit the gym on the way home from work. And if I know I cant do that, I get my *kitten* up early and go before work. It's very easy to make excuses why you dont have time to go.

RiverMelSong

I work out for 30-60 mins before bed each night while watching telly. I also squeeze in mini-workouts whenever I can, even if it is just 10 mins on the stationary bike. I also take the stairs whenever I can and try to walk as much as possible. It all adds up

mlkiel

I agree with the other post. If you have kids and they play sports, while they are practicing, put on your tennis shoes and walk, make use of that time. I'll be honest getting up early is not easy, but when you weigh out the pros and cons, you will do it

DeeDel32

It just has to become a priority.

Schedule it in like you would anything else. Time will never magically make itself available, you need to allot time for it and commit to that "appointment".

I'm typically working out at 9 or 10 pm because that's really the only time I have (and I refuse to get up early lol)

BAMFMeredith

I used to work out right after work, and then dinner wasn't on the table til 8 at the earliest, my 5 year old wasn't in bed until 10 at the earliest, and I was exhausted. So when he started school last week, I started getting up at 4:45/5ish to work out before I had to get him up and ready for school. It's still a challenge to get up so early every day, and I'm totally in bed by 9:30 every night, but it's worth it.

I'm still kinda tired, but I'm just getting used to it. It's so nice to be able to get off work, pick up the kiddo, go home and cook dinner, help with homework (because wtf, they have homework already on the 2nd week of kindergarten!), and have him bathed, and in bed with a story read to him before 9pm.

30 minutes a day. Even if it's 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there---if that's truly the only way you can do it, it's better than nothing!

laprovocateur

you don't. you either prioritize it and put it at the top of your list, or you will always find an excuse, and never find the time.

if you look for time, you will never find it. you have to create it.

bcattoes

Either your health is enough of a priority to make time for it, or it isn't. It really is that simple. I don't know if you really are scheduled every waking minute, but if so, you need to ask yourself if all of those tasks are really more important than the health benefits that exercise provides.

zeebruhgirl

I wake up earlier to work out before I go to work.

I just get up, turn on the coffee, do my 30 minute work out, quick shower, get dressed, drink my coffee and head out the door.

It helps that I prepare all my meals the day before.

ewunia99

Yup, don't know what your work -day looks like, but I think a KEY to working out regularly is actually figuring out what time of day works for you.

For me I used to try to work out after work, but naturally my energy was SO low that I just didn't enjoy it and it always seemed like a chore. NOW, most of my workouts are done during my lunch break. I work out for about 45 min and take a quick shower before heading back to my desk. It works best for me, I feel accomplished and then lunch tastes even better I tried early morning too but I"M NOT nor will I ever be a morning person, so lunch time is the perfect fit.

On weekends I do things I like to do like hot yoga or walking my dog more... I make time for that b/c I love it.

You will find the time,but my advice is try working out a couple different times during the day to find out WHEN suits you best. you can do it!

minkakross

If you want to you will find a way. I recently gave up the gym and switched to running in the neighborhood to save time and money. I either go while my husband is cooking (we take turns) or after the kids are in bed.

wisebadger53

I found a gym that is on my way home from the office, and just put my workouts in my schedule for those days. In and out in under an hour, and right home afterwards. Where there is a will there is a way!

skullshank

I squeeze one out when I get home from work

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KittieLea

My alarm goes off at 4:30am

Same here! Well, actually 4, but I'm up by 4:30, eat breakfast and I'm out by 5:15 heading to the gym. The thought of getting up this early sucked at first, but now I know if I don't go to the gym before work I'll be sitting in at least an hour of traffic on the way to the office. Screw that! I'll take the gym over traffic any morning.

CakeFit21

<---- gets up at 4am.

JulieRoselovesFreeze

My alarm goes off at 4:30am

This. I will wake up anywhere from 4-4:45ish to fit in a run. If I skip it and sleep in I will be MORE tired throughout the day (one of the many reasons I hate taking my neccessary rest days!). The only exception (besides rest day) is if I am averaging under 6 hours of sleep for a few nights in a row I may skip a run and sleep and just get up even earlier the next day to run longer.