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

When we used to have a gym membership, I only went at night. We only had 1 kid then and sometimes I took her with me and dropped her at the KidZone, but since most of the classes I took went past bedtime she usually stayed home with Daddy. Then Daddy would go on alternate nights. Sometimes I would go on Saturday mornings too.

Now we have 2 little ones and I do my own exercises at home after they go to bed or I get up early (5:15am) and do a work-out DVD. It would take too much time to drive to the gym, do the work-out, shower there (or at home after) drive-home, etc. My hubby also leaves around 6:30am, so I would have to get up at like 4am and that is NOT happening.

First thing in the morning - only time of day that you are (nearly) guaranteed not to be interrupted or pulled away by something else, especially when you have kids.

Wake up at 4:30, at the gym by 5:00, work out until 6:00, back by 6:30 so you can be there for your little one. Go after work, or something similar, and you're going to have to mess with your schedule all the time to accommodate dinners, late meetings, karate classes for your kid, that sort of thing, and you'll find your gym date more often gets cancelled than simply delayed. Cancel too many in a row, and suddenly you're not in the habit of going to the gym anymore.

Sucks, I know, but nothing else seems to work (at least not for me). Plus, while waking up early sucks, your day goes better if you started out with a good workout.

I go mon-thurs at 8am before i go to work and i work 2 full time jobs. i also go saturday late morning/early afternoon as it is my only day off work.

We have two 7 year olds that my grandmother watches. My husband and I work the same schedule, and one or the other gets the kids immediately after work. (2pm) we head home, start dinner and eat by 5. We have our gym bag ready to go, and usually get to the gym around 6. They have a kids fit area, so our girls play while we workout for an hour, 3 days a week. If we're feeling up to it, the other two days of the week, we have the same schedule, but we all get in the pool for an hour. Our days off of work are here or there, so sometimes we do mornings, afternoons, not at all, whatever. While the girls are off school in the summer, it's hard to go get them and immediately go to the gym -- by time we're there an hour, the kids are complaining "they're starving" and if we go home to eat, we'll be eating at 7 at night! Or we fall in a trap of a lot of take-out which we're trying to avoid!

When the girls are in school, we go straight to the gym on our way home. They get off the bus almost 4, so we have an hour and a half to play with. We still go to the gym at least twice a week after dinner, so the girls can play or swim.

We don't go ALL the time, it sounds like we're on a strict five days a week schedule. Haha. But the kids enjoy going, having other kids to run around with, swim, and so on.. So it's entertaining for them and they have fun. They even have a kids fit class during the week during school, which is pretty much a gym class, where thy play basketball or dodgeball or whatever.

I couldn't imagine waking up early to workout. I already get up at 430 .. I'd have to be up at 3 to run for an hour .. work all day and bed around 10. I'd be exhausted!

In the morning? After work? I am having a hard time getting up in the morning to go ( my boyfriend leaves the house around 6:30 am and we have a 5 year old so I need to be back by the time he leaves) I just need to suck it up but ahh! When do you go?

As soon as i get in town from work. i workout in my scrubs... if i go home i WILL not go back out to the gym. sometimes i will workout at home but i usually just go to the gym to make sure

I usually go after dinner (we eat at 6). I tried to go right after work but I felt so nauseous because I was starving. And I leave for work by 6:30 and I already have a hard enough time getting out of bed for that.

I don't. I work out at home. It saves me an hour of driving.

I usually go in the mornings right before work. So I hit the gym 6:15am, shower get ready for work and out of the gym by 7:30 and sometimes I'll squeeze in a class during lunch as well. Going in the morning allows me to do whatever I'd like at night.

During weekends, I can squeeze into two classes between 7:30 am and 9:30am and then spend the rest of my weekend hanging out with friends, and eating a bit!

Not only do I work full time, but it's most like 60 hour work weeks, so I work out at home.

Up at 3:45am, to hit the gym by 4:15, back to home, in work by 8.