When do you find time to exercise??

I dont think about it, I just do it (so I cant talk myself out of my wed morning one at 5:45am) I make it apart of my routine, I plan for it and plan my life and meals around it.

Someone said, if its something you want to do, you will find a way to do it.

I don't "find" the time, I make it. I treat working out like an obligation. I set a new schedule every two weeks. My current schedule goes a little like this:

6 am - wake up, get moving around for 15 minutes, get dressed, go for a 30-45 minute walk or run.
7 am- JM 30 day shred
7:30-8:30 get ready - pack lunch etc.
8:30-10:30 - run errands, take care of personal chef business administrative stuff
11-8pm work.
Lunch - work out for 45-60 min at gym
8pm hit gym for another 30-60 minutes.

I make sure I walk a minimum of 10000 steps per day (outside of exercise).

This is my life until 9/30.

My husband and I go in the evening after dinner. And I take of any opportunties that come along during the day as well. I especially make it a point to get in extra exercise on my days off work.
So far its working for us.

I am a commuter. My alarm goes off at 4:30 so I can get myself ready and then walk and feed the dogs. I leave the house at 5:45 and don't get home again until 6:15 where I have to AGAIN feed and walk the dogs.

I find my best exercise strategy is taking my 2 -15 min breaks and my lunch hour to walk a few times around the block (I log approx 2.5 miles every day and at least 30 minutes of walking) then, on my way back up to my desk, I take the stairs! Four flights every time can log 15 min a day. Add it all together and I'm usually at about an hour of exercise 5 days a week and that's not even counting the dog walks!!!!

I have 4 kids twin 7 year olds I have to get ready for school every morning a 2 year old and a 1 year old. I also have a husband and a job and I will not put my children in daycare so I only work in the evening after he gets home. I get up at 5:30 a.m. its really hard to do by the end of the week because I usually don't get to bed until 11:00 p.m. but the little ones get into trouble and try to climb on me if I try to workout when they are awake. I have to talk myself into getting out of bed most mornings by telling myself how crabby I am when I don't get my workout in.

I'm a stay at home mom w/ a 2yr old and a 9 month old.

Depending on my workout load or my schedule for the day, I wake up at 5am to do my first set and during nap time I do my second set. My daughter knows that her nap time is mommy's exercise time so she either takes a nap, plays in her room, or watches TV on mommy's bed (which she loves the best lol)

Yesterday I had 3 workouts to do and I had slept in (I was sick for 2 and a half days) so I worked out from 2:15pm to 4:45pm and my girls let me do what I need to do!

I am a single mom, too two kids, 3, and 5, They have soccer and dance respectively, I am also active duty Navy, and I take online classes. I work out 5-6 days a week, if i can convience myself to get up at 4 am then I do it then , if not, when I get home, my kids play in the play area in the living room or upstairs in their play room, my neighborhood has a gym with a kids play area, a window wall connecting the gym and a play room, so I bring the computer put on a movie for them and let them play while I do the elliptical or the treadmill.

it is very true no matter how crazy you schedule is if you really want somehting you will find a way to make it happen.

i worked 5.5 days a week and on the day that i worked only half day i try to get some rest in since the following days are my longest and hardest ones DREADFUL FRIDAYS then WEARY SATURDAYS (i absolutely HATE working on Saturdays)

Between Nov 2009 - April 2010 i exercised at 5AM 5days/week at a gym with a trainer but was not pleased with my results since i had only lost 11LBS when compared to my 40LBS weight loss in 2007 over a period of 6MTHS which i did all on my own without help

In May i was ill for the whole month and with the medication that i was prescribed i gained all weight back and then some, however these days i struggle with my exercise routine since the medication makes me drowsy and crave carbs. Also my days starts at 7:30 to 6:00 work then i'm too tired to exercise in the evenings and i sleep late since my husband gets home from work around 10:00PM, then we chat to catch up so by the time i fall asleep is way too late in order to get up early to exercise.

HELP PLZ!! suggestions needed

I get up at 4:15 am to do a DVD, right now it's Turbo Fire with some 30 Day Shred thrown in on light days. I try to go walk for 20 minutes at lunch but it's been so hot this summer that I haven't done that much. If I wait until evening I won't do it.

I choose Zumba dvd's after work while being a domestic goddess. lol!

This is a fair question. I used to say that 'I was too busy to workout" with a FT job, being a parent, etc. Anyway, I agree with others that if there is a will there is also a way. I now park my car more than 1/2 mile away from work and at a very minimum each day, I walk over a mile. I also now bring my tennis shoes to work so that I can take 1/2 walk during the lunch hour. I really feel good about getting out and about - fresh air. I'm sure it's helping my productivity at work as well.

I made myself a promise when I started my journey that it wasn't just about weight loss, but being healthy for life. Working out at night after work was too late since I wouldn't eat dinner till after 2000, and I really wasn't getting results at the gym. Plus, at my age, weight loss is not the only answer and I wanted to focus on toning & strengthening. So I promised I would workout at least 5-6 days p/week, I will wake up at least an hour early each work-day morning to work out for at least 45-50mins (wake up at 0400), on my off day (every other Friday), I will still wake up and workout, but workout for at least 65-70 mins (guaranteeing my min of 5 days p/wk workout): on weekends, if we have to go somewhere I will wake up early & workout before I shower & get ready. In the last 10 months, maybe 7 weeks total have gone past where I've exercised less than 6 times p/wk & only got my 5 workouts in: usually I'm 6 for 6 or even get in all 7 days :happy: (I workout at home in our exercise/game room; better workouts and no one judges me, unless you count to cats staring at me trying to figure out what I'm doing!)

The way I figure this, I'm making a promise to myself, and I don't want to break a promise to myself as that is about the lowest thing I can think of to do to myself. So I've kept my promise and while weight loss has been slow, this is for life and I'm toning & firming and looking better in my mid 30's than I did in my mid 20' :happy:

I know this is hard and there are times I just want to say "I'll take a day off since there is always tomorrow", but that 1 day off turns into another and another and then the full down-ward spiral! So, there are no tomorrows, only todays :flowerforyou:

I do my walking during my lunch break - we have showers at work which is handy. I am also going to start to cycle to on from work a couple of days a week. I find if its part of may normal day I am more likely to carry on the excercise

You guys with kids that schedule time to work out, are no less than INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! Shame to everyone that do not have kids and still say, "I don't have time to workout!!!!!" :flowerforyou:

You guys with kids that schedule time to work out, are no less than INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! Shame to everyone that do not have kids and still say, "I don't have time to workout!!!!!" :flowerforyou:

Thanx man, my kid is great when i want to go to the gym though...he comes with me and plays his DS...waiting patiently to turn 12 so he can come play too! He's 8 right now, and taking healthy eating in school so we really focus together on what's junk and what isn't. Hopefully I can teach him early so he doesn't have to struggle like I do, he'll be turning 30 and healthy already!