Working out...Where do you fit it in to your schedule?

Do you watch TV? There you go.

I ride my bike everywhere.

Well, I'm moving closer to work so I can. 1 hour every weekday, minimum. I'd say that's a good workout.

You need to find a way to fit it into your daily schedule. I pack my gym bag and take it in my car to work. Then after work I head straight to the gym to get the work-out done.

I'm not a morning person! During the work week I work out in the evening when I get home - 7pm-ish. On the weekends is up for grabs...I just make a commitment to git er done!

I workout after work, because I get up at 4:30 as it is to get ready for work and getting up earlier than that sucks pretty bad. But I also schedule anything else I want to do around the time I want to go workout, for example if I have to go grocery shopping or clean or laundry, etc. I've made my fitness a priority, and everything else, including socializing with friends and bf, is coming after.

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I get up at 5 a.m., prep the household for the morning (put on the coffee, etc)., walk the dogs, then I go to the gym so I'm there by 6 a.m. I work out from 6 to 7 a.m., come home, shower and sit down with the family at 7:20 for breakfast. On the weekends, I may sleep an hour later, but pretty much the same routine.

You just have to do it. I didn't always get up this early and I didn't always work out, but I found if I just make it a nonnegotiable, I do it.

The cool thing about working out routinely is that no matter how the day goes, you've always accomplished something!

Make sure you are getting to bed early enough and getting enough sleep.

Put an alarm on the other side of the bedroom, not ride beside of the bed.

If you drink coffee, set it to end it's brew by the time the alarm goes off.

Get everything ready the night before.

Get up and exercise.

You are young! You will get busier as you get older......until a certain age, but I plan on staying busy for life.

we all have the same time in a day. none of us are given any more or less.

at the moment, you would prefer to sleep rather than exercise. simple as that. you make sleeping the priority.

I agree with you, it's very important to schedule in your workouts. I'm fortunate to work for a company that offers an amazing gym with awesome classes. Most of the times, I work out around lunchtime but it just depends on the class times. I have set up recurring meeting appointments for these gym workouts in Outlook, so that I'm accountable to it. Now it's become such a habit that I can't imagine not working out daily.

If I didn't have such a great gym at work where I could take classes in the middle of the day, I'd prefer working out at night time. I either will take a walk with my husband after dinner, or we'll play tennis. On the weekends, we usually plan a bike ride.

I have heard that it's easier to make exercise a routine if it's done in the mornings, since you have no excuse for skipping if after work, such as if you're too tired, have last minute dinner plans, etc. I tried that for a bit but would dread getting up so early, would feel tired later on, and I've come to accept that I'm not a morning person. So I believe now that it doesn't matter when you schedule in exercise, as long as you do it at a time that's most convenient for you and when you'll have enough energy for it!

I'm humbled by all of you who get up at 4:00 am to work out. I'm three weeks into a new job -- back in the full time workforce after a lonnng hiatus -- living overseas, working as a consultant, and having babies -- and all I can say is...I'm exhausted!

I'm up at 6:00 am, get myself showered & dressed for work, then get kids (aged 7 and 9) up & dressed for school, feed everyone (including myself), make lunches, pack backpacks, feed dogs, etc. We're out the door by 8:00. I feel guilty about not being home when my kids get home from school. A babysitter meets them at the bus, helps them with homework, then drives them to their various after-school activities (soccer practice, piano lessons, art class, gymnastics, girl scouts), then I go straight from work to pick them up from said activities, and I'm generally home between 7:00 and 8:00 pm, at which point I have to feed the family, get kids cleaned up for the next morning, clean up the kitchen, and generally tidy up the house and get ready for the next morning. I'm usually falling into bed exhausted by 9:30 or 10:00.

I have a gym membership just down the street from my office, and my boss is supportive of me taking the time to exercise when my schedule allows. I have a pretty heavy workload, though, and so far I haven't been able to do it. Plus the thought of getting all sweaty and having to shower at the gym and put my work clothes back on (and keep sweating, because you can't just turn it off after a workout), and come back to work all within one hour is just daunting.

I feel pretty proud of myself for squeezing runs in here and there. The last three weeks, I've brought my running clothes with me to work. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, I've been changing in the bathroom at work at 5:30 and going for a run before going to pick up the kids. Weekends I've been getting up relatively early while everyone else sleeps (7:00 or so) and going for a run in my neighborhood. Mondays and Fridays I go straight home, which gets me there by 6:00. I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, though (again, mom guilt), so the last thing I want to do at that point is work out.

I know what I have to do: schedule weight training at the gym around lunchtime during the week (less sweaty than running or spinning or some other type of aerobic exercise at the gym, at least for me), at least twice a week, and try to plan my work schedule around that. If I can do that and keep up with my running schedule, I'll feel satisfied.

Thanks for reading.

ETA: Where is my husband in all this activity, you ask? He's a slug! (Plus he's a doc in the Army and I can't count on him to have a regular schedule, so I can't count on him at all)

If I had my way, I'd love to workout at 10 or 11am. Unfortunately, I'm trapped in school 9-3:30pm.

I get exercise in by signing up for softball, lacrosse or paddling teams. That way I'm FORCED to show up to practices/games (usually 6 or 8pm) because others are relying on me. I try to take a nap after school & I might still feel tired, but once I'm there & start up, I enjoy it. I usually try to weightlift on Saturdays or whenever I get ped days.

When there was a noon kickboxing class located close enough to school, I used to do that. I'd workout 12-12:40, do a very quick shower (or not), make a smoothie & eat it in class when I got back.

Sometimes I weightlift around 6:30 or 7am before school. I usually wake up around 5 or 6am, but it's not a given that I'll feel like working out. If I go to sleep around 9 or 10, I might feel good/awake enough at 6:30am to lift.

early mornings might be my only option.

Give morning workouts a try. You will probably hate it for 2 -3 weeks, eventually your body and mind will adjust to the change. After you develop the habit it gets easier.