What time do you work out and why???

Lisa1971
Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
edited September 23 in Fitness and Exercise
I am a morning exerciser. I have to be because if I don't do it in the morning, it won't get done. I am going to set my alarm for 6am tomorrow and try and get in at least 45 mins to an hour of cardio. I have 2 small children and I'm a stay at home mom so it's VERY hard for me to exercise any other time. My husband usually works 10-12 hours a day so I have no one to watch the kids while I exercise. I'm just so NOT a morning person so we'll see how it goes!:yawn: :laugh:

Just wondering when you work out and why you picked that time. Thanks!
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  • I usually exercise in the morning before work but sometimes I have to go in the evening. On the weekends, I go to the gym after getting out of bed.
  • I workout after work. I can't get up in the morning before work...Weekends when I get out of bed, which is pretty early!
  • mummum2
    mummum2 Posts: 415 Member
    I run Mon/Wed/Fri at lunchtime, run by the river. Work in the City, London, England.
  • Amandac6772
    Amandac6772 Posts: 1,311 Member
    4:15 am because that is the only time I can fit it in and I won't do it if I don't do it first thing.
  • AggieCass09
    AggieCass09 Posts: 1,867 Member
    I'm a 4:30 am exerciser because I'm in class or at work 'till 10 pm. You can do it!
  • RedHotRunner
    RedHotRunner Posts: 850 Member
    5:30 AM because I also have kids and work full time. It's either then or never :wink:
  • jennyfair24
    jennyfair24 Posts: 273 Member
    I workout first thing in the morning before my kids get up and my day gets started. I find it keeps me energized throughout the day and I don't have to try to figure out when to fit it in through out the day. :smile:
  • diet45
    diet45 Posts: 392 Member
    I have to workout at night after my daughter goes to bed, but sometime I exercise before she goes to bed if someone will watch her for me.
  • glfprncs2
    glfprncs2 Posts: 625 Member
    During the workweek, I have to leave for work by 6:15. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I get up at 4:00 and workout for 30-45 minutes at 4:15 with a friend who needed a workout support buddy. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I workout at 4:30 p.m. It's a non-negotiable time and everyone in the house knows it. : )

    Saturdays and Sundays...mid-morning.
  • Amber824
    Amber824 Posts: 51 Member
    I am not a morning person either...lol! I usually workout after work, if I decide I want to go to the gym, or after everyone has settled in for the night. Last night I was doing Wii Zumba Fitness at 9:00! I have a six year old daughter and my husband leaves for work at 5:30 every morning. So if I want to work out in the morning I would have to do it before he leaves. For me that is impossible. Good luck with what works best for you! :smile:
  • After work. I get up at 4:30 just to make it to work by 6:30. I have a long commute. I get home about 4:30 so for biking and running it will be right after I get home.
  • LokiFae
    LokiFae Posts: 774 Member
    I'm a stay at home mom too, and my husband works 10 hour days as well, and I exercise in the evening after he gets home. I get dinner on the table, get the kids situated and eating, make sure I eat my dinner, my husband comes home and I go to the gym. He does baths and bedtime routine, and I usually get home just in time to kiss them goodnight and have some chill out time with my husband.

    Reading that back, I realized how lucky I am to have him. He's very supportive. I of course would prefer to have a family dinner, but I had to re-prioritize and I need my workout time more than family dinner at this point.

    I used to wake up at 4am to exercise, and I was tired and mean all day and had to go to bed around 7pm, so I never got ANY time with my husband at all. This schedule works much better for us.
  • oaraico
    oaraico Posts: 14
    I WORK OUT AT NIGHT, I WORKOUT ACCORDING TO HOW MY DAY WENT. EXERCISE SUCKS AND I WONT DO MORE THAN I HAVE TO! LOL
  • darla48
    darla48 Posts: 25
    I work out in the evening, around 6ish. I am not a morning person and I have discovered if I work out in the morning I am sick all day. On the weekends I exercise in the afternoon and evening.
  • sas16
    sas16 Posts: 610
    Do it first thing in the morning at 5:30. I have to do it before my 2 yr old gets up or it won't get done. Especially since she doesn't really nap!
  • doughd2
    doughd2 Posts: 86 Member
    Another 415am here. I actually don't mind getting up that early though, so it works. I just won't have time to squeeze in an hour at night. I usually get 20 minutes or so extra at night if I have time. (Treadmill or ab work mostly)
  • addman72
    addman72 Posts: 220
    Dayshift Im up at 3am to train before work.
    Nightshift I train straight after work at 6:30am
    Days off I get up at 5am to train.

    So Im a morning person but Im going to step it up by doing something in the arvo.
  • loseit4ever
    loseit4ever Posts: 187 Member
    I recently became a stay at home mom and wondered how I was going to work this out. I am SO not an early morning exerciser and I don't like to do it after my husband gets home because I have a five year old that I only get a couple of hours with in the evening after he gets home from school/daycare. My other two kids are home with me all day, but I find that it works best for me to work out when my 1 year old is napping. My four year old will watch me or watch a program on tv while I do it, so that really helps. I actually like doing it while my four year old is around because I think it sends a great message to him that exercise is good!
  • Maghenta
    Maghenta Posts: 100
    I wake up at 4am to eat a lil snack, than go back to sleep, than wake up at 5am to walk 3 miles which takes me about an hour plus warm up and cool down. and Honey I have to tell you, You feel energyze for the rest of the day. :love: Good Luck to you and what you might want to try because you have small children is to get a DVD from Leslie Sansone walk at home.... (that's what I do) It is a WORK OUT!!!!! am sore half the time. and I do it while my kids are still asleep. :smile:
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    usually around 9pm when baby is sleep and wife sleep or occupied
  • secostley
    secostley Posts: 409 Member
    I work out in the morning (I converted from working out at lunch). My primary reason is that working out at 5:30 a.m. means no distractions, no interruptions (work, phone calls, appointments), and less folks in the gym. It gives me the energy I need to get through the day and I seem to have loss more weight as a result of the change in workout time.

    Morning workouts voided most of my excuses for not going to the gym.


    Shawn
  • Shash27
    Shash27 Posts: 172
    During the weekdays..my lunch hour. I don't have any pals who work near me to see for lunch and my gym is less than a mile away..I have to excuses not to then. I'm usually wiped when I get home and I'm not a morning person. Lately I've been throwing in a Bodypump class on Wednesday nights...but I much prefer having my workout done before I get home.

    Weekends..pretty much when I wake up before my brain knows what I'm up to and tries to talk me into staying in bed :laugh: . I have more time and can workout for longer. Saturdays I do a long cardio on the elliptical then hit the steam room/hot tub with my boyfriend. Sundays I take two workout classes in a row (Bodypump and Zumba). I really try to take advantage of the weekends since my weekday workouts are only 30-35 minutes
  • BigGail
    BigGail Posts: 465 Member
    I bike to work some days and walk/run every lunch time through the week. I normally gym at 6.30 am on a Friday as I don't work then, and at 8am on Sundays.
    If it all goes wrong I try and walk/do a workout dvd every day!
  • garedds
    garedds Posts: 251
    props to all you who get up early! I couldn't do that. (I have tried). I excercise once I get my older 3 off to school. Then my 5 y/o plays/watches me while I work out at about 9:30am.
  • jenX1174
    jenX1174 Posts: 154
    In the past, I've worked out in the afternoon/early evening. I had tried mornings, but had a hard time in getting up in time.

    Now, even though I'm still not a morning person, I tend to wake up around 5 or 6. So, I've decided to try a.m workouts again. I've been at this for 5 days, and already I feel better and more energized, but I'm not getting a restful sleep at night. I would rather have that energy during the day, and be able to sleep well at night --- which means, I can get up early enough to workout the a.m (I hope).

    I guess we'll see how it goes!
  • BR1986FB
    BR1986FB Posts: 1,515 Member
    Monday-Thursday at about 5:30pm I can be found in WOWY (it's a Beachbody thing)....Saturday & Sunday about 11am. I would work out before work but I don't get much sleep (1 hour & 15 minute commute one way) so I'm not getting up at 3:30am to work out.
  • JennyJH
    JennyJH Posts: 189 Member
    During the week, if dog walking, early evening before their dinner when my Partner gets home to look after Son. Any other exercise is when ever there is a class on in the evening.

    At Weekends, early afternoon so I can take the dogs over the fields for some off-lead.

    Not a morning person and I have to be at work by 8:00am but I'll be taking over the morning dog walk soon - well, as soon as I can drag myself out of bed by six AM. Nearly made it this morning!!!!
  • Sasha_Bear
    Sasha_Bear Posts: 625 Member
    I work out in the evening after I get home from work doing the week day. I would like to workout first thing in the am but since my workout consist of Zumba and I live in a apartment building on the 3rd floor, my neighbor below may not appreciate my fat but bouncing over her head at 6am! LMAO
  • ♥_Ellybean_♥
    ♥_Ellybean_♥ Posts: 1,646 Member
    No choice but to work out after work around 5pm. I live about 1.5 hours from home, so I already get up really early to make it to work on time, and then I stop at the gym on the way home and usually don't get home till 8 or so.. so it's long days for me.
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