When do you find TIME to work out?

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  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    The last few months my company switched our hours from 8-5 to 9-7.
    By the time I get out of work, make dinner for me and hubby, let the dog out, clean up from dinner, shower, etc... the night's over.:huh:
    I could work out in the extra morning hour, but I am sooo not a morning person. I usually end up going back to sleep for the extra hour.
    What do you guys do???

    haha - maybe I'm just a liberal independent woman, but I would say go to the gym straight from work and if hubby didn't want to wait for you to get home from the gym to eat dinner, then he could cook dinner for you.

    kind of harsh I guess...

    AMEN LAPETITE!!
    Make that man cook dinner!!
    :smile:
  • Flocker
    Flocker Posts: 35
    SO many of you get up at 5 or 5:30. That is so crazy to me! :yawn:
    I luuuuuuurve my sleep. I think Hubby would kill me, too, if I woke him up that early!:grumble:

    Like with any change you're performing here, you have to change your attitude before things will change for you. If you think that you're missing out on sleep because you get up and workout, you'll never do it. It's like the belief that life is not possible without chocolate.

    It's a frame of mind. You have to just do it or not do it. The only one it will effect either way is you.

    Um... Are you REALLY suggesting that life IS possible without chocolate???:noway:
    Just kidding.
    Great advice, everyone. Thanks much!:flowerforyou: :smile: :bigsmile:
  • Flocker
    Flocker Posts: 35
    The last few months my company switched our hours from 8-5 to 9-7.
    By the time I get out of work, make dinner for me and hubby, let the dog out, clean up from dinner, shower, etc... the night's over.:huh:
    I could work out in the extra morning hour, but I am sooo not a morning person. I usually end up going back to sleep for the extra hour.
    What do you guys do???

    haha - maybe I'm just a liberal independent woman, but I would say go to the gym straight from work and if hubby didn't want to wait for you to get home from the gym to eat dinner, then he could cook dinner for you.

    kind of harsh I guess...
    Yeah, he uses the excuse that I'm a veggie and he's not to not cook for me. He does occasionally cook for himself, but I still have to make my own dinner. And clean up. :) Besides, I really hate eating that late. I can never sleep if I eat too close to bed.
  • TexasAngelBeth
    TexasAngelBeth Posts: 315 Member
    Hey all,
    I am in a unique situation where my job requires me to do Physical Fitness 3 times a week (military)but I also go after work every night and run saturday mornings...
    I get off work at 4;30 and head straight to the family YMCA that is on my way home... it was too easy to go home when I wasnt paying to go to the gym... now that I have to pay for it and they have the fitlinxx system it makes me work harder since I want to be in the top 20 for the point system they have.
    I used to get up at 230 in the morning and work out and it lasted about 4 months but nothing beyond that I was too tired!
  • dothompson
    dothompson Posts: 1,184 Member
    SO many of you get up at 5 or 5:30. That is so crazy to me! :yawn:
    I luuuuuuurve my sleep. I think Hubby would kill me, too, if I woke him up that early!:grumble:

    I'm in the 5 am group. This is my favorite part of the day. There is almost never a time conflict at that time of the day. I don't usually wake up my wife, often she gets up and says "aren't you riding today" and I'm already back and showered.

    It's easy as long as I get up at 5 everyday. I now wake before the alarm and I feel much more energized at work than I did before. When I tried it 3 days a week however I crashed. It's too hard to get up at 5 one day and 6:30 the next.
  • tamazinglee
    tamazinglee Posts: 186 Member
    I get up at 5 am too. Although I don't always work out. Sometimes I wake up too tired to work out. But I try to get up everyday at 5 am to get myself used to it.
    Up until a couple weeks ago, I was sleeping until 6 or 6:30am. Then I decided that I just had to start waking up to work out - no more excuses I told myself. This coincided with my kids going back to school which of course makes all morning a littel more hectic and stressful. MY husband leaves for work at 5am so he's a non issue in the morning.
    I hate mornings too! I am the person who'd sleep til noon on weekends. But I found that I was just making excuses....saying I didn't have time to workout was my excuse for not losing weight.
    If I don't workout in the morning, I do it as soon as I get home. The husband and kids will feed themselves and leave some leftovers for me.

    I found what works for me and you'll find what schedule will work for you too!

    If you set your mind to it and your really commit and you really do want to work out and be healthy - then you will either get up early or workout in the evening.
  • jessmomof3
    jessmomof3 Posts: 4,590 Member
    Morning gal here. I run w/ my buddies 3 days a week at 4:45AM. It's great to KNOW that you have someone waiting for you, and can drag myself outta bed!! I lift weights 2 nights a week w/ my dh when he gets home from work around 4:30, then we eat dinner around 5:30. I swim one night a week while my dd's are in swimming lessons.

    So basically, whenever I can fit it in. I think early mornings are the best way to get it in and no excuses!!

    Jess
  • Poison5119
    Poison5119 Posts: 1,460 Member
    I work at a hospital and they just opened an employee gym literally down the hall from my office...

    Me too. Literally - it is about 60 feet from my desk to the gym. Our hospital is a network of 3 hospitals and they have 3 gyms I can use if I want to.

    I work 9a-5:30p and I work out after work. I could go before work, but I hate carting my good clothes in from the parking lot in the nosebleed section and it would take me 45 minutes just to dry my hair after a shower. I like sleeping til 7am, having BREAKFAST with my honey who works graveyard and gets home at 7. We spend an hour hanging out watching news and ThirdWatch reruns and I leave at 8:20 and get to work with 20 minutes to 'settle in'. So far it's working.

    Just exercise when you get home. Theres nothing wrong with starting your workout at 8pm.
  • angelajiniel
    angelajiniel Posts: 115
    My hubby gets up for work at 6, and I do as well to make his lunch and send him off. Then I get in 45 minutes of pilates since I don't have to be at work until 8:30. I also walk for 25 minutes on my lunch break or do yoga in my cubicle if it's really hot/cold/rainy, etc. Then after work I run about 2 miles (as far as I can get for now). All total, it's not quite 2 hours I put in on any given day.

    I hardly ever do all three in same day. Sometimes I just do one, others two. I find that by breaking it up like that, I can make excuses, but hardly for all three!
  • jenninsocal
    jenninsocal Posts: 419
    I work out either after work, and before dinner... or in the morning. You could always do a shorter workout, maybe a 20-30 minute one on the days you dont have time.
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