Three kids, a full time job and no time! Tips?

Fitness Blender has an online site with hundreds of fitness videos, you can put in the maximum time with the type of workout you want and the area of the body you're working and boom. Lots of choices. Are your kids older or younger. You can also find workout videos on Youtube.

Older kids can be in charge of making dinner once in a while (we do have grilled sandwich night and my nine year old makes his sibs french toast.) Younger kids are pefectly willing to join in, although you have to be careful to not step on the.

For day to day, I park at the far end of the parking lot, have been known to take an extra lap around Costco before actually shopping. Whatever I can do.

My twins and my middle son are 19 months apart. So even though I'm not working, when they were bitty, it was survival mode only, I TOTALLY get not having time.

I have 3 kids and I work full time too. When the youngest was still very young, my basic exercise was long walks with the kids and also running on the treadmill - best investment I ever made regarding exercise. A stationary bike or exercise dvds would have probably also worked, but it was running I always loved and the treadmill allowed me to squeeze in at least some 30 minute runs per week, when all kids where napping or watching tv or in the unlikely scenario where all 3 where happily playing.
With the kids no longer being babies, I started going to the gym a couple of times per week in the late evening letting my husband put the kids in bed, plus weekends. This last year I managed to have all kids in afterschool activities at the same time a few days, so I use this time to go to the pool.

Stationary bike.

I have 3 kids and a full time job too. When my kids were younger I would take their bikes to the track and walk while they biked. Kids usually like to be involved in exercise. Play soccer or frisbee with them. A yoga tape. I also try to walk on my breaks at work.

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I have 3 kids and I work full time too. When the youngest was still very young, my basic exercise was long walks with the kids and also running on the treadmill - best investment I ever made regarding exercise. A stationary bike or exercise dvds would have probably also worked, but it was running I always loved and the treadmill allowed me to squeeze in at least some 30 minute runs per week, when all kids where napping or watching tv or in the unlikely scenario where all 3 where happily playing.
With the kids no longer being babies, I started going to the gym a couple of times per week in the late evening letting my husband put the kids in bed, plus weekends. This last year I managed to have all kids in afterschool activities at the same time a few days, so I use this time to go to the pool.

I second the treadmill being a good investment. You can get up early and get in a workout before the kids get up, you can do it while they nap, or after they go to bed... I have mine in the kid's playroom which has a TV, when my kids were toddlers I'd turn on PBS and they would watch a 30 minute cartoon while I worked out. Now that they are a bit older it's no big deal to get in a workout while they play or watch cartoons.

I have 4 kids, and one is incredibly disabled. I wake up very early and work out to online videos. (5 am now...I used to do it earlier but lost the will to live getting up at 4:30!) Fitness Blender is decent. I like Daily Burn if you don't mind spending $13 a month to subscribe.

weightlifting at the gym on the weekends + daily 20-30 minute home workouts as intense as you can make them (DVDs, circuits w dumbbells, a cardio machine) OR including walking or cycling or skating or whatever into family time + watching diet

When my kids were younger, I worked out at a nearby Y, kids went to the onsite daycare. Workouts were limited to 45 min-one hour. That was all they could handle in the childcare area. The Y was also our date nite. Now that they are older, I take my daughter with me to the gym and we play squash together. No points or rules, just slam the ball around. I have taken an early Sunday morning walk or bike ride for 8 years with a good friend who lives nearby. Gradually, you will get some free time back. Working full time is hard. Go after work or before work. It will take coordination with a spouse or other care giver, like hiring a babysitter. Did that too. Have to schedule your "me" time first. You will be a better mom, wife, partner, employee, etc. It is not selfish. Nobody else will put your needs before theirs.

take 20 min each night or several times a week and do a home workout with your kids running around you;) invest in some dumbbells, bands, a step and your own body to use videos on youtube or dvds from the library Bodyrock, fitness blender, Bret contreras has tons of videos of specific exercises to make your own circuits and work hard from one exercise to the next and be done in 20min. You can find all workout equipment on craigslist for cheap and varagesale or Facebook swap pages. Your kids may want to join in too:)

I work out at night from home after my kids go to bed. That's the only time I have to do it. I have three kids 4 and under and I work. My oldest is autistic. If you want it bad enough you will make time. You own progress is your biggest motivation. Take progress pics.....every 2-3 weeks. Good luck and light a fire under that *kitten*!