Where do you make time in your day for exercise?
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You wake up at 7:15. I get up at 5:30. That's when I go to the gym, and then directly to work.0
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6 wake up, pee, weigh, drink water, make coffee
6.15 work out
6.45 drink coffee and water
7 jump in shower
7.15 kick kid out of bed and throw him in shower
7.30 get both of us dressed/teeth/hair
8 give kid breakfast/pack his lunch/get everything prepped for school and work
8.25 leave the house
5.25 get home
5.30 make dinner for both of us
7 I have free time here
8 bribe kid to get into bed then more free time
9.30 bedtime yoga
10 chill out till I decide to go to bed, around 11 usually.1 -
Except not at the moment because I'm on annual leave so I can sleep in and do whatever I want... Bliss!0
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MostlyWater wrote: »You wake up at 7:15. I get up at 5:30. That's when I go to the gym, and then directly to work.
Yes, I do. I seem to be one of the few people in this thread who prefers to/can exercise after work instead of before. Would you like to share what the rest of your day is like, or did you just want to point out that my day starts later than yours..?2 -
This is my weekday schedule. My weekends are not so predictable.
5:15 - Wake up
5:15 to 6:15 - Shower, get ready, pack breakfast and lunch, wake kid up for school (if applicable)
6:15 to 7:00 - Commute
7:00 to 9:00 - Work
9:00 to 9:15 - Walk
9:15 to 12:00 - Work
12:00 to 12:30 - Walk (except Weds which is yoga from 12:00 to 12:50)
12:30 to 2:00 - Work
2:00 to 2:15 - Walk
2:15 to 3:30 - Work
3:30 to 4:15 - Commute
4:15 to 5:00 - Change into gym clothes, chill or do household chores/prep dinner
5:00 to 5:30 - Take son to whatever sport he's currently doing
5:30 to 7:30 - Gym
7:30 to 8:00 - Pick up son and head home
8:00 to ? - Cook and eat dinner
9:00ish - Bed0 -
Day type 1
Wake up at stupid o'clock (stupid hundred hours) at least 90 mins before I have to get up
Get up anyway cos nothing worse than happily sleeping partner to make you want to sharpen your elbows
Let dog out, make and eat breakfast
Check clock
Decide fuggit might as well walk to work
Pack bag with lunch and shoes, pop on trainers
Walk for 40 mins (2.5 miles)
Drink coffee
Do work
Realise I forgot element of lunch, walk to local shops and back 30 mins (2 miles)
Get back, eat lunch
Do work
Watch it start to rain
Think fuggit gotta walk back in the rain now
Walk back in the rain
Avoid jumping dog, let dog out
Sit down for 15 mins
Thinks "gym or children?"
Skips gym, make dinner
Children come home from school with assorted friends, shout hi and immediately ignore me
Thinks "shoulda gone to gym"
Ask assorted kids if staying for supper
Walk to shops to buy more dinner
Make more dinner
Take dog for walk
Sit on couch
Greet husband, have regular argument about who should make tea ..I win ..get tea on couch
Go run a bath
Go to bed
Day type 2
Sleep till 6am
Get up breakfast
Drive to work
Work
Go out to shops at lunch
Work
Get home
Change for gym
Youngest gets in, shout hello, I'm going to gym
Go to gym
Shout hello to kids
Get ignored, check to see if eldest is home
Get asked "what's for dinner?"
I say "dunno what you making?"
Proceed to couch and repeat day 1 type
Weekends
Saturday
gym at 8am and or dog walk
Sunday
Gym at lunchtime...it's quietest and husband makes the best Sunday roast when I'm out the house
My life is dully repetitive
She says
From poolside of villa in Portugal5 -
I do:
5:00 - 5:45 AM - wake up, drink coffee, eat breakfast, get dressed etc
5:45 - 6:45 AM - run
6:45 - 7:30 AM - shower, primp, drink coffee
7:30 - 8:00 AM - commute (via bike right now, but sometimes I take the train, or walk if I can be ready by 7:00)
8:00 - 12:00 PM - work
12:00 - 1:00 PM - gym (1/2 hr of gym, 1/2 hr of getting there and back and ready and all of that)
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM - work
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM - commute (again, bike right now)
Sometimes I skip the morning run or the lunch gym and run or gym in the evening. If I don't, I have ample time in my evening for making dinner, hanging out with my husband, running errands, etc. etc. etc. I like to get my fitness stuff out of the way early in the day so I don't have to squeeze it in evenings. It's just easier for me and I feel like I have more free time this way.
I go to bed between 9PM and 10PM most nights so I get enough sleep, but I still generally feel like I have pretty relaxed evenings. I come home, hang out with my husband, cook dinner and spot clean the kitchen, and have time for buying groceries or home maintenance or seeing friends or whatever.
I'm also a bit of a weirdo and do all my housecleaning on Friday afternoons - I get off work at 1PM on Fridays so I spend the afternoon doing a tornado cleaning and getting everything spotless and all the laundry done and that kind of thing so we don't have to deal with any of that on the weekends or the rest of the week. It's just my husband and I so nothing really needs doing more than that, as we're pretty tidy people and don't have kids or pets to make messes.
I don't claim to be "busy" - I have a full time job but that's the only real demand on my time - but I fit in up to 3 hrs of exercise every day before 5PM, which is definitely more than necessary for general health so I do feel like if I can get that much, lots of other people should be able to find time for even 1/2 hr or an hour if it was really important to them. Sorry if that's judgey...I know it's not a priority for everyone so I don't normally say it, but there it is.1 -
Day type 1
Wake up at stupid o'clock (stupid hundred hours) at least 90 mins before I have to get up
Get up anyway cos nothing worse than happily sleeping partner to make you want to sharpen your elbows
Let dog out, make and eat breakfast
Check clock
Decide fuggit might as well walk to work
Pack bag with lunch and shoes, pop on trainers
Walk for 40 mins (2.5 miles)
Drink coffee
Do work
Realise I forgot element of lunch, walk to local shops and back 30 mins (2 miles)
Get back, eat lunch
Do work
Watch it start to rain
Think fuggit gotta walk back in the rain now
Walk back in the rain
Avoid jumping dog, let dog out
Sit down for 15 mins
Thinks "gym or children?"
Skips gym, make dinner
Children come home from school with assorted friends, shout hi and immediately ignore me
Thinks "shoulda gone to gym"
Ask assorted kids if staying for supper
Walk to shops to buy more dinner
Make more dinner
Take dog for walk
Sit on couch
Greet husband, have regular argument about who should make tea ..I win ..get tea on couch
Go run a bath
Go to bed
*snip*
My life is dully repetitive
She says
From poolside of villa in Portugal
There is never an argument about this in my house. My husband understands that making tea for me every morning and evening is a must. He's the perfect man.
Poolside in a villa in Portugal sounds fan-frikkin-tastic.1 -
Everyone is getting up so early! Do the majority of you have children or just early birds naturally? I've started waking at half 7 naturally now its summer and I was impressed with myself. Maybe it's to do with age too?2
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Morning while I watch the news for the day.
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I live 3.5 miles from work so 2 months ago, while rehab'ing from knee surgery, I started riding my bike to and from work every day. With traffic and lights, it only takes me about 3 minutes more than driving so it doesn't really require that much more time from my day. On the weekends I make time to take a walk with friend or do something fun at the lake just to have some activity.
In the past I found that I had to 'make' rather than 'find' time. I got up an hour earlier to go to the gym every day. It was a sacrifice that paid off in the end - I lost 50 pounds.1 -
Before I start work at 10am. Gets the brain going!0
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MagicalGiraffe wrote: »Everyone is getting up so early! Do the majority of you have children or just early birds naturally? I've started waking at half 7 naturally now its summer and I was impressed with myself. Maybe it's to do with age too?
I do not have children and I am not naturally a morning person. But I noticed that my entire day feels better when I don't have to rush in the AM and I really enjoy getting my exercise done first thing so I can do whatever I want in the evening. I also had years at a job that had me waking up at 3 AM, so 5 AM doesn't really seem early at all to me anymore.1 -
I get up about 530am. Have some tea, and then either hit the road for a run or a long walk between 6 and 7am. At noon I go to yoga or Pilates. I eat on the way there or back.
I ride/walk to work.
When I'm lifting, I tend to do that at noon.0 -
MagicalGiraffe wrote: »Everyone is getting up so early! Do the majority of you have children or just early birds naturally? I've started waking at half 7 naturally now its summer and I was impressed with myself. Maybe it's to do with age too?
No kids, but I start work at 8AM so if I want to work out first then 5AM it is. I'm not really an early bird naturally but I just feel so much better about my life if I don't have to exercise after work. If I don't run before work I sleep until 6:30.
This time of year it doesn't feel particularly early because it's already more or less light out when I get up as I live pretty far north. In midwinter 5AM feels like an ungodly hour though, I admit...but it's worth it to be finished my run and feeling awake and endorphin-y by the time I get to the office.0 -
I work full time, train 5x week for up to 2 hours, volunteer with dog rescue org, help take care of grandmother, try to get in some cardio once or twice a week. Also do yard work/cut grass, laundry, meal prep, walk dog, mobility work. I have maybe an hour a day to catch up on Hulu/YouTube videos while I eat dinner, before I start preparing for the next day and get ready for bed. Though this summer I've been taking every other Friday off work, so its been easier to get all this in and have a little more down time. After my next comp in 3 weeks, will probably adjust my time in the gym to 3 or 4 days/week.0
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I get up REALLY early and go to the gym before I go to work.
I start work at 5 a.m. I have a long commute (45 minutes one way), and work 11 hours per day, 5 days per week (and some Saturdays) so I know that I will be too tired to go to the gym after work.
I really like have my gym time over first thing of the long day, so it works well for me.0 -
LOL!! I have NO schedule. Every day is something new/different/insane/boring. I exercise in bits and pieces. I might get 5 minutes of exercise; or 6 solid hours (kayaking - on a river, you can't stop until you get to the end of the journey!). I must be getting enough exercise - I haven't passed out on those 6 hour marathons yet....0
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I get up anywhere between 5:00 & 5:15 on the mornings that I exercise. I don't belong to a gym but I have a huge library of workout dvd's. I'm in the shower by 6:30 then off to work until I get home at 5:30. I know I won't exercise at night, I don't want to work out late nor eat dinner late...so morning it is for me! I would love to walk at night, but it's too darn hot here in Florida. I do get a short walk to go to lunch during the day about 1,000 steps round trip :P
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My job is all over the map, crazy drive time and some days I'm gone from 8 to 9 o clock...
Hard to fit anything in and it's frustrating after being a stay at home Mom with a minimum of 1-2 hours a day workout...running, weights, hiking and cardio kickboxing.
Now I work and wonder IF I'll squeeze in a 10 minute whatever somewhere.
Most days nothing, but some days I get to walk. Trying to figure this out and it's irksome at best especially as I injured my knees in a weight lifting accident BUT the only thing I can do is to add steps in where I can, pick up heavy things and volunteer to carry stuff whenever possible...and hope it'll do.
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