tcunbeliever wrote: »

I usually get up at 5am to get in about 30 min of exercise before getting ready and being on the road by 6am. I love to do BodyCombat in the morning, there's just something badass about starting the day with punches and kicks, but maybe that's just me. Sometimes I do oversleep, but I have found that even 10 min of exercise in the morning is enough to boost my energy levels for the whole day. So, if you think you can get up even 15 min early, you might find it's totally worth it.

When I get to work, I take the stairs (3 flights)...and I keep taking them all day.

At work, I get 2 breaks and a lunch. I walk (usually outside) for all of these. My office is in an area that has sidewalks, we also have a kind of open hallway downstairs so I can walk indoors if the weather is totally intolerable outside. But, I like having big hills and such to walk up. For my breaks I just wear my normal clothes/shoes, but for lunch I change into tennis shoes and usually workout clothes because I usually walk a 5k at lunch so it's a much farther distance and I don't want to get all sweaty in my work clothes. We do have a gym here, but it's usually packed at lunch time, so it's easier for me to just walk.

When I get home, some days I have to taxi kids places, and when that happens I use the time they are in their activities to walk (the ballet studio is only about 10 min from a downtown area with sidewalks and street lights, so walking there is an option even for late nights - the school has lights in the parking lot so I can loop the parking lot if I have to pick them up from school for something)...sometimes this means deliberately leaving early so that I can get 15-30 min of walking done before picking someone up...sometimes those activities coincide with other exercise opportunities, like Sat morning ballet is at the same time that a brewery nearby offers a "beer & yoga" class a couple times a month.

Usually I cook dinner, which most days gives me a at least 30 min free time. So, if I am baking something (like chicken or pork or whatever) then I can put that in the oven, and start whatever is going stovetop (like veggies or pasta) and then go workout and just check on the food in between reps for strength training or when the cardio exercises change because every workout usually has some kind of good transition time where you can press pause and take 30 seconds to go stir whatever or check the temperature or whatever.

Sometimes I will workout while everyone else is eating since we kind of watch TV and eat in the living room, so I can do my workout and watch TV if it's something from a paper sheet instead of a video.

So for me, basically, I cram it in wherever I can make it fit. Every spare 10 min is a workout opportunity.

There are lots of free videos on YouTube, and Darebee has free workout sheets, and at one point BeachBody was doing a 14 or 30 day free trial of their on-demand product. There are so many options out there, just try different stuff until you find some favorites and then look for more that is similar to what you like.