How do you fit in your workouts?

I'm a SAHM with a husband who works shift work, so I can usually find time and it switches around all the time. But when I was working full time and taking my son to daycare I would sometimes drop him off at daycare and run to work... or I'd work out after he was in bed in the evening. Or I'd leave him at home with my husband and go to a class (morning or night)... I had to give up on sleeping as much as I wanted to; I also had to give up on being clean and freshly showered whenever I went places. Sometimes I'd run to the grocery store and have my husband meet me there with the car to shop.

I have two jobs, I work 8-10 hours a day, I don't have a car so I walk everywhere, which includes doing a half hour walk down a hill in the mornings then a 45 minute work uphill to my second job in the afternoon - this burns a lot of calories a day just in itself. I never had time to go to the gym and couldn't afford a gym membership so I saved up some money (around £120) and invested in an elliptical cross trainer. I do about 20 minutes on it around 4 or 5 times a week. It's one of the best pieces of gym equipment to have at home as it works your upper and lower body. you can tone your legs, stomach and arms at the same time. I put mine on a high resistance, do it for 20 minutes and burn about 400-500 calories. Listening to fast music helps, of course I feel dead afterwards but I do it a while after I've had dinner and it completely tires me out and helps me sleep. I used to be an insomniac before I used my cross trainer.

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I hear you on the sleep thing. Getting (at least) 8 hours is a must -- especially if I want to be pleasant enough for my husband to stay married to me.

I workout at lunch. I come back totally sweaty (but I don't think I stink ). I don't care. I'd rather work people see me all gross than not being able to workout.

I work 9am - 6pm - 2 school age kids and lazy nanny, so working out at night is an issue for me

My alarm rings at 4.37am (don't ask re the randomness of the time!).
I then snooze twice, get up at 4.57 - At the gym at opening 5.15am
Work out till 6.30 ish - the home and get ready for work.
Work at 9.15am

I use to go when the kids left for school. Till I had problems sleeping at night. I wake up at 430. I'm at the gym when it opens at 530. If I don't go I do some dvd at home or kettlebells at home. I've also done workouts I've found on pinterest at home. I bought a treadmill so I do my cardio when I get up from my nap.

I love to sleep - and I'm not worth ANYTHING past 9-ish at night. But what has worked the best for me is to get up an hour early and go out and walk/jog w/ my dog. My motivation is that I can actaully stick to it; because I've made it such a habit for the two of us. That, and that he has Addison's disease and absolutely needs exercise everyday, due to his meds.. or else he gains a LOT of weight.

Other than that - I try and squeeze in the JM DVD's (like 30 DS), step aerobics dvds, some time on my stationary bike, etc, a couple nights a week after dinner... not for a long time, usually like 30 min or so. But the morning exercise is done EVERYDAY.

No car means lots of walking for me. And when I realized that the commute home on the bus was only 10 minutes shorter than if I walked because of having to wait for the bus twice, I decided that I could easily walk the three miles home every night. I also do a lot of things while I'm actually at work, like walking on my break in the morning and afternoon, doing squats or leg lifts at the printer, and skipping down the halls. Hell, when you clean the house, push yourself to do it as fast and as intense as you can, or incorporate lifting the mop bucket in 3 sets of 10. Don't take shortcuts, instead, take longcuts.

A workout doesn't have to be a scheduled amount of time at a gym on certain piece of equipment. Every time you move, you're building muscle and raising your metabolism, so move more often whenever you can.

I'll be honest. I hate Formal Workouts. Give me fun, day-to-day, living kinds of things and I never get tired of it, which means I'm more likely to stick with it.

You either make time or you dont. Take Action

I schedule it in outlook on my calendar. This way its an appt and a part of my life. Helps me to stay organized too.
I also try to make something in the crockpot the days that I workout after work so dinner is ready when I get home. (outlook saves me)

We have a gym at work, and I used to go every day after work. A bunch of people started going then, so I switched to lunch time. I can barely fit in a 40 minute run and a shower before I head back to work. Strength training days usually take longer. I heat my food up and eat real quick. Physical fitness is a job requirement for my profession, so my boss is very generous with workout time. He'll allow up to an hour a day on the clock to work out, but I try not to abuse it. When I worked out after work, if I ended up working late, I would still hit the gym afterwards, regardless of how much over I worked. It's all about commitment for me, and finding opportunities to do the right thing, instead of finding excuses to do the wrong thing.

Wake up at 6am be at the gym by 6:15am. I have to work out before anyone in my house wakes up. On my husbands day off I go around 12 if we aren't doing anything. I only get about 6 hours of sleep and sometimes it kills me. I try when my daughters nap times collide.

As soon as I get done with work, I work out - in some way, shape or form. On my days off, I work out in the morning as early as possible to get it out of the way.

^^This. Most days, some days I just get in a short walk during my lunch hour. I try to make it up another day.

I know the feeling- I work full time, work with special needs kids 6 hours aweek, teach to aerobics classes (if you teach you HAVE to go LOL) and volunteer for a few things in my church so I hear ya! I am also not a morning person so I arranged to meet a friend at 7:00 am to walk or workout before I work. I will bail on myself, but not on a friend! I also try to walk on my lunch hour- I used to think I don't have enough time but I realized short is better then none!!

I had similar issues with time when I started to get back into exercising. My wife walks at lunch when she is at work, but also has a gym across the street to work out at before even getting in the car to go home. Anyway, I wanted to work out but not interfere with family time. I found a place on the way home that is the perfect distance for running or walking (depending on the day) to the house (one-way). We started carpooling, which we couldn't do before because our end of day was different. We adjusted it a little so that our schedule was like so. She walks at lunch with friends. She gets off work and goes straight to the gym. I get off an hour later and pick her up at the gym. We both pick our son up. On the way home, she drops me at a street corner and I run/walk the rest of the way in. Since it's one-way, I can't skimp on the work our because I have to eventually get home. After I get home, it was a plain cheap flat bench and some dumbbells to round out the work out. Not a perfect science, but it worked until my job made other plans.