Morning People - 5am work out — when is bedtime?

[Anonymous]

I need my sleep. I regularly wake up at 5 to either work out or work but I’m in bed by 9:30 and sometimes earlier (8:30 is not unheard of). Asleep by 10 at the latest.

We do the crazy kid run around thing, eat dinner late, then clean kitchen and go to bed.

[Anonymous]

You don’t need to workout everyday. Workout during work from home days (schedule a meeting on your calendar to block off the time - 30 minutes is plenty). Do your strength training 2x a week at home. On one weekend day, do a longer cardio session. That’s all you really need.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

[Anonymous]

The answer is stop ceding your entire life to your children - particularly if they are in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

Also carpool

[Anonymous]

I couldn't do it with going to bed at 11. I get up between 5 and 5:30 and have try to go to bed by 9. Sometimes it is closer to 9:30. Anything after 10 and the next day is going to be bad due to lack of enough sleep. But I really need my sleep, and I've wanted to go to bed around 9 my entire life, so YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

So you have a home gym? We don’t have space for that. I have a few barbells and so life them during conferences calls on WFH.

There are carpools for our activities.

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

So you have a home gym? We don’t have space for that. I have a few barbells and so life them during conferences calls on WFH.

There are carpools for our activities.

You don’t need a few barbells. You need a barbell where you can add plates. If you have room for a few barbells, you have room for plates.

Well if you have carpool, why are still driving to activities every night?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

So you have a home gym? We don’t have space for that. I have a few barbells and so life them during conferences calls on WFH.

There are carpools for our activities.

You don’t need a few barbells. You need a barbell where you can add plates. If you have room for a few barbells, you have room for plates.

Well if you have carpool, why are still driving to activities every night?

Typo. There are NO carpools.

Dumbbell not barbell.

Wow I am hopeless sorry.

[Anonymous]

Kids in bed by 8-8:30 and I’m asleep in the 9:30-10:15pm range, alarm at 4:20am, workout 5-7am. But I typically only do that 3 weekdays per week (occasionally 4). Other weekdays, usually fit in a shorter workout during the day. When I don’t have an early wake up the next day, in bed 10-11pm.

Saturday and Sunday - fit in a workout when possible (might be at 6:30am, might be downtime between kids activities, might be after they go to bed, or might not happen at all).

Just try to fit in some type of workout everyday (if I only have 30’ to train on a given day, that’s better than nothing.) I rarely meet that goal, which just means my rest day isn’t planned in advance.

For OP, maybe look at the weekend for training and only train 2-3x during the week. Also, could you run or do something else active while your kids are doing their activities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you go jogging while kids are at their activities?

This or bring a jump rope

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of answer do you want? We can’t change your schedule for you. Quit your job?

Very helpful thanks!

It’s the only answer. Your welcome.

What I’m really asking is what time most 5am exercisers are going to bed.

9:30 pm

Can you carpool to get home earlier some evenings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

So you have a home gym? We don’t have space for that. I have a few barbells and so life them during conferences calls on WFH.

There are carpools for our activities.

Not PP, but I exercise at home (single parent with young kids so going to the gym isn’t so much an option for me) without a home gym. I do body weight training (pushups, pull ups, yoga, hand balancing, etc) mostly for strength. Swimming in the summer for cardio and I try to bring a jump rope when I take the kids to the playground. This may not meet your needs (I’d be the first to confess that I’m pretty out of shape compared to be pre kid self) but depending on what you want to get out of your exercise, there may be doesn’t-need-a-gym options.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I missed the 2X WFH. Are you driving your kids to school? You can work out at 7 when they leave.

Yes we drive our kids to school, so 7-9 is spoken for with kids.

Spouse has the more stressful job, so usually works 8am-6pm; I finish at 430 to pickup kids, make dinner, and get them to sports/music/adhd tutor. Each individual kid only has about 2 activity a week — it’s just the older kids activities run late and the combination means I’m running around all week.

When spouse gets home at 7, handles the kids at home with their homework etc.

Then what are you doing at 7? What are you cleaning at 9? Why does it take 2 hours? It seems like you guys have time but are not using it well.

At 7pm I’m driving a kid to an activity; spouse is handling the REMAINING kids.

We make dinner from scratch every night, so I load the dishwasher, wash remaining dishes by hand, wash counters, sweep and mop before bed. Usually there’s some other chore like laundry or such that is pressing.

Batch cook and do extra loads on laundry on the weekend. Run when your kids are their activities. Lift in the middle of the day. You have described *hours* of driving per day for your children. You guys are causing your own schedule mayhem.

So you have a home gym? We don’t have space for that. I have a few barbells and so life them during conferences calls on WFH.

There are carpools for our activities.

You don’t need a few barbells. You need a barbell where you can add plates. If you have room for a few barbells, you have room for plates.

Well if you have carpool, why are still driving to activities every night?

Typo. There are NO carpools.

Dumbbell not barbell.

Wow I am hopeless sorry.

Have you see those weight organizers on Amazon? They keep dumbbells neat and tidy so your weights don’t take up much space at all.

[Anonymous]

I aim to be asleep by 10, up at 5 for 5:30 gym class.