What time do you work out as a parent?
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Anonymous
| I work FT, mostly outside of the home, and I do 95 percent of home/kid stuff. 530 or 6 am I can squeeze in a workout. I have to get the kids up at 630 because elementary starts early and I have to drive them there. Evenings are harder to make work, but if I have dinner made in advance, I can workout from 530-6 right before dinner. I have a treadmill and elliptical at home. Honestly lack of time to get in a good solid workout is the part of being a working mom I struggle with the most. Before kids I ran a lot of long distance races and lifted weights. |
Anonymous
| ^PP above, I plant my kids in front of TV for 30 minutes if I work out in evenings. |
Anonymous
| 5 am run full time job and 5 children |
Anonymous
| I work full time and I’m in the office 4 or 5 days a week. I work out after my kids are in bed. They’re little, so bedtime is around 7:30. 30 minutes of Peloton bike or weights, 4 or 5 days a week. We have everything I need in our basement. I really miss in-person classes, but this routine is working for this season of life. |
Anonymous
| 10pm after kids are in bed, kitchen is clean, lingering work questions answered. |
Anonymous
| Full time work outside the home, work out at 5 am at home before anyone else gets up. If I try to wait and work out after work, there's always too many things that come up. Getting up early is specifically for working out, so nothing interferes with that except occasional travel or other random things. |
Anonymous
Do you have a hard time falling asleep when you work out this late? |
Anonymous
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Work hybrid, two days in the office per week. I bike to the office (8 miles) instead of taking the metro when it isn’t rainy or below freezing. Commute time is roughly the same. I go to a weightlifting class at my office gym 1x/week at noon. I do a one on one personal training session on my other in office day, usually in the morning before 11. I’m blatantly open about doing these things during the workday - like I show up to work in my gym clothes and stay in them until after I go to the gym, my gym times are visible on my calendar and I explicitly tell everyone (the people who report to me and my supervisors two levels up) they need to schedule around my gym times. If someone wants to meet with me during my gym time, I protect that time and tell them I’m not available.
I also have a membership at the yoga studio near my house, which offers yoga, pilates, strength training, and stretch classes. I aim to take 2 classes there a week to make it worth the monthly fee but that doesn’t always happen. Those classes get spread out all over the place, based on when I can squeeze them in. I often go in the evening or weekend afternoons while my daughter is napping. On weekends, I often go on bike rides with my husband and daughter, and sometimes we go swimming at the pool together. Generally I aim for 3 strength sessions a week (2 at work, 1 at the yoga studio) and yoga 2x/week. The bike rides are more for joy than exercise, so I try to do them as much as possible. |
Anonymous
Yes damn |
Anonymous
| At lunch on my WFH days, after work the rest of the time- we pay for an hour more nanny coverage than we need to give me some breathing room. |
Anonymous
| As soon as I drop off the youngest at school. |
Anonymous
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I really really want to become a morning exerciser. I have a lot of trouble getting up and going even if DH deals with the kids. Like, I could very easily work out at home 7-8 am, shower and make it to work on time. I always think I'll work out evening but between driving kids and getting dinner on the table and usually being hungry I dont.
so now I work out on weekends and the days that I can work from home I get it in around 10 am, or whenever I can take an hour break. The issue I have is that I often have a really hard time sleeping, usually only getting between about midnight/1 am to 6:45, I try a lot of things to change my circadian rhythm. Lights out by 10:30, no blue light, no caffeine after noon, etc. How do I make myself tired at night and energetic in the morning????? |
Anonymous
| Work full time, in office 2-3 times a week, 3 kids in preschool and elementary. Bike to work when I go to office. When I work from home, I work out at 6:15 am in basement or walk outside. I have an hour then take over childcare at 7:15. Partner then works out until kids go to school. Decent routine, works for us. |
Anonymous
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I work full time, in office twice a week, 3 kids. I workout 6 times a week and do yoga on my off day. I wake up arnd 5 to get an hr workout in during the work week. Otherwise, I do strength training twice a week, run 3 times a week (20+ miles a week), and a dance class. My husband has a similar schedule and this has always been key - that we make sure each of us gets their workouts in. My work schedule is pretty flexible so I don’t have to workout in the mornings but I like getting it done first thing in the morning as well as the set schedule.
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Anonymous
| SAHM. 9-10 usually, sometimes 12-1. |