When do you find time to workout?
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Anonymous
No, it’s not the worst advice ever. I think it’s kind and encouraging. Perhaps you forget what it’s like the early days when you work full time, have a toddler and a new baby who is not STTN. You barely have enough sleep and energy to function and you just want to get through the day. |
Anonymous
Who is we? Yes, I feel totally comfortable leaving a middle school and some upper ES kids sleeping alone in their beds on a weekend. I do appreciate your “concern”. |
Anonymous
How is this advice helpful to a mom with a 5 month old at home? |
Anonymous
I did know a French woman who told me that I should leave my infant at home alone so I could go for a run. |
Anonymous
DP, but it sounds like the OP has a husband or partner. Assuming s/he doesn't work on the weekends, 6:30am classes are an option. |
Anonymous
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During the week: I walk or jog around the neighborhood in almost any weather for 30 minutes at 5am. Then I do weights in front of my bedroom or bathroom mirror for 15 minutes. There is no time for messing with going to a gym. By the time i got ready and got there I could have worked out already at home/around the neighborhood.
On both Saturday and Sunday I go to yoga classes. I am in bed at 8:30pm, up at 4"50am. I feel gross if I do not work out, and I end up eating junk food. It's worth it every single day. I feel and look great. |
Anonymous
| I didn’t start working out again until my kids slept through the night. Now I workout right when they go down, at 7pm. I put them to bed, come downstairs and workout in the living room. I miss my gym membership, I like taking classes but it just doesn’t work right now. |
Anonymous
Another +1 for kids realizing that your workout is a priority. During the week we work out in the morning, but on Saturdays the kids come with us to the gym and color or read books while we work out. When we're done we do a workout for them. We make it clear that it's important for us and our health and we like working out together so it's something we all do. They actually enjoy it for now, and that may change but we'll keep making sure it gets done. |
Anonymous
Well- I hope it’s helpful to remember that motherhood is constant change. I did it differently as a married mom to one or two, and now have adjusted to three and single life yet still get it in daily. I’ve done marathons, 5 am classes, 8 pm classes, had peloton, yoga online etc. play with it till you find what works for your fitness and your phase. Along the way try not to be an asshole or get angry about how other people answer questions on a massage board. You’ll go far! |
Anonymous
I'm the poster with the original advice to hold off on a formal exercise program. I never said to never start a program or your workout days are over as a new mom. Just that it's ok to not stick to a rigid routine before your baby is STTN. I know this because I tried to start getting back into my old routine way too early, when I still was only getting 2-3 hours of consecutive sleep per night, while also working full time and pumping. It really only made me miserable and deprived me of some much-needed sleep. Once my baby started STTN at around 7 months, I got back into it and now work out 4 days a week and am in better shape than ever. You might have had a different experience, which is fine, but in my experience it's ok to be forgiving to yourself when you are maxed out on everything else. |
Anonymous
| NP here. I’m trying to figure out this as well. For those who workout in there evening, I assume you do this right after dinner? I’ve never been one to work out on a full stomach which is why I have trouble working out at night even tho my child is in bed by 7:30. I’ll probably stick with mornings as painful as it is to get up so early but just curious. |
Anonymous
I SAH so I work out during nap time usually, but on the rare occasion that plan did not pan out and I decided I would work out once DH got home, I will eat dinner on the earlier side (and nothing heavy) and then I feel okay working out about an hour or so later (I'm one of the PP peloton posters). DH will either do bedtime that night, or I'll get on the bike after bedtime (7/7:30). |
Anonymous
DH is an evening only exerciser. We eat dinner around 6:30. DS goes to bed around 8 and DH gets on the exercise machine around 9 or 9:30 or sometimes later in the evening after working or watching TV. I can’t do that - by 9pm I’m exhausted and working out would amp me up right before bed I think. |
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Beachbody on demand. It is the only way DH and I are both able to work out and some of the programs are excellent (try 21 day fix for post baby). We squeeze workouts in during the kids' naps, or after they go to bed. We work out more consistently now than we ever did when we belonged to a gym.
Also, go easy on yourself - I am also up several times a night with our 7 month old, and some days I just feel like my body needs rest more than a workout. Don't feel bad. |
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One thing to be careful of is making sure that you start it slow with working out after having a baby. 5 months is still pretty young, so best thing to do, that worked for me, was roll out of bed and do strengthening exercises on the floor in my nightsuit. Sounds weird but it was the fastest/easiest thing to do.
Buy a Peakeep alarm, because its analog, you won't waste time on your phone, and the alarm isn't loud enough to wake kids. |