Fit parents with kids - when do you find time to work out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a toddler and we both work full-time. I’m finding it very hard to carve out time to workout.

Toddler is up by 630am, we are starting work at 8am.
Done with work at 5, dinner at 615, bedtime routine, kid down by 730pm.

I can’t workout after eating a meal. So basically my night is shot because we eat dinner at 615-630pm. Are you skipping dinner and eating later after you work out?

Please let me know how you fit it into the day! Are you getting up at 5am? If so, what time do you go to bed?

I'll add... it's irrelevant when we work out. You need to examine your schedule. It looks like you have time at 530am, over lunch, and then from 5-630pm. If you use a crockpot to make dinner (or stick to cold items like salad, or premake a casserole to bake, or order out, or tell your husband he's the cook now) you will have plenty of time after work.

[Anonymous]

Gaming? Is the husband a 14 year old?

I would never conceive a child with a grown man who plays video games. Put a book in his hands and teach him to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gaming? Is the husband a 14 year old?

I would never conceive a child with a grown man who plays video games. Put a book in his hands and teach him to read.

+1

[Anonymous]

You got 30 minutes? You got time to exercise.

Change it up each day.

Mon -- 30 mins yoga
Tues - 30 min power walk -- fast enough to be breathless
Wed - 30 min dumbbells in your bathroom mirror
Thurs -- 30 mins Pilates

---you get the idea. Now get off your *ss.

[Anonymous]

I work from home and often do 20-30 minutes on my rowing machine while dialed into a big meeting/ townhall/ training where I don’t have to talk and it’s acceptable to have cameras off. It honestly helps me concentrate too. Then I wander down and take a shower whenever there is a break in my schedule. I work in tech so it’s not like people are expecting me to be dressed nicely on my zoom calls.

[Anonymous]

I get up at 5:30 on week days and do an hour of cardio and shower before the kids get up. If I need to sleep later because I went to bed later, I’ll do 30 minutes of a HIIT workout. I am not a morning person and never have been, but it’s much better for my overall well-being to know my workout is done for the day, as opposed to having it get derailed or delayed later.

[Anonymous]

I was never consistent until getting a peloton bike a year ago. Now I get everything ready (water bottle, weights, mat, whatever)....then I start Daniel Tiger for my 2.5 year old and hop on for 30-45 minutes.

I have 3 possible times in the day that I can try to exercise--right when we wake up and before we all have to get ready for the day (tough because I'm not a morning person), while dinner is cooking (if I leave it til then, dinner has to be something that can bake or my husband is cooking) or after we put them to bed although this is usually my husband's turn to work out. If I can't fit in the bike that day, I'll do a 10-20 minute strength work out (pilates, barre, bodyweight etc).

Anyways, it's become worthwhile to squeeze it in because I just feel way better energy and mood-wise. I'm now doing it 5-6 days a week and having the bike at home means the entire time is spent working out with an instructor (and not traveling back and forth somewhere or me trying to make up some crappy workout that doesn't get a result). Super efficient!

[Anonymous]

summertime: run before or after work every other day. off running days, I do weights/core before kids wake up in bedroom. Hubby and I switch off working out and make it a priority. now that the weather is cooler looking forward to working out during lunchtime. I also take my kids biking and run alongside them. or if we're at the pool, once parent will watch kids and the other will lap swim.

[Anonymous]

We use gym childcare at the YMCA. Live in Philly now, and my gym is new and clean. My toddler loves it. I am also a member of LA fitness. We both do personal training once a week. I am a stay-at-home mom, and DH works mainly from home now. We prefer evenings during the week and weekends. Find a gym with Saturday and Sunday childcare. You could also trade off morning yoga classes. I would figure out a way to work out at home if I worked outside of the house. It seems like it would be easier. Maybe a virtual class for now?

[Anonymous]

Workouts are 20-30mins during the weekday before dinner on an empty stomach. Just eat healthy and put the work in over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Workouts are 20-30mins during the weekday before dinner on an empty stomach. Just eat healthy and put the work in over time.

A 20 minute rushed workout isn’t really “the work”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gaming? Is the husband a 14 year old?

I would never conceive a child with a grown man who plays video games. Put a book in his hands and teach him to read.

To think, you really think we'd consider conceiving a child with you. F get over yourself and let us play Madden. When my boys old enough, I'll teach him too.

[Anonymous]

When my kids were your kids' ages, I also worked out at lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Workouts are 20-30mins during the weekday before dinner on an empty stomach. Just eat healthy and put the work in over time.

A 20 minute rushed workout isn’t really “the work”

Ignore stuff like this, OP. It makes the perfect the enemy of the good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Workouts are 20-30mins during the weekday before dinner on an empty stomach. Just eat healthy and put the work in over time.

A 20 minute rushed workout isn’t really “the work”

Ignore stuff like this, OP. It makes the perfect the enemy of the good.

+1 A 20 minute HIIT or weights workout is not nothing. Far from it.