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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you worked out, you wouldn't be so tired. Work out during your lunch hour. [/quote]

How do you have time to workout, shower and eat in an hour?[/quote]

Change/Workout for 40 minutes. Shower/Change for 15 minutes. Walk to and from your office - 5 minutes. Eat the lunch you packed at your desk before or after workout (depending on the type of workout of course).

I am the one who asked your kids ages and your job logistics. Not sure I saw your answer. How/when you workout varies based on these things.[/quote]

NP here. I wish I had an hour lunch, but you can't change and do meaningful sweaty exercise in a 30 minute break. Maybe a 20 minute walk.

I have been getting away with lunch break workouts during WFH, since I can jump back online all sweaty and shower later, but 5-day RTO is in June and I'm just going to have to lose time with my kids in the early mornings or evenings to work out. In addition to the hour of commuting. Sigh. [/quote]

Not be as a**, but this is the attitude that keeps you from being fit. Since I can’t do what’s perfect, I will do nothing. [/quote]

Well you have to be sensible. A gym workout in just 30 minutes (including changing and showering) is not realistic at all. It’s not a plan. And yeah, it does suck to have to choose between basic fitness and spending time with your kids. Denying the tradeoff doesn’t help. [/quote]

Did you see the poster above who fit in a 25 minute gym workout? What’s wrong with 20 minute very fast treadmill or 20 minute lift on one body part?

Not my body, not my life, so I don’t care. I’m just posting back because I wouldn’t want OP to succumb to this kind of thinking.[/quote]

I don't do nothing. I'm reasonably fit as I currently do workouts in my 30 min lunch break working from home, or sometimes in the evening, and said a 20 minute walk is possible.

But there isn't a gym or shower in or near the office I'm going to. A substitute for "20 minutes fast treadmill" would be hill repeats for 20 minutes outdoors, but then there's the issue of returning to a desk in a shared office covered in sweat. The lunch break workout is an amazing way to fit it in the day IF you have the time and infrastructure, which my previous post was saying I'm going to MISS when I start work in this new location. 
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