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[quote=Anonymous]A lot depends on your work flexibility, e.g. ability to WFH at least a few hours per day (if not full-time), to count commute as work time (if on conference calls, emailing on metro, etc.). We also have employers worry about us getting our jobs done, not obsessing over exact clock hours, so some days we only put in 6-7 hours total, other days might be as many as 11-12... and occasionally might make up a few hours on the weekend if there's a crunch (I'd estimate this happens about once a month).

7a-830a - family breakfast, chores, off to school
830a-3p - Core 6 hours of work (w/ 30 min lunch)
3p-5p - Typically one parent continues working while the other picks up kids, takes to extracurriculars, supervises homework, etc.
5-8p - Family time with dinner, extracurriculars/homework, showers, etc.
8p-11p - Typically one parent handles bedtime routines, the other goes back to work for a git. The other might go back to work post-bedtimes if needed. We often watch a show together.

So where's the workout? Sometimes in the 3-5p window the non-school-pickup parent works out if their work schedule is light that day. Sometimes one parent works out in the 8-11p window. Sometimes during the kids' extracurricular activities (e.g. music lessons are 30 mins long, so not worth driving back/forth, so just take a 25 minute run around that neighborhood during the lesson). Occasionally I fall asleep while putting the kids to bed around 9p and am thus naturally awake before 7a and have time to do a workout then.

I know some folks need a routine of when they work out daily, but I find just having an accountability chart where I can check off daily that I did my workout works better. I have that flexibility to get it done early, but if I can't or I miss because something came up or whatever, there's still time to fit it in later. If I try to make it a routine where I _always_ do it in the morning or at lunch time or whatever, then I find once things come up that throw off the schedule it just falls by the wayside... better to plan for flexibility from the get-go (but couple that with the nightly accountability of tracking that you DID in fact get it done... and if you didn't you still have an hour or two at night to hop on treadmill/bike or lift some weights or do flexibility work or whatever your routine is.[/quote]

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