Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone saying the commute is long? My you guys are lucky. I commute from Vienna and it's easily 1 hr.

Spouse bought a stationary bike and uses it 15 min on nights he has tome. I am hoping to do a home dvd workout of 30 min few times a week but realize it is not a high priority for me, I value downtime too much.

Op, from your schedule you value downtime more than exercise time. If you really wanted to squeeze in exercise, you can do the NYT 7 minute workout.

I commute from Vienna to Tysons or Reston, depending on the day of the week. Ain't nobody with a family got time to commute roundtrip from Vienna to DC.

Vienna to Farragut is about 90 minutes by bike. A lot of time, but it will easily cover all exercise needs and then some.

Not upper body.

Anonymous wrote:
1:00 pm - 6pm - sit at desk
6:30 - 7:30 commute (sit in a car)
7:30 - 8:30 get groceries/dinner
8:30 arrive home
8:30 -9:00 get comfy
9:00 - 10:00 make dinner or eat take out
10:00 - 11:00 pm watch netflix/read/shower
11:00-midnight- read/sleep.

You need to be more efficient in your evenings. You should not need to shop for dinner every night. Shop on Sundays, prep some meals on Sunday night so that it is ready to go or close. For example, cut up meats and veggies and put them in ziploc or tupperware, and they are ready to stir fry. With the prep done, you can have stir fry in 10-15 minutes. Make rice ahead. Once cooked, you can re-steam rice by putting a wet paper towel into the container and microwaving for 2 minutes and the steam will reheat and soften the rice. So, dinner will be ready in 10 minutes. Make a lasagna and bake for 50-60% of the time. Come home put the lasagna in the oven and go up to get changed/get comfy, etc and come down 30 minutes later to lasagna. And so on.

Then you should have the extra hour daily that you list for get groceries/dinner to stop by a gym on the way home and get in 45 minutes or so of a workout.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone saying the commute is long? My you guys are lucky. I commute from Vienna and it's easily 1 hr.

Spouse bought a stationary bike and uses it 15 min on nights he has tome. I am hoping to do a home dvd workout of 30 min few times a week but realize it is not a high priority for me, I value downtime too much.

Op, from your schedule you value downtime more than exercise time. If you really wanted to squeeze in exercise, you can do the NYT 7 minute workout.

I commute from Vienna to Tysons or Reston, depending on the day of the week. Ain't nobody with a family got time to commute roundtrip from Vienna to DC.

Vienna to Farragut is about 90 minutes by bike. A lot of time, but it will easily cover all exercise needs and then some.

How do you smell and look once you arrive to work?

Anonymous wrote:I have a long commute too. Here's my typical routine on days I workout.

5:30-6:30 - wake up, shower, eat breakfast
6:30-7:30 - commute to work
7:30-4:30 - work
4:30-6:00 - commute home
6:00-7:00 - make dinner, eat, digest (ideally leftovers)
7:00-8:00 - workout, shower
8:00-10:00 - relax then sleep!

It's tough but manageable! I'd say wake up earlier, prepare meals ahead of time, and/or find a new job!

This is almost exactly my schedule, except my workout is usually at 8.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone saying the commute is long? My you guys are lucky. I commute from Vienna and it's easily 1 hr.

Spouse bought a stationary bike and uses it 15 min on nights he has tome. I am hoping to do a home dvd workout of 30 min few times a week but realize it is not a high priority for me, I value downtime too much.

Op, from your schedule you value downtime more than exercise time. If you really wanted to squeeze in exercise, you can do the NYT 7 minute workout.

I commute from Vienna to Tysons or Reston, depending on the day of the week. Ain't nobody with a family got time to commute roundtrip from Vienna to DC.

Vienna to Farragut is about 90 minutes by bike. A lot of time, but it will easily cover all exercise needs and then some.

I bike commute a couple of days a week, thereby combining commute time with exercise. But I guess OP has a longer commute (my bike commute is about 50 minutes, roughly equivalent to my metro commute, by car it would be under 30 minutes but I hate driving, don't want to pay to park)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:easy.. i workout at 5am 2-3 mornings a week. I also run or go to the gym on saturday and Sunday.

Weekdays when I workout:

4:30am alarm goes off
4:45am leave the house

5am workout, Orangetheory or regular gym
6:15am arrive home..on days i don't workout I get up at this time and I am in chagrge of getting my kids up, fed and out the door.daycare drop off.
6:30-7:10 shower, get dressed, grab breakfast/lunch
7:10-7:45 commute
7:45-4pm work
4-5pm commute
5pm-8pm pick up kids, dinner, activities, bed, bath and all that.
8-9:30/10pm "my" time. Some nights i run for 30 min. it also often involves things like preparing dinner for the next night and other household chores, reading, watching some TV....

You go to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 4:30?? I cannot function on less than 8 hours.

yes, but that is only 2-3 days per week. If I do it 2 days in a row I am asleep really early, like 8:30 the second night.

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone saying the commute is long? My you guys are lucky. I commute from Vienna and it's easily 1 hr.

Spouse bought a stationary bike and uses it 15 min on nights he has tome. I am hoping to do a home dvd workout of 30 min few times a week but realize it is not a high priority for me, I value downtime too much.

Op, from your schedule you value downtime more than exercise time. If you really wanted to squeeze in exercise, you can do the NYT 7 minute workout.

I commute from Vienna to Tysons or Reston, depending on the day of the week. Ain't nobody with a family got time to commute roundtrip from Vienna to DC.

Anonymous wrote:easy.. i workout at 5am 2-3 mornings a week. I also run or go to the gym on saturday and Sunday.

Weekdays when I workout:

4:30am alarm goes off
4:45am leave the house

5am workout, Orangetheory or regular gym
6:15am arrive home..on days i don't workout I get up at this time and I am in chagrge of getting my kids up, fed and out the door.daycare drop off.
6:30-7:10 shower, get dressed, grab breakfast/lunch
7:10-7:45 commute
7:45-4pm work
4-5pm commute
5pm-8pm pick up kids, dinner, activities, bed, bath and all that.
8-9:30/10pm "my" time. Some nights i run for 30 min. it also often involves things like preparing dinner for the next night and other household chores, reading, watching some TV....

You go to sleep at 10pm and wake up at 4:30?? I cannot function on less than 8 hours.

OP doesn't appear to have kids. No one feeds children at 9 or 10 pm, at least in this country. She has no time because she makes no time for working out. She also hasn't come back to the thread.

easy.. i workout at 5am 2-3 mornings a week. I also run or go to the gym on saturday and Sunday.

Weekdays when I workout:

4:30am alarm goes off
4:45am leave the house

5am workout, Orangetheory or regular gym
6:15am arrive home..on days i don't workout I get up at this time and I am in chagrge of getting my kids up, fed and out the door.daycare drop off.
6:30-7:10 shower, get dressed, grab breakfast/lunch
7:10-7:45 commute
7:45-4pm work
4-5pm commute
5pm-8pm pick up kids, dinner, activities, bed, bath and all that.
8-9:30/10pm "my" time. Some nights i run for 30 min. it also often involves things like preparing dinner for the next night and other household chores, reading, watching some TV....

I wake up at 5am and only take a 30 minute lunch break, instead of a one hour break, so I can get home sooner. I buy groceries on weekends, not during the week, and prep.

I can't believe you spend over two hours a DAY doing dinner.

I don't watch television to fit in my exercise. Go to bed earlier and get up at 5am.

Anonymous wrote:The problem is your commute! Move to DC and walk to work. You'll save yourself hours each day and your exercise will be built into your commute.

The problem is not the commute. Plenty of us commute an hour and still have time to work, exercise, and care for children. The problem is that everything else in the evening takes too long. If you compress the process of getting food to 30 minutes and eliminate the unnecessary 30 minutes of winding down, there's an hour right there, and you still have a lot of dawdling time.

The problem is your commute! Move to DC and walk to work. You'll save yourself hours each day and your exercise will be built into your commute.