...to ask how you fit exercise in?

[ChicagoBare]

I'm out the house from 8-6 (sometimes 7 or 8) five days a week for work. Now we're into the summer season I have about 2 weekends free per month when there's no wedding/hen/christening between now and October. I love exercise - weightlifting and running - but I just can't fit it in and it's making me feel bad.

See, I really wish I could be a morning person : up at dawn with the lark, a bracing jog or bike ride in the beautiful morning air, no one else around, home for a brew and porridge. I imagine you feel super invigorated and fresh.

But I can't get out of bed earlier! I'm up at 6.15 as it is

You have to make yourself do it. I'm out 7-5pm and I get up at 4.45am and go for a run three times a week before work. If you care that much or really want to do it then you will.

I agree with foxy We make time for priorities & what is important

I work 4 days, but one of those days is at home and finishes at 3 (when I pick up the kids from school). They have an activity 4-5, so while they're there, I'll try to fit in half an hour of weights or a run (I do weights at home using Fitness Blender or similar), then if I have time will try to fit in 10-15 mins of yoga to stretch. I try to go to an evening yoga class once a week on one of my longer days, when I get home about 6:30 (but this is rare - between us there are so many things on in the evening, it becomes harder to fit in).

I have Friday off, so make sure I get a full hour in at some point while the kids are at school, then over the weekend I'll do at least one thing (even if we're away for the weekend, I'll go to the hotel gym or go for a run or do some yoga).

It is about prioritising it over other things though.

I allow myself 10 minutes to think about exercise before I take my afternoon nap.
(She chips in, helpfully).

Sometimes I wake up earlier and slot half an hour in, other times I do it (if I can muster the energy) later in the day. I also walk a lot though.

I go out running from about 8.20 to 9pm.

I have a treadmill in my kitchen and aim to get on it at least once a day, if only for five minutes of walking. Five minutes usually turns into 30 or 40 mins, particularly if I'm cooking at the same time or something.

I am wondering the same. I get up at 6, in the office by about 7.30, home by about 7.30, put DD to bed, collapse on the sofa, go to bed about 9 with DP complaining we never see each other...

but I keep remembering a cartoon I saw where the dr is saying to the patient, "how does 24 hours a day of being dead fit into your busy schedule?" and thinking, god, I MUST do something about this!

I go three times a week from work but DS is 12 now and walks to his gran's after school on two of these occasions and DH is responsible for picking him up from there. I do the other two days while DH plays squash or cycles. Class start times are from 5pm to 8pm at my gym. We all do a long walk together at weekends. Excersise is important to us both so fortunately we will happily work around each other to try to fit it in.

Lunch break for 30 mins running, and definitely can find a 30-40 min slot on mostly both weekend days. Remember it doesn't need to take that long!

I do videos from fitness blender on youtube after DD bedtime and at the weekend DH and I take turns to go out and exercise.

Another member of the early morning club here I also have a pool at work but that is both incredibly lucky and unusual.

SamanthaBrique DH is on steroids so needs to exercise to try and keep his weight under control, so I don't mind that, and obviously the working late is out of his control, he has to take his turn.

It was easier when DS was younger, I'd stick him in his pushchair and go for a walk, and even last year when we'd stopped using the pushchair we'd go to toddler group and then go for a walk for an hour afterwards and he loved it, but he's not so keen now. Not that it was strenuous exercise, but it was at least moving around a bit more. Of course a brisk walk carrying DS would probably do the job, but I'm having health problems myself that mean that may be a bad idea!

I used to run at 6am but I just can't seem to drag myself away from my bed now

I try to walk the 3.5mi to and from work when the weather is nice. I also go to the gym either to swim or do a spinning class straight from work. If I went home first, I'd never go back out.

I do it once the kids are in bed if I'may going for a run or working out at home plus a couple of classes after work and on those days DH puts the kids to bed

I got to classes in the evenings while DH put kids to bed.