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How do you fit in the time to get fit as well?

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Starbear · 30/01/2011 11:01

I really try hard to keep my house in some sort of order (not including the ironing!)
Went for a run on Friday for the frist time in ages but have hip problems so that can't be the only exercise I do? Please lets me how you work part-time, look after the house and kids plus get some time to exercise?
Any tip welcomes.
I know the number one tip is to stop going on the internet but hey!

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Starbear · 03/02/2011 19:14

OFM I'm trying. I think I'm going to give up flying it seems to put Housework far too high on my list! I have hip joint problems when I run so I have to take it easy with the running until the tablets kick in.

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bacon · 03/02/2011 21:53

I find that excercising so late in the night...over stimulates me...I cant get to sleep and the next day feel ruddy awful. I'd have to run around a very hilly field in the dark dodging every frozen molehill!

DH dont get in till 7ish and sometimes has to go back out to prepare machines for the next day too.

Probably when DS2 is in school then no excuse for me. When I have free time I'm either sorting out urgent paperwork - doing risk assessments & method statements late. Planning for the next day.My so called free day today was taken up with the accountants visit, new cleaner and helping OH with cattle.

Honestly, the time I sit down, I have to spend a little time with the children too.

I will go back to the lunchtime swim once a week, doing the leisure centre that provides a creche facility and one night I reckon I'll be able to do a class 7-8pm.

Starbear - what about the weekends? Do you have time then, Partner or family to babysit? Most LC have loads of morning programmes.

onepieceoflollipop · 03/02/2011 21:57

I am very very lucky in that our local school has a pool and it is literally 2 minutes walk from the house.

I go to aquafit once a week. Put cossie on at home, leave at 19.40, in pool at 19.45 and out of pool at 20.30. Showered dressed and home by 20.40/45.

Plenty of time for mnet after!

I don't do "proper" housework in the evenings, just kitchen clearing etc so dh can do that or I do it when I get home.

Also I eat at lunchtime (main meal) some days which does free up the evenings a bit.

I know I should do more, but realistically I am enjoying that and it is early days yet.

Also dh and I (unless temp is well below freezing or there is torrential rain) take dcs to the park pretty much every weekend. We have a decent half hour walk before we go to the swings.

onepieceoflollipop · 03/02/2011 21:59

Also when my youngest dc goes to school in September I will have two days "spare" and may well join local hotel for gym as it has a fab pool too.

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Starbear · 04/02/2011 09:30

Off too the gym now
bacon Good idea while Ds is at saturday Beavers instead of reading the papers and having a latte I'll go for a run.
Right I'm off now

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bessie26 · 04/02/2011 12:29

I used to like going for a run first thing, just roll out of bed into kit & you're half way round before you've woken up!
DH is "booked" to be home by 730 on Mon & 630 on weds so I can goto classes. Also do yoga at 9am on Sat so I have early breakfast at 7am, and he & DD have leisurely brekkie while I'm out.

not1not2 · 04/02/2011 13:10

was wondering this too
but how you get childcare to get out of the house?

notcitrus · 04/02/2011 13:22

My local leisure centre closed down but the one a short bus ride away has a creche on weekdays from 9.30-11.30.
So on one of my days off I get on the first cheap bus at 9.30, ds goes to creche at 10 and I get an hour to swim and have a SHOWER ALL BY MYSELF!

Do look into creches at leisure centres as sometimes now ds is by himself with the crecheworker and I don't want them to close it for lack of use!

I did Buggyfit classes when ds was younger.

I'd like to do more exercise but have childcare issue and don't want to go running in the dark.Will look into the Shred.

eastegg · 04/02/2011 13:29

I don't find extra time, I just walk absolutely loads, both with DS and as part of my normal life when working which involves a lot of public transport. I think if you have to find extra time for it which you don't think you've got, it's not going to work.

pinkcushion · 04/02/2011 13:33

I go for a run after I drop the kids off at school - it's gets it out of the way. During school holidays it's trickier, dh is home pretty late but I fit it in where I can.

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Starbear · 04/02/2011 14:42

eastegg I have a trolly so I do most of my shopping with that and walk a lot. I rarely use the car as all my public transport costs are paid my job. Have just changed posts from an outdoor post to an office based one so it really has hit me. I also find that since DS has been at school I find a long list of things to do at home. So right now I should be in the loft sorting stuff out for a Church table top sale. I have been to the gym today and did a short run outside. Will build up to more slowly.
I'm also 48 years and I think the middle age spread is harder to shift once put on!
must look at my diet too! Right off I go into the loft before picking up Ds

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thornykate · 06/02/2011 19:34

I used to do the 6am gym thing too & I loved it but DP is away most of the time now.

At my last job there was a gym which was great. Now I have joined a gym where the kids can come too, there is a family workout area which is a Godsend in winter as the kids have somewhere to run about & play to let off steam & I can keep an eye on them from the crosstrainer or treadmill. I was loathe to take them at 1st as the gym is my only me time but it was take them or dont train & now I am glad I did.

DC4 is due in May & training has slipped a bit but I have bought a 2nd hand lateral thigh trainer from flea bay which I hope to use at home as well as the gym to help shift the baby weight..there is plenty of it this time!

TheGoddessBlossom · 06/02/2011 19:44

I work full time.

Thank god i have the type of job that if I have my Blackberry with me, could be pretty much anywhere so as long as I am prepared to jump off the treadmill to take a call from my boss and pretend I am not huffing and puffing and string a sensible sentence together (which I am) I can go to the gym on the days I am not seeing clients.

If I had a 9-5 office job (which I used to) I would swim at lunchtimes. Could drive to pool swim with makeup on etc, do 40 lengths, shower, redo face, and be back at desk in 60 minutes flat. Do that 3 times a week and you are sorted.

I do not and could not exercise in the evenings.

Mind you I do have a cleaner....and DH does all the cooking....

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rexrabbit · 06/02/2011 19:52

I have a friend who drives his son to nursery and then drives half way back home and then cycles (remembers to put bike on bike carrier on back of car first) or runs home. Then he HAS to run/cycle backto teh car to pick him up, rain or shine. He has lost so much weight since he started doing this and looks amazingly healthy. Am inspired to do same once youngest starts school

not1not2 · 07/02/2011 00:44

thornykate am impressed with a gym that allows 3dcs to romp while you run
rex I allready walk everywhere

giggly · 07/02/2011 23:41

I went back to work 3 days a week and joined curves as I can do that in my lunch break. I have only missed a few when I have been late leaving work. Can do the 30 minutes shower and be back at my desk in an hour. Hair usually still damp and face a lovely glowing red. Dh works shifts so any other time is no use.

littledolly · 08/02/2011 13:44

For those of you who go out running in the mornings, can I ask where you run?? I get up at 6am to go to work, but wouldn't mind getting up a bit earlier for a run, but I am worried about being out on my own at that time of the morning, with nobody else around.

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