WHENNN do you have time to workout?

I dont even have kids yet and i feel there arent enough hours in the day.

Commute 1 and 1/2hrs, work 8-9 hrs, commute back another 1 and 1/2, eat, get ready for next day, and then try to fit in 999 errands/chores (we just bought our fiirst house, so there is always plenty of projects going on) I just feel exhausted after this, and if I DO have free time, i rather veg on the couch. Bad habits I KNOW, so i REALLY need to break this routine and fit in ME time, how does everyone fit in their me time??

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Can you go to the gym on your lunch break? Or if not the gym just a long brisk walk?

Hey-if you can only go to the gym on the weekends it's still better than not going at all.

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What time do you get home from work?

I get home at 6:30 and we immediately go to the gym. (Sometimes we eat first if we are hungry). Otherwise we eat after the gym, shower and by 9:30/10 we watch tv or hang out. It definitely takes a lot of dedication and motivation but once you get into the routine, it just becomes 2nd nature.

Also some nights I do a workout video at home when I am feeling lazy. Or walking during lunch break is great too!

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I have about a 75 minute commute and workout 6 days a week.. most of it at the gym at work. I take the train in in my workout clothes, go right to the gym, shower, and go right ot my office. It's become such a part of my routine, it would feel weird NOT to do it now!

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I usually go in the morning before school but now that it is getting nicer out I will hold out on my runs for the afternoon when it is nicer out.

Bottom line is everyone is busy but you need to take that time out for yourself. The only way to make this a habit and stick to it is to make yourself a priority and schedule YOURSELF into your days.

Do you watch tv at night? Could you fit in some workouts while watching tv and perhaps go to the gym on the weekends?

Message edited 3/25/2009 5:07:50 PM.

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I go right after work. Like you I have a long commute and I work about 7-8 hours. I go to a gym by my work and I go after work. I feel so much better when I go and I learned to love exercise. Sometimes I take a break because my body tells me so.

If I bring my gym bag to work, I find that motivates me.

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We bought a treadmill a few months back and I find that I work out more now at home then I did having to go somewhere. DH usually has dinner ready by the time I get home so we eat, I'll do chores or errands and then I'm home and on the treadmill. On days that I have nothing going on, I hit Curves for 30 min.

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It's true it's often so hard to make time with everything else going on. I try to make it a top priority, I fit it in around 4 times a week & definitely wish I could do more.

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Same for me. I just have decided to make working out a priority in my life and go on the same days pretty much each week and it has become a routine.

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I have 3 kids and I watch my 2 nephew 10 hours a day so as soon as they get picked up and DH gets home I leave for a run........I have to do it then because that is the only time I have

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before I had kids, I was up at 4 to go to the gym and workout...it always felt good to know I had exercised already...I could still leave by 6-6:30, but I was alseep by 9:30/10


now, I run after work...but that's all I'm doing...I ry to fit in some push-ups, but I should be doing more.

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I work out everyday after work..sat and sun are my days off