I have a 3yo and an 8 week old. I can't seem to find time! I nursed the baby at 4am then set my alarm for 6:45 so I could exercise then shower before everyone work up, but the baby woke back up at 6:30!
When do you find time?
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At lunch; but the only reason I can do that is my company has a gym on campus for us to use. I am not a morning person at all so mornings don't work, and although I used to work out at home in the evening, it was always so hard to fit it into the schedule. It is really hard to find a time and stick with it
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Uhh never... I actually do have time after LO goes to bed but by then I'm so exhausted that I usually fall asleep! I know if i would exercise I would have more energy but it's hard!
Can you do it while dhs home so he can watch the kids?
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Before I got pregnant I did a 30 minute video during lo's morning nap. Now that he isn't napping in the morning anymore, i put him in his room for 30-45 minutes of independent play time and I could do it then. I seriously doubt this will work with an 8 week old though. My plan for once baby 2 is here is to head to the gym every day...the childcare is included and I will have time to work out and shower while they play in the nursery. But honestly, I feel like the newborn days are survival. I did a lot of long walks with the stroller and I considered that exercise in the beginning (and now at 22 weeks pregnant!)
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Hahahahahah.....
Well, now that I'm back at work, I really need to make an effort to find time. I think I will probably start doing something as soon as K goes to bed, or maybe on my way home from work.
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Now that i'm done pumping at work and i can actually take my lunch break i'm going to start this week walking at lunch with a group from my office
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luckily we have a small gym at work so i can go during the day. emphasis on "can go", not "actually go". otherwise i would probably wait until after LO is asleep. however in your situation, i would probably let exercise slide for...a few years!
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After LO is in bed. While on maternity leave I did it during her afternoon nap and that was a lot easier. I'm just so tired after I get home from work! I would have to wake up ridiculously early to exercise and shower before work so that's not happening.
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It's so hard! I set my alarm to go to the gym this morning, but LO woke up before it went off, and he wanted ONLY me
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Up until our LO was about 5 months old, we just did daily walk/runs either right before or after dinner. Time for anything else and a 6:30 p.m. bedtime for him meant no other options! When he got a bit older, we joined a gym that offered daycare and I can squeeze in about 30 minutes here and there during the week.
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If it doesn't happen in the morning, it doesn't happen. That works well for us right now as we only have one LO who is 2.5 and a great sleeper. I imagine it will be a whole lot different when LO #2 arrives next spring.
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I go right after work. DH picks up E from daycare and gets some one-on-one time with her (he goes to work at 6am so i have mornings) so i go right after work. On weekends, I go during her nap. I would loooove to do mornings but I really can't do anything except the elliptical in the basement. I have gone in the AM before, but i have to be at the gym at 4:45 so i can be home by 5:30.
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I don't'! I haven't figured out when yet. DS1 is 2 and DS2 is 5 months. I also WOH. I am not a morning person so getting up to work out is next to impossible. Plus the kids wake up at varying times. I already take a 30 minute lunch to leave work half an hour earlier to miss traffic. Then I'm exhausted in the evening and honestly just want to hang out with my family.
I have at least 15 pounds of baby weight left to lose. And I think the 2nd time is harder!
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Before work at 5am, or after work or the LO's bedtime.
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I don't. At this stage in life with twins it just isn't happening. And I've come to terms with it and don't feel guilty. One day, hopefully, I'll be able to again.
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I try to run 2-3 times during the week at lunch, and then 1-2x on weekend while DH is with LO. When we move we will have a gym onsite, so I may start doing some workouts after 8pm bedtime.
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I don't. Lo just started daycare earlier this month so I could go, but she's only there part time and I need the time for working on my dissertation. I'm too zonked after she goes to sleep, and weekends have been too busy to fit it in either, tbh, this is something I'm really resentful of dh about-- he goes to the gym like 4-5x/week and doesn't feel guilty about it, even though I could really use that time if he watched lo for me instead...I know it's important for him to take care of himself but what about me?
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I plan on going to 5:45am classes when LO gets home. Then I can get home, jump in the shower and "switch off" with DH when he leaves for work at 7
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I am a SAHM so I go every day and take B to the kids club. He loves it. It's a win-win!!
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The only good, scheduled time, for me to work out is at lunch at work. Except that we don't have a gym facility. The closest one is only a few blocks away but their lunch hour programs are really expensive and usually run from 12:00 - 1:00 exactly and that means I would have to leave 10 minutes early and arrive back here 10 minutes late, and that just wouldn't fly with our bosses.
I'm really struggling with this right now. I'm feeling pretty badly about myself and I think finding a time to work out would really help.
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It's really difficult right now, I had been going to the gym at work, but they've since closed the one in my primary location. I can't get up any earlier than I already do, so the only option might be to leave work an hour earlier and possibly do it then, I don't really know.
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I don't. I hope to get a gym membership soon that has childcare and then I will go around 5 for an hour or so. Mom guilt gets the best of me to have her in daycare all day and then the gym daycare, too but I need to do it for myself. And it won't be everyday (probably 3 weeknights and one time on the weekend). When I did the 30DS, I could squeeze it in after bedtime if she went to sleep early enough.
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What is this thing you call "working out?" Sigh...it is bad, and I only see it getting worse when LO2 gets here, I need too figure out time without taking time away from my kids. I have such limited time with them the way it is.
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With just one we usually take a walk together in the am if we don't have any out of the house activities & then I usually try to strength train or do yoga during her afternoon nap. I may join a gym & drop the kids off at the daycare area when DD2 arrives.
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I usually put my LO in the jogging stroller and run with him while he takes a nap.
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When LO was a baby, I'd strap him into a carrier and go for a long walk. Now (age 4) we do whatever I want to do, but we do it together. We go swimming, do yoga videos (a 4yo doing yoga is pretty amusing!), and take lots of walks/hikes that I make more fun by adding 'challenges' like running up the hill and skipping down or trying to climb a tree or find a particular type of bird/bug.
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@yellowbird: ideally, I would. He gets home around 5:30 and we don't stop moving until we collapse at 11! Well, I. He stays up until 1 and I just can't do that!
Between dinner, dishes, regular house hold clean ups, errands, nursing the baby, bath time, bedtime.... Ugh. I swear the clock moves faster the second he steps through the door. Most nights I'm like, "oh my god! It's 9:30! Why isn't Chloe in bed?!" and we both thought it was like, 7.
Gah!
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I have a gym on site at work, so I work out at lunch or right after work. But if I didn't have that I'm not sure where I'd find the time!
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With only one LO it was a lot easier to squeeze in exercise sooner, I think I got back to it around 4 months pp, and could only do it in the early mornings or after we put her down around 7 pm.
With 2 LO's, sleep trumped exercise for me for the longest time! I don't think I really started to focus on exercise again until LO 2 was weaned around 14-15 months pp. =/ Probably not the answer you're looking for! These days I'll wake up early (5:30 am) if I want to exercise, or I'll do yoga over my lunch break on the days I WFH. It's really hard for me to squeeze in exercise at night bc LO 1 has a 9-10 pm bedtime these days.
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I haven't worked out in ages. I just can't commit myself to a gym or anything like that. We do go for a 30-45 minute family walk after dinner each night so I do get some exercise. That'll have to do for now. Once it gets colder I might have to move that walk into the mall!
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I haven't done this myself (yet) but something I like the idea of is "squeezing in 10 minutes a few times a day." Basically, you can find 10 minutes during a nap or even during independent play time (i.e. baby's kicking around the activity gym or pack n' play) when you can do quick sets of weights or run on the treadmill/elliptical or do a set of planks, a few times a day. Over the course of the day, you get in your workout.
I have an elliptical in the garage that we can move into the house or I guess I can put the baby in the rock n' play and bring him into the garage for a few minutes and just do a high impact tabata-style 8-minute sprint. Then at the next nap, do another set of sprints. Then shower. Later in the day, fit in set of weights with my kettlebell or do some sit ups on the exercise ball - something that wont make me too sweaty. And then try to fit in a stroller walk or do a short workout with your toddler later in the day (like jumping jacks, jumping rope, living room dance party, etc). If you can add up to 30-40 minutes over the course of the day, you are getting in your workout!
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