I have always been the type of person that works out in the afternoon/evening. It's just such a struggle in the morning! But a morning work out just fits into my life better so I'm trying to make the switch and it is brutal!
When do you work out?
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7-8 pm
I tried doing an 8:30am class on Saturday and it was painful
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At night after DS is down!
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@Mamaof2: I can definitely tell I'm not doing as well in the morning - it takes me so long to warm up and I'm just struggling to make it almost the entire time!
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I used to be a morning work-out person, but then I had a baby. Now I go for a run or to the gym as soon as she's asleep, but I don't know what I'll do come summer when my husband is travelling.
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I work out during nap time or after the kids go to bed
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Right now I don't aside from the occasional walk with the kids. I wish I had time but I just don't these days.
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Gym right after work, yoga classes in the evening.
It will be interesting what changes after we have a kid.
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IF I do it's evening.. I cannot physically get up any earlier than I have to
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Depends. Morning when DH is around on the weekends, during lunch or after work, or late night videos at home!
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We have a YMCA a block from work and I go over lunch when I can since I'm too busy outside work hours! After my fitness class, I usually eat lunch at my desk.
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@sandy: you forgot to put the option "never"
The last week I have been doing a few min after LO's bedtime. But I'm too tired to go to the gym or do more than a few min.
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At lunch. Our work has an on-site full gym with lunchtime classes.
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I'm really trying to make the switch to mornings too but I'm so slow to wake up - especially during the winter. Lately, 10-11am is working okay because I have time to drink my coffee in the morning but I get it done before B gets home from school so I still have time to help with homework, run errands and make dinner in the afternoon.
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Morning! It sucks but it's just easier to go while everyone is still asleep.
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I actually go right after work, but I'll go in the morning sometimes, too. Just not while pregnant
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My workout is rocking DS to sleep multiple times a day, lifting/carrying him loads, going out with him in the baby carrier...
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6 am before work, it's tough, but it's way better to get it over for me than to have to go after work.
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Right now in the evening, but once we get a gym set up in our house I'm going to aim for the mornings.
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I prefer going in the morning.
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Mid-morning, I take the boys to the Y for childcare once we are all up and have had breakfast. Usually between 9-11 we get around to it. Early morning might kill me and I'm beat by evening most of the time.
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Depends on day but usually morning.
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Never? Well, not since 2012, before I was pregnant. Yup, I admitted that online.
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5:45 am. Brutal.
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DH and I switch off gym nights, and I have one glorious work from home day where I can sneak out during lunch.
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lunchtime--my office building has a small but serviceable gym and they have classes during lunch hours. otherwise i would try to do it in the evenings, but that is hard because all i want to do is veg out after LO goes to sleep.
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After my kids go to bed, usually around 7. Sometimes I think it gives me too many endorphins to work it before bed though, so I'd like to do it earlier, but I don't really know when.
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Always morning. Getting up in the cold and dark sucks so hard, but I love the early burst of energy and feeling of being ready for the day ahead.
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I get up at 5:30 three mornings a week and do DVDs in my living room for 30 minutes. It is the only real time I can fit it in during the week.
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5:45am jazzercise during the week!
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I prefer morning... But it's hard! Last summer I commited to 5am classes 3x a week, and it actually was pretty awesome. But I can't get myself to do it again
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At night after DS goes to bed, because I usually shower at night anyway. I am not a morning person at all!
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I voted morning. I really just try to fit it in where I can but I think mornings before LO wakes up are the best option. He's a night owl so there's no way to do it after he goes down at night.
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Evening. My preferred routine is to do a workout video (currently prenatal pilates) after prepping dinner, while it is simmering or roasting or whatever. These days I'm also trying to work in some mid-day walks to get some diversity into my activity.
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I prefer mornings but that means I have to get up at 4:45 in order to be showered and ready to go plus get DS ready to leave the house at 7:00. Unfortunately DH leaves the house at 5am so he's no help
It hasn't been happening lately though because it's SO cold in the morning and I can't get motivated!
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I'll usually go during the day on my lunch break since my work allows me to do it. If I can't, I'll go in the afternoons.
If this helps making getting up a little easier, changing the time of day you workout gives an extra shock to your body and your workouts will be better.
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Depends on the day but typically evening, occasionally on my lunch break.
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After LO goes to bed. I'd have to wake up at a ridiculous hour to have time to work out and shower before work.
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5-7pm when the childcare room is open at the gym
ETA: Mon-Thurs is night and Saturday morning with an occasional Sunday morning thrown in for good measure.
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I so badly want to be a morning person but I just can't seem to do it.
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