WOHM, when do you workout? I am thinking about getting LO from daycare around 5:15ish and then working out from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.. Is that cruel, to pick him up from daycare and then take him to daycare at the gym? Should I workout and then pick him up? I feel bad leaving him there till 6:30. What do you do???
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never? That's the real answer, but i've definitely been thinking of this. We bought a treadmill so i can run after she's asleep. What time is bedtime?
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I'm no help at all. I just cancelled my gym membership. I'm going to try to do more at home and take more walks. Hopefully I can get into a groove of doing some sort of exercise.
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@yellowbird: We have an elliptical, so I can workout after LO goes to sleep which is around 7:30/8 p.m.
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Having the same conflict as you. I thought I'd join a gym and do just as you describe, but it seems awful for me to just turn around and put her in another childcare. So I will go with 'never', also.
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@katsupgirl: I'm sooo good at going on the weekends. It's just rough during the week.
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never. lol, I thought about waking up early, but that will probably never happen. Otherwise, I thought about after he goes to bed. Once the weather cools, I plan to walk on my lunch breaks.
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@mrskc: I already get up at 5:30 a.m. and that's rough on me already.
Aghhh, why is this so tough...
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Never
I already get up at 5:30. I was just thinking that there will probably never be a good time for me to work out during the week until my kids are grown up. We do have an elliptical at home but even that... when?
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@littlek: yeah, that's why it won't happen for me either. I get up at 5:30 am too!
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I get up at 5:30 too so working out before work is not an option.
We have in-home care so DH and I take turns of going straight to the gym after getting off work or going to the gym after bedtime around 8:30pm. This is a new plan we have put in place this week so today is only day 2
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@WALLAROO: Good luck!! I'm starting to really feel bad about taking him to the daycare at gym, so I think I will aim to work out after I put LO to bed. We totally need a WOHM: Working out support thread, to encourage each other.
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@littlek: My LO goes down around 7:30-8 too. Honestly. I would just use the elliptical during the week and do weight/whatever else on t he weekend if you have to go to the gym. There's just not enough time in the day!!
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We have an arrangement like @WALLAROO: I go to a class M/W after work and run with J in the B O B on T/Th. Hubs will take J for a walk/run on M/W and usually joins us for our jog on T/Th. I will occasionally do a weekend class and my yoga studio has "family yoga" every other Sunday that I want to start doing all together. But the basic plan is that we each are responsible for 2 days after work that we have to get right home to send the nanny home and the other can do what they want (work out, run errands, etc).
ETA: We didn't work this out until after I stopped nursing. While I was still nursing, it was me putting him to bed every night. Now that he is older, 1)we can share the feeding duties and 2) he goes to bed a little later so I am still giving him a bath and putting him down but I still got an hour-long class in.
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@yellowbird: There really isn't!
@littlek: Before I was a mom, I thought that people just made excuses for not working out. I thought "if they really wanted to, they could make time". Now that I am a mom, I realize how hard it really is and yes we can make time but I don't want to sacrifice the precious weekday time I have with my twins to work out. Sigh....we'll figure it out! I totally agree we need a support thread!
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I go to the gym after we have put the boys to sleep at 7 p.m. up to two times during the week and then once on the weekend. DH handles the bottle washing and prep for next day at daycare while I'm at the gym. I make up for it by washing more of the bottles on the weekends.
So far, it seems to be working out okay. When I don't feel like going to the gym, I consider if I would rather wash bottles and that usually provides enough motivation. 
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@sunshineandsushi: hahhaha.. so true!
I'd love to go to the gym, but DH doesn't get home from work until late, so that isn't an option for me.
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Never. I'm up at 5:15am already just to get ready for work. We get home between 6:30-7pm and my son goes to bed at 8pm. Eat dinner at 8:30. By the time cleanup is done, I barely have enough energy to do anything else i.e. pay bills, do laundry, clean etc before it's bedtime. We bought a treadmill before my son was born and I feel bad that it's gathering dust right now but I literally cannot find 15 minutes in my day to actually use it.
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@littlek: Bummer! I understand. DH has crazy work hours, so sometimes he doesn't get home in time for me to go to the gym during the week.
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I dont work out. at all. well we have an exercise bike at home if that counts
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@littlek: My supervisor, who has two young boys, would take long lunches twice a week and go to the gym, then skip her lunch two other days of the week. Do you have a gym close to your office where that might be an option?
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@littlek: Never!
I need to change that.
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@sunshineandsushi: There's one downstairs in our building but I sweat, so I'd have to shower... maybe that will work.. sorry for the TMI..
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@littlek: Haha, it's reality! That's why my supervisor would take the longer lunch those days, so she had time to shower and clean up before heading back to work. And I think she timed her workout days for when she didn't have major meetings in the afternoon where she had to be super fresh and put together.
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Not nearly as much as I used to. Now I focus more on trying to do exercise with him. We love to bike, so he sits in his little seat on the back and we'll go on a 5-mile ride.
He also loves if I do HIIT stuff at home - jumping jacks crack him up and he tries to do them too. If I put on a workout video he likes to copy me and thinks it's so funny. I can't usually do it more than 10 minutes but it helps!
We also have dance parties and just go crazy together.
So that's the extent of me "working out". I'm staying healthy but avoiding any guilt of leaving him longer than I need to!
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Well, DH picks up LO from daycare at 3:00 and I work out after I get off, so I am home around 5:30 or 6:30
Sometimes, I get up before 5am and work out. Then i shower, the baby wakes up, and we leave for daycare around 7am.
You don't need a lot of time to work out. Even a quick 10-15 minute HIIT session is enough to burn fat. It does not need to be lengthy to be a "good" work out! Sometimes i just do 15-20 minutes and as long as it jacks my heart rate up, i'm happy with that. Cuz sometimes, that's all you can fit in.
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@blackbird: we built plyo boxes for this very reason. We will do a HIIT in the garage and take the monitor with us. Favorite garage workout or any similar variation
10 box jumps
10 tricep dips
10 lunges
AMRAP in 20 minWe just need to get back in the habit and be consistent!
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I'm a lunch time working-out person. It's always been my break during the day since I don't really take a lunch or need to leave to buy lunch. I just started up doing it again last week. I'm up at 5:30 so before isn't an option and tend to work late so it's hard to make the time later. So mid-day works! Granted, no kids yet so that may change things.
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I just don't pin myself to a schedule. I walk when it works, take a workout class when I can, take her swimming, etc. I just signed up. for a 1x a week yoga series that's kicking my booty. It is so difficult to work full time, nurse, and fit in exercise. Once we are done breastfeeding my whole world will be open again lol.
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@WALLAROO: I was gonna say that sounds very Crossfit-like but then saw from your profile that you're a Crossfitter! I just started it
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@WALLAROO: Nice - makes me wish I had a garage. I don't think my downstairs neighbors appreciate it when DH & I decide to do 100 burpees in the living room.
We had a nice routine going where one of us would cook dinner and one would go to the gym every other night after 7:30 bedtime. That worked until the nonstop daycare colds started. Now one cooks dinner while the other one is sick.
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@LindsayInNY: I should probably change my profile. I WAS a Crossfitter but have not been able to get myself back to a box since having the twins. The class schedules just don't work for me right now so I just do Crossfit inspired workouts at home or the regular gym. Hope you like it! Crossfit is so fun! I miss it.
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@wallaroo, awesome!!! I literally went for a walk and then dropped down and did 10-8-6-4-2 squats, push ups, sit ups, and burpees Saturday. Took 10 minutes! And the baby was happy to sit in her stroller and watch me pop in and out of view, haha.
It does not have to be complicated, it just has to get your heart going :). Short, intense is best for fat burning, anyways.
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Ugh. This is always such a problem for me. For now I (sort of) solve it by jogging with the stroller to drop off or pick up DD at daycare. It's only sort of a solution b/c I only manage do do it sometimes. Also, I just drive when the weather is crummy. I know I need to be more consistent about running to/from daycare. I also need to figure out a better solution for the cold dark winter months, but I don't want to sacrifice my evening time with DD.
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I struggle with this all the time! I already wake up 2 hrs before work so I can get myself ready, take care of LO, and take him to daycare, so morning doesn't happen. If I have a day off mid-week, I take him to his regular daycare (paying anyway!) and go to the gym. And I work from 12-9 one day a week, so sometimes I go in the morning. I also sometimes go to the gym on a weekend day if DH watches our LO.
I keep having aspirations of heading out to the gym after I get home from work and spend a little time w/ LO before LO's bedtime (only a 45-min. stretch), but by then I'm hungry and want to eat dinner. I don't want to leave the house again.
I do much better if I can go on the way home from work, but I don't want to miss seeing our son.
It's tough.
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@LindsayInNY: I wish I could go during lunch at work. Let's just say I don't "glow" while working out....I'd need a miracle to look work-appropriate again after sweating! 1 hr is just not enough time for changing, working out, showering, and getting ready again.
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@WALLAROO: So far I'm liking it! I did the beginner session last week and yesterday was my first real class. So I'm a bit sore today but not terribly bad! I was nervous but the mid-day class was really nice. Is there another location with a better schedule you could try? But, with two at home, I'm sure scheduling is tough
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@blackbird: you're right. it doesn't have to be complicated. That's what my DH tells me all the time. He says just do some push ups and lunges instead of laying there watching the baby play. I thought about doing 15 minutes in the morning, walk 30 minutes at lunch & another 15 minutes after he goes to bed. That's 1 hour total! I need to remember to actually do it though.
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@pregnantbee: I've been doing CrossFit during lunch so I'm sweating more than my typical aerobic class or other workout. I don't get a full shower but can wipe down (that sounds gross...) which helps. Thankfully I don't smell after!
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Never! I have recently taken to walking on my lunch break and running up all escalators.
Aghhh, why is this so tough...
I already get up at 5:30. I was just thinking that there will probably never be a good time for me to work out during the week until my kids are grown up. We do have an elliptical at home but even that... when?
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