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I go to boot camp or go lift weights at 4:45 am so I don't miss any time with LO.

ETA: I am NOT a morning person, so I do everything I can to set myself up for success the night before: coffee maker programmed, I sleep in half my clothes and have the other half laid out, water bottle in the fridge, shoes and keys together, set two alarms.

I'm trying to workout 30 min at lunch.

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I dont have my LO yet, but the plan is 5:45am crossfit classes 3 days a week and one class on the weekends. A lot of moms at my job work out on lunch.

@DillonLion: i read somewhere that you should schedule it like a meeting and you'll "make" the time when needed.

I've been running after LO is relaxing after bath and before bed. I only manage to get in 1/2 hour-45 minutes, though. I don't know how else to fit it in. My husband is usually gone by 5:30 am and often earlier, so it's not feasible to do mornings at this point. I guess I could do it after LO goes down to sleep, but that pushes my bed time awfully late after showering, and I need a lot of sleep.

Following . . . I'm only pregnant and struggling with working out while working. I leave for work around 8am and get home around after 8pm (I'm a lawyer so there is a lot of variation, but billing an average of 9 hours a day usually means being away from home 12 hours or so). My most successful stretch was when I worked out at lunch and just calendared it as "PT"--I think my bosses respected the appointment since it sounded medical-ish (and I did have some PT to do). Mornings can work for a while, but it's so tempting to hit snooze instead.

@grizz: @MsMamaBear: Your workout schedules are seriously impressive! Good for you for making it work!

No advice here, but I am following. I have a similar 8-5 + long commute schedule and have been putting off getting started because i can't for the life of me figure out how to fit in working out without losing an hour to an hour and a half of sleep.

I work 9-5 and my commute is anywhere between 30 minutes and an hour. A few times a week we get home, walk the dog, she eats, and then we go for a run in the jogging stroller. On Saturdays, we go to the gym and I run on the treadmill and attend a barre class while she plays in the playroom.

I'm a little against the grain, because I don't have a set workout time, but I am committed to getting, at minimum, 10,000 steps and 25 flights of stairs on my Fitbit every day. So instead of "working out" in the course of my day I take the stairs and the long way around. It works out to the equivalent of around 4 miles a day. I have a crazy goal of not breaking my streak for the rest of this pregnancy. And with my job, some days it is really easy and some days it is really hard. (I've been doing it consistently since 7/13.)

And bonus, DH has been away for two weeks, and he asked me (14* week pregnant), if I lost weight. I haven't, but at least my thighs aren't spreading with my belleh!

* Holy cow, I actually calculated wrong. How different the second time around is! Woo-hoo for an extra week!

I work about 8:30-4:30, and then go to the gym I am lucky to have onsite at work 4:30-5:30. Occasionally I will go during lunch instead but I prefer to wait to the end of the day so I don't have to shower. I'm only 7 miles from daycare so I can pick LO up before close.

5:30 am boot camp MWF. It sucks to get up early, but I get it over with and it energizes me for the rest of the day.

I'm in the same boat - never any time to work out! No time at lunch. Some good ideas in here for sure.

I sometimes try to walk more, even though its not a "real" workout. I walk more in the office. And sometimes skip my shuttle to the office from the train and walk instead! Or I walk really far to get lunch. Is walking more an option?

I go Monday, Tuesday after LO is down for the night. Usually around 8pm. I try to go to a class when I can to keep myself accountable.

I try to go Th/Fr (wfh days) at lunch. If not, then it's after DS goes down.

@DillonLion: oh yikes. Yeah - not good walking weather at all!!!

I work out on my lunch break. My gym is really close to work. There is NO way I would have the motivation to wake up early enough to do it in the AM... I admire those on here that do!

I think this is such a struggle but I agree that habits can become self-perpetuating. I WOH FT usually gone from the house 8-5 including daycare drop off and pick up. DH is usually out of the house by 5:30 so getting to the gym early is not realistic for me. But I do get up around 5:30 and do a 30 minute Jillian something 2 mornings a week and a longer one on Sundays. I recently decided to up to 3 mornings a week and this is the first week. Evenings do not work for me so this is the best/only time.

I was not able to do this until LO was older, sleeping better, and waking up at a more consistent time. (18 months) Last fall if she woke up early she watched Elmo on you tube while I worked out. Now she has a toddler clock so I know when she will wake up. So I work out, shower and dry my hair and then she is up at 6:45.

You guys are my heroes! I'm sitting here eating a king size Kit Kat bar while reading about you amazing moms...

I work downtown, so I just suit up at lunch and go for a run, usually 3-4 miles (although it's shortened/gotten slower now that I'm pregnant). Occasionally I'll go to the racquetball court at the top of my building and do a bodyweight workout. Daycare doesn't open until 7:30, and I have to be at work at 8, so there is no way that I can workout in the mornings. DH and I will usually do a run together on the weekends with DD in the stroller. I used to take the time twice a week to do a Pure Barre class, and I miss it.