Exercise help?

I go to school and work in the mornings, and I want to start exercising in the mornings and evenings. I have to be to school every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 10am. I don't drive so I have to wake up at 7:30am and be out the house by 8:30am.

I get out of school at 12 but sometimes when I come home I feel sooo tired, All I want to do it go home eat lunch then go to sleep. How can I exercise around those times?

Now on some of the days I don't go to school I work. It variey from 10am to 5pm or 3pm to 9pm.  I don't drive so I leave out the house and Hour to an Hour and a half before those time. How can I work around those times?

Okay, what is the underline time frame.

What time do you have to be at work?

That could also help. Is work the sametime as school, and are your off days. Off days what are they.

Maybe you can fit some 10 min programs in there somewhere a few times a week, and get a good program in on your off days from both work and school. Just a thought.

Maybe you need go give a time frame on when you have go to work as well.

Days off...........ect................

You don't drive so walk, walk, walk.  It's great exercise, no equipment needed. Also there are many exercise DVD with short workouts 10-20 minutes, try them, every bit of movement helps. 

I just checked your info it says you have kids.  Play sports with them, ride bikes, roller blade, play ball, it's good for everyone.

Good luck

She has a niece she can play and spend extra fun time with her in a near by park. I'm the one with the kids. I think you read my info.

Look up ten minute trainers (TMT) you can work these 10 minute work outs around your schedule , schedule a few of them a day...they really whoop your butt too which is a bonus.

Original Post by crissyboo :

I go to school and work in the mornings, and I want to start exercising in the mornings and evenings. I have to be to school every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 10am. I don't drive so I have to wake up at 7:30am and be out the house by 8:30am.

I get out of school at 12 but sometimes when I come home I feel sooo tired, All I want to do it go home eat lunch then go to sleep. How can I exercise around those times?

Now on some of the days I don't go to school I work. It variey from 10am to 5pm or 3pm to 9pm.  I don't drive so I leave out the house and Hour to an Hour and a half before those time. How can I work around those times?

 Well for starters - you have to MAKE TIME!  Sorry - but just being realistic.  You have more time than I do.  I wake up at 5AM and work 40 hours.  I have no days where I get out by noon.  Either get up early or make yourself workout after school.  All  you need to do is start with 3 days a week, 1/2 hour a day and maybe you will have more energy then.  Then you can add more.

I am not trying to be mean here - just some tough love!

Original Post by yogagirl6853:

Original Post by crissyboo :

I go to school and work in the mornings, and I want to start exercising in the mornings and evenings. I have to be to school every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 10am. I don't drive so I have to wake up at 7:30am and be out the house by 8:30am.

I get out of school at 12 but sometimes when I come home I feel sooo tired, All I want to do it go home eat lunch then go to sleep. How can I exercise around those times?

Now on some of the days I don't go to school I work. It variey from 10am to 5pm or 3pm to 9pm. I don't drive so I leave out the house and Hour to an Hour and a half before those time. How can I work around those times?

Well for starters - you have to MAKE TIME! Sorry - but just being realistic. You have more time than I do. I wake up at 5AM and work 40 hours. I have no days where I get out by noon. Either get up early or make yourself workout after school. All you need to do is start with 3 days a week, 1/2 hour a day and maybe you will have more energy then. Then you can add more.

I am not trying to be mean here - just some tough love!

i agree here...didnt realise you get out at like 12...im up around 6 every day and usually i have just enough time to go home, work out , eat and maybe read for a bit before bed. 

You really do have to make the time and once you do and you get in a routine you will have much more energy.

A sedentary lifestyle gives you virtually no energy , i remember being tired all the frickin time. Now i am awake and ready to go when i get up and running the entire day until it is time to go to bed.

I'm gonig to have to agree w the above....it is HARD to get into a routine...I am up at 5-6am every morning, work until 4:30 then on days I get my daughter, I don't make it home until 5:30, and still have to make dinner, spend time w the kid, give her a bath...and relax!!!

what i have learned for myself is that I have to workout RIGHT AWAY when I get home...there is no way I can wake up early (4am no way) to get in a workout. So FIRST thing I do when I get home (even when I hae my daughter, she's gotten used to it) is CHANGE INTO WORKOUT CLOTHES. And I don't sit donw. At all. Until my workout is over. If I give myself even a min to relax after getting home, I won't do it. I make sure I have a snack right before I leave work so that I am not starving for dinner when I get home and I'll get right to my workout!

If you MAKE yourself do it after school right away, it'll be easier after a few weeks. You'll have more energy and will look forward to them eventually!

I have found that for some reason, when I workout, I'm MUCH more organized and proactive at getting things done around the house in the evenings....like laundry, dishes, preparing good meals, paying more attn to the kid as opposed to coming home, making a crappy dinner, and sitting on the couch all night!

Original Post by vicki8seekers:

I'm gonig to have to agree w the above....it is HARD to get into a routine...I am up at 5-6am every morning, work until 4:30 then on days I get my daughter, I don't make it home until 5:30, and still have to make dinner, spend time w the kid, give her a bath...and relax!!!

what i have learned for myself is that I have to workout RIGHT AWAY when I get home...there is no way I can wake up early (4am no way) to get in a workout. So FIRST thing I do when I get home (even when I hae my daughter, she's gotten used to it) is CHANGE INTO WORKOUT CLOTHES. And I don't sit donw. At all. Until my workout is over. If I give myself even a min to relax after getting home, I won't do it. I make sure I have a snack right before I leave work so that I am not starving for dinner when I get home and I'll get right to my workout!

If you MAKE yourself do it after school right away, it'll be easier after a few weeks. You'll have more energy and will look forward to them eventually!

I have found that for some reason, when I workout, I'm MUCH more organized and proactive at getting things done around the house in the evenings....like laundry, dishes, preparing good meals, paying more attn to the kid as opposed to coming home, making a crappy dinner, and sitting on the couch all night!

I agree with this to a point...i do the same thing where i have to work out as soon as i get home , if i let myself waver a bit i wont do it at all i will talk myself out of it.

I also agree with the more energy statement but not after working out...after i work out i usually just want to eat and fall asleep...my workouts are pretty strenuous however....then again on days i go out after working out instead of lying down i feel fine...maybe i should just eat and force myself to get up and do something else...

Lying down just feels sooo good after a work out. Last night i fell asleep at the end of yoga during Savasana (corpse pose) where you lie down and just let your body and mind relax...i was out like a light.

woke up about 20 minutes later and i felt great. mental note , hour and a half of intense yoga followed by 20 minute nap = major zen.

I have to plan tomorrow today.  Lay out clothes for whatever exercise in advance so I don't waste time just screwing around doing nothing.

Okay and I understand what you ladies are saying, The schedules you guys work so do I. I have to wake up every morning at 5:00 am now and leave out by 6:30 so I can make it to work on time. I have to feed my niece and myself, then get dress. Okay no excuses. I don't usually get off work now and days till 9pm sometimes 5 and when I get home remember I'm still in school okay, I have tons of homework and working the hours I am and still going to school is no joke. I come home and do for myself plus my family, I cook, Bath my niece, Feed her too, okay wow big deal. Like I said before everything you ladies do I do but probably more.

And I can't workout right after school, Why because I work now, So now its going to be hard to find time to work out plus do my homework, Take care of my niece because her mother is ... whatever. I don't usually go to sleep until like maybe the latest be 6 or 4 because I'm a very light sleeper and my sister or my mom likes to argue non stop about nothing. I can never get my homework done because of then and I can never have peace and quite unless there not home.

Please remember my niece is only 18 1/2 months okay. She talks a little bit not a lot. When I take her outside we don't play. Why? Because shes too busy taking in the scenery and watching other people. So until she gets a little bigger I'm afraid we can't "Play" like we want to.

I try to make time but trust me it's hard try taking a walk in my shoes for 1 day and maybe just maybe you ladies will understand. Please Don't take anything that I am typing offence because I'm not trying to be what so ever I just want you Ladies to understand where I'm coming from.

Okay, so you've got a killer schedule, family obligations, work, etc.

As far as sleeping goes, can you play music in your room (assuming that you have your own room) loudly enough to mask their noise?  It might also work for studying although a music player with earphone would probably work too, assuming that you don't have to keep an ear out for the kid during certain time.

A formal workout schedule simply doesn't fit into your day.  The choices for you that I see are 1) turn your neice into a work out toy. 2) fit 5 minute exercise segments into your day.  3) some combination of 1 & 2.

Essentially, you've set priorities (with good reason, I'm not criticizing) that are not exercise.  Those take precedence in your life.  Exercise will have to come last.

You can do squats with your neice for a weight, put her on your shoulders or hold her against your chest.  You can also use her as a weight for lunges.  She'll probably think that it's a new nifty form of playing...assuming that she's tolerant.  For ab work, with my nephew, I found that putting him on my shins at that age and rolling back and forth worked my stomach like you wouldn't believe.  For an added kick, extend your legs up when your back is on the ground.

Can you do 5 pushups?  If you do them 10 times a day, that's 50 pushups.

Thank you for your advice. Your the only one that gave me good ideas without trying to criticize me (Even if other people didn't mean to). I will take your ideas and use them. I just expect when I ask an question That some people would be nice enough to help me out without trying to criticize me (What you did) for things I just can't help nor things I can control. I didn't ask to have an busy life, I didn't ask for my sister and her baby's father to be an lousy excuse for parents, I didn't ask to be born without a dime, I didn't ask to take care of my niece, I do it because I love her so much and I don't want her to turn out like her good for nothing mother, I want to set an example for her and care for her like a "mother" should. Those things just happen. Enough of my venting. Thanks so much smwhipple.

smwhipple, well put......

Crissyboo, in time you are going to find that balance. I know you love that little girl so much, and you just want the best for her. My advice to you. Friend to friend... Pull back with your sister child a little, and make your sister be the "mother" she should be.. You didn't lay down to have her.. She did..

Do not stress yourself at all......

I do not understand your life style, and am not trying to go there with what you should be doing as far as exercise and stuff. You should be taking time out for yourself. Time out for you is much needed, and I don't want your sister using you as a door mat.. You are not some damn door mat, and you can be doing bad by yourself. I understand when there is no room to do a damn thing for yourself at all, but you have to take time for yourself.

Please! Find some kind of way to make your life what you want it to be..

Your sister needs to grow up and be a mother to her child. It's not your job to do 100% when she is just doing 25%, because that's what it sounds like to me.

Families are different, and someone is always trying to get over.. Do not let her get over on you... If your sister is getting away with that much.. Then she is going to keep on getting away with it.

Get back to you. Do you, and don't let anyone take your dreams and wants away from you.

Make your sister understand where her place is, and where it stands with you. You are doing too much for a woman who has no children of her own.

WAY................ Tooooooooo much!

Really, to be fully clear and truthful to you.. ENOUGH is ENOUGH

I'm going to have to say, that most of us assume, unless it's noted otherwise, that people are making excuses not to exercise or not to eat well.  Your second post made it clear that your situation is much more complex than average.  So please don't take their posts as overt criticism, they were just doing the best that they could think of with the information given to them...people tend to fill in the blanks with their personal information.

I know that it can be very difficult.  I've done some of all of what you do although never all at the same time.  I have to agree with lynnhaslost that it sounds like your sister is being lazy and that it would be more effective for you if you could somehow get her to step up to the plate...not an easy task and perhaps one that cannot be accomplished.  It also sounds like your mom could be doing more.  Is it possible for you to ask them to do certain things with your neice?  It might be that they don't want to step on your toes (I'm probably giving them too much credit).

I still think one of the best ways for you to get your exercise in and for your neice to get her playtime in is to use her as a weight.  Kids love to use adults as jungle gyms.  When I visit my friends with toddlers, they like to run towards me so I pick them up.  They love being twirled, they love piggy back rides, being turned upside down and then right side up, on your legs with situps.  You can teach them to count by counting the number and having them do it with you, when that's too easy, pick another language to do it in.  I find that they physical activity also builds a bond of trust since they know that you'll never drop them, physically or emotionally and it is very important for kids, particularly those with less than spectacular parents, to have adults that they can trust in their lives.  There's also the added benefit of your neice getting some physical exercise from it.  I tried doing an internet search for toddlers as weights but got nothing useful, I'll try to post anything else I can think of.