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For the dads that exercise, what’s your preferred time? (self.dadvice)

submitted 10 months ago by orangeNgreen to c/dadvice

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When I had one kid, once she started sleeping through the night fairly regularly, I woke up at 5am a few days a week to exercise before work. With two kids, that seems harder to do. Every time I set an early alarm, at least one kid either has trouble sleeping through the night or wakes up very early, making an early workout difficult or impossible.

My own personal options seem to be to either wake up even earlier and accept the fact that I’m going to be very tired, or try to stay up later and exercise after the kids go to bed (usually around 8:30pm, with any luck…).

So, to the dads that find time to exercise, when do you do it?

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 6 points 10 months ago

I've been lucky enough to work from home and have a partner who takes the kiddo to school as often as possible. In the last year I've still only managed to work out about fifty times total.

I think I'd probably have hit my fitness goal by now if I was able to cut out drinking though.

Not sure I'll be able to, at least until my kid's ADHD is better managed. Holy shit, nobody warned me about that.