just for dads helping each other

199 readers

1 users here now

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

camelbeard

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

submitted 11 months ago by orangeNgreen to c/dadvice

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] footprint 2 points 11 months ago

I talked to my therapist about this exact thing last month, and I came away with two things:

Schedules will always eventually fail once you're trying to account for 2 kids
It gets better (eventually)

If the morning works for you, treat that like your default. But, if you have a rough/unexpected morning, give them (and yourself) some grace and see if you can squeeze it in after bedtime.

If you're losing motivation because of the disruptions to your schedule, I feel that too; I've tried to zoom out a bit and focus on my numbers for the week / month instead of day-by-day to take myself out of that mindset as much. Hang in there dude 👍