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Hours in a weekday: 24 - Sleep: 7 - Work: 8 - Commute: 1 - Personal maintenance (grooming/eating/etc): 2 - Be a good dad: 2 - Put kids to bed: 1 - Household maintenance (dishes/laundry/etc): 1

What's left: 2 hours. If I spend 30 minutes exercising, that's 25% of my discretionary time every day. That feels pretty time-consuming, even though I do think it's worth it.

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Your schedule just needs fixing. Designate one parent as the "put kids to bed" and the "household maintenance" for the day, that gives the other an extra 2 hours. Exercising every other day is practically as good or better as every day depending on the exercise.

Though even with 4 hours, depending on the person, every day after work might feel like they need their entire 8 hours of free time between work and sleep just to survive, ideally they'd have more. Technology was supposed to give us more leisure time we can put into things like exercise but here we are still slaving away at desk jobs for 40 hours a week.

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