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I recently started going to the gym for yoga, cardio classes, or just walking on an inclined treadmill for about 2 hours per day. This has been the best I've felt in life. I don't mind doing this for the rest of my life. The quieting of mind from yoga really helps me step back and see things from a higher viewpoint (like not being stuck in a local minimum).

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Out of curiosity (because I would like to organize my day to be able to fit 2 hours of exercise each day) how is your typical day structured? Between work, commute, personal projects, grocery shopping, appointments, cooking, and sleep, I barely have enough time to fit 1 hour/day 3-4 times a week. Weekends are the exception, but I'd like to be able to have more flexible time during the week.

Get up earlier. Find a job more close by. Plan, plan, plan your days

I’ve been making myself get up around 6am to take 1 or 2 classes at the gym. After work, I go for an hour for yoga or just watch something on my iPad Pro while walking on an inclined treadmill.

I think the key is to sleep early and get up early. Also, watching shows at the gym instead of at home helps.

Yeah, I'm currently trying to switch my workouts to the morning, which has been giving me some difficulty because I'm too used to my schedule. Thanks for the info, I'll be a little stricter with shifting my schedule now.

I take 1.5 hour training twice a week. With prep, commute etc. It was 8 hours total per week. After a few months I slept noticeably better and got up one hour earlier. So essentially broke even on time available per week, but feel a lot better.

It is all very doable until you have...kids.

Don't blame kids. This is a defeatist attitude.

If you have money, you can pay someone to handle the kids to buy yourself time.

One can jog while being with the children via a sturdy wheeled stroller.

We tried that, but had to put ours away for an Uppababy instead because he didn't like sitting way down in the jogger seat.

I identified that transition cost to exercise (for me, personally) is a barrier to exercise. Scheduling it, driving to somewhere, etc. all eat time and motivation.

I try to work around this instead by just running near where I live. After I get home, I change clothes and jump out the house for 30-45min of just running. Transition cost is just changing clothes and I'm active for the full time. This way it feels much more productive.

I get what you mean. I have a simple gym in my apartment complex that probably saves me about 5 minutes in transition from going to the gym that I paid for a membership to. I end up only using my gym membership about once a week because I don't feel like taking the 5 minutes to make use of the extra equipment that I am paying money to use.

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