I had a very interesting conversation with a friend last night about finding the time to workout. As many of you may know, I have tried to do my workouts in the morning. But I'm just not a morning person. I hate getting up. HATE IT. And then in the evening, well, although my intentions are usually good, most of the time it pans out to nothing.
Why is that?
We made a very startling discovery during out discussion. On the weekdays, I really only have the potential to get about 3 hours of down time. I get up in the morning with just enough time to get ready for work and get out the door. I'm at work all day, and to be honest, I rarely actually even take a lunch away from my desk. Then I commute home and can plan to be there around seven sometime. Depending if I have errands or chores to get done, how much time does that really leave me to just relax? Do nothing? Enjoy just having time before I go to bed and do it all over again? Not much. I've been that gym girl who works out 5 days a week. Spends an hour lifting and then another 45 minutes doing cardio. Who gets home in just enough time to shower, eat something and go to bed. Right now, I'm finding it very difficult to be her.
And we also decided that there is an on and off switch. We get up, we go to work, we think about all the things we are going to do later in the day and it all seems very attainable. But then something tends to happen between the time I leave the office and the time I get home. The switch that was "on" all day and had me moving and going and planning, seems to get switched to "off". Thus, making it suddenly really hard to fulfill all those plans I had just hours ago. When I get home, I realize I have a choice. I can stay "on" and keep moving and shaking or I can shut off and just relax. And unfortunately, right now I seem to like being off.
So, how do you find that balance? How do you fit in workouts (and everything else that goes with it like getting there, showering, etc) and yet still have time to just unwind? I can't seem to do it...or more likely, I don't seem to want to figure out how to do it. What do you do? How do you find the time?
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I used to think I wasn't a morning person, but then I started a boot camp fitness class and it started at 5:30 AM. I was amazed at how I grew to LOVE getting up in the morning to get to class, and how energized I felt afterwards. It gave me a real sense of accomplishment that I had already done so much while the rest of the world was still asleep. Now all my running is done just as the sun is coming up and I still love it.
My wind down time is at night, after dinner, when I can just sit and think, or read, or knit. It can be difficult to fit it all in, and some days LIFE gets in the way, but you just move on to the next day.
PS - was that the scarf pattern you were looking for?
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