Any of you who are parents or have spent a considerable amount of time
with a newborn baby understand what it is like when the babies sleep
cycle gets out of whack. It's a dreadful thing to happen....to the adults;
the baby really doesn't care, it's the adults who normally choose to sleep
through the night and be awake during the day like most non-vampire parents.
Well, I too have an out of whack cycle...kinda. While my sleep/awake
cycle is running in a perfect circle, my daily exercise cycle is quite
off-kilter right now.
When I wake up, exercies is a definate NO! I would much rather sleep
then do anything else. As a matter of fact when the kids were smaller
and they would often ask me "what is your favorite part of the day?"
My steadfast and reliable answer was always, "bedtime".
I LOVE SLEEPING!!
7:00am-4:00pm...I'm at work. No exercise there. I do get a
conference period everyday for 45 minutes, but I don't have access to
a, uhmm, comfortable place to shower and/or clean-up afterwards.
You would think that working at a high school with dressing rooms,
showers, coaches offices would be perfect for freshening up after
a workout, but I see these options comparable to going to
a neighbors house and asking to borrow their bathroom and
shower...sorry, it's just not going to happen.
When I get home from work around 4:45, I really like to eat something
pretty quick because I don't want to wait eat late in the evening.
Eating at this time usually means that I have to wait a good hour or
so to get on my treadmill (Millie) so as I don't throw up all over my display
screen. Another problem with this particular time, is that I usually
get a bit lazy during this time, get caught up with family, motherly,
and wifely duties and next thing you know it's 9:30 in the evening.
So now it's after 10:00pm, I'm laying in bed, and I start feeling it...
(now don't get "nasty" thoughts)...I'm talking about feeling the desire to exercise.
I lay there and I totally feel like running. I want to go outside in the
country dark and run...or on Millie maybe. I'm just not going to
run at 10:00pm. See, Millie is in the bedroom and I'm not going to
keep hubby awake while I bust out a couple miles. Y'all, this happens
everynight! I lay in bed, and I want to run. Or, I will lay there completely
motivated about working out the next day. I don't want to feel
like this at night, I want to feel like this in the morning, or when I get home
from work.
Something has to change...and I KNOW it's me! I've got to do what
you do with babies when you work your butt off to keep them awake
during the day so they will be sleepy at night. I have to force my
body to workout at a reasonable hour during the DAY instead of
the dark of night when it's totally unreasonable to do.
Do any of you have "exercise cycle" related problems or am I just
a total dork?
I hate exercising in the morning, I'm always stressed out about having to get into work soon after. Whereas if I run at night, it's a little less stressful.
ReplyDeleteI haven't figured it out either. For about 3 weeks, my husband (who I work with, we are self employed) let me go to the gym after the kids were at school/daycare, and I could get to work between 11 - noon. Which was awesome! But, this weekend he said it's not OK for me to get in that late. It's messing with his mornings (whatever) and any respectable office doesn't have the assistant get in at mid day.
ReplyDeleteI see his point. But it was glorious to have that time at the gym. I felt sooooo good. Now, I'm back to the same dilemma you have. Except at 10 pm I don't want to exercise, I want to read or sleep.
Last night I was determined to get up at 5 am and walk/run. Didn't happen, because I didn't get to sleep until almost 11:30. My afternoon is packed, and I am sure I won't be working out after I get home and help with home work and fix dinner and clean up and tell the kids to get in bed and read stories and finally sit down at 9 pm. Ugh.
I truly just need to face the music--I need to become a morning exerciser. Which means I need to become an early to bed kind of person, which I'm not, and never have been, in all my 41 years.
But I know the kind of person I *want* to be, and that person exercises regularly. I read or heard somewhere (recently, but I can't remember where) that morning exercisers are the least likely to be depressed. That right there should get my butt out of bed at 5 am every day.
So, I guess we are just gonna have to figure this one out. I don't know if it's gonna happen in the a.m., but we need to find a way to do something about our crazy lives.
(thanks for your comment yesterday. I will email you when I have a chance. Glad to see a new post today from you.)
I don't love exercising in the morning but if I confit won't get done. Too many distractions. I'm at the point now where i need to get up earlier as my mileage needs increase. Not easy, but trying to get back in that groove.
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