When do you exercise and why?

[Tiggerdagibit]

Morning, afternoon, night, whenever you get around to it?
Before or after you eat or either way?
What works best for you and why?

For me it's more of whenever I get around to it. It depends on my daily schedule. Sometimes I eat before, sometimes after, it depends on when I exercise. I haven't tried a set schedule so I don't know if any other way would work better or not.

[Swimmom]

I workout in the afternoon because my dd goes to swim practice 3x/week. She is gone for four hours so that gives me plenty of time to workout, shower and get ready to feed the "swimming stomach".

[Richt]

Generally i will excercise in the evenings because I work during the day. But if I am ever off work or its a weekend I excercise at anytime.

So I polled "Whenever I get around to it".

Rich

[lawyerchick]

I'm with Richt. I exercise at night on work days, but during the morning or afternoon on the weekends.

[Brook]

I exercise whenever I get around to it. I work nights 3 nights a week, so I'm sleeping during the day. Some days I workout at 5pm, other days I'm done by 10am.

[kkat55]

I exercise in the morning so I can get it over with for the day. Otherwise, too many excuses come up in the evenings...

Besides, I feel good all day that I accomplished my workout and it makes for a more positive outlook for me. I like that!

Thanks for posting this thread...it was fun!

[electra51975]

I exercise when ever I get around to it. I work from home from 1pm-7pm 6 days a weekare taken up. Sometimes in the morning as soon as my son gets on the bus sometimes at night if i need to try to wind down from working.

[ladyinred]

I said whenever I get around to it, but it's always planned. I work all day and get up too early as it is, so I prefer to workout after work before dinner. I'll stop at the gym on the way home or do a tape when I get home. Sometimes because of family scheduling I can't do it til after dinner, but I don't like bouncing around when I'm full of food so I don't do that often. On weekends it's whenever it fits into the rest of the day.

[Tiggerdagibit]

Originally Posted by kkat55

I exercise in the morning so I can get it over with for the day. Otherwise, too many excuses come up in the evenings...

Very true! That's where I find that joining an exercise challenge helps. The other day I didn't exercise until midnight but the fact that I actually did it instead of putting it off was amazing. I didn't want to be a slug.. lol.

It's cool to read about what others do and why. Call me nosy, but I love it lol.

[kkat55]

I like reading everyone's responses too. It is fun.