New plan…

Well, the exercise schedule is about to be thrown for a loop. First, I didn’t get to the gym on Friday b/c Drew wasn’t feeling well and I felt bad going without him and leaving him home sick. Second, we got to work late (again) today, due to our amazing inability to wake up in the morning. This got me thinking about how we’ve wanted to try exercising in the morning instead of after work, so we wouldn’t get home so late for dinner. Problem is, we can’t get up early to save our lives. After poking around the internet for a quick and easy solution, all I found was a whole lot of recommendations to stick to a regular sleeping schedule every single day, inculding weekends. A few people mentioned things like putting your alarm clock on the other side of the room, but I’ve done that and it only works for me for about a week until I start sleep walking to turn it off and going back to bed. I’ve never wanted to try a routine on the weekends, b/c I feel like that’s the one time I get to sleep in and relax. However, this past weekend kind of made me feel differently. I ended up lying around all morning on Sunday, and didn’t go to this play at my old college that I wanted to b/c I was too lazy and hadn’t even showered yet by 2pm. I suddenly realized I had wasted pretty much half the day doing nothing but sleeping and playing some video games, and as such missed out on an activity I really wanted to do. So maybe the weekend should be less about sleeping in, and more about making the most of the few hours there are in the day.

Where is this all going and what does it have to do with exercising? Well I decided (with Drew’s agreement) that we’ll try a new schedule of getting up early every morning, and only giving ourselves 1 extra hour sleeping in on the weekends. Here’s what we came up with:

Weekdays (except Friday, where we’re up till 11:30) 

6:30-7:30: wake up and exercise
7:30-8:00: shower, get dressed
8:00-8:30: breakfast, brush teeth
8:30-9:00: warm up car and go to work
9:00-12:00: morning work
12:00-1:00: lunch
1:00-6:00: afternoon work
6:00-7:00: go home, cook dinner
7:00-8:00: eat dinner
8:00-10:00: chill out, do whatever
10:00-10:30: get ready for bed

Weekends (except going to bed at 10:30 Sunday):

7:30-8:30: wake up and exercise
8:30-9:00: shower, get dressed
9:00-10:00: breakfast, brush teeth
10:00-5:00: whatever plans for the day, fit lunch in somewhere
5:00-6:00: cook dinner
6:00-7:00: eat dinner
7:00-11:00: whatever plans for the evening
11:00-11:30: get ready for bed

Anyone else have any handy-dandy tips for waking up, working out, eating breakfast, and getting to work on time?

Posted by: Fuzzy Bunny | 02-27-2006 | 01:02 PM
Posted in: Exercise | Personal | Work