I have always been a physical person. I have always loved fitness. ALWAYS! When I just had one child I would wake up about 430 every morning and go to the ladies gym, which was about 15 miles away. My then husband watched my daughter. Trust me I am not a morning person, but I made up my mind what I needed to do for myself. I would workout 45 minutes to 1 hr, showered at the gym, and was at work by 7am. My then husband would take her to daycare. I eventually made training my job. I still worked full time in a factory from 7-330. I would go pick up my daughter from daycare, and I would be at the gym (teaching or training) a few days out of the week. She was able to go to the nursery while I trained others to do exactly what I was doing... getting fit.
I know that some of you are gasping thinking... how much time did she really spend with her, kid, OMG she was always in daycare or something. Well I taught 3 days a week. For an hour sometimes 2 depending on the clients that I had. I went home, and did my mommy thing!
Then came 2 more... children that is. I moved to another gym, a much bigger one, and I taught aerobics there, body pump, etc. I would do that 2-3 times a week, but the kids were always with me, yes at the nursery for 1 hour!!! They actually loved it because they would meet new kids!
At any rate I stopped teaching after 7-8 years. But fitness was a part of my life. So I bought a cheap treadmill off of craigslist or something,made a playlist of songs, I woke up early, walked on my treadmill for about 30-45 minutes. showered, got the kids up, fed, dressed, and off to school. ON TIME!!! When I got off of work, I would get my children cook dinner (loved the crockpot) help them with homework, played with them, and the rest of the day was mine, to do whatever I wanted to do!
Now that I am single again, and I have 3 kids, yeah I can come up with EVERY excuse known to man as to why I won't get off of my ass and workout. I'm sick, my kid is sick, I'm tired when I get off of work, I just don't have time, I have to help them with homework, I could go on, and on, and on. But for what? When I get off of work, I pick up my children, make sure all of their homework is complete, cook dinner, we all have to sit at the dinner table and talk about our highs and lows for the day. Highs meaning (what was good about your day) lows meaning (what went wrong with your day)
I spend tons of time with my children. But they all know that once everything is done, mommy is taking 30-45 minutes to herself to workout. Sometimes when I go for a run, they either hop on their bikes, or roller blades and they come with me. My daughter who is 6' tall and 16 years old, has adopted my habits. No she is not obsessed, but she wakes up EVERY SINGLE MORNING (no lie) before school and she works out. She is on the elliptical or something. What I have taught her just by doing is, living a healthy life style. NO she isn't concerned about her weight, she is concerned about being healthy. She is 16, in her 2nd year of college, and yes she can come up with excuses too, she has too much homework, or she's stressed, etc. But she doesn't! I don't make her workout, as a matter of fact I have never made her workout... she just wanted too.
Our kids learn from us. And if you are full of excuses as to why something can't be done, they will learn to make excuses about the same things. When I hear people make excuses for their lack of time, I just wanna shake them... if you want it bad enough you will find time. If you don't well you will find excuses!!!!
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