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My gym time has plummeted these weeks with training course I been doing, tried it the first week with minimal success. My schedule is wake up at 3 make my parents their coffee and oatmeal, cook our lunches, shower and get dressed leave at 5 am to drop off mom to work and head to the training by 6:30 with it starting at 7:30 to 3. Pick up mom at 3:30 and get home by 4:30 make dinner finish and eat by 5:30 and I'm asleep at 7 pm. I should have some time to gym but I'm sometimes too tired or by the time everyone ready to gym it's 6:30.
Today trying something different, I set my crockpot yesterday for some split pea soup, woke up like usual but managed 15 minutes of cardio showered and now it's 4. I think I can probably sneak in 15 minutes a day and that'll energize me for the rest of the day. Gonna try gym but if I can't then at least I did that.
That sounds rather physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing. I hope you're doing alright on the inside. I would imagine that's just a lot for a person.
I been getting used to it, meal prep does give me more time but when I make something on Saturday it's usually done by Monday or Wednesday. Slow cooker and rice cooker are def my friends same with my programmable coffee machine and dishwater to load stuff end of the day