I Need Cardio

For the last few weeks I've been trying to figure out how to squeeze more cardio in my life.  I make it to my workout sessions with my trainer 3 times a week during my lunch break on Monday, Wednesday & Fridays and I am supposed to do cardio on my own 3 times a week.  But lately with my side business keeping me extra busy I have failed to do any cardio on my own.  My only free time without my kids are my lunch breaks. 

Cardio and diet are essential to continue on my weight loss journey.  So what's a busy girl to do?

Sure I can try to walk with the kids on some nights.  But my walks with a 6 year old and a 2 year old are very discouraging.  Tyler can only ride his bike for so long & Olivia doesn't want to stay in the stroller very long anymore.  I need to run, I need to sweat.  I need it to be scheduled in my day.  I need to use my time efficiently.

Here's my idea.  I spend approximately 20 minutes in the morning making breakfast.  What if I make my breakfast in advance and get up 10-15 minutes earlier than normal?  That would give me a 30-35 minute workout every morning. 
Here we go...Dust off my treadmill...

Week 1 Results...

Monday - Stayed up too late finishing up side business work on Sunday night.  Then Olivia was up 3 or 4 times in the night starting at 2 am to 6 am.  Power went out at 4 am.  Baby monitors started beeping, clock and alarm had to be reset.  Had trouble falling back asleep thinking about getting up to workout.  Alarm goes off at 5:45.  It's time.  I'm exhausted.  I hit snooze and I lay in bed an try to count the hours of sleep I've had.  Went to bed at 11:30, up with Olivia...hum.. I've had under 6 hours of sleep.  Reset the alarm for 6:20.  CARDIO FAILED

Tuesday - On Monday night I made sure to go to bed immediately after Tyler went to sleep.  Started kids bedtime routine at 8:30.  Got Tyler to sleep by 9:45 pm.  Some nights it takes him forever to fall asleep.  I'm asleep for sure by 10:15.  Yes, sleep.  Olivia starts getting up at 12 am.  What?  Why so early?  She asks for milk.  About 3 weeks ago we broke her of night wakings asking for milk.  Why all of a sudden is she asking for milk again?  I tell her she can have it in the morning.  She gets up 2 more times.  Then at 5 am Tyler is up with bad dreams.  I'm glad I went to bed early.  I reset the alarm for 6:00 instead of 5:45.  I'll shoot for a 20 minute workout today.  6:00 alarms goes off.  I can do this.  I don't want to-but I will.  I make my way to my treadmill.  I start with a 5 minute slow warm-up.  After about 4 minutes I start to feel awake and good.  I can do this.  I turn up the speed-let's do a little running.  After 1 1/2 minutes of running-Olivia is sitting in the doorway crying for me.  By the time I get her settled down and back in bed it's time to get myself ready for work.  Should we round up and count this as a 2 minute workout?

Wednesday - Up with Olivia a few times during night.  Tyler up 7 minutes before my alarm goes off.  No morning workout.  I'm starting to think my morning workout is not going to work.  However, after my workout today with my trainer I hopped on the elliptical machine and did 32 minutes.  Woohoo!

Thursday - I've given up on mornings!  So instead I went to a boot camp at lunch!

Friday - Normal workout with trainer.  No extra cardio.

Once Olivia is a little older I'll try this morning workout again.  For now, I'm going to add cardio to my MWF workouts and do my best to get some sort of cardio on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  All I can do is keep trying!