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XP: Getting to the gym - how do you do it?
I usually post on the Multiples board, but took the suggestion from a new MoM (SeattleStef) and wanted to see what y'all had to add.
What do you do on a yucky day? I'm a Florida girl at heart but I'm here for my husband's career and the weather is driving me bonkers. I can't always go outside for a walk. How do you get to the gym with the kids? Is it worth it to join a place that has daycare or hire a babysitter to come a few times a week? I have a couple videos I could try and I did OnDemand once or twice, but I get distracted too easily.
BTW - I'm in Kitsap.
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Re: XP: Getting to the gym - how do you do it?
I would absolutely join a gym with a good daycare! I go to the gym at least 4 days a week and my motivation...because I get an hour of peace and quiet to myself at the gym (also if I don't make it I get charged anyway so that definately gets me to the gym!)
I think going to the gym is better than a sitter because you don't start that hour or so until you get there so you aren't paying for time to and from the gym.
It is definitely worth it to find a gym with a daycare!
TTC #2 for a million years: SA normal, CD 23 bloodwork shows nothing amiss, ovulation detected. Next step: ? maybe CD3 bloodwork to check eggs? All out of pocket, so limited IF tests/treatments.
I agree. I belong to LA Fitness and they have a daycare, it's an additional $10 on top of my membership dues but it's the only way I could go since I'm home with the baby during the day. It was scary for me to start using it at first, leaving my baby made me REALLY nervous. It still does, but it gets a little easier each time. It's always the same gal who watches the kids though and she's really sweet. Most of the time I put Mikayla in one of their swings (they have a baby section separate from the main play area with a few swings and pack 'n plays) and she just chills in there and naps. There was one time they called me back to the daycare to get her because she was crying since the moment I left, but that's because she wasn't feeling well (she got sick on the way home, poor kid).
That being said, if you're like me and good at finding excuse not to go to the gym it might be good to have some at-home options for getting some exercise in - workout DVDs, equipment, whatever you think you'd use at home.
Yeah a gym with child care would be your best bet. I try to get up before work at 445am to do the on-demand thing here at home but it is really easy to skip it.
I used to live over in Poulsbo and there is a nice gym over there that I am sure has child care.
Oct 2011 3 1/2 years old.
Robert Williams Birth date 5/16/2008
Oct 2011 3 1/2 years old.
Robert Williams Birth date 5/16/2008
Quick question about the child carecenters at gyms. I belong to LA Fitness where they have childcare and that makes me super optimistic about working out once the chickadee gets here, but a good friend of mine has 3 boys and told me everytime she dropped them off at the gym playcenter, they came back sick, having caught some bug there. Her boys rarely get sick except when she dropped them off there.
Is the sanitation something to worry about there? I know anywhere there are lots of kids is susceptible to germs but her experience kinda freaked me out a bit.
Yes, that is definitely something I'd worry about especially when they're still at that age where they suck on everything they see. I wouldn't worry so much now that my kid is 2... but in the crawling/chewing phase, it would have icked me out.