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I'm having trouble putting this all together. Let's figure 9 hours at work, 1 hour of commute, 1.5 hours eating, 1.5 hours exercising, .75 hours meditating, and

I'm having trouble putting this all together. Let's figure 9 hours at work, 1 hour of commute, 1.5 hours eating, 1.5 hours exercising, .75 hours meditating, and 7.5 hours sleeping. That leaves less than three hours for showering, changing clothes, and a little downtime. When do you do chores around the house, run errands, visit family, and hang out with friends?

ckuehne 16y ago
Crossfit never takes longer than 30 minutes. Some workouts can be as short as 3 minutes.
- dschobel 16y ago
  ^^ this. if you're pressed for time, crossfit is amazing (well it's amazing anyway). my cf gym is full of professional people-- doctors, lawyers, and engineers and by looking at them you'd think they were gym rats.
- thereddestruby 16y ago
  I second this one. You're really wasting your time if you're there for more than 45 minutes. Means you're resting too much between exercises. Quality over quantity when it comes to gym time. For example, do 5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 burpees, and 20 jumping jacks. Repeat ten times with little rest between rounds. Then jump rope a 100 times. Should take you no more than twenty minutes. It's hard to get up from that one though.
ciupicri 16y ago
I think that 1.5 hours exercising is a bit too much. Most people tend to recommend at most 1 hour per day, including warm-up (so this means 30 extra minutes of sleep :-)).
- rsanheim 16y ago
  I think you'll find a wide range of times works for folks, depending on what sort of routine and exercise you do and stick to. If you love road biking, you will probably spend more time exercising then someone who loves doing a lot of high intensity interval training and cross-fit style workouts, simply because of the nature of the workout. You can ride bike for 3 hours easy when you are in shape, but there is no way you can do intervals for more than 45 minutes unless you are nuts.
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al3x 16y ago
First off, I work from a coworking space that's a five minute walk from where I live, so I don't have a commute. Secondly, 90 minutes is probably on the high end for a workout for me. If I'm pressed for time, it's closer to an hour. Also, I don't know that I always work 9 hours a day. Realistically, I probably work a normal 8. I also often eat lunch at my desk, which shaves off half an hour from your estimated eating time. As for chores: I pay someone to clean my apartment. I'd rather spend the time on other things. I don't watch much TV. I also don't spend a lot of time hanging out with friends during the week. My wife and I don't have kids yet, so "family time" often consists of her and I reading or watching a movie together. I'm sure it'll be harder to stick to this schedule when some of the above changes.
- mkramlich 16y ago
  One of the attractions for me of doing contracting, telecommuting and/or startup work is the greater freedom to work from home or wherever, untethered, and having a zero-commute job. It's a great lifestyle. I figure if I can get my total weekday required commute down from say 2 hours to 0-0.25 hours I save roughly 500 hours a year. All of which become hours spent on things which give me a better quality of life (more sleep, more exercise, more meditation, more relaxation, more friend time, family time, etc.) I hope an increasing percentage of folks do it in the future, because I truly think it will help make the world a better place, especially through the indirect benefits of reduced traffic, reduced pollution, reduced vehicle accidents, fossil fuel consumption, miles-o-asphalt-culture, etc.

ckuehne 16y ago

Crossfit never takes longer than 30 minutes. Some workouts can be as short as 3 minutes.

dschobel 16y ago
^^ this. if you're pressed for time, crossfit is amazing (well it's amazing anyway). my cf gym is full of professional people-- doctors, lawyers, and engineers and by looking at them you'd think they were gym rats.
thereddestruby 16y ago
I second this one. You're really wasting your time if you're there for more than 45 minutes. Means you're resting too much between exercises. Quality over quantity when it comes to gym time. For example, do 5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 burpees, and 20 jumping jacks. Repeat ten times with little rest between rounds. Then jump rope a 100 times. Should take you no more than twenty minutes. It's hard to get up from that one though.

ciupicri 16y ago

I think that 1.5 hours exercising is a bit too much. Most people tend to recommend at most 1 hour per day, including warm-up (so this means 30 extra minutes of sleep :-)).

rsanheim 16y ago
I think you'll find a wide range of times works for folks, depending on what sort of routine and exercise you do and stick to. If you love road biking, you will probably spend more time exercising then someone who loves doing a lot of high intensity interval training and cross-fit style workouts, simply because of the nature of the workout. You can ride bike for 3 hours easy when you are in shape, but there is no way you can do intervals for more than 45 minutes unless you are nuts.

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al3x 16y ago

First off, I work from a coworking space that's a five minute walk from where I live, so I don't have a commute. Secondly, 90 minutes is probably on the high end for a workout for me. If I'm pressed for time, it's closer to an hour. Also, I don't know that I always work 9 hours a day. Realistically, I probably work a normal 8. I also often eat lunch at my desk, which shaves off half an hour from your estimated eating time. As for chores: I pay someone to clean my apartment. I'd rather spend the time on other things. I don't watch much TV. I also don't spend a lot of time hanging out with friends during the week. My wife and I don't have kids yet, so "family time" often consists of her and I reading or watching a movie together. I'm sure it'll be harder to stick to this schedule when some of the above changes.

mkramlich 16y ago
One of the attractions for me of doing contracting, telecommuting and/or startup work is the greater freedom to work from home or wherever, untethered, and having a zero-commute job. It's a great lifestyle. I figure if I can get my total weekday required commute down from say 2 hours to 0-0.25 hours I save roughly 500 hours a year. All of which become hours spent on things which give me a better quality of life (more sleep, more exercise, more meditation, more relaxation, more friend time, family time, etc.) I hope an increasing percentage of folks do it in the future, because I truly think it will help make the world a better place, especially through the indirect benefits of reduced traffic, reduced pollution, reduced vehicle accidents, fossil fuel consumption, miles-o-asphalt-culture, etc.