5:30 - get up, get dressed, make the bed
5:45 - go for a walk with my wife and our cat
6:15 - shower, coffee, lemmy, household chores
7:30 - ride bicycle to work
8:30 - work starts
5pm - ride back home
6pm - cook and eat dinner
7pm - household chores
8pm - 1h free time
9pm - go to bed
So I manage to not fall behind on the household, shopping, sleep, me-time or exercise during the week.
I can carve out up to 4 hours for some special evening event once in a while.
Weekends are filled with side projects, visiting family and activities with friends.
Riding a bicycle to work was the game changer for me. It adds 2h of daily exercise and time to reflect during my commute.
I’d say there’s some differences between biking and gym in terms of whole body strength and flexibility, but it’s good exercise. Definitely more productive than driving.
I think one point that can still be made is that this schedule means your average day (averaging over weekends) contains 7 hours of work/commute and only 3.5 hours of hobbies/activities.
A move to a 30 hour work week would mean that you would only spend 5.5-6 hours a day working and get 5 hours an average day for hobbies/activities.
there’s some differences between biking and gym in terms of whole body strength and flexibility
Why you gotta dunk on cardio like that?! Seriously if there’s one thing my recent focus on cardio has taught me it’s that more folks who focus on strength need to spend time on cardio. Seriously it greatly reduces your recovery time and gets to where you just need to take micro breaks to recover enough for the next rep/set and can therefore lift longer and more frequently meaning you can get more reps and sets in the same amount of time. Last year I had a few sessions with a trainer because I wanted to work on some upper body strength and the trainer was visibly weirded out by my recovery time, where I’d only need 30-60 seconds between sets and they actually said “hey you can rest longer” and I’m just like “nah I’m good now let’s go!” (It was also funny when doing some leg exercises seeing how I could do 4x as much weight pushing with my legs as I could lifting with my legs) Anyways I’d literally finish the 1 hour session in just 45 minutes thanks to the quick recovery times
I’ve skipped making the bed for the last 30 years. I’m never in the bedroom unless I’m in bed, so having it be in any other state beyond “able to lay down on” is pointless.
Only when I’ve overslept and am in a big hurry. Then I’m out the door 5 minutes after waking up.
But otherwise, it takes just a minute, and transforms how the room looks.
A messy living space affects your mental state.
making the bed is nice because it removes moisture and therefore smell from the bedsheets, so it’s fresh when you want to use it again in the evening :P
edit: important:
by “making the bed” i do not mean to put the blanket down in an orderly, square pattern or sth. i mean to shake it thoroughly once (maybe also do that outside the window) so the moisture from sweat that accumulates in it during the nighttime can be transported away with the wind. then it’s clean and smells really fresh when you want to use it again in the evening.
5:30 - get up, get dressed, make the bed
5:45 - go for a walk with my wife and our cat
6:15 - shower, coffee, lemmy, household chores
7:30 - ride bicycle to work
8:30 - work starts
5pm - ride back home
6pm - cook and eat dinner
7pm - household chores
8pm - 1h free time
9pm - go to bed
So I manage to not fall behind on the household, shopping, sleep, me-time or exercise during the week.
I can carve out up to 4 hours for some special evening event once in a while.
Weekends are filled with side projects, visiting family and activities with friends.
Riding a bicycle to work was the game changer for me. It adds 2h of daily exercise and time to reflect during my commute.
I’d say there’s some differences between biking and gym in terms of whole body strength and flexibility, but it’s good exercise. Definitely more productive than driving.
I think one point that can still be made is that this schedule means your average day (averaging over weekends) contains 7 hours of work/commute and only 3.5 hours of hobbies/activities.
A move to a 30 hour work week would mean that you would only spend 5.5-6 hours a day working and get 5 hours an average day for hobbies/activities.
Why you gotta dunk on cardio like that?! Seriously if there’s one thing my recent focus on cardio has taught me it’s that more folks who focus on strength need to spend time on cardio. Seriously it greatly reduces your recovery time and gets to where you just need to take micro breaks to recover enough for the next rep/set and can therefore lift longer and more frequently meaning you can get more reps and sets in the same amount of time. Last year I had a few sessions with a trainer because I wanted to work on some upper body strength and the trainer was visibly weirded out by my recovery time, where I’d only need 30-60 seconds between sets and they actually said “hey you can rest longer” and I’m just like “nah I’m good now let’s go!” (It was also funny when doing some leg exercises seeing how I could do 4x as much weight pushing with my legs as I could lifting with my legs) Anyways I’d literally finish the 1 hour session in just 45 minutes thanks to the quick recovery times
You bother to waste time making the bed, but not showering before going to bed? Bizarre.
I don’t even shower every day. Hope that doesn’t break your mind.
Do you ever skip making the bed?
I’ve skipped making the bed for the last 30 years. I’m never in the bedroom unless I’m in bed, so having it be in any other state beyond “able to lay down on” is pointless.
100%
I think I heard something once about something being better even when you make the bed three seconds before you lay down in it
^solid source right there
Only when I’ve overslept and am in a big hurry. Then I’m out the door 5 minutes after waking up.
But otherwise, it takes just a minute, and transforms how the room looks.
A messy living space affects your mental state.
How? Is your bed in your living room? When you go to bed you mess it up, wouldn’t that affect your mental state?
making the bed is nice because it removes moisture and therefore smell from the bedsheets, so it’s fresh when you want to use it again in the evening :P
edit: important:
by “making the bed” i do not mean to put the blanket down in an orderly, square pattern or sth. i mean to shake it thoroughly once (maybe also do that outside the window) so the moisture from sweat that accumulates in it during the nighttime can be transported away with the wind. then it’s clean and smells really fresh when you want to use it again in the evening.
She buys the groceries, that is your trick.
Not really, we take turns with shopping and cooking.
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