Bench press your toddler. They’re heavy.
But also schedule time during the week when the kid is distracted/somewhere else/mail them to in-laws or parents.
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I hear you. My wife and I both work full time. The only option is weekends and one parent has to take kid duties. It's frustrating and exhausting, but we manage to squeeze in a tiny bit of fitness.
Oh that's easy, I don't.
Like others have said, it gets better with time. I did a lot of cycling before my daughter was born. She’s 2 now and I’m finally getting back into evening rides after she’s in bed. Good lights are key!
Another option is to involve your kid somehow. When my daughter was a little younger, I would load her up in a kid carrier backpack and take her for long walks. A professor of mine in college trained to climb Mount Everest in part by using a treadmill on maximum incline with his kid in a backpack.
I work from home so I can do house chores and stuff throughout the day and wife only works weekends. I do all my climbing after the kid goes to bed. Wife prefers to workout at home and does during naps.
It took about 6 months to a year to start getting a consistent schedule though. We also did sleep training around 10 months and it was hard for a couple nights but it was 1000% worth it.
So your options are early, naps, after bed, or having your partner watch the kid while you work out. When he was really little we had a play area (really large pack n play basically) and could workout while keeping an eye on him.