I used to workout 6 times a week and would wake up at 5am to do so because I’m a college student and was working full time.

Now I have 2 jobs, still doing college, now adding evening classes for a certification, and am also doing volunteer/internship work for my premed pathway.

I used to prioritize working out over everything and sometimes to the detriment of my school and work (which is very immature of me in hindsight). I don’t have that mentality anymore and now will neglect working out instead.

I can’t wake up at 5am anymore as my certification class goes until 10:30 and I’m not home until 11pm. My college classes are so much more rigorous now, and my job isn’t work from home anymore so I don’t have that luxury of flexibility.

I have so many aspirations, working out to feel confident in my body is one of them and I feel heartbroken for putting it on the back burner. I feel like I’m ruining all my progress I worked so hard for, im lucky if I go to the gym 2-3 times a week now. Even on weekends I spend all my free time catching up on studying.

I don’t know how to schedule my life now to incorporate working out consistently anymore. It’s only been a few weeks of me transitioning into this schedule, is it possible for me to do it all but I’m just not working hard enough?

For people who are balancing a lot of things and have competing priorities, how do you incorporate working out in your busy life?