I agree. A better way to word it might just be that I prioritise it.

I find that a lot of people say "I can't do that because X". I see it more as, well, I have to do that, so I can't do X, then.

As you say, scheduling time.

On Saturday night my kids went to sleep, wife goes to sleep, I work out for 2 hours at 10pm.

What was everyone else doing? Watching Netflix?

People pretend there’s no time but it’s all illusionary.

You answered your own question? It sound like everyone else was sleeping.

It's odd to suggest that people will have enough time to exercise if they just cut into their bedtime. Is the idea here that you sleep in the next morning, and then your wife wakes up earlier to take up your slack?

Is this your suggested solution for everyone? Increase your free time to exercise by reducing someone else's?

You don't exercise in your free time, just like you don't work in your free time.

edit: No, I do it in the time I set aside to exercise.

This might seem foreign to you but to me it's no different from someone saying "I need £100 to pay the rent" and so they make time and find a way to pay the bills (usually a job). They don't "work in their free time", they structure their life around it because income is important to them.

Right, you exercise in your bedtime instead.

My point is that everyone is lifting excuses instead of lifting weights! Get to the gym and stop complaining

Do you tell your wife to get to the gym and stop complaining when you go off to exercise without her at 10pm?

No I communicate with my wife and tell her things

That’s terrible for your sleep.

The problem is that top-level competitive work takes a lot of mental and emotional effort. So even if I’m spending time on health, I can’t do it work 100% effort, and so result is still suboptimal.

I have trained myself to shut off work when I stop working. This took a lot of time. Very rarely nowadays is my sleep or time outside work disturbed by what is happening at work. It’s a meditative practice, but once you really get in the mindset of work being for work, family for family, sleep for sleep, etc. then you stop being bothered.

That means you probably aren't maximizing your career though, which was the point you have to make a choice there.

‘A Healthy body is a healthy mind’.

NOT doing a base level of exercise and body maintenance results in predictable mental issues (anxiety, depression, difficulty learning, etc.).

> I’ve worked 60 - 70 hours a week for 2 decades and I’m in excellent physical condition.

That's not a great flex. Don't be proud of working those hours mon ami. I'm glad youre healthy tho