After a full Saturday shuttling her two kids to soccer and play-dates across Manhattan, Neha Ruch, 39, finally carved out a few precious minutes to exercise at 6.15pm. She didn’t even bother to change clothes before hopping onto her elliptical machine in a closet-turned-home-gym.
After 15 minutes, the interruptions started. First, her husband poked his head in – their daughter was pleading for her to say goodnight. No problem, Ruch thought. She sat with her daughter for a while and then came back to the machine.
