Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login 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. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

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