teacher hours and excercise

[Anonymous]

OP, you have to decide your priority: is doing a group class more important than exercising at a convenient time for your schedule? If the answer is yes, research local gyms and choose the one with the most classes offered closest to the times you are willing to go. If the answer is no, then exercise at your leisure before or after school.

Before Covid I preferred the gym, but I learned during that period that I exercised much more often when I could do it as soon as I got home, so that’s my routine now. When I went to 5pm classes I had a lot of dead time waiting to go to class or commuting to and from the gym.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and looking at gym memberships.

My work hours are 8:30-3:25.

The gym has group classes at 8:00-11:00 and then they pick up again at 5:30-9:00.

Should I even bother?? My thought was to go either before or after school.

You work 7 hours a day.

I don’t understand why those hours won’t work for you? What do you think most people with jobs do for gym time?

I assume you have kids, work out on your own at the end hours (530 or 10pm) or workout 530pm and get home at 630, when most working parents who work 8+ hours get home.

DP. I’m a teacher, too. I work 10-11 hours most days. My time *with students* may equal about 7 hours.

There’s a huge misconception on DCUM regarding teacher work. It isn’t the easy, breezy job people like to pretend it is.

But to answer the question: I work out at 5am before I get ready. I’m way too tired after the work day.

I am a former teacher who also worked many hours. But OP clearly stated “I work . . . “ and then listed a 7 hour day. So maybe they have a part time schedule, or work at some particularly cushy private school. Or maybe they meant those are the core hours when they have to be in the building, and they do the rest at home.

I do think there is an issue of people on DCUM not believing teachers who describe their work day, but in this case OP described a 7 hour day.

[Anonymous]

OP, where are you located?

[Anonymous]

Women breast feed or pump in change tents at full distance Ironman events. OP needs to make time. We all do it.

Find what works and do it. Sometimes, it is your form of entertainment. Or don’t and see what happens in 30 years.