Anyone have experience working full time while raising a family and hitting the gym

[Oniizanagi]

Anyone have any experience working full time while raising a family in the part time generic program and still finding time to get to the gym or working out period. If so any tips on how to manage the time without sacrificing anything. I am thinking of hitting early 6 am gym sessions since I work 9:30 to 5 pm the days I have class and 9:30 to 6 on the days I don't M-F.

[rubato, ASN, RN]

I don't work full time, but do work part time as well as being in nursing school, plus extra classes. I have a very needy family and I work out 6 days a week. I get up at 4:30 and head down to my basement gym where I lift and run. I then go to school all day. The only day I don't work out is on 12 hour clinical days. I still manage to work out on 12 hour work days, because they start just a tad later. I also take evening zumba classes, but have had to cut that down to 1 day a week, and on occasion, have had to miss the week entirely. It can be done, but you will have to give something up. It might be a clean house (in my case), sleep, tv time, book reading time, friends time. You just can't do everything. I still see my friends, hang out with my family, and get it all done, but I only read books for pleasure on school breaks, and I have a dirty house now. :)

[Oniizanagi]

Lol thanks for the input. Yea I kind of figured having to prioritize things and cut back on some of them. For me asides from school my family and gym time are both important to me. The gym is a huge stress reliever and my girlfriend and I have a 7 month old daughter at the moment and I definitely don't want to miss any of the precious moments with her. With my schedule I'll be doing something similar to you and hitting the workouts early in the morning before work and school work/family time to the evenings. Thanks again :)