Can I still go to the gym regularly (Once I am nursing school)?

**RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN** · Jan 5, 2006

You can do it! Good luck

ARRR10 · Jan 5, 2006

Thanks for the advice everybody!!! Everyone here on this forum is so helpful. I am amazed that some nursing students actually have families, a job (some 2 jobs), and they still have time to workout. I remember when my mom used to own a restaurant. At the same time, she also was studying to become a CNA and was also in charge of taking me and my brothers to school and sports practice afterwards. To help my mom out, I would always make sure the house was clean before my mom got home. Most of the time, I was called a "mama's boy" by my brothers, but I really didn't care. I just wanted to let my mom take a rest before she had to work again.

I just wanted to thank everybody again for their advice.

NaomieRN · Jan 5, 2006

I plan to go to the gym at least 3 times a week, even if it is 30 minutes a day to relief stress.

I dont see why you cannot continue to go. That is one of the best ways to relief stress.

Curious1alwys, BSN, RN · Jan 6, 2006

Make working out a priority. I WAS a lifetime exerciser and I let the stress of first semester NS get to me and I quit working out all together. I feel absolutely HORRIBLE. This semester, I vow not to let that happen. Honestly, w/o my workouts I feel like I am one step away from the looney bin all the time. I am going to be taking aerobics at my community college too, to help. You may look into working out AT SCHOOL. It's an idea.....I also got an IPOD and new video workouts to help motivate...

We should form a NS/Workout check in, you know, to keep us all accountable for our fitness and health while in NS. I think it is just as important as passing your classes!!!!

:chuckle

NeoNurseTX, RN · Jan 10, 2006

I'm sure it can be done, but I'm usually so pooped or have a ton of reading needing to be done so I rarely get to go during the semesters.

cjog · Jan 10, 2006

Like others have said, it's all about priority. Because working out has such a huge impact on my physical and emotional health it is a huge priority for me. Right now I am currently taking pre-requisites (Micro and Oranic/Biochem) and working about 30 hours a week. I still manage to work out 6 days a week for an hour at a time (training for a marathon!)

nursemelani · Jan 10, 2006

It depends what else you have going on in your life. Are you working? Do you have kids?

If you are going to school but not working or raising kids, you can certainly have a life. When you juggle all three, it gets complicated.

MayisontheWay · Jan 11, 2006

I ran a marathon the Sunday following my last day of my first semester...the training was 5 days/week with long runs (up to 20 miles) on Saturdays. It can be done! I don't work, but have a family. My house is never clean. My laundry is clean but that doesn't mean it gets put away!

Good luck to you!

May

labman · Jan 11, 2006

Hi

Here is my take on working out while in nusing school. I like to workout at least 6 times a week. There will be time if you can make time. Just schedule time as needed. With me I like to run after class or after a long time of studying because personally when I study too long I get flighty and spacy (I think I might have add or something like that). I like to workout with nothing because it clears my mind. It is the only time I have to myself. I love having a chunck out of the day where it is about me or not having to worry about homework or studying or other problems. I am also training for a triathlon and 1/2 marathon in may and june. I haven't felt better about myself since I started training.

KENT

mpolo · Apr 25, 2010

Hi,

This thread is pretty decent.

I also like to see that there are a few other blokes like me, who are also either studying to be a nurse, or are already a nurse, and are also into fitness and stuff.

I've just started a fast-track course, which doesn't allow me to work, as it is too time consuming and intensive.

However it does provide me with the opportunity to work out, and not only focus on the health of my patients (via studying the books, and practical placements), i can also work on my own health (incorporating some of the learnings on myself as well....).

I have identified this time of study, as also an opportunity to get buffed.

Always wanted to do this, get big, big arms, torso and proportional muscles.

Tended to be on the leaner side, but always involved in some form of recreational sport, but NOW....

thanks to the fact that im either in the books, or on placement, i have the opportunity to focus on myself, and also get the level of fitness that I have always dreamed of. Of course, the stress relief is also a flow on effect, but im actually looking forward to my classes and practicals now....as i know that I will be relying on my fitness to get me through.....and that means BUFF!

The ladies will love that.....and I will love the fact that the ladies will love that.

Another person wrote about nursing school teaching time management and organisation.....this is so true.

It forces you to be organized.

i have tended to be more on the side of impulse, and gut feeling....

but this course is teaching me the hard and the real way, that i need to be organised....this is a difficult lesson, but a valuable one, and one of the reasons

why this is such as great course.....it forces you to get organised, forces you to become a good communicator, forces you to become health yourself, forces you to be more aware, forces you to be more human/compassionate, forces you to be confident, forces you to be active, forces you to be resilient, forces you to answer many of those personal psychological questions that appear when under the stress and under the pump.

It is difficult, the course....but i tell you what....if you start discounting on your health and your fitness, then you will needlessly be going through hell.

I know, because lately my swimming training hasn't been up to scratch, actually hasn't been up to scratch since the beginning of semester, and my gosh do i feel it...........so much to catch up.....and yes.....a lot of head work......

with my swimming and my personal training, I wouldn't have these headaches and avoidable problems that I have now.

Beware, stop your training and you will go back to being a regular Joe, with all

the common psychological colds of society......

one of the only things that will keep you sane, throughout this thing is working out.

I set up a home gym, have access to a few local gyms (as I work casually for a swimming pool), and recently hung up my kickbag again.

This is awesome, the kickbag, lets me vent out so much frustration, feels great punching it, kicking it, and releasing all that anger...and other not so positive emotions.

I attribute my growing levels of fitness with my turning point in the nursing course, from being overwhelmed, to retaking control of my destiny.

discount your exercise at your own peril.

Life is not a sprint, it's a marathon.....

&

Failure is a far greater teacher than success.

Big body.....looking forward to becoming who I've always wanted to be....a big armed bloke to make the ladies cream themselves....

lol.

once again....

Failure is a far greater teacher than success.

allnurses Guide · Apr 25, 2010

The girl who sits in front of me in lecture class works full time, goes to nursing school full time and STILL manages to find time to get to the gym - and looks terrific. (*seething jealousy here....lol!*)

So yes. If it is a priority to you, you will manage to find a way.

Rednights · Apr 25, 2010

Assuming you don't have family obligations nor work ... there is PLENTY of hours to do anything you like during Nursing School. Most people here though have family/work so you get the misconception quickly that NS is a 24/7 commitment.