Fightsports while in school

Part time + Nursing + Training? I think you will spread too thin.

Most schools dont even advise part time, much less training. Not that you shouldn't exercise, but it seems like you wont have enough time in a week for all that.

Been wrestling from middle school, through highschool, and beginning of college. During highschool, I started up BJJ but had to quit because wrestling just took up too much time. Then in college, I decided to take up bjj again while still competing in wrestling. My grades dropped big time. I just cared about winning Pan American Games and Mundial Championships and crap like that. I loved it. I realized I couldn't juggle everything together with the studying and bjj and wrestling so I just ended up dropping wrestling. Now I'm in nursing school and there is no freakin way I can even juggle bjj + nursing school + working part time(25 hours). I tried to do it but it was just too much, for me at least....

But you could be different though, as long as you have your priorities straight. The problem with me was that, I always ended up getting too carried away with the training, tournaments, etc , and it made me too tired to study. I honestly couldn't imagine myself NOT training... Because I was so obsessed but after a couple of weeks... I got over it.

Are you going to be in a fulltime RN program? Because if its part time LVN, then I could see it totally different.

and by the way, where do you train at?

"I honestly couldn't imagine myself NOT training... Because I was so obsessed but after a couple of weeks... I got over it."

This is how I feel, lol. I hope I can get over it as quickly, I read back through my post after I typed it out and realized I pretty much have to quit (at least for two years). I'll be doing full-time RN; 2-year program though, I already have an unrelated bachelor's degree (with crappy grades because I spent all of my time training).

I'm learning to box at a small gym in Tallahasse, FL called Warrior's Path.

I realized I will have my first summer (2010) completely off, so I figure I can try to overdose on training then to hopefully tide me over.

"But you could be different though, as long as you have your priorities straight."

Historically speaking, I have never been able to keep my priorities completely in line with training. I always end up getting too involved and letting my grades suffer. I'm not worried about the time aspect (i think I will probably have enough free time), but I'm worried about splitting up my focus and energy.

I appreciate the replies, I'm probably just going to quit (I have some nagging injuries that I can try to work through), focus on school, and pick it back up in the summer.

Don't stop exercising. I just started taking combat-swordsmanship this semester and I love it, going to try to fit it in next semester as well. Its my only class thursday so including traveling, its 3 hours of my day, at least 6/week excluding practicing on my own. But I'll cut time from it for nursing if I have to.

Nursing is always #1, but nursing should never be the only 1.

Historically speaking, I have never been able to keep my priorities completely in line with training. I always end up getting too involved and letting my grades suffer. I'm not worried about the time aspect (i think I will probably have enough free time), but I'm worried about splitting up my focus and energy.

I appreciate the replies, I'm probably just going to quit (I have some nagging injuries that I can try to work through), focus on school, and pick it back up in the summer.

Haha You are exactly like me.... Yea, i realized I had enough free time to study, but did I end up using that extra time to study? No(no matter how much I would tell myself Im going to study after training or before training), because I was pretty spent FROM training. Physically and mentally. I mean,ANY type of fight training which is cardio intensive just drains the hell out of you. Yea you'll get over it dude and can sure as go all out on it again after you finish your program.

I knew I wanted to do nursing for awhile, but it took me 2 years to realize I needed to "temporarily" stop training for awhile because I was getting no where. But then again, thats just me. lol . I can still maintain a social life though, on the weekends and get some pretty epic workouts in.

Goodluck to you in whatever you do man.

and by the way, yes I still get a itch sometimes to want to train again. Everytime a new ufc comes along, or the talks on pacquiao vs mayweather.

man you can slack off training alittle while you are in school and pick up full speed when you are out and making some jack. i have been taking judo/sambo for about 18months since i have been working and its super sweet. graduate school then train all you want.

DIFF.

Love MMA, love it, but yeah, I must agree, this is more important...besides, think how valuable you'll be when you're all old with bad knees and one conc away from death or PBD.

Make a schedule. Figure about 2 hours out of class for each hour in class and about half an hour out of clinical for each hour in clinical and you have the school time covered. I suspect you'll find plenty of time for workouts.

My clinical to preplanning is practically 1:1. Get there at 7-8am the day before to find 2 patients, spend the entire day making a care plan.

For the clinical, I get there at 630 till 4-5pm including post conference.

Its basically 2 days because of how exhausted you are. I almost never do anything else productive those two days.

This was my first semester. We did not write care plans in advance of seeing our patients.

We would look over their charts the day before, get report in the morning, and then perform all the routine morning stuff, do an assessment, and then if they were getting anything special like RT, PT, medical eval, or procedure, hang around and watch or help with that.

From this we'd write a nursing diagnosis and care plan to turn in for credit.

Since care plans take ALL day, I don't know why they would want a bunch of sleep deprived noobies to arrive on the floor and have the most personal contact with patients.

Our care plan is lab interpretations, patho concept map, 2 nursing dx, a med sheet. We do 2 since we have 2 patients. We have to arrive usually 7-8am depending on how scarce patients are. And sometimes you just dont want to have last pick and get a guy with 30 meds.

Our clinical day is waking up at 5am, getting there at 630am to get report. Then we do meds, vitals, PE, bed bath, and whatever else comes up that we can handle. We also need to document and do an outcome note for both patients. It doesnt sound like alot, but Ive had maybe 2-3 lunches in my 8-9 clinicals. Every other time, I was either busy with the patient or charting while munching a power bar. We are suppose to get done at 1:30Pm, but usually we dont leave the floor until 2-3pm since our instructor needs to check all our notes. Then we have 1-2 hours of post-conference that is either just sharing our day or teaching us something new (like inserting NG tubes).

I get home around 4-5pm and crash.

I appreciate all the advice, it's helpful to hear different perspectives (and helpful to hear about how time-consuming clinicals will be, yikes).

I read/absorb stuff unusually quickly, so I expect that studying outside of class won't be as difficult for me (this has been the case all through high school and through my bachelor's degree), but I feel that the stakes will be a little higher with this stuff (don't want to make a medication error, lol) and I don't want to risk anything. I want to graduate on top of my class, in any case.

I'm not too worried about finding the time to workout, but I usually do better when I have a bit of time each day with no allotted activities (studying, exercise, work, etc etc). I can usually get an excellent workout done in just 20 or 30 minutes at home, where as a solid training session will take an hour or 2 (with driving time factored in).

I usually workout with my kettlebells while I study, anyway (as in I'll read a page or two, then stand up and knock out some clean & presses or snatches, then sit back down and study a little more, etc). It's a great way to fit some lifting in without having to dedicate any time to it and surprisingly seems to make my study time more effective.

I'll only have class or clinical stuff 4 days a week, but i'll be working each of the other days. On paper, it looks easy, but I'm trying to anticipate a need for a lot work at home. I also find training like this to be much more draining than other types of exercise, it usually impacts me (as far as how much rest I need to recover adequately between workouts and how much food I need to eat) more so than just working out seems to demand from me.

My other main concern is finances, as I'm already borrowing money to get through school/pay living expenses. If i'm kicking in training expenses too, it will be an additional 5 or 6 hundred (at a minimum) I'll need to come up with each year. It'd be worth it if I could be sure I can make it in frequently enough, but I'm not sure. I figure I'll see how much free time I have once my program starts and decide then.

Thanks again for all the advice.