It's always my plan to work out before I go to bed when I get home from work, but that almost never happens. I am so wiped from running all night I fall face first in to bed. But I'm caught because if I work back to back there's no way I can get myself out of bed any earlier than I do (I have to get up at 345 to pick up my little one from school) so on back to back days I don't get a workout in. I'm not a fan of this solution, but as long as I'm getting in enough the rest of the week, for now I guess I'll have to deal.

It really changes for me some nights I do some kind of exercise at work if possible. Other days it just depends on who in my family wants to work out with me. My moms more likely to work out in the morning after her night shift, but if its the kids its after school. Hubby.. He's still working on getting there .

I'm going to start tomorrow doing some Zumba on my Wii for 20 min and move it up to 30 in a month. I'm a nurse on the Ortho unit 7pm-7:30am.

I work 7pm-7am. I have to workout whenever I leave work because I can't seem to fit exercise in before I go to work. There are no particular reasons...I just always get sidetracked or tied up doing something from the time I wake up till time I go to work. Also I have found that I sleep so much better when I work out after a shift. I almost always don't eat after my workout. Sometimes I feel like I am starving to the point I can't sleep/stay asleep so I have a GNC Total Lean Shake before going to bed. All this though is dependent on me packing a gym bag before I leave for work. I have learned that all good intentions to go home, change clothes, then go to the gym does not work at all!

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I work 7p to 7a, and once I get done with my paperwork I have about an hour or so of downtime that I use to make laps around my unit. My coworkers think I'm crazy, but I get a few miles in :P

I workout in the morning after working all night. The only problems I have is that A. I can't use any caffiene pre-work because I would get absolutely no sleep and B. my gym opens late on the week ends which sucks because I am not going to push my work out back an hour just to lift weights

I usually try to workout right before work unless it's my day off, I'm lucky to live across the street from my gym so I have no excuse to not workout. What I find difficult is the first day of work when I'm up for like 20hrs at that point I think rest is way more important than workingout.

Working nights and working out is hard. I'm sure others have this issue but I rarely can sleep a consecutive 2+ hours during the day. It's awful. So, waking up early to get my butt to the gym every day that I'm working is a joke. So, instead, IF I have energy in the morning when I get out of work, I try to do 15-30 minutes of pilates or sometimes I go for a walk by the river by the hospital I work at. AND if I can't sleep, I wake up early in time to spend an hour at the gym before going to bed. If not, I MAKE myself go to the gym (and log at least 90 minutes a day of cardio) on the other 4 days that I don't have to sleep all day long. It's not the easiest thing in the world.

Also, 22 laps around our unit (it's a circle) equals about a mile. S**W nights=mile.

Usually if I go to the gym its after my night shift in the morning. Mostly due to the fact my mom works nights too so I call her up and see if she wants to go. That way when I get done I can sleep ( or try to) then when the hubbi and kids get done for the day I'm home and awake. Then when possible I get another hour or two of sleep before work. Some nights like tonight I get some exercise at work while every one here is sleeping.

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT I DO ALSO:bigsmile:

I can't work out if I know I'm doing a crapload of stuff in the afternoon before going to work. I usually get up around 5:30 in the afternoon, and work 10:30 PM to 7:00 AM. So that's 5 hours I'm up doing stuff around the house, before going to work. I'll be worn out at work if I've done too much beforehand. It's a tough give-take situation.

I work 2200-0630, and I usually work out right after work. The gym I usually go to is just a few miles from the hospital I work at, and at 6:30 is pretty much never crowded. But then again it is a college campus, so most of the people I see there are alumni (like myself) and there's not too many students that early. I have found if I try and wait until I get up in the afternoon, I won't do it or the gym is filled with annoying kids there for social hour.

I do my exercising in the morning after work and find that it works better for me. I can get to the park or gym before most other people, especially on week days when they have to be at work already, and I can work out in the cool of the morning before it's all hot and gross out. Then I can just get my shower and get in bed and feel tired enough to actually go to sleep. I prefer waking up right before I go to work instead of being up for a while first, so it's a good way to fill the few spare hours in the morning.

I've tried working out after my 12 hour shift but I've only been able to do it once. Usually I'm too tired and just go to bed. I did work out once after work. A friend that I work with had to take her car to the shop to get it repaired and she asked me if I wanted to go out for breakfast while her car was being worked on. I told her I had a better idea and we both went to the gym. I decided if I was going to workout, I would stop at 7-11 and get a 5 hour energy. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I would have been able to make it through the workout otherwise but I had heart palpitations and was all jittery for hours. I think I'm much better off going home and getting some sleep first. lol