Do your hobbies/sport/exercise massively impact family life?

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Might just be feeling a bit overwhelmed but, our week for a family of 3 looks a little like this ....
minimum of 16 sets of training clothes to be washed. Not including anything else.
3 early starts, up at 5:30 out the door at 6, straight to work home at 7.
3 evenings taken up (including a Friday)
6:30am start on Saturday.
7:30am start on the occasional Sunday
3/4 hours on a Sunday taken up, time varies. We are all active, and all enjoy it, but I am
beginning to think its getting a bit excessive!

Just me then

Sounds exhausting what’s the sport?

Many folk who own horses not on full livery have the early starts every day and also lose a chunk of every evening to them. If everyone enjoys it, or can do their own thing, it's fine. If you're not happy, cut back a bit (or, where horses are concerned, buy in labour to get your free time back).

Sounds exhausting to me, but, if you are all enjoying it, and one person isn't resentful, then live and let live.

Nah fuck that.

We have two DC with additional needs, can barely keep on top of day to day tasks let alone 15 hours on whatever hobby that is.

Great if you all enjoy it and no one in the family is complaining but, it seems like a military exercise to keep up with the schedule. I'd be exhausted. Good on you though

It does sound bloody exhausting TBH. I go to the gym in the evening three times a week and DH goes for a trek three times a week. We usually have a family day out walking somewhere on Sundays. But thats enough for us.

On Saturdays, the DC and I are exhausted after school and work, so we stay at home in our PJS all day. Poor DH is in work. I could not stomach leaving my bed before 8am on a weekend.

It sounds exhausting but thats just my opinion.

If your enjoying it then I don't see the problem. If your not cut back. Hobbies are supposed to add to your life not take them over.

I run 3x per week and play netball 1-2x per week, which ends up being about 3.5hours running and 4 hours netball (which includes travel).
DH runs/cycles 1-2 times a week and plays golf 1-2 times. Which ends up being 6-10 hours total.
Kids swimming is the only hobby at the moment. They attend the same class so 1.5 hours including travel/ changing for that.

A bit, but its my second job and impacts way less than my other job.

We are pretty similar but without so many early starts. 3 children all with at least 5 hrs of sport each per week plus me and DH who have similar (although I try to do some of my running on my day off)
But overall we are busy and usually not home each evening until half 8 plus much of the weekend taken up with sports. Exhausting but worth it.

Just don't wash your clothes every time you train?

Is that 2 adults and a child?

2 adults, 1 teen. Not washing clothes isn't an option and pretty grim in my opinion. It's a mixture of HIIT, running, football and rugby.

It had to be horses surely? I'm the same, it's exhausting but a way of life!

Oh sorry missed your update, ignore me!

I try and train before work or at lunch so it's doesn't impact our evenings but the boys obviously don't have that luxury as it's team training and they can't dictate the schedule.

Yep, both DH and I run 5ish times a week, taking it in turns to do early mornings/late evenings. DH cycles to work and back every day(12 miles each way). DD runs with a club twice a week, parkrun, swims, gymnastics. DS does cricket, swimming and parkrun. There is a lot of kit, lots of time spent away from home, however, everyone is so much happier than they would be without the sports

No. We swim a lot but it is just part of life. Rinsing wetsuits, washing towels, travelling to lakes etc. It doesn't feel like a chore because we love it. (Dh, me and 3dc all 7 and under).
Other than that my dd and I run, that is easy. My dh cycles and goes away once or twice a year which is good for him and I love it being the only adult in the house.
I sing once a week so dh has to do bedtime on his own, which is probably good for him!

Sounds like your active life is running you.
Do you all NEED to do this activity so much?

Is it a dcs hobby/sport? Or all individual? I want hate that structure as when can you go out as a family or individually etc?

Just me usually 1 or 2 activities per day equalling about ten sets of clothes a week. But it's not muddy so just goes through the washer, on the line and a quick fold or iron because I'm precious like that!
There was was time when I had three boys playing rugby but I did a bit less in those days. Never any early starts though. Always evenings and weekends.

We love it as a family, it's just the grunt that goes behind it that I hate.
Meal prep, washing, the endless socks ..... but I actually couldn't live without exercise. DH and I have pretty full on jobs with long hour so it helps with the stress. Just wish I didn't have to wash 20 Tupperware's every evening, they just don't dry in the dishwasher

I do some form of exercise twice during the week on my days off, it's not structured just whatever. DH similar. Weekends packed with dc hobbies, socialising with family & friends.

I'm strict about us eating dinner together every evening but as the dc get older I will make more time.