Ask HN: What do you do to relax your self after work?

[christopherDam]

Hi All

I get so much exhausted after my day job. When I come back to my home I get so much tired and exhausted. I do not want to sit back to my computer. I want to take some break and relax my self. After taking break I want to get in to my side projects.

1) So what do you do to get out of exhausted feeling and refresh yourself after work?

2) How you motivate yourself to get again in something productive.

[cmyr]

Do something that uses another part of your brain. Cook a meal, listen to a podcast, clean the kitchen, go for a walk?

[ramtatatam]

All my friends who work in IT are saying it's good to do sport - jogging, cycling, tennis, some of them even do martial arts.

As for myself - I never found myself doing sport for longer than a week apart from chess (not a sport really...) - I love playing chess :-) Recently I was also solving some funny problems here: https://www.codingame.com/leaderboards/global/challenge/back... (found on ycombinator!)

[tjr]

I usually do exercise immediately after work, but if I'm feeling too tired to do anything productive, and if I want to do something productive, then taking a nap helps. Maybe 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

Your schedule and/or sleep preferences may preclude this from being a useful option, but for me it both works and is sometimes mandatory if I want to, e.g., do more programming or writing work in the evening.

[swcoders]

I watch movies immediate after my work. It makes me very relax.