Time change: what each animal at the gym will do with their extra hour

Something happens tonight that doesn't happen at any other time of the year: they're going to give you an hour. Without paying a fee, without doing burpees and without the coach saying "it's short." At 3:00 in the morning on Sunday, October 25, it will be 2:00 again in the Peninsula, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. In the Canary Islands, at 2:00 it will be 1:00. Sunday will be 25 hours.

The question is what are you going to do with it. And, above all, what is she going to do with you on Monday in the 7:00 class.

What the BOE says (and what it doesn't say)

The official calendar of time changes published by the BOE in 2022 covered from 2022 to 2026, and ends just this Sunday. The fact that there are no published dates for the coming years does not mean that the changes will end: the rule continues to establish that summer time begins on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October. If nothing changes, the next one will be March 28, 2027, and that day we will lose the hour that they give us today.

In 2018, the European Commission proposed ending time changes, but countries have not agreed on which time to stick to. That is to say, they have been arguing for years like the gym when it comes to deciding the music for the class.

What each animal at the gym will do with their extra hour

• The Meerkat: put her to sleep. Whole. Hugging the pillow. It's the most sensible decision you'll make all week.
• The Gorilla: get up at the same time as always, which is now an hour earlier. It doesn't bother him. I was already awake.
• El Pavo Real: use it to record a reel titled "What do I do with my extra hour." It will take the whole hour to choose the song.
• The Sloth: not finding out about the change, arriving to class an hour early by mistake and finding the gym closed. For the first time in his life, punctual.
• El Toro: propose a 25-hour training session because "Sunday has 25 hours." Nobody signs up.
• The Hyena: tell the joke "this year I'm not late, I'm an hour early" to everyone who walks through the door. Until March.

Next week's 7:00 class

Here comes the serious part. For a few days, your body will continue to operate on the old schedule. Most people adapt within a few days, but in the meantime you may notice that you wake up before the alarm goes off, that you are hungry at odd hours or that at 9:30 p.m. you are already yawning like a lion after eating.

The good news for early risers: from now on it dawns earlier. For a few weeks, the first hour class will have a little more light. The bad news: it gets dark earlier, and the 7:00 p.m. class will start at night. Leaving the gym in the dark in October is the sporting equivalent of leaving the cinema in the afternoon and discovering that it is already nighttime.

How to pass the change without it being noticed in the WOD

• Keep your bedtime. Go to bed and get up at your usual time according to the new clock. The body loves routines, even if it doesn't say it.
• Look for light in the morning. Going outside for a while early helps adjust the internal clock. Walking to the gym counts.
• Don't compensate with crazy caffeine. If you're feeling heavy on Monday, one coffee, not four. The 7:00 p.m. pre-workout is still a bad idea at bedtime.
• Dinner at the usual time according to the new clock, even if the first few days it seems early or late.
• Check the gym schedule. The cell phone clock changes itself. The one with the microwave, the one in the car and the one on the gym wall, no. There are those who arrive to class an hour apart every fall for ten years.

What if I want to keep the time?

You can't save. It cannot be carried to March. It cannot be exchanged for an extra break in the AMRAP. The only thing you can do with it is put it to sleep, and that is exactly what we recommend.

The extra hour on Sunday is the only break of the year that you don't have to justify to the coach.

Sources: BOE, Order PCM/186/2022 (summer time calendar 2022-2026); RTVE, "Time change October 2026: everything you need to know".