Teaching Exhaustion Tips?

[FlyChicaga]

Fellow current and past instructors, I'm curious if anyone else has experienced "teaching exhaustion." On the days I teach, I get done and feel absolutely gassed from talking non-stop all day. I've worked 16-hour days in my full-time job, but I've never felt as wiped out as I do when I'm teaching. I put a lot of effort into my students, so I do a lot of detailed explanations of concepts and what not when we are in the simulator. Besides good sleep, nutrition, water, etc., all the normal stuff that helps, any other tips for helping develop better stamina for talking so much?

 

[Ian_J]

Honestly, after years of instruction, the one thing that I realized when it came to this topic as I just had to limit the number of students I handled each day. Nothing else I could do would give me more stamina for all the brain work and talking.In the military, I ended up just doing no more than two students per day.