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

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

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!)

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.

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