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This is my schedule working midnight shift at SFO. On my off days, I fly to either Vegas or the rural Midwest. I may be transferring to Denver soon but will have the same schedule, and will still commute to Vegas at least for one more year.
So how do you plan workouts around this? When working I usually sleep until about 1500, I don’t have access to a kitchen, but we do have a microwave, 180° warming oven, and a toaster oven available at work.
Self bump because I’m trying to get help here.
I don’t know where else to go with help on this subject. I’ve been lurking since fuckin 2008. What gives.
there’s 24 hours in a day. Just fucking work out
Seems to me you need to learn to manage your time. What exactly are you hoping to get told here? As said, just find the time when you are able to go to the gym and work out.
I’ve made too many posts and forgotten details. It seems like a waste of money to sub to a gym that I’m not going to be near for 40% of my time - I’ll be in a different city.
Add to that I don’t have space in my 12x13’ rented bedroom for home workouts, dumbbells, etc
It’s just frustrating, I used to have access to a free “gym” at work and I could just go there early before my shift started.
Yeah it's a waste, but if it's the only way you can hit the gym, then you take it. The only question here is how much are you willing to invest in hitting the weights. If that 40% is making you not go, then don't fucking go. No one is forcing you to work out.
If you really wanted to, you could make it happen. Instead you wanna make excuses and complain that life's too hard and everything's too inconvenient. The road to nothing is paved with excuses. Just admit it, you don't want this bad enough and you're just looking for someone to tell you it's too hard and that you should just quit. Don't wait, just quit now, you obviously aren't disciplined enough yet.
Everything I’ve read is about consistency, and being able to get into a routine. I’ve been trying to figure out what that routine should be but the schedule makes consistency very difficult. And I’m not talking week-by-week, I just mean finding the opportunities to create a repeatable pattern that isn’t in the way of commuting back to work on the day-of, or commuting away from work immediately after my shift ends.
I eat a shitload of peanut butter and jelly because of no kitchen. I tried Freshly (due to new customer discount) because we at least have a fridge and microwave but it seems like only a couple of their meals are Jow Forums friendly, macro-wise. I’ve been trying to IF on a 5-hr time slot each day, and I’ve been drinking slimfast advanced nutrition since it’s only got 1g sugar and 20g protein in 180kcal.
I’m trying to make efforts to reduce my BF% (6’1 and 245lbs here) but I don’t want to waste another $50/mo+ on something that I can’t utilize enough to justify the expense.
This is one of the whiniest, most beta, excuse filled diary entries I've read on Jow Forums since I've been coming here
I’ve been trying to get back to the free gym at work. In the past two weeks I’ve managed to skip away from my assigned aircraft and get down there for an hour but I really don’t know what to do. I tried deadlifting first and didn’t have the energy to handle OHP, so I did OHP first the next time but that made my form weak on incline DB flys and even the lightest weight ones were hard to control and consciously activate chest muscles. I don’t know what I’m doing with curling because I hurt my left shoulder internally somehow. And I don’t do bench of squats because we’ve got nothing for safety there and I’d be fired from the literal best job of my life if I got hurt in this unauthorized gym.
It’s a learning experience but I’m trying. It’s just
You're a fucking mess, get your life in order, clean your fucking room, get a new job, go see a shrink
>drinking slimfast
Are you a fat mom from the 90s my dude? What's next, tae bo and 8 minute abs? Hope your diet pills are working
I’ve had more success when I worked in the hangar with the gym. I was deadlifting 225 for my full 5x3 and that was pretty fun, motivating to see myself improve. I’m just wanting a way back into it but I can’t afford shit. I make shit tier pay for this area and can’t afford to move. It’s why I’m trying to get to Denver, $100k is a lot better than $67k and I’d have my own goddamn kitchen. I fuckin love cooking and I can’t. It’s horse shit. Welcome to fucking California I guess
It’s cheap, $25 per month and I drink one before work and don’t feel hungry until 5pm the next day. That plus a couple peanut butter sandwiches and I’m pretty much solid on a low-budget diet for the workweek. Mostly driven by saving money on that end.
People like you can't be helped, you've got an excuse and a reason why you can't do anything. You refuse to do anything to change your situation and consider yourself a creature of circumstance. Probably a good thing you don't realize you're the master of your own destiny, because you would probably fuck it up. Besides, sounds like your ass belongs to the air force so you belong to the government, sit down, shut up, and do whatever they say.
There’s no “get a new job.” This is my career, I’ve reached the peak of it, anything else is less pay/less benefits. I picked a fucking blue collar career because I like it. I’m a mechanic, but I’m a damn good one, and our flights leave on time in part because I put forth effort to make sure they do.
Clean my room? There’s nothing here. I have a bed, two plastic bins full of kitchenwares I can’t use, and two duffel bags full of clothes. There’s a 3’ wide strip next to my bed where the door can open, and a small cheap storage shelf where I put paperwork, socks, and a few books.
I moved here to change myself situation. I picked my shit up and drove 2,300mi from home, and lived out of the back of my vehicle for 3 months in a goddamn airport parking lot for this job. The one before this one was dead-end, soul-sucking misery. I started at $45k in one of the most expensive wretched urban hives in this country, but I MADE IT into the peak of the career and it’s financial ruin if I lose/quit this job.
And no, I’m a civilian.
Start getting into calisthenics and invest into some resistance bands for progressions. I would recommend the buff dudes bodyweight plan and get monster mini lite bands for progression on pull up and dips.
For the time being you're in a situation in which calisthenics is optamal right now:
>can go anywhere and perform them. so less time to back and forth and less money for a gym membership.
>progressions are fun and engaging.
>not bad of a physique wise and once you get to Denver you can get into the gym
Either work a shitty shift job but have enough money to pay for gym membership and meal prep without worrying about value or quit and work a shitty minimum wage job where you have the time to be a cheap fuck. You can't have both
Do you do uncooked meal prep?
Still working on finding that workout book as a free .pdf. So I’m assuming I’ll need to find a park or something with a bar for pull-ups and monkey bars for dips? Gonna be honest, can’t even do one strict pull-up right now