I work a full-time “grown up” job each summer and have so far made my best gains during the summers simply because, unlike college, I can leave my work at the bank at 6:00 and come home.
I work 9-5:30pm at an advertising agency, and I’ve been working similar hours and jobs ever since I graduated UF in 1999.
The good thing about a “9-5” job is that you have a schedule and a routine. It allows me to train around the same time each day and fit it in as part of my daily routine.
Same with eating. It’s a lot easier to eat consistently when you have a routine schedule.
Just get up and move a little bit while at work each day, and you should be fine.
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
Tex Ag wrote:
Oh, and a trick my father taught me for the social gatherings at bars. Establish ‘your drink’ as one you can easily fake. Something in coke, something in tonic, etc. That way you can give a appearance of imbibing without having to.
It’s crazy that that much pressure is there to where this is a necessity. Wow.[/quote]
It’s not. Unless you make it.
I don’t drink. I always have ice water with me whenever I attend work functions or events.
Sometimes people ask me why I’m not drinking, and I tell them that I don’t drink. If they want a reason why, I tell them I don’t need it to have a good time and I live a healthy lifestyle.
I don’t care what anyone thinks about me not drinking. It’s not a problem for me, and I don’t care if it is for them for whatever reason.
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
Tex Ag wrote:
Oh, and a trick my father taught me for the social gatherings at bars. Establish ‘your drink’ as one you can easily fake. Something in coke, something in tonic, etc. That way you can give a appearance of imbibing without having to.
It’s crazy that that much pressure is there to where this is a necessity. Wow.
It’s not. Unless you make it.
I don’t drink. I always have ice water with me whenever I attend work functions or events.
Sometimes people ask me why I’m not drinking, and I tell them that I don’t drink. If they want a reason why, I tell them I don’t need it to have a good time and I live a healthy lifestyle.
I don’t care what anyone thinks about me not drinking. It’s not a problem for me, and I don’t care if it is for them for whatever reason.
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I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I’m a programmer (read: sits just about all day).
Day starts at 4:15am.
At gym by 5am and walk treadmill, stepmill, or row to wake up, maybe do some mobility stuff. If I know my day is packed, I’ll lift, although I really don’t like to lift that early.
Work is literally next door to the gym, so I get there by 6am. On workout days, walk back to gym to do real work at around 11am.
Back to work until about 4-6pm (depends on project deadlines)-- then home, wife/kids, more computer (ie non-work, like now), usually in bed by 9 depending on exhaustion levels.
Repeat. Forever…[/quote]
that’s the shit suicides are made of
Yea, when i graduated 2 years ago, was in decent shape, and I let myself go to shit. The meal planning is the biggest problem. I was trying to work and set up a life and all that, ended up skipping breakfast every day for 2 years, and eating at hardee’s, krystals, wackarnolds, wendy’s, and similar places EVERY DAY. Was a hard habit to break once you go into it. Then you get home from work, and take a 2 hour nap, watch some mindless drible on TV, play xbox, and wash rinse repeat, just avoid the pitfalls, make food the night before, should be alright. I’ve learned and am doing good now.
its those 20 hour work days that make me glad i found Spike Shooters lol
Looks like I’m the lucky one. 8 to 5 monday through Thursday, off at 4 on Fridays. No nights, weekends or holidays. Plus my office happens to be 1.8 miles from my house!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.[/quote]
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
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That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in. [/quote]
bad sexperiences?
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in.
bad sexperiences?[/quote]
I have actually had NO bad experiences. I just don’t drink often unless with people I trust…like guys I grew up with. That’s just my personal rule and has nothing to do with anyone else. I don’t like alcohol very much.
Why would you think there were bad experiences involved if someone doesn’t drink a lot?
The one thing I envy about all you desk job louts is that you get to eat all the time.
At my job, I’ll get maybe one coffee break or maybe none at all. 8-9 hours with no break some days.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in.
bad sexperiences?
I have actually had NO bad experiences. I just don’t drink often unless with people I trust…like guys I grew up with. That’s just my personal rule and has nothing to do with anyone else. I don’t like alcohol very much.
Why would you think there were bad experiences involved if someone doesn’t drink a lot?[/quote]
Well you explicitly said if you were good friends with them, so I figured you need to trust them pretty good.
So I figured there might be some bad sexperiences there.
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in.
bad sexperiences?
I have actually had NO bad experiences. I just don’t drink often unless with people I trust…like guys I grew up with. That’s just my personal rule and has nothing to do with anyone else. I don’t like alcohol very much.
Why would you think there were bad experiences involved if someone doesn’t drink a lot?
Well you explicitly said if you were good friends with them, so I figured you need to trust them pretty good.
So I figured there might be some bad sexperiences there.
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No, I just have a general “distrust” of most people unless they have proven themselves as “trustworthy”…especially when alcohol is involved.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’ve never had a problem with that either. I also usually don’t get any further questions after I say that I don’t want anything to drink. It usually doesn’t need an explanation unless you act like you are unsure of yourself.
Or like you are better than other people for not drinking…
That should definitely be avoided. I don’t give a shit who else drinks and sometimes (if I’m good friends with them), I may occasionally join in.
bad sexperiences?
I have actually had NO bad experiences. I just don’t drink often unless with people I trust…like guys I grew up with. That’s just my personal rule and has nothing to do with anyone else. I don’t like alcohol very much.
Why would you think there were bad experiences involved if someone doesn’t drink a lot?
Well you explicitly said if you were good friends with them, so I figured you need to trust them pretty good.
So I figured there might be some bad sexperiences there.
No, I just have a general “distrust” of most people unless they have proven themselves as “trustworthy”…especially when alcohol is involved.[/quote]
Nothing wrong with that. I’m keeping drinking to a minimum anyway, trying to be lean.
I’m gonna go ahead and bump this and give mega “props” to anyone who is respectable and 8-5.
I have a 30 minute one way commute so I wake up at 6, work 7:30a to 4:45p with about a 30 minute lunch (eat what I bring). Hit the gym and head home.
It’s 7:30p before I get home and then I need to shower, eat dinner, and prepare gym bag, protein shake, and lunch for the next day. All being said, it’s about 9p before free time begins. Considering I have to be up at 6, and need ample time to recover, I usually go straight to bed.
Blow my brains out if I have a wife or kids, holy hell. MEGA props you folks out there doing it.
I now see why America is fat and am less judgmental already. Sit on the way, sit on the way back, and sit while you’re there. Stretched for time so quality and quantity of food start slipping. Worry about bills, taking care of spouse, kids, etc. Damn it adds up.
I’ve switched to a low carb regimen which I’ve started a thread asking questions in the supp forum, and have hit the gym every day since starting last tuesday (except Sunday). I will not slip into mediocrity.
One thing I’ve noticed and it’s crazy, the liquid “french vanilla” coffee creamer has 1g of trans fat, and the powdered creamer has partially hydrogenated oils, though it reports 0g trans fat. Both of these things are swallowed by the pound at my office.
So, I now realize how hard it is for America to stay in shape and find it kinda hard to judge too much. It’s a busy life. I’ve gotten my mom, a type 2 diabetic, to adopt the same low carb eating I am. +1 for that.
Busy times ahead! Good luck…
Since everybody else told their horror stories about their hours I figured I’d tell mine.
I’d kill for a 8-5, as it is now I have the “gravy” shift as far as my work goes, I work from 5am-3pm, so that means I’m up at 4 to work by 5ish I have a little wiggle room I don’t have to get my youth up and going until 5:30 so…
Usually at 1:30pm we go out for PT a 1 mile run and some Calisthenics and stretches. Sometime between 3 and 3:30pm I get to go home.
At best I have an hour and 20 minutes for the gym which is luckily at work, then 10 minutes to town to pick up the Kiddies(3 of them) from daycare.
Back home by 5pm, cook them dinner, baths and put them to bed by 8pm, then it’s “my time” until the wife gets home between 9:30 and 11 depending on her schedual, by the time I “hear” about her day It’s midnight before I get to sleep.
That my 4 day a week schedual, I usually pick up a 12 hour over time shift on one of my 3 off days.
I’m doing rippetoe right now so its doable I lift on 2 of my off days if possible.
As far as diet goes I try, I do OKbut I don’t have a desk or an office so I have to carry any thing I want to eat other than what the chow hall serves, mostly carb loaded stuff so I pick and choose from that the best I can.
This thread has made me realize I want to do something important with me life.
[quote]EG wrote:
This thread has made me realize I want to do something important with me life.[/quote]
Define “Important”
Looking at the big picture everyone’s jobs important that’s why it exists.
If you mean Important as has meaning or is morally rewarding it depends on what you like to do.
I help kids, I don’t mean teach them basketball* I teach them to make socially acceptable decisions, deal with their anger/criminal/drug/physical and sexual abuse issues.
My hours suck and my personal life is CRAZY but those were my choices. Some day I will have time for myself, right now it’s time for me to help as many of these misguided youth as I can and be the best father I can be, I can be selfish later.
- Note: I actually do teach them basketball some days, team sports and cooperation is a good thing.