When your job is really physical including lots of lifting and moving stuff and a ton of just general moving around, do ya’ll usually count this as GPP?
Do any of ya’ll cut some of the volume on back lifts?
I reckon I could figure it out on my own with enough time, but I’d just like to avoid spinning my wheels as much as possible so I thought I’d ask people who have been in this situation.
Yes! My job is extremely physical and in the sun. I walk for miles carrying implements weighing around 15lbs and they have engines so they vibrate violently. I mow lawns on a riding mower but sometimes I use the walk behind and I have to wrestle with it to keep it in line. My walk behind mower weighs about 275lbs and has a 12 horsepower engine.
Fighting the engine driving away from me adds extra to my exercise. Then I have a backpack blower that weighs 25lbs which I wear about an hour a day while walking down the properties and blowing off debris. The temperatures here, while I’m working, are between 90 and 105 degrees. I get plenty of cardio and GPP all day 5 days a week then I come home take a rest for about 3 hours and then I powerlift 4 days a week in my garage which is in the shade but still as hot as it is outside.
Glad you brought this up. I have great conditioning because of my lawn business and work. It’s grueling but rewarding.
Hell yeah. My job isn’t exactly strenuous, but it has me moving around a lot and definitely helps me keep the bodyfat to a minimum.
A lot of my aches and pains actually disappear over the course of a shift too, so the recovery aspect is great. Never have had to cut out any training volume, if anything it helps me train harder.
I used to work at a garden center, and I absolutely counted that. Doing what equated to 40-80 lb. cleans for 10 hours, deadlifting gigantic pieces of cement, pushing huge-ass pallet jacks filled with shit… that’s about as good GPP as you’ll ever find.
It’s not like you were always winded, but at the end of the day it was just the volume stacking up.
When I got an office job, I definitely noticed that it’s harder to keep off weight now because I’m not doing all of that.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
I used to work at a garden center, and I absolutely counted that. Doing what equated to 40-80 lb. cleans for 10 hours, deadlifting gigantic pieces of cement, pushing huge-ass pallet jacks filled with shit… that’s about as good GPP as you’ll ever find.
It’s not like you were always winded, but at the end of the day it was just the volume stacking up.
When I got an office job, I definitely noticed that it’s harder to keep off weight now because I’m not doing all of that.[/quote]
I’m finding I’m eating a ton more with this job cause I get so damned hungry. Good thing I’m working at a grocery store and get a store discount lol. I’m working in produce involving moving lots of things of onions and potatoes and heavyish boxes of different fruits/veges and a ton of walking around.
I’ve been finding a protein shake and a 20 minute catnap to helpful so far.
Hell ya, real work counts as GPP. My granddad was a house mover (as in pick up the house and move it) and he used to tell me, “You don’t get guns like these sitting behind a desk all day,” and he was right. Everyone on his crew was strong as hell, and they never did any extra work in a gym.
I was never in as good a shape as when I had a summer job digging ditches for a landscaping company in the mountains. There is a reason they call them the Rockies. 8-10 hours of shovel and pickaxe work 3-5 days a week.
Don’t cut your sessions down to accommodate the extra work though, adapt or die!! (Though you may have to be a little careful at first, your back especially will probably be a bit worn out by the time you get to training for the first few weeks or so. Be smart.)
Eat and sleep a ton, and it’ll all work out.
That’s just my experience, don’t sue me if you kill yourself.
When i was doing temp work, the absolute best job i had was doing packaging in this warehouse. Intermittently id get to stack, wrap and load pallets into the back of semi trucks.
Like doing alot of sled pulling except not so hard.
Definitely! I cut back on the leg and back work, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do my job. If anything, I emphasize “pushing” movements in my training because those muscles aren’t normally used in typical labor jobs.
I work as an industrial radiographer. Noone knows what that means usually, so basically I x-ray different metal parts. I move around couple of hundred pound castings and piping daily. Pushing a 3000lb casting on a pallet jack can be just like a prowler workout haha. My whole day is spent on my feet messing around with very heavy things. I certainly think this counts.
On a side note … I once used my lifting straps to pull out a pallet jack that was stuck in a pallet that was crushed by a casting. It wouldn’t budge until I used the straps. So I’m even using lifting equipment at work haha.