Time Management...

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so lets take a look at the time. we satrt off with 24 hrs

24hrs

we should sleep eight to ten hours a night to remain healthy. lets say 9 hrs because it’s in the middle.

15hrs left…

most people work a standard eight hour day.

7hrs left…

lets say you take 1 1/2 hours to get up in the morning, shower, dress, eat breakfast, fix your lunch for the day, get your gym bag ready etc etc

5 1/2hrs left…

your lucky and only have a 1/2hr commute to work and back.

4 1/2hrs left…

you spend maybe 2hrs at the gym with training, showering, changing, maybe a steam.

2 1/2hrs left…

upto 1hr preparing, cooking and eating dinner

1 1/2hrs left…

add on any extras you can think of (traffic, shopping, overtime, oversleeping, newbie curling in the squt rack etc etc.) up to 1/12hrs

0hrs left

playing with the kids, making love to the wife etc 2hrs

Shit i’ve run out of time!!!

hope every day is not like this!!! lol

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Caring for your wife and kids should come before gym time.

Hope that helps.

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[quote]Large Dave wrote:

hope every day is not like this!!! lol[/quote]

Welcome to life as an adult. Not enough time in the day!

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[quote]pookie wrote:
Caring for your wife and kids should come before gym time.

Hope that helps.
[/quote]

Very true. Which is why my gym time has lagged now for a while. My 3.5 year old son is full of energy and questions, and is just begging me show him all I can. It’s a tough job, but I love it and it’s well worth it.

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[quote]Large Dave wrote:
so lets take a look at the time. we satrt off with 24 hrs

24hrs

we should sleep eight to ten hours a night to remain healthy. lets say 9 hrs because it’s in the middle.

15hrs left…

most people work a standard eight hour day.

7hrs left…

lets say you take 1 1/2 hours to get up in the morning, shower, dress, eat breakfast, fix your lunch for the day, get your gym bag ready etc etc

5 1/2hrs left…

your lucky and only have a 1/2hr commute to work and back.

4 1/2hrs left…

you spend maybe 2hrs at the gym with training, showering, changing, maybe a steam.

2 1/2hrs left…

upto 1hr preparing, cooking and eating dinner

1 1/2hrs left…

add on any extras you can think of (traffic, shopping, overtime, oversleeping, newbie curling in the squt rack etc etc.) up to 1/12hrs

0hrs left

playing with the kids, making love to the wife etc 2hrs

Shit i’ve run out of time!!!

hope every day is not like this!!! lol[/quote]

You forgot: 20 minutes to post on T-Nation and complain about how you have no time.

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[quote]tpa wrote:
Large Dave wrote:
so lets take a look at the time. we satrt off with 24 hrs

24hrs

we should sleep eight to ten hours a night to remain healthy. lets say 9 hrs because it’s in the middle.

15hrs left…

most people work a standard eight hour day.

7hrs left…

lets say you take 1 1/2 hours to get up in the morning, shower, dress, eat breakfast, fix your lunch for the day, get your gym bag ready etc etc

5 1/2hrs left…

your lucky and only have a 1/2hr commute to work and back.

4 1/2hrs left…

you spend maybe 2hrs at the gym with training, showering, changing, maybe a steam.

2 1/2hrs left…

upto 1hr preparing, cooking and eating dinner

1 1/2hrs left…

add on any extras you can think of (traffic, shopping, overtime, oversleeping, newbie curling in the squt rack etc etc.) up to 1/12hrs

0hrs left

playing with the kids, making love to the wife etc 2hrs

Shit i’ve run out of time!!!

hope every day is not like this!!! lol

You forgot: 20 minutes to post on T-Nation and complain about how you have no time.[/quote]

haha, classic!

Seriously though, some people take 1 1/2 hours to get ready for work in the morning? I can wake up at 8:00am and get to work by 8:30. That’s including a 15 minute drive.

Just shower before you go to bed. Then, all you have left to do in the morning is throw on some deodorant, brush your teeth, get dressed and your out the door.

That’s worst case scenario though. Usually I’ll add another 15 minutes to make breakfast.

I hate mornings.

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I’m surprised you used 9 hours of sleep as your estimate of the average persons day. It’s probably closer to 6-7, with a 20 minute nap somewhere in the afternoon.

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I think some of you are missing the point of this tread. this is not MY schedual. And when I have a family they will take priortiy over EVERYTHING.

this was mearly an illustration that when people say “you need x amount of sleep” or " you need to workout for this long" none of these “experts” take in to consideration that you have a WHOLE life to lead.

I simply took all the bits and peices i have seen in magazines and heard on the tv and radio and put them together into one day.

and guess what… it doesn’t work!!!

theses experts need to get together once in a while before dispensing this information!!!

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[quote]tpa wrote:
…

You forgot: 20 minutes to post on T-Nation and complain about how you have no time.[/quote]

He mentioned work.

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[quote]Large Dave wrote:
I think some of you are missing the point of this tread. this is not MY schedual. And when I have a family they will take priortiy over EVERYTHING.

this was mearly an illustration that when people say “you need x amount of sleep” or " you need to workout for this long" none of these “experts” take in to consideration that you have a WHOLE life to lead.

I simply took all the bits and peices i have seen in magazines and heard on the tv and radio and put them together into one day.

and guess what… it doesn’t work!!!

theses experts need to get together once in a while before dispensing this information!!![/quote]

As much as I would love to agree with you I don’t… It does work.

A lot of these bits and pieces are what you call GUIDE LINES, and are for OPTIMAL performance, and Maximum gains. If we all had the DISCIPLINE, strength, desire, genetics, and fortune to follow these guide lines we would be like the Elite.

I would bet a million dollars that if 90% of these experts had the average joe doing every single thing they outlined for them for a year. Their physical accomplishments would be incredible. This is despite the fact that half of the experts have “contradicting” strategies.

And if taking care of your family truly is priority, then taking care of yourself has to be absolute. Lying in a hospital bed because of bad cholesterol, does little compared to a big raise from working.

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airtruth

while i partially agree with what you say it would appear that what is said is geared towards sporting proformance…

I was speaking of life in general. governments are so busy trying to give us all this info to make us healthier, more productive etc that they may end up killing us with it all!!

i do conced that what i have writen is over exagerated a mite :slight_smile:

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Either way we all die.

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i suppose we do. lol

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[quote]pookie wrote:
Caring for your wife and kids should come before gym time.

Hope that helps.
[/quote]

Pffft. Only if you’re happy being weak.

:smiley:

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meh. It’s not that bad. Berardi described a way to eat well cooking for only 35 min a day in the morning and grocery shopping for 15 min.
Other than that, 8 hour workday, say 30 min commute each way, 2 hr gym+protein shake+shower+transportation to/from. That’s 11 hours. Sleep is where I’d say some flexibility is ok. But if you do 8 hours, that leaves 3 for whatever. Maybe an hour for reading stuff and two for a social life.
Either way, though, this is why I don’t plan to have a family. I want to actually do shit in my life. Accomplish goals and all that.

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[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Either way we all die.[/quote]

Deadlift or die.

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Hmm, I see lots of places to make more time.

No way does it take an hour and a half to get out the door in the morning. I can eat breakfast and be out the door within half an hour.

Two hours at the gym is a lot. Grant you, I don’t use a steam room, but I walk to the gym, work out, walk home and shower–takes 1-1/2 hours.

One hour is a lot to fix dinner, and if you have a significant other, you can take turns.

Don’t forget days off–weekends, vacation time, and mentally sick days.

Sleep, of course, is where most people steal a couple more hours, and I think most folks get by just fine on 7 hours.

As far as time spent posting on the computer–most of you are doing this from your workplace, I assume?

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[quote]dragonmamma wrote:
As far as time spent posting on the computer–most of you are doing this from your workplace, I assume?
[/quote]

We would never do any such thing!

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Blade where abouts is that Berardi article you refered to. i would be mighty interested in that…

Yoda

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Yeah I would bore myself to death taking a hour and half to get out the house in the morning. Lets shorten this and add party time.

  1. wake up late. It forces you to get out the house faster. I shower iron get dressed in 20 minutes. 30 minute drive to work. walk in 5 minutes late.
    50 Minutes + extra 10 down time to spend looking cool strolling into work looking at some girls booty.

  2. kegels all day in the chair for cardio, slow down when you start sweating, speed up once you cool off if you want HIIT.

  3. Eat at your desk all day, 20 min Nap at lunch.

  4. Drink about 3 cups of coffee before you go for your evening workout, and start stretching at your desk. Leave 5 minutes early, do it slick nobody will notice.

8.5 hours/15.5 left

5)During your drive to the gym Sing/scream “Fuck those Weights!!” to the melody of “whup dat trick!!!” Grrrl Like dmx every now and then. Run into the gym right up to the guy using your machine just stand and stare an inch a way from the side of his face until he moves. Proceed to do ultimate hypertrophy/ME/DE/CNS burnout workout strictly compound moves squats bench deadlifts.
Midway through your workout call your other and tell her to get dinner ready since her lazy ass didn’t want to come to the gym.
calm down/ change
throw down ding dongs and 5 raw eggs for post workout snack
11 hours/ 13 hours left

  1. wrestle the kid for isolation exercises. In between slamming him you can curl him 3 sets of 10, brag who can do the most triangle bruce lee pushups for triceps bodybuilder pose for abs. Then throw frisby with rover to loosen up and stretch. 12.5(generous)/11.5 hours left

7)Eat and bitch to wife that american idol sucks unless sunjay’s sister is happy jumping up and down. 10.5 hours left.

  1. 2 hours for sex with the wife? are you seriuos? you have to be under 25. 5 minutes, 10 if she is REALLY demanding foreplay today. 10.4 hours left

  2. sleep 9 hours still have 1.4 left to do absolutely nothing.

  3. tomorrow recovery day, call in sick, you don’t want work to hamper your lifting progress.