Heavy work schedule

I recently stopped training because I started a new labor intensive job. Now that it has Ben a number of weeks I am gearing up to get back in the gym. Currently we work 5 12 hour days and sometimes Saturdays.

As there are not enough hours in the day it will be hard for me to spend a hour in the gym. How important is it to work strength out 3 - r times a week as is explained in the bridge.

A. Could I split up the workouts and do 1 maybe 2 lifts a day

B. Could a program be set up where 2 long workouts are done on Saturday and Sunday. With the GPP stuff done during the week?

C. Other recommendations…

Thanks

Kevin

You don’t HAVE to train 3 days a week, so there are tons of ways to do this. There have also been several recent threads on exactly this topic, so I’ll let some others chip in with their experience here:

Lol I tried searching and didn’t see anything. Guess my eyes are corked or something.

Ill look again.

Thanks!

I understand your pain here. I do not work an overly physical job, but have in the past. I currently work 12-14 hours a day during the week and still go to the gym to workout afterwards. It was hard at first, but it gets better over time.

The secret is to form good habits (the less you make excuses to miss workouts the easier compliance becomes) and to make the workouts as fun as possible. Have a few good gym buddies or a good show on Netflix during rest times can make it something to look forward to all-day rather than a daunting task.

At times I have had to shorted the work-week workouts due to time constraints which I did by reducing the rest times to keep the volume in. This has reduced the weight I can lift during the workout a little, but I found there was more gain in dropping rest times than in decreasing the prescribed volume. At other times I have had to fill in all 4 workouts during the week in order to have the weekends off for time with family and friends.

We workout to have better and healthier lives. I have found that planning life around lifting doesn’t work. I plan my life and make sure to fit the lifting wherever possible. In my experience compliance is king, but optimal training is not always realistic.

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