How do people that work 8h+/day and commute lift? Isn't it dangerous to OHP 20kg dumbbells when you feel drained and sleepy?
How do people that work 8h+/day and commute lift?
How do people that work 8h+/day and commute lift? Isn't it dangerous to OHP 20kg dumbbells when you feel drained and sleepy?
Work out in the morning.
Do you gays actually wake up at like 4 am to do this?
Larping probably. Although I know a guy that runs marathons and wakes up at dawn 365 days per year to run for an hour then commutes for 1h. Those types are pretty dedicated though, doubt they would post on 4chin
That's basically every yuppie. You meet a lot of these people in urban gyms and saunas. They don't really have experiences other than college, career and a few clout extracurriculars like traveling or podcast factoids but they really will go rock climbing or mountainbiking in the worst weather as early as possible on a Saturday morning, or run a marathon.
I wake up at eight, get into work around 9:30, plenty of time for working out and breakfast. I do live near my office though. You don’t spend more than an hour working out, do you? And you don’t pay to use someone else’s equipment miles from your house?
>hour and a half
>plenty of time to get ready, work out, then eat
lol homie u doing like 25 minutes? my workouts take 2-2.5 hours (although I also do 60+ minutes of cardio a lot of the time)
>my workouts take 2-2.5 hours
not him but why? 15 sets per muscle group per week can be done in an hour lmao, 20 in maybe 1.5
upper day is 20 high volume sets + hour+ of cardio
I see, but if you can do 20 sets every week then a lot of that is probably fluff work, just do less and take them closer to failure. Going hard on 20 in a day week in week out will burn anyone out
I'm dumb I meant I do 20 sets per workout total not per muscle group
muscle group is like 10 or 20 depending on how far you stretch "muscle group" (like technically 10 sets of ohp and bench is 20 sets on your triceps)
I've been getting great results on a pretty barebones upper lower routine, but I like doing high volume and I can push out more reps when I have 1-3 minute rests instead of just like 30-45 seconds
edit im stupid, just got the cardio part. but thats still a shit ton of cardio just eat less lmao
>just eat less
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also cardio is extremely important for general health so you should be doing at least 30 minutes every workout anyway, I just keep trying to push the calorie counter up
>cardio after weightlifting
Jesus christ. Have a dedicated cardio day and do it properly.
whats your cardio routine
for the last 5 months or so I've just been progressively bumping up the pace and duration but its essentially all been LISS with a sprint at the end. I'm not super focused on cardio, I just want to burn calories, have a working dick, and be able to sexo
>You don’t spend more than an hour working out, do you?
Full body with some accessory lifts takes 1.5-2h ...
its not that hard tbh. Makes you feel better & more productive for the rest of your day too + overall increase in quality of life
I used to wake up at 5:30 every week day for the gym. It sucks for like 3 days then you're used to it. It's also nice to get to work and not be yawning for the first hour and a half like everyone else
There was a period I worked im graveyard shift at a plant, and absolutely loved it. I woke up, went to work, breathed in the cool night air with nobody bothering me, then went to an empty gym, all with no rush hour traffic to and from work.
I loved this so much I carried it over to my 7-3:00 career before I got married; wake up at midnight, go to gym, come home at 2:30 or 3:00 and hang out for 3 hours until I needed to go to work, and I had tons of energy compared to all the coffee drinking life haters at work.
Waking up early is the best.
I wake up at 5:30am, make coffee, start working out at 6:00, shower + make + eat breakfast and its about 7:30-7:45, I leave for work about 8:15. I usually have a nice half-hour to an hour (depending on my timing) to myself each morning after working out, super calming and nice.
I go to bed around 9:30-10:00, works nicely. In fact its 7:12am now, I got up at 5:30 and finished my morning routine (minus breakfast) and I can frick around on here for another hour ish.
Americans mostly live 6-20mi from everything due to continental sprawl and racial tensions, so driving to the gym in the morning is an hour with traffic, then stopping at a line-around-the-block drive thru for coffee is 20minutes and then the drive to work is like an hour with traffic even though these things are ostensibly "next to" each other in a typical suburban-urban layout.
If you live this way you have to factor in usually 3x drive into whatever time it actually takes to do the thing you're driving to go do.
There's a >20% of the population that live in coastal meme cities and are typically upper middle class college educated professionals don't live this way but the other 300-ish million Americans are basically living in 4 bedroom 2 bath 4000sqft cuck pods.
>but the other 300-ish million Americans are basically living in 4 bedroom 2 bath 4000sqft cuck pods.
The houses are really big in most of the country don't get me wrong but you and everyone you see is of doubtful stock and morbidly obese. The highlight of the week is driving in traffic on Sunday to Costco for more pallets of toilet paper.
not sure how this is relevant
what IS relevant is the fact that a 4-bedroom 4000 sqft house approaches 1 million dollars in most of the country - COMPLETELY unattainable for the bottom like 80% of people. So implying that the overwhelming majority of americans live like that is completely absurd on its face dude.
Maybe in California or the PNW but way more people are living and moving to the bottom right quadrant, in which this stuff is the norm for like 400k. I say good riddance to the whole thing even if I've overestimated the square footage or thrown in an extra bedroom. These are bleak as hell in the few pretty not freezing or sweltering parts of the coasts, I remember too well how soul crushing suburban lifestyles are in south and middle of the country.
I did it for 4 years
Everyone who disagrees with this is an immature piece of shit
Grab your life by the fricking horns.
You also feel better the rest of the day
I literally cannot workout in the evening. Have been working out in the morning for years, I find it just takes less way motivation it just becomea like taking a shower before work.
Steroids
Just went to a gym here in Tokyo actually
And holy fricking dyel
90% of them won't make it
I had to make a reservation to go to the "free-weight" section of the gym which is bench press, smith machine, a squat rack, and dumbbells and you only get 30 minutes in there
Plus if someone is using the bench or some shit you're out of luck
The squat rack was empty but they didn't allow me to use it cause some people had reservations doing bicep curls
Western gyms in America and Canada probably have the best gym culture
How tf am I supposed to get a full body workout with compounds with this gay ass reservation system?
It's insane how entire countries will have a single gym culture and not a single gym will try to break the mold. In India, oly lifters have to have two spotters lower the bar for them from overhead because they're not allowed to drop bumper plates.
Work out in the morning
Or take a pre-workout
Or quit your manual labor job.
lmao
thats so moronic. I wanna hear more examples of gyms like that.
I might visit gold's gym here before I leave so maybe I'll see some bigger or stronger guys there and less dumb rules. Another thing, in general its considered rude to listen to your headphones during a workout in Japan. Only in between sets.
I walked by a massive Gold’s Gym in Ginza I think and it looked awesome
PLEASE SIRS I NEED TWO OF YOU TO DO THE NEEDFUL
Just go to a different gym moron
My commute to and from work is only twenty minutes of mostly traffic-free countryside. I'd blow my fricking brains out if I had to drive 40+ minutes through bumper-to-bumper rush hour city traffic every single day; I don't know how anyone could tolerate that.
>otakus get inspired to workout after watching the cute anime girls do it in How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift
>immediately confronted by this bullshit
No wonder Machio had to travel abroad to get his physique.
I trained at the gym in the city fitness centre when i lived in tokyo. It was very comfy. You're either going to some meme rizap gym or full of shit. It also cost me 200yen a visit
Japs have shitty muscle genes at least they make anime and game kino
Go to a different gym. I highly doubt they're all like that.
Personal gym and use dumbbells too. You can literally train everything with custom weight dumbbells
because your gym is shitty municipally‐owned one which cost 200yen per use.
just go anytime-fitness or local decent gym costs around 8000yen/month.
>How tf am I supposed to get a full body workout with compounds with this gay ass reservation system?
just break the rules. what are they gonna do about it?
frick your homosexual ass up with one god damn move and then dump you alive into the Tokyo bay duct taped inside of a burlap sack, b***h, shut the frick up. don't you ever talk about disrespecting Japan you ugly little shitskin.
I have a low-stress job and I get good sleep. Also you're supposed to excercise no matter what, OP are you some DYEL who won't go to the gym unless the stars align and you feel perfect?
That's why you use dumbbells, you can just drop one and it's generally not a big deal. Also, it's only 45lbs, how much damage can that do?
I get up at 4am Monday thru Friday then work 8am-8pm. Stop being a lazy pussy.
i go to work at 7, get home at 5, eat dinner and put my kids to bed, and get to the garage to lift at 9 to 11 and then go to sleep
Id kill myself during that 2hour break
More power to you, dude, but that is not the life I would want for myself.
Yeah if you're going to the gym that's basically your entire evening. It's definitely better when you have a woman and food waiting on you and you just sort of go to work and don't bother with making trips to the grocery store plus cooking every day.
What you described was basically my life sans the girlfriend part. It was incredibly lonely at points and I wanted to kill everyone around me, but I kept going; I'm approaching 3 years of lifting.
I do this
I work out in the morning
On a typical day I get up at 4am, workout until 6, work from 7 to 3:30.
I'm finished and cleaned up back at home around 4:30 and have from then until I get ready for bed at 7:30 free to do whatever.
I eat 2 breakfasts, one before and one after the gym, lunch at work, post work lunch and dinner. Bulking at about 3800 calories a day rn
>3 hours of free time
No man should live like this
This. If every waking hour isn't devoted to the Glory of God then you're wasting that time.
>I can only enjoy the time I haven't already dedicated to something else
I enjoy the gym, I enjoy eating, I enjoy walking around, most of my job is fine too. Like 14/16 hours of my waking day are pleasant.
What do you want to do in your free time that requires more than 3 hrs?
Exactly. Enjoy what you do and don't feel that much free time is only when you can lie down and do nothing. Even if I had about an hour of commute one way I read a book, or watched something.
I work 3 days a week and lift one day a week, my body looks like complete dogshit but it's extremely comfy
>wake up 7:10am and get ready
>get to train 8:05am
>get to work 8:50am
>leave work 4:50pm
>get to my gym at 5:50pm
>get home 7:50pm
4-5 hours to shower/cook dinner/frick around
Wake up
Have coffee
Drive 1hr to work
Work 8h
Drive 1 hr back
Play with the kids
Eat dinner
Bath time and put the kids down
Workout 1 hour in the home gym
Have sex
Take shower
Go to bed
On rest days I run for 30 mins and either play vidya or fix something thats broken/maintenance
Thats pretty much my weekdays.
>put the kids down
Why would you euthanize your own children?
Every evening he puts them down but every morning, they rise again like the joyous undead
It helps if you have a gym at your apartment complex so that after you get home from work you can just go straight there.
I work 12 hour nights then go to the gym at 7am, just deal with it pussy
I worked out in the morning in the military and just couldn't do that shit. It just feels god awful to not wake up for at least a couple of hours before trying to exert yourself.
That and pt was mostly burpees to the very worst of the 1990's off a shitty speaker they'd wheel out for the occasion.
Yeah getting cardio'd until you feel like throwing up at 4am on 6 hours of sleep will turn anyone off.
>go to military camp in high school
>body automatically rolls out of bed somehow exactly on the dot
>wake up already standing somehow
>do PT on the gravel for an hour and then run around camp with a stitch in my side
>get less than 10 minutes to eat
>forcefeed myself like I never have before
>still lose 8lbs over 2 weeks
it was kino
bootcamp is kino for 12 weeks
can't imagine making that my routine for the rest of my life, right now lifting is a relaxing time for me to shitpost between sets and go home knowing I've had a great day
it was pretty cool for a short time but I realized I didn't want to live like this for the next 4 years. when I was in high school I still wanted to join the military. I still would if all you did was just be a cool guy with guns and shoot stuff and run obstacle courses all day but I can just do that myself, I guess.
Other branches still do morning pt and stuff but I was in the navy and we quit doing that. It was much harder for other reasons (like underways, 12 hour work days, duty, etc).
You made a good choice, the pay is really fricking bad after all the inflation in the last 10 years.
I didn't even mind the morning PT, if I were more disciplined I'd make myself do morning PT every day but it's living taking orders constantly that I just could not do.
I hit the gym after work. If I don’t get electrolytes in me within 30min after finishing, it’s essentially the same as me having 5 shots of straight booze. Me in the gym is less dangerous than me on the road after gym.
I'm clean and pressing my max on four hours sleep jacked up on stimulants and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop me
Wake up, commute, and then work out near the place you work.
You will never get stuck in traffic and always be on time.
Kids also help you wake up early.
Have a 40 minute commute to and from work and I used to be really tired and drained by the time I got home changed and had a shake and my workouts would always be kind of ass so I started taking my gym clothes to work and go to a gym 5 mins from work, helps a lot better energy levels because I’m still in that work mode zone I still crash when I get home but aleast I can just relax and only have to worry about making dinner now
Energy management. Proper food, water, breathing. I do manual labour and start too early to workout in the morning. Just gotta take care of your body and then stop whining about being tired.
I leave my house 8pm after downing D3+K complete, clock out and hit the gym at 715am with zero energy issues. Eat healthy, sleep well, and be willing to put in the work. No excuses.
>Wake up at 9
>My job only works if there is an emergency so i just dont go
>Maybe go for a run or play vidya
>Eat lunch with wife when she comes back from work at 1400
>Sleep for 1 hour
>Go for bjj/boxing/lifting from 1800 to 2000
>Frick around with wife until 2300
>Go to bed
Wake up at 7
Get to work by 7:45-8
Leave work at 3 but sneak hindu squats at work sometimes
Get in the gym by 3:30
Work out 4 times a week minimum
Leave gym at 5
Rest of the day is free until 11 when I go to sleep
I can't complain even if I do complain most of the time. Fiancee makes food and cleans for me, but she requires all those hours for me to be available to her and talk/go for a walk/frick around/groceries. Literally every minute of my day is spent, aside from gym time, I don't have 1 single minute alone. I'm sometimes needlessly angry and I wish I saw the good of my life more often
>sneak hindu squats at work sometimes
My homie.
Is he saying he shits around the office? Or what?
I have no idea honestly
Currently trying to balance school, work, studying for uni and still manage to go to the gym
It's gonna be even worse once I start with my internship
WFH:
>wake up 8/8.30. Coffee
>Start work 8.30/9
>half hour lunch
>finish work 4/4.30
>walk to gym, workout 1hr, walk back
>back home 6/6.30
>various combinations of spending time with wife/ gaming/cooking/eating/etc
>bed around 10-11
Office (2x a week)
>Wake up 8, coffee, get ready
>commute 1hr
>office at 10
>half hour lunch
>finish work 5.30
>travel 1hr15m
>1.5hr judo
>travel home. 45m/1hr depending on public transport
>home 9.15-9.30
>dinner
>bed around 10.30-11.30 depending, I'm quite wired so it takes me a while to settle down and I don't force it.
I don't like working out in the mornings however I am lucky that once my working day ends I basically have zero commitments, so getting to the gym is guaranteed. If my circumstances changed then perhaps I would "bank" the gym by getting it done and out of the way first thing. The office and judo days are quite long but no bother really. After work and gym I have around 4hrs to spend with my wife, eat, game with the boys, stuff like that. I sleep at least 8 hours nightly, sometimes it can be 10 hours. Life is a lot easier WFH. I don't mind the office but commuting really is just wasted time. I've tried to use it productively but I can't.
>judo
Get off our board homosexual. We lift weights. Back to IST
>dangerous to OHP 20kg dumbbells
yeah, you are in danger of developing a vegana
time to pump those numbers up
I care about my shoulders
Home gym and pre-workout
I was working 10hr days and I would lift 20 mins after getting home
How the frick am I supposed to lift in the morning on an empty stomach? I need calories and energy so I spend my day eating then gym at night
>wake up at 5am
>either go for a run or shitpost on IST for an hour
>leave home at 6.30am
>arrive at work at 7am
>leave work at 6pm
>arrive home at 7pm
>go lift from 8 till 9 or so
>get home, quick dinner
>in bed by 11pm
You get used to it pretty quickly OP.
>11-5
I need 9 hours a night after working out to recover. Capitalism doesn't agree with me.
Shot of coffee when I get home. Not a full cup as it will frick my sleep, but perhaps 2-3 fingers worth.
It's the mindset. I had a warehouse job in which I either lifted +20kg packages or non-stop walk for 8 hours, and after that I was doing 2 hour workouts literally during midnight in my garage. Funny thing, I had more energy then than I did as a NEET