I fear that once I start working a full time job, working out consistently is going to become hard.
How do you guys who work 8 hours a day manage?
wageslaving and working out
I fear that once I start working a full time job, working out consistently is going to become hard.
How do you guys who work 8 hours a day manage?
I don't understand, do your days have more hours in them now? Does the earths' rotation suddenly change when you get employed? Just go to the gym and lift homosexual.
>do your days have more hours in them now?
Well they do technically right now, I don't have to commit 8 hours of my day into wage slaving.
I still don't understand, you are awake for what 16 hours a day? Meaning when you work 8 hours you have 8 hours that you aren't working... are you currently lifting for more than 8 hours per day? What is the issue here?
>What is the issue here?
You still have to commute to and from work, driving to the gym takes time as well. Some evenings you have to make food, do chores. Also people inviting you to hang out. It just seems hard to be consistent in the gym unless you are fully committed. A lot of people fall off the wagon and don't work out consistently after college cause of these reasons it seems
Again, what's the issue? All of this is just regular stuff that everyone does. Do you not go anywhere currently? Do you not do chores or make food already? Do you not spend time with friends? Why does all of this suddenly become an issue when you get a job? What do you spend your time doing now?
i am not sure if you know this, but when you work, gym, travel, do chores, socialize, you expend energy
Yes being alive requires energy, that's why you eat food.
you also get tired
so go to sleep then, the frick are you even complaining about?
>I don't wanna work
so don't
>I don't want to commute
so don't
>I don't want to shower
so don't
>I don't want to make food
so don't
>I don't want to do dishes
so don't
There, now you have all your time free for gym. Follow your dreams anon, become the homeless smelly malnourished bodybuilder of your dreams. Not sure what you want us to tell you.
It's just fricking gay, you get no free time at all. Medivial peasants had more free time than us
They also had smaller houses and various shit like bathing,eating and toilet usage be an actual journey to accomplish than in the next room or in some fridge you lil' b***h. You don't know what sort of shitty life you're actually envying there just to cry about having to work.
Black person they spent all the "free" time doing the exact stuff you are complaining about. Cooking, cleaning, maintaining their tools, clothing, homes and communities. It's not like they had the luxury of sitting around playing video games all day you fricking moron.
If you lived 900 years ago you'd still be b***hing, except it would be about having to haul water from the well back to your house and how gay it is that you have to mix new lime plaster to cover your cob walls because rats are starting to eat your house. You're just a whiney homosexual.
>bro you're awake for 16 hours! you got 8 hours bro, never mind the hour commute to work, the hour back, the hour total eating the rest of your meals, the 20 minutes at the least showering, the time spent being social unless you're an absolute shut in who only works and goes home
so much time bro
>the 20 minutes at the least showering
take the stinkypill anon
Change job if your commute is 2 hours everyday. Eating food should not take 1 hour. Breakfast can be done in 10-15 and dinner in 20-30 if you food prep. Taking a shower takes 10-15 minutes. Stop making excuses.
Food prep is so cucked and soulless.
Just eat the same slop for 7 days straight bro!
Breakfast takes atleast 20 minutes if you're making eggs.
Everybody has always brought lunch to work. You can skip breakfast or have a fast protein shake. Dinner you can either prep something tasty, have a wife do it for you, or make it yourself every night.
Honestly unless you have a super long commute I don’t see the issue
I wake up in the morning by playing a few games or watching a show. Then I open my laptop, answer 2-3 emails. Then proceed to watch shows and game. Maybe do 1-2 hours of actual work and then close the laptop until next day.
In office I just normalized me arriving an hour later and leaving about half an hour earlier. They're completely okay with this as I deliver good results. You should never wageslave too hard when employed because at best you get a pathetic 2-3% extra on top of your annual increase.
Commuting is just terrible even if its half an hour or less. When I worked in office I've had days and weeks where I was just completely drained. If you stay up a bit later one day it starts adding up and you'll feel exhausted all week due to it. You have no way to catch up sleep either if you're in the office all the time.
I have a wife, two kids, a dog and a demanding career and I still find time to lift 90 minutes 3x a week. I’d love to do four days a week but it just isn’t doable right now unless I take that time away from being with my family (which I don’t). I also bike to work as much as possible which is a good distance.
If it’s a priority you can make it happen.
wish you the best man but i pray to god im not still on this site by the time im married with kids
.. You dont have a job do you?
i want to put my tongue in there.
Where?
honestly, any of the visible holes would make me happy
By making working out your second priority below sleep. Yes it’s that simple
Morning exercise. Then work. Then evening is my time. Family time, cooking, freelance programming, being shit at guitar. Weekends i generally do a quick run but its mainly family time
Do you just shower at the gym facility? Also do you have trouble staying consistent in your schedule?
Do you think he goes into work smelly like shit?
You’re about to learn a real truth anon. Real adults are always drained, barely filed enough to get to the next gas station. But we adapt and callous to the exhaustion. When you’ve atlas’d your career, marriage, home ownership, kids come in the mix. You just keep going. NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT?
lmao im not OP but im starting from point 0. I have no friends and just started a new career. I literally have all 8 hours to myself after work, its both awesome and somewhat miserable
Unironically this. When you lose your productive momentum is when you slip into NEETdom and it gets harder and harder to come back
wfh, baby
4 days wfh, one at the office, thursdays
although this job is relatively new, I aim to go to gym mon wed fri sun, run on tuesday and saturday, and go out for drinks on thursday (also whatevers on weekends menu)
>How do you guys who work 8 hours a day manage?
You set a time for it and don't budge on it. It's that simple. If you can't wake up and know 100% that you're going to do arms/legs/chest/etc at so and so o'clock,you're gonna fail.
The activity is called WORKing out for a reason. Treat it like a job. If you aren't of the mindset to start getting panicky or agitated when you can't work out at such and such time,you're gonna fail. It's not a hobby,it's not meant to be fun,it's rigorous work.
anyone else find the art style of the woman, especially in the bottom frame to be incredibly disgusting? It's like her entire face is inflammed and swolen.
it IS a hobby. and if it's not fun you aren't going to stick to it for long. i can tell you just started lifting and that you will quit soon. because your mindset is all wacky.
The modern world is designed to leave you so mentally exhausted and stressed from work that you have only enough energy left to consume digital entertainment. When this depresses you they put you on pills.
^This
It becomes a challenge to make your money and also have the discipline to go to the gym on a regular basis as well.
I had failed this in the past year, i got a promotion and was struck down and exhausted and got fat again, starting to go back to the gym again, quit drinking and attempting to get my diet in order again as well.
Thankfully i live at home and my mom and stepdad also lift and are into health, so i need to hold out for more home cooked meals after work, then im good.
Discipline yourself and surround yourself with supportive people, then you can play the wageslave game and still win.
Nah that’s just lack of ambition and and excuse for giving into being a screen zombie. Reduce screen time, reduce media consumption, stop spending time and energy on negative shit that doesn’t affect you and/or you have no influence over. You’re choosing to grind yourself down by taking part in the dopamine roller coaster of modern media. It doesn’t benefit you to know every bad thing that’s happened everywhere in the world in real-time.
You do realize that what you're advocating for is an incessant pursuit of achievement, self-optimization? Literally no difference between the frickers who advocate for "le grindset" and continually put you down for daring to not be a workaholic.
I literally never mentioned work let alone le grindset. Your defensive response clearly indicates that you are a screen zombie and trying to rationalize it away.
When I wrote that post I was imagining coming home from work and having down time: don’t automatically go behind the screen, don’t surround yourself with toxic social media and news, live in the moment. Have a creative hobby, go outside, read, do something besides hide behind digital media. Stop thinking everything is a dichotomy.
Actually, if you invest properly knowing everything that is going on in the world does benefit you.
Okay but unless that’s what your doing or planning to do, 100+ hours of media consumption isn’t going to benefit you beyond short-term dopamine bursts that negatively impact your well being in the long run. I’m not advocating putting your head in the sand but if you consider the volume of media and information we consume and voluntarily seek out the majority is unnecessary and unhelpful.
>dude the IST thread with that big tittied girl is not a waste of time, I am LEARNING, mkaay?
Why aren’t you drowning in cash then, Rainmain?
Work from home and have a strong coffee at 3pm on gym days.
this is just what normies deem as regular human appearance now anon, haven't you noticed how people look these days?
Life is a consecutive series struggle and then you fricking die bros...
Unless you solve problems by working full time AT the Jim.
Work from home + home gym is how I manage it.
I don't know how the frick normie wagies manage to live their lives at all. I can't manage anything else.
You need to get practical with your programming. Drop the notion that you're a future IFBB pro who needs to do multi-hour epic sessions and instead focus on quick (45-minute max), high-impact workouts. You also need to find a convenient gym situation. Something between work and home that you can drop in on the way to or back from work would be ideal. This is critical because going home and then getting dressed/getting in your car etc later at night to go lift adds a shitload of extra time to the gym experience. Here's a 5-day bro split. 4 sets (one feeder set, two hard work sets, and then one higher rep back-off set) for everything. Two min rest between sets, 1.5 min for stuff like curls, flies etc.
Mon - Chest
>Dumbell Bench
>Dips
>Low to High Cable Flies
Tues - Cardio/Bicep
>Cardio (25-30 min)
>Dumbell Curls
>Leg Raises (5 min AMRAP)
Wed - Back
>Landmine Row
>Pull Ups
>Dumbell Upright Row
Thursday - Cardio/Tricep
>Cardio (25-30 min)
>Dumbell Lying Tricep Extention
>Ab Wheel (5 min AMRAP)
Fri - Legs
>Squats
>Dumbell RDL
>Leg Extension
There's a lot of dumbbell/cable stuff in there because you can just grab and go. You can mog 99% of males just hitting these lifts hard after work for 45 min.
This is the first guy in this thread to make actual sense. Yes, there are people who have perfect energy 24/7 and can bike 2h to and from work, have 7 kids, a 12h workday career and manage to manage a marriage on the side. For all of us who have normal energy levels and would die of burnout one year into this cycle, we have to follow a manageable gym/work/life-balance. Especially so when life hasn‘t blessed you with perfect health and you have to manage multiple severe chronic illnesses (as I do for example). It‘s still very possible to stay fit though. Listen to your body and the amount of rest it needs. I know people who never recovered from burnout and are now permanently unable to work (some who had multiple heart attacks, or crashed their adrenal gland function into morbus addison levels from lifting, working, partying 24/7 while never taking rest days and having a super high demand career). I suggest you to do what this guy does and stick to a manageable plan
I work 75-90 hours a week at my highly compensated white collar slave job and I’m still ripped
Get a bench press and pair of bowflex dumbbells at home to do 15-30 minute intense workouts during week and then do hard workouts on Saturday and Sunday or any weekday when you have extra time. Be laser focused and disciplined when it comes to nutrition/alcohol. You don’t need ideal conditions to make gains and if you have to make them slower at the end of the day you’re still making gains
few options
1. by not working 8 hours. Most people don't actually work 8 hours, they're just there for 8 hours.Sneaking time away for walks, pushups, stairs, is quite easy. Using part of your lunch break for a workout is also a common strat.
2. just get your 2 hour/1 hour workout before your job starts. This is just adulting. Still leaves 6 hours for the rest of the day. it's just a matter of prioritizing.
3. get a job that's not 8 x 5. Certain industries, jobs, teams, and managers will allow to work less as long as you're overdelivering impact. Working at a place that actually has a gym onsite for extra extra bonus points, but admittedly rare.
4. Schedule heavy sessions for weekends. Try to squeeze one heavy session during weekday. This works particularly well if you're doing brosplits or PPL split, since you shouldn't have a problem doing two consecutive heavy days on the weekends by hitting different parts. Harder for PL or oly.
Mix and match. Just assume it can be done, and don't be a b***h.
How does anyone even work 40 hours for some bullshit job. How do you even have motivation to continue lifting if that's all your life ends up being.
Everyone works one way or another, and always has, for all history. The exception might be people who were lucky in some way or are born rich
I know, but is that all there is to life. I respect people who are able to wake up morning after morning to be a working man, but you are ultimately a sucker.
You live the life of cuckoldry meanwhile a pimp like Andrew Tate gets to drive ferraris
lol
andrew tate still works though just in different forms
that's what i mean, it takes different forms but everyone works
Because it isn’t all your life ends up being. Two thirds of your years prior to 60 you spend working. If you work 40 hours out of 168 per week with no weeks off, you are spending (40/168 x 2/3) or 15.87% of your life working.
If you don’t have the discipline to do what you want to do with the leftover 84% of your life then we can’t help you. Internal (skill) issue.
I work 70 hours a week and still find time to exercise
>70 hours a week
How do you find the time to use this site?
Within the remainding 98 hours in the week
i work 100 hours a week and also frick your mom and still find time to exercise
Always lift before work, don't give these jobs your fresh energy, give them your secondary energy. They deserve nothing more
Just work as a Costco stocker.
You get paid to work out.
10 hours a day installing HVAC. Guarantee I work harder than you, so there's no excuse. Hit the gym in the morning, use the energy given to you for YOUR benefit. Give your employer whatever scraps are left.
>t. 3pl bench 5pl deadlift, hacksquat cuz bad knees from job kek fml
>10 hours a day installing HVAC
You poor soul, should of not skipped classes and studied
>tfw went to uni
>went to every class, studied and did homework
>just to still almost fail out, only passed by the grace of my profs
>no skills, unable to get a job
>now i have to do dead end manual labor instead while in thousands of debt
considering ending it t b h
I work more to work less. 12hrs shifts spread across 2days then 2 nights with a 24hr gap in between. Then I get 4 days off. Plenty of time for gym/hobbies.
just thug it out little b***h. get off work, drink a coffee or an energy drink and then go to the gym. my gym is packed with construction workers getting off work at 5pm.
Best way to stay motivated is to never take more than 1 day off the gym.
If you’re only training 4 days a week, it’s very hard to want to workout after a 3 day break. But if you’re hitting it 6 days a week it just becomes natural, and you wouldn’t dream of skipping a workout.
well having a full time job, i often have to force myself to workout, it gets easier in the summer time, but winter is dark and cold, i fricking hate winter... but if you rationalise it's not that hard to get half an hour of exercise into your daily routine... it's just a matter of willpower, once an habit develops it's autopilot
When I was single I worked out after work. Now that I’m not single and she’s an attention prostitute I workout at lunch time.
Imo, working out at the same time everyday is best because it makes it part of your routine. You can either go before work at ~7am, during lunch break ~1pm (if you have flexible working), straight after work at ~6pm or after dinner at ~8.30pm. Pick a slot, stick to it and see how you go. Personally, I found that doing more frequent but shorter workouts is easier to manage.
Thats the life question man.
Reaching everything (social status, rich af, 120kg) is hard if you want all, easier if you just want one.
Try to save time by listening to stuff x2, take more risk and just give everything without cosuming shit like insta. You get used to the challenge and when it doesnt feel hard, you start panic
I would fall upon her and feast like a man in the desert dragging himself to an oasis
Steel mill engineer here. 34 and single.
Mon, wed: muay thai 90 mins
Thur, sun: full-body weights 120 mins
Chores on the off days, go home-start laundry-train - get home and hang clothes, I do tend to eat late and rest a bit more on weekends.
If u work more than 0 hours a week lower ur tone when talking to me
Sorry about you being a NEET.
If I were you, save every gods given shekel you can and invest it in a dividends portfolio until you can live on just the dividends. Then move somewhere with a low cost of living and only 3 seasons. Then just go to the gym and never go wagecucking again.
Wouldn't that take like 10-20 years to actually build up to something I can retire on? Still have to wagecuck
Well it took me 14 years personally. I had to wagecuck but at least it's over now.
>neet most life
>Tx upper north the rich part
>finally have to succumb to wagey slavey
>fine at first but then it just grind on you and I completely started getting some weird meloncholy feeling during summers
>got paid super well due to connetions and just being nice
>coron happens, parents scared out of their minds like it's y2k
>move back home with them to take care of them
>rural as frick, slow and poor
>no way I'm getting the same job i had before here
I was able to go through 3 years of neeting down here with barely even a dent into my savings. I helped with bills as well.
You wanna do this in the states? Get at least 10k, and move to a poor ass place and you'll be able to stretch that far.
Or. And this is a big or…
You work towards a job that provides you a good income, sense of purpose, and work life balance in a community you can lay down roots. Then as you get older and have more money saved up and work experience you can move into a wfh/part time/contractor/etc job tangential to what you do and open even more time for hobbies and family/social time.
Or you can be a turbo autist and jump between extremes such as grinding hard in a HCOL area you hate then uprooting your whole life to go to bumfrick nowhere or some 3rd world country where you become a complete bum.
>You work towards a job that provides you a good income, sense of purpose, and work life balance in a community you can lay down roots.
no such thing especially in 2024
Spoken like a young person terminally online reading nothing except how bad things are.
It's true though, there's barely anyone that actually enjoys their job. Even my boomer parents complain about their jobs
>tfw bike to work because it's only 5 1/2 miles off the road
>lifting becomes easier because legs are swole
>get to enjoy nice scenery instead of being stressed out in bumper-to-bumper traffic
>can have more sex because of how much more I can endure
Make your time work for you and enjoy it for once.
Home gym
Don't have to change, can shower immediately afterwards, don't have to travel there, can fit in exercises in off time between doing other things
>take up the Jocko sleep schedule
>lift before work
It's really that easy
>I now have alzheimers due to my 5 hour sleep schedule?
>Good.
luckily my job has a gym in the office and I can go during work hours. Otherwise it would be grim (7pm gym time). But it is still doable.
i'm 21 and i work a physical job 10-12 hours a day and i still lift
do people just innately have different amounts of energy?
i'm not even bragging about being a wagecuck or whatever, i'm thinking of going back to school and getting a better job
but how do you motherfrickers manage to make your lives so complicated that you don't even have time for lifting? i'm perplexed genuinely
You have more energy at 21 than you realize. OP is definitely being a lazy homosexual though
Built for BBC
Morning workout. Shrimple as.
I literally workout during my lunch break and eat at my desk OP.
If I'm too lazy I'll go after work.
I'm applying for jobs but also want to get my bodyweight up to 250+. Eating this much is basically a full time job so I'm pretty much focusing on that. But then once I've accomplished it I can be at that size forever. I couldn't imagine doing it if I were working full time.