5x5 Deadlifts!
- Thread starter JustinRVA
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Thanks. I'm excited about it. The guy that got me the job there went in to work on Saturday to help the owner with paperwork and the owner paid him over time for the day, and on top of that, gave him the company credit card and told him "Thanks for today. Take your wife out for dinner tonight, where ever you want to go". That's the kind of environment that I want to be in. Extra effort not going overlooked.
Fairness it's a bit like that here. Not blank cheques style but if you are asked to go over and above you are fed etc. as standard.
Not sure about the stretching by proxy idea. I often feel like I don't have time but the relaxed feeling after stretches does feel worth it.
Well, I like the new job. The only thing about it is that the first two days I have worked 7-5:30 both days and have come home not wanting to move. This is pushing me further toward the "lifting at home" desire that I have. I have found a very nice multi-use bench and a 285 lb (Bar included) weight set for about $270. If I want to do this, it's going to be half hour sessions every day before work, which is only half the time of a regular session now, but I will be lifting five days a week instead of two or three. I would have to come up with a new routine that would most likely consist of only two exercises a day.
There is a lot to be said for short sessions. You can usually commit to them with more gusto knowing there is not much more following them.
Got to be worth a go.
Got to be worth a go.
You can waterproof a bench or use a patio table cover. There will be corrosion on kit stored outside if damp, but that's inevitable.
Still haven't purchased anything and still haven't been in to train yet. It rained here for about a week until yesterday, so even if I had something here outside, I wouldn't have been able to lift. It's still in my mind and I'm greatly feeling it in my body. My daily routine has gone to crap. Most days, I don't even have time to eat breakfast anymore. The decline is obvious and it's killing me. I have to figure something out.
Try some body weight work in the interim. It's not ideal, but life often isn't.
Well, Christmas is over and the year is coming to an end. Once again, we come to the end of the road where we can only look back over the last year, and a year ago right now, I was in a great routine, and now I'm not. A year ago right now, I was working 6am-2:30pm, going to lift from 3-4:30 Mon/Wed/Fri and I was home by 5. I had all the time in the world. Now I don't. The threat of not getting a contract extension and possibly losing my job in August '14 caused me to jump ship into another job where I now work 7am-5:30pm (minimum) every day, for the same I made before I came here. Combined with our two girls and the fact that my wife is now 7 months pregnant with our son, I rarely have time to do much of anything but sleep. It's running me down. I'm always tired, I'm eating like crap and I'm stressed out 99% of time. I started looking for another position somewhere else last week. This 10/11 hours a day thing isn't working for me. It's hurting me more than anything. I'm not one for New Years resolutions, because you shouldn't have to wait until the New Year to change something that you don't like, but the timing of this just happened to work out that way. Hopefully I won't be in the market for a new job for very long. The only thing that worries me about changing jobs right now is the fact that I won't have health insurance when my son is born. That scares the hell out of me.