Hi All,
I'm 28 about 185 pounds, I'd refer to my current condition as 'skinny-fat'. All the men in my family are about 150-155 pounds, lean but fit. I was too until about 5 years ago I switched from fairly phsyical work to an office job and since most of my hobbies are non-active my fitness has suffered. I guess I'm lucky that genes have kept me from getting really fat or worse then I am, I haven't got a big belly, I'm just a little soft everywhere, and I'm to the point where I get winded fast doing pretty much anything.
About two months ago I switched jobs and have more spare time now since I'm doing 4 days on 4 days off shift work. I've started mountain biking with my wife's older brother a few days a week, he also needed badly to get up and do something active. Now I'd like to add some bodybuilding which I gather from some posts here would work best if I were doing one session per day, 3-4 days a week, probably 3 for me. My issue is I know myself well enough to know if I try working out at a gym after work or on my days off it will end up being an expensive membership I don't use or under use and I don't think I could hold myself to a workout at home either. My other option is due to the nature of my new job. Every hour on the hour I take a sample and run it through a 25-30min chemical test, everyone I work with/for knows this and thats the way they want it. So I have 30min of every hour to myself.....and a reasonable place at work that I could workout
So to my questions...
1)Given that I have 30min of every hour, if I want to do 1hour/day should I do 30min workout, do my 30min of work, then do another 30min of workout.... or should I split my sessions apart by several hours since I can't do a solid hour?
2)Further down the road if I do well by this would it work to change to an hour & a half each day? How would I do that to make best use of my schedule again together or split apart?
3)I'm thinking I should workout my first day, skip the second, then workout my last 2.... is the 4 day break before my next shift too long? If I'm bored out of my wits on my second day at work would it hinder progress to work out all 4 days?
I'm 28 about 185 pounds, I'd refer to my current condition as 'skinny-fat'. All the men in my family are about 150-155 pounds, lean but fit. I was too until about 5 years ago I switched from fairly phsyical work to an office job and since most of my hobbies are non-active my fitness has suffered. I guess I'm lucky that genes have kept me from getting really fat or worse then I am, I haven't got a big belly, I'm just a little soft everywhere, and I'm to the point where I get winded fast doing pretty much anything.
About two months ago I switched jobs and have more spare time now since I'm doing 4 days on 4 days off shift work. I've started mountain biking with my wife's older brother a few days a week, he also needed badly to get up and do something active. Now I'd like to add some bodybuilding which I gather from some posts here would work best if I were doing one session per day, 3-4 days a week, probably 3 for me. My issue is I know myself well enough to know if I try working out at a gym after work or on my days off it will end up being an expensive membership I don't use or under use and I don't think I could hold myself to a workout at home either. My other option is due to the nature of my new job. Every hour on the hour I take a sample and run it through a 25-30min chemical test, everyone I work with/for knows this and thats the way they want it. So I have 30min of every hour to myself.....and a reasonable place at work that I could workout
So to my questions...
1)Given that I have 30min of every hour, if I want to do 1hour/day should I do 30min workout, do my 30min of work, then do another 30min of workout.... or should I split my sessions apart by several hours since I can't do a solid hour?
2)Further down the road if I do well by this would it work to change to an hour & a half each day? How would I do that to make best use of my schedule again together or split apart?
3)I'm thinking I should workout my first day, skip the second, then workout my last 2.... is the 4 day break before my next shift too long? If I'm bored out of my wits on my second day at work would it hinder progress to work out all 4 days?