Exercise in Sweaty Groups
With the pendulum swinging back to a prioritization of FaceTime, how are you, if in a sweaty group, able to workout? With respect to the face the sweatiest groups are typically filled with beta low T nerds that don’t exercise and are not understanding.
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These beta low T nerds in my group really bugging my macros.
Unless you're legit getting heavily staffed into 100hrs every week, most analysts will have the down time to find some semblance of a workout routine. Although, it can be exhausting on top of your day and it won't always be consistent. Otherwise, leave your toxic group or find a way to be time efficient.
If they are true nerds it should be easy to get them hooked. Just show them your 12 months 1 Rep Max projection in Excel and they will be starting 5/3/1 from next month themselves
Get in the habit of going before work no matter what. You'll get less sleep but get used to it
This. I'd rather lift or run and sleep 4 hours vs. sleep for 5 and do nothing
Will have to sacrifice some part of your life unfortunately. Best is probably to go before work, but that sacrifices sleep; Could go evenings but that sacrifices "job performance"
As most have shared, the morning is the only time you can really guarantee a solid workout. This comes at the expense of sleep, although I think if you’re under ~85 hours for the week it’s manageable to get a solid night’s sleep in and a morning workout. Anything above that and you seriously will be cutting into sleep. You can get lucky and sneak in a workout during a lull in the day or maybe you get off early one night, but tough to stick to a workout regime if you’re banking on these chance slots.
A few options:
I would get adjustable dumbells like the bowflex dumbells so that you dont have to mess around with gym commute.
A 1x per week full body workout for 2-3 hours. It is hard to keep full intensity the whole time tho. Every set needs to be taken to true failure. You will still make gains if you squeeze all the weekly volume into one day with max intensity.
3x per week german volume training with antagonist muscle groups so that they can be supersetted. Pick a weight you can do 10x10. Monday chest/ Back . Wed is arms. Friday is Legs shoulders. Each workout is 20-30 mins and just 3x per week. Arrange the days however. Example is superset bench press and rows or bench press and pullups. 60 seconds rest in between the superset.
It will be difficult tho and will need to really focus on compound lifts and training to failure. I do not think cramming in frequent workouts is the solution. I think going ham 1-3x a week with focused intensity is the better route when you are exhausted like this.
I worked in s&t so can't relate to the sleep deprivation though but I saw this thread and feel like these are the most efficient ways to cram workouts in.
What about working out daily but for like 20-30 min? Obviously has to be either gym in office or near home. Idk I can't not workout daily for some reason
Obviously not sure where you work, but most of the banks that I have friends at have gyms in the building. Makes it much easier obviously as you can get to your desk in ~10 mins at any point. One major consideration is what time you need to be at your desk, if you can swing 10am or later it becomes much easier to get in a morning pump than if you’re a 9am sharp (or earlier) group / bank.
If it works for you then do it. But if someone is truly exhausted and strapped for time it may not work optimally for them. Its all really preference. Some people find it easier to just go hard 1-2x per week and then they are done with it. Alot of it is just finding what you can be consistent with. I've also found if I'm not sleeping 7-8 hours per night I get worse gains with more workouts, and more gains doing 2x a week with heavy focus on compound lifts and intensity techniques like drop sets and rest pause
Put fake invites on your calendar in the morning or at night. Go to the gym then and tell your micro managing VP that you're stuck on a call but will do whatever he is chasing you for after
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