Help with recovery...
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Topic: Help with recovery...
Posted By: kiltedbadger
Subject: Help with recovery...
Date Posted: 2/22/05 at 10:32pm
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I need some tips / advice... I do shift work and my hours change every two weeks. So, about the time I get used to my routine for the pay period, I have to change shifts and of course, this means my sleeping time has to change too. I'm able to get two or three days of weight training in each week, but with my sleep being screwed up, I know I'm not getting the most out of the "recovery phase"... Anybody have any tips or advice on how to maximize recovery in a situation like mine??? Thanks in advance... |
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Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 2/24/05 at 12:21am
| I change shifts every week and have yet to deal with getting enough rest during recovery. All I can say is get as much rest as you can when ever possible. If you happen to find a secret that helps post it so everybody can benefit. |
Posted By: kiltedbadger
Date Posted: 2/25/05 at 9:50pm
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Marc: You change every @&%#$ week???!!! Man, I thought I had it tough doing it every two weeks. You need to write a book about living in constant jet lag... |
Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 2/25/05 at 11:18pm
| Sometimes it feels that way, but we do 12 hour shifts, so the bosses reward us with 3 to 4 days off a week. the hard part is on the days my wife works and I don't. Then I live in toddler land until she gets home with a 4 and 1 year old. |
Posted By: BigdogEMT
Date Posted: 2/26/05 at 1:37am
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!?!?!?! You guys just work 12 hours?!?!?!?! My suggestion for recovery is "drugs"!!!!! NO really that sucks. They have done studies that show shift workers live shorter than persons that just work during the day. I did it for about 5 years. It wasn't killing me fast enough so now I work in EMS!!!! Terry
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Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 2/26/05 at 2:05am
Send the pups home the Big Dog is in the house. Two questions, how many of those 24 and 48 hour shifts do you sleep a little, and how many hours do you get when you do?
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Posted By: kiltedbadger
Date Posted: 2/26/05 at 6:47pm
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Big Dog: Guess I should have put 2 and 2 together and figured out you were EMS since you use "EMT" as part of your moniker. I'm going full time EMS this summer, I'm in the process of switching from law enforcement. Guess that makes me as sick and twisted as you, eh?? Been to the doc about your shoulder yet???
Marc: My kids are six and three and their favorite thing to do is run up and down the hall yelling while I try to sleep... Have my son (the six year old) doing caber tosses already... We use an old X-Mas tree trunk... |
Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 2/26/05 at 11:11pm
| Mine are both girls, but nothing wrong with starting them young. I'll have to remember the christmas tree caber idea next year. |
Posted By: Scott B
Date Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:11am
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Big Dog, I can relate. I work a 24/48 Fire Department shift and work a 12 hour day truck at EMS on one of my days off, plus the wife/kid home life too. I don't know where you work but where I am we get very little sleep at night. I try to maximize my nap time during my first day off I have no doubt shift work carves years off your life but if I was any smarter would I be throwing heavy stuff around for a hobby? Take care and be safe. Scott |
Posted By: kiltedbadger
Date Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:22pm
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Marc: We practice WFD and WFH with an old ankle weight I rigged with a handle, it's barely 6 pounds with the handle. My son also has a softball sized stone for doing stone throws. |
Posted By: BillB
Date Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:56pm
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I can sympathize with you guys.Especially when summer rolls around.On top of work,training,volunteer FF/EMT,little league starts.Gotta make time for the kids.They don't stay young for long.My workouts/training is abbreviated,but very intense.My son(11) started throwing with me last year.He throws an old window weight I hooked to a short chain.His caber is a landscape log.Running into a burning building is fun,but throwing with my son is priceless. ------------- Vae Victus |
Posted By: DarylB
Date Posted: 3/01/05 at 8:59am
I don't know about the first part, but the second part is extremely true. It's really cold here today, about 30, and I see Isaac and Emily out throwing a new 14 pound weight that they just made. Throwing together is a great thing...priceless. ------------- Yeah, those are all my kids. Same wife. Yes, there are eight. |
BillB wrote:Posted By: BillB
Date Posted: 3/03/05 at 4:22am
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Daryl,the burning building part is fun as long as I can help save life or property.I know it sounds a little weird,but it's an adrenaline rush to combat something as wild as fire. ------------- Vae Victus |
Posted By: BigdogEMT
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 1:26pm
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Sorry, I have been working! I work at The Lake of the Ozarks MO. It’s a small quiet little community with about 5000 year round residents. That grows to about 300,000 during the summer! So you never know what’s going to happen. I have found that you take a nap whenever you get a chance!!! It reminds me of a T-shirt I saw once; “You know your old when someone mentions happy hour and you think of nap time”. Terry Lawson |
Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 3:27pm
| Big dog, my comments earlier about sleep on the job were only idle curiosity not trying to be malicious. If it wasn't for guys like you society would completely different. You're right my shift work is bad enough I'ld never want your hours. |
Posted By: BigdogEMT
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 3:45pm
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Marc, Don’t worry I didn’t take offence from your comments I was just letting some others that had posted what I where and what I do. It’s not really as bad as I like to make it out to be! I have plenty of time off to not get things done!!!!! And what other jobs do you get to work out on duty? Terry Lawson |
Posted By: Marc Taylor
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 4:43pm
| For working out on the job I am truly jealous. |
Posted By: BigdogEMT
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 6:18pm
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It can have its drawbacks. I have just gotten done with the leg press with 690lbs and then gotten a call that we had to carry a 300+lbs person up a flight of stairs. I could barely walk much less carry someone else!!! But I consider it real life training!! Some things you just can’t do in the gym, well you CAN do it but somebody in the gym might slap you if you pick them up!!!! |
Posted By: BillB
Date Posted: 3/04/05 at 6:54pm
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Hey Dog,I've found that lifting heavy unconventional weights like large stones or large sand filled bags have a valuable carryover in "real life" lifting situations.Weights that don't come with handles or deep knurling require more effort and more muscles to perform the task.Don't knock it until you try it.I used to have alot of back trouble from work as a laborer.After I started lifting with old school impliments it got much stronger and the back pains all but disapeared.As with anything else,start light and work your way up. ------------- Vae Victus |