How do others here get to do their work and good workouts at the same time? I usually train about 4000 yards a day but at the moment I have too much work where I need to concentrate. I often work until early in the morning. I work in animation so my work is always sitting down at my animation desk and computer.
I have to admit that I have a lot of work and if I'd do my swimming now I would get too tired at some point, so I took a break from swimming(and gained 10 lbs during this time:( )
I know I'll lose the weight as soon as I hit the pool again but also I will get less work done because I'll be drained.
How do others do it?
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It sucks, but life throws you curveballs.
I know what you mean. In my animation career I had no work shortly after 9/11 because it had influence on the economy(or maybe a coincidence). Although I had much more time, I didn't train at all because I could hardly afford the pool fee after a few months and I wasn't focused. My priorities was to find work.
I have to swim,it is not a luxury,it is a very important part of my physical and psychological well being,just like eating,sleeping and breathing.
Sure you can take off the 10 lb later,but what if later is in 2 yr and it is 30 lb.
If 4000 yd is unworkable and is draining of energy instead of energizing try 1500 three times a week.
You're 100% right. I'm only doing this short-term. Long term it will backfire: weight gain, back pain and other aches, plus the psychological factor, like feeling more depressed. Normally working out should be an important priority and I'm glad that I managed to keep it up most of my 20 year work career.
Your suggestion of at least training 1500 three times a week makes sense. I feel a bit embarrassed though because I gained weight. I know it's silly but I was never over-weight:o
I can train hard and work hard on the same day, but I can't sustain both simultaneously for weeks or months at a time. To the central nervous system, stress is stress, and it's cumulative. If you spend more time with your HR and BP up than you can recover from, you will become overtrained, and then both mentally and physically unhealthy, no matter whether the elevated HR and BP are from working out, or from listening to a client yell at you while you try to figure out how to get off the phone so that you can complete four other things for four other clients who are not currently yelling but who will be soon, or from grief over bad events in your family, or whatever else.
I remember once when I worked on a feature movie that was pretty stressful, I went swimming every lunch hour. In addition to that I went to 3 hour life drawing classes after work 2-3 times a week(which were offered by our company). I also went to Wing Chun(Kung Fu) lessons 1-2 evenings a week and did a lot of bodyweight training. After about 6 months I felt like a wreck and got a cold about once a month. I dropped the Wing Chun and only went to life drawing once a week after that. That was seriously too much.:D
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It sucks, but life throws you curveballs.
I know what you mean. In my animation career I had no work shortly after 9/11 because it had influence on the economy(or maybe a coincidence). Although I had much more time, I didn't train at all because I could hardly afford the pool fee after a few months and I wasn't focused. My priorities was to find work.
I have to swim,it is not a luxury,it is a very important part of my physical and psychological well being,just like eating,sleeping and breathing.
Sure you can take off the 10 lb later,but what if later is in 2 yr and it is 30 lb.
If 4000 yd is unworkable and is draining of energy instead of energizing try 1500 three times a week.
You're 100% right. I'm only doing this short-term. Long term it will backfire: weight gain, back pain and other aches, plus the psychological factor, like feeling more depressed. Normally working out should be an important priority and I'm glad that I managed to keep it up most of my 20 year work career.
Your suggestion of at least training 1500 three times a week makes sense. I feel a bit embarrassed though because I gained weight. I know it's silly but I was never over-weight:o
I can train hard and work hard on the same day, but I can't sustain both simultaneously for weeks or months at a time. To the central nervous system, stress is stress, and it's cumulative. If you spend more time with your HR and BP up than you can recover from, you will become overtrained, and then both mentally and physically unhealthy, no matter whether the elevated HR and BP are from working out, or from listening to a client yell at you while you try to figure out how to get off the phone so that you can complete four other things for four other clients who are not currently yelling but who will be soon, or from grief over bad events in your family, or whatever else.
I remember once when I worked on a feature movie that was pretty stressful, I went swimming every lunch hour. In addition to that I went to 3 hour life drawing classes after work 2-3 times a week(which were offered by our company). I also went to Wing Chun(Kung Fu) lessons 1-2 evenings a week and did a lot of bodyweight training. After about 6 months I felt like a wreck and got a cold about once a month. I dropped the Wing Chun and only went to life drawing once a week after that. That was seriously too much.:D