Anyone working 12 hour shifts?
Torgrills
Posts: 103 Member
Looking for some exercise tips from those of you working 12+ hour shifts. Best time to work out (before or after?), lighter or heavier workouts on work days, combinations of strength and cardio that work for you, etc. I just started doing 12 hour days (I'm SO not a day person either) but will be switching to 12 hour nights at the end of the month.
ANY advice is greatly appreciated!!!
ANY advice is greatly appreciated!!!
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I feel your pain on the rotating shifts, luckily my department bids shifts for the whole year so I don't have that. While working nights especially you will need to ensure you get your sleep. When working midnights I used to work out after work but now a days I prefer to work out before work. I usually have just enough time after training to get our sitter and get home, shower, shave, and head back out for shift.
My general routine does not change by my work schedule and the DOMS will ease a bit with time. I used to use that excuse to skip leg days but have since realized I was just full of it and now lift heavy as much as I can.0 -
Following this post. I will start my 12 hour shifts, out of town, later this week. This will be my biggest challenge yet. I just have to take each day at a time.0
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I do 12 hour shifts rotating weeks, Thursday - Thursday 5 am to 5 pm then I have a week off. I wake up anywhere from 2:00 to 2:30 am and work out for about an hour. AND if I don't do that I come home from work at 5 pm (I'm lucky I only live about 10 mins from work) and I work out for an hour. I've been on the 12 hour shift for almost 2 years...well it will be 2 years in March but I started working out about a month ago and I've been able to stick to it, hope that helps0
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I work 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week - but since I'm deployed and there's nothing else to do, fitting a workout in is easy. I'm not a "morning" person, so right after work I go to the gym or the track. Then I go back to the dorm, shower, eat and go to bed.
I'm a little weird though, and am just focused on military PT components - so I don't do a lot of lifting, just some bodyweight stuff and I do that at work. When everyone else takes smoke breaks, I take work-out breaks. My PT time after work is for cardio.0 -
Thanks everyone!0
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I work 12.5 hr shifts on feet the whole time so thats a workout for me - work on a hospital ward and at a care home. I do strength training on those days at home the same as if I am an nights.0
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I'm on twelve hour shifts, too, on weekends (bah) and overnight shifts during the week, so it's always an adventure trying to figure out my workout routine. I often take one of these twelve hour days as a rest day. When I don't, I usually just do weights and no cardio. For some reason, when I get back from a long day I find it easier to psych myself up to lift rather than do cardio. It's also pretty useful in working off some of the frustrations of the workday! But I have also discovered that unless I come home and IMMEDIATELY change into my workout clothes and get started, I won't get a workout in at all. If I sit down on the couch or have a snack, it's over. Battle lost!0
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