Exercise when working 60+ hours a week

I don't work that many hours but wanted to suggest eating a piece of fruit before working out in the morning - getting lightheaded when doing a morning workout sounds like a low blood sugar issue which can easily be avoided.

My other suggestion would be short, but high intensity workouts. Fifteen minutes can do a lot for you!

Congrats on meeting your goal and good luck!

If you have access to kettlebells the Simple and Sinister routine is a good conditioning workout. You can knock it out in less than thirty minutes. It's only two exercises, swings and Turkish get ups.

I agree with the notion of morning work outs. After a long day I'm more likely to skip working out because I'm tired.

I work 60ish hours a week (attorney plus adjunct professor) and definitely have to work out in the mornings. I go to the gym near my office, take my work clothes, and get ready there. It’s a pain in the *kitten*, as I have to prepack clothes, toiletries, as well as breakfast and lunch, but worth it. Plus not gonna lie, I get some smug satisfaction knowing I’ve done more before 8am than most people around me.

Hi Everyone, I am currently in the middle of my weightloss journey, I am a nurse who works 50+ hr weeks. I have 2 kids both in AAA hockey (I live in a rink LOL)

I just simply make it a priority - no matter how busy you are, you can find 30-60min to do some activity. Wake up earlier, go for a walk during your lunch (use map my fitness app - it syncs to mfp).
We are so quick to tell ourselves how busy we are that we can't work out, but when you really look at it -are you that busy? If I break my 16+ hr day down, I can always find time, its simply making it a priority.

For me it's first thing in the morning. Out of bed and to the gym (dressed of course). Otherwise I get too caught up with other things. If you feel light-headed, start slow and go easy at first. I think no matter what time you go it's important to get into a routine of going to the gym at the same time each day.

To be honest, it's about making your workouts a high priority in your life.

How important is to you? Is it worth going to be bed early and hitting the gym from 4:30-5:30? If that doesn't work, is it worth going to the gym later at night?

If you're working that many hours each, you're going to have to sacrifice something in your life. It's up to you if working out is the activity that gets cut or made a priority.

This content has been removed.

When I was in school, there was classes, + I had clinical rotations 4 day per week and I had a night job at a hospital. The schedule was 8-9 days per week. My concern with training was not just the time for the workout also the recovery time from a hard workout. I kept the work outs short, but moderately intense, with compound lifts . one was Squat & overhead press the other was bench & deadlift. 2 - 4 X per week depending on time. warm up, do a 3X5-8 , stop short of failure, and get out of the gym in about 30 mins -do a couple assistance lifts if you want. This was effective - got all the muscle groups and didn't beat me up. Eastcoast Jim

I work 40 hours a week at my office, plus 10 hours a week at a dance studio, I spend my 5 hours worth of lunch breaks doing lesson plans for the dance classes... and I commute an hour every day. Sooooooo that adds up to about 60 hours away from home that I physically can't commit to exercise.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL.

Maybe we should make a group? I'm trying to turn into a morning person and workout between 6 and 6:30 a.m. but when I don't get home and eat dinner until 9-9:30 I fail most of the time.

There are 168 hours in a week, setting aside 8 hrs a night for sleep still leaves 112 for work, errands, meal preparation, chores around the house and exercise.

I'm lucky in that I'm a morning person so I generally start each day with a workout (running, rowing, swimming etc) which also makes me feel more energetic during the day. I also usually try for a second activity after work (only because I'm a wannabe triathlete)

I run my own accounting practice so I'm no stranger to long hours, peak times may mean foregoing my evening workout but I try never to skip my mornings (I'm also fortunate that both of my kids are young adults now so there's no more running off to sports practices etc with them)

Make exercise a priority, even if there are days when you may only get 30 minutes or so.

I work approximately 55 hours a week (so not quite the 60 you're talking about), but that's not counting any commuting or such.

I just get up at 4:45 and head to the gym first thing in the morning. If I don't workout before work though, I can be to prone to talking myself out of it, so am it is despite the fact that I am NOT a morning person. This means I get home, walk straight to the kitchen to get dinner going, eat and chill, then usually head to bed, read for a bit before going to sleep. Unfortunately for me, I'm one of those that needs 8-9 hours of sleep a night or I can't function. Rinse and repeat M-F. Weekends I generally don't workout persay, although I may be active doing something more "fun" before or after work.

It probably helps my hours are spread over 7 days a week, as I have a f/t job, and two p/t jobs, one of which is freelance and very flexible, the other is on weekends (most of the time), so M-F I can deal with not having a life but getting that valuable activity in!

My hubby is a submariner and somehow many of those guys stay fit while working 60-80 hour or more weeks while getting highly processed food and littlemtime to workout. My hubby told me there was a guy who wanted to lift heavy so due to the lack of heavy weights he just squatted with another guy on his back with the heaviest weight too. Lol. I know my hubby does 20 minute full body dumbbell workouts and then uses the exercise bike for 20-30 minutes st a high intensity. They aren’t bodybuilders and many of them lose some muscle while underway but they do their best to keep it up. They also bring protein bars and snacks to supplement the mess food.