Thread: When do you train?

I actually don't have a set time like I should because my schedule is so screwy day to day. Weekends I'll always work out in the morning.

Often during the day I'll go after a client session depending on how many hotties are working out at that time.

Usually before school. So 530am ish

I used to train at 10-11am for years when i had a ~1600-midnight job.. But not anymore. Now i train after work ~6pm. Worst (busiest) time at the gym!

5:30PM

If I didn't work 10-11AM.

right now, 6am.

I hate that though. But my schedule doesn't allow me to train at the type that I really like, 11-12.

no specific timing for me ... itrain whenever i can...mostly after 4-12 pm ...but sometimes at 7-8 am though..

6am.... cause I'm a 9-5'er in terms of work and then my schedule's too full in the evenings.

9:00am, after a crappy interim 3rd shift job as a damn grocery manager. I throw up 500 cases of stock... come home and "workout". LOL. No wonder I consume 6,000 calories a day, at 3 hour intervals... sleep 9 hours a day, but still struggle to keep my weight from dropping.

BTW - That's when my "energy level" is highest.


I can't continue to do this, can I?

First thing in the morning. 5:30am weekdays, 7:00am weekends. While not ideal, there's never anyting to interfere with the early workout. When I used to workout in the evening, there would be too many distractions and last minute things that would come up, curtailing the workout.

I had a pretty good schedule before school, 2-2 1/2 hours after I woke up. So around 11-12.

Right now it is whenever my friend is done with classes because he has the car. Usually in the afternoon on weekdays, around 5-6. Weekends is around 2ish.

After work 5:30pm to 7:00pm

5:00PM. I used to be a crack-of-dawn kind of guy, but had to change my schedule a couple of years ago. Thankfully, the "health center" where I work out has a weight room that is hardly used. 97.3% of the people who go there use the weight machines or do cardio. Suckers.

I train within 2 hours of waking up Monday - Thurday. I train at 6:00pm on Friday after work and Sunday at 1:00 because that is when they open on that day.

12-1pm...I have a friend who comes to the studio to work out with me...when he gets here we drink our creatine shakes and shoot the shit for a minute before we warm up.

Shortly after I wake up. Around 6 am.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I train within 2 hours of waking up Monday - Thurday. I train at 6:00pm on Friday after work and Sunday at 1:00 because that is when they open on that day.

You work out 6 days a week??

I used to workout at 10PM in the evening, but my parents forbid me to do anything taxing after 10PM because of my light form of insomnia. Now that I got a training partner I workout right after school, usually 4-5PM.

Work a 9-5 so i train around half 5pm most days, cept on sundays when i train early afternoon, works out good for me, I used to have a job that had me waking up all kinds of god unearthly hours and that messed my workout schedule up big time.

I usually train after work - 5:30pm to 6:30PM. Have a PWO shake, eat dinner No. 1, light dinner No. 2 and hit the hay.

Originally Posted by PWGriffin

You work out 6 days a week??

Oh no, but all days are available is what I mean. I try to lift 2 days take a day off then lift 2 days again. It would look something like this:

Monday - Push
Tuesday - Pull
Wednesday - off
Thursday - Legs
Friday - Push
Saturday - off (I can’t lift on Saturdays because of work)
Sunday - Pull
Monday - Legs
Tuesday - Off
Wednesday - Push
Thursday - Pull
Friday - Legs (I will go 3 days straight if second day falls on a Friday)

Anytime the gym's not packed.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Oh no, but all days are available is what I mean. I try to lift 2 days take a day off then lift 2 days again. It would look something like this:

Monday - Push
Tuesday - Pull
Wednesday - off
Thursday - Legs
Friday - Push
Saturday - off (I can’t lift on Saturdays because of work)
Sunday - Pull
Monday - Legs
Tuesday - Off
Wednesday - Push
Thursday - Pull
Friday - Legs (I will go 3 days straight if second day falls on a Friday)

Wow, that's alot....how is that working for you?

I am 10am-11am Kind of guy

Originally Posted by PWGriffin

Wow, that's alot....how is that working for you?

It is working great for me so far. As long as I deload every forth week, I continue to break person records.

Weights before lunch, eat 30 minutes later.

Abs and cardio before dinner.

Afternoon. Can't get into the zone straight after waking up, just find I don't have the energy, although when I do, it sets me up for the day.

Kudos to all that work out at ungodly hours, I just cannot get the best out of myself at those evil small hours.

I like to hit the gym at 5-6AM

around 5-6pm. depends though