If you're one of those listless guys in your career, get a job in construction. Yes, you in the office. Just a few years.

First of all, you don't need to be superman, half the guys on the job are hungover and the other half are old, its not seal training. The gen alpha guys are incomprehensibly out of shape and out of touch. You will be fine. Just show up and try.

Second of all, you'll get well rounded general strength and cardio with SUN. I can't emphasize this enough. The way you'll feel and look by May is amazing.

Finally, you can always go back to the office and if you apply any professional skillset remotely related to the industry, you're not going to have a choice. I enjoyed it coming off several years of consulting but guess whose back at a computer running work? I still get out plenty though.

, roughly 75% of American adults don't get the recommended amount of exercise.

The recommended amount of exercise is fuck all.... 20 mins of walking per day, or 10 mins of running.

At the moment, I manage strength training once or twice a week but it does bore me I must confess. I wouldn't mind maybe if I knew a bunch of guys and caught up with them at a gym but it doesn't really fit in my life. I just go do some compound exercises at home when I have a slot and am not too knackered.

My work is physical. When you are young and have great recovery, this seems fantastic -get conditioned and earn at same time- but as you age, it is a bummer. There is less bandwidth for specific strengthening or conditioning exercise in life. I am frustrated to watch all the desk jockeys race off to the gym while I go home to do my business accounts and bills, feeling whacked after a long hard physical day when I have made too many repetitive movements with loads that can't really be balanced properly.

The fact is that most of the good masters athletes are white collar guys who use their physical reserves to train only. Blue collar guys hardly feature. There are a lot of good masters athletes who are doctors and they mutter about blue collar guys life style choices but I think this is a myth based on the past when working men drank and smoked a lot. These days its the middle class who think wine is a food group while a lot of working men really do want to stay strong for their jobs as retirement ages rise.

I do get 30 miles of quality running in a week, with targeted runs (and I love the benefits of a good VO2 Max more than I love the benefit of being able to move large weights) but all training is a a bit of a chicken and egg thing for me right now. Need to stay strong to work but work leaves me knackered to do strengthening exercises without injury risks, so once or twice a week is all. Hope to break this at some point. A week of limited work can do wonders for how much exercise I get in.

I love lifting weights. There's just a certain satisfaction that comes after a good workout. It's a feel-good moment you can't replace with anything else.

RAWR!!! >:D

One of the most important things (if not the most).

This would have been a great post for

https://www.forums.red/i/jackedpact

Unironically, is work an excuse? Sometimes I have 70 hour weeks and dont go to gym or only once a week. Only when I have long stretches of time with moderate amount of work I actually follow a weightlifting routine, otherwise I just go 3-4 times a week to do some stretching and cardio/boxing for fun (and to get my energy up in the morning).

I already decided at some point that I have other areas in life that I want to invest time to progress in, but maybe someone here has different perspective