Anyone else work a high intensity job?

Does the Army count?

Too many days I'm too physically and mentally exhausted to do real tri training. I try to just get some weights and abs in, as running or biking is out of the question due to time constraints. I'm not deployed so it could be worse.

In my previous life I was in Grounds Management (Turf Management/Sports Field) and it was very hard with the long hours to get runs in. However, the job was a great workout on its own.

i have a Specialized High Intensity Training type of job..

code name $hit

Firefighter - I regularly swim before shift and I try to workout and run during my shift (as we have a few basic pieces of equipment) but between 911 calls, being up all night regularly for medical runs and the infrequent fire I feel whipped after shift. 

But the morning after shift is the only time I have 'guaranteed free time'  So I have to go for it.  Sometimes it ends up being short runs (this morning) Other times I go for long runs.

So I share your pain about feeling too tired to workout sometimes.  But just like some race days, we gotta push through it to gain that endurance... right? Right! Right?

I was once a mason, laying concrete block foundations for houses for 10 hours a day in the summer heat.  I once came home at 7pm, tripped on the step leading into the kitchen, the cool tile floor felt so good on my face that I just fell asleep.  Bigfuzzydad was kicking me at 6am the next morning, "wake up Doug.  Time to get out to the job site for work.  Here's breakfast for the car."

And it was back to work.  That was pretty intense.  These days I just shine a chair with my butt and tell other people what to do.  Pretty lame when you think about it.

I too work in an high intenseity job. We, my hubby and I do home remodeling. So it is tile, drywall and carpentry all day and try to get workouts in. Ex; this last few weeks we have been re-habbing a very large tile pool deck....so it is out in the sun all day and being really tired. So what I do is just try to workout when I can during the day. Either before or during the work day. Like if I have a break to wait for tile to set or a delivery, my extremely understanding Hubby, waits while I go work out and then come back to work. But it is hard and sometimes my workouts do suffer. Good luck to you.

Chris

I'm a software developer, aka tech-geek.

funny i found out triathletes are called tri-geeks...

guess i should accept the fact that i'm just a geek!

i'll take it... 

Software, desk work, client visits, software installation, training, fielding tech calls, 4 or 5 state travel (driving).

I am brain-dead at the end of the day. 

I'm in breast surgery all day.  Well not all day, but usually two/three cases a day.  I'm not the surgeon, I'm the sales/clinical consultant so it's more taxing on the brain...but at this point it comes pretty easy.

 When I was in the Navy I was a steam engineer.  In the persian Gulf the enginering plant would be in excess of 120 degrees.  Our stay times were 3 hours but the CO had us all on waivers to be down there for four hours at a time.  I use to complete an entire 100 oz camelback each time I went down and still wouldn't have to pee.  It was liking working in a steam room at the gym.  So you can imagine I use to shed lbs at sea for sure.  But I still had to get my workouts in.  After a while you aclimate and your body gets used to it.  definetly a HTFU job.  In fact once I left deployment to switch jobs and when I landed in San Diego I went to the gym that night....I remember sitting in the sauna and not sweating.  I was asking people around me if "it was always this cold in here" and they thought I was crazy as they were drenched in sweat.

We have the pnuematic stretchers