I have worked in construction for about 8 years now. It has never really bothered me in the Gym. But the past two years I started working for a Brick and Block company. The minimum amount I lift a day is around 40,000 lbs, stretched over a 8-10 hour period of course.
The money is good but I think it's killing my mass gains by over training my muscles. It does keep me very strong and lean. I have not been over 12% bf and can bench twice my body weight but I think it is setting me back big time.:sad:
I have to eat a lot just to maintain. I was just wanting some confirmation on my thought process.
Thanks,
Well to tell you to work harder is just stupid.
Here is the short version, you need to train less (reduce reps), eat as much as you can, and focus on body parts that you are not utilizing at work. Don't be afraid of taking a little time off at the gym. But you need to focus on eating and that is something that I now really see as the hardest part of training, it is eating enough that is the real work. You would benefit from a large carb meal 1 or 2 times/day to help restore glycogen, and you need to hammer down a **** load of protein shakes.
Engineers long winded nerd geek out answer;
40,000 lbs over 9 hrs breakdowns to 74.07 lbs/sec now considering that you might not lift nearly 75 lbs a sec. it is easy to assume that you have intervals where you have a rapid increase in output, and that sums to 40,000 lbs/day, regardless of whether this over a long time interval, steady state, or whatever doesn't matter, it is a lot of work. Now this brings me to work which is mechanically described as W= F * d, that is the force times a displacement, this happens in the weight room and at your job, i.e. you applying a force to move something. So a 50 lb block raised 24 inches, the work done is 1200 lb*in or 100 lb*ft, so if your standard height is 24 inches over the 40,000 lbs, the work done is 80,000 lb*ft, that is a **** load. Now we haven't even figured in the work done at the gym. See short answer.
You are working hard!
