just do it --- but, just worn out

[Iwannabeacop]

Hi everyone!!! I work a fast fast station in Los Angeles County...I work a PM shift and absolutely love it...but, I get home and am too wired to knock out...then I sleep in, and wham-o time to suit up again...on my off days I'm beat...now, I see my waist line growing...I'm also in my mid-30s and a dad (so my time is stretched)...I wanted to hear how you guys motivate yourselves to get up and either hit the pavement or weights...Any advice would be groovy....thanks all, and please be safe out there....and really, ain't this the best job in the world!?!?!?! Can't believe they pay me to have this much fun....

[Samuel]

Bro, wait until the locker gnomes really do a number on you - next thing you know, you'll be sweating and straining to put on your sam browne. :eek: I know some guys who like to run before shift. I'm trying to get some DT workouts going after shift but, yeah, it's tough to do after getting hammered all night! Maybe try to find someone(s) to go jogging with right after shift? Do you guys have a mat room?

[Aussie George]

Bro, wait until the locker gnomes really do a number on you - next thing you know, you'll be sweating and straining to put on your sam browne. :eek:

I used to work with a girl who thought she had a weight problem (but was actually fine - and I mean FINE!!!;))

Anyway, every time she had days off we would adjust her duty belt one notch tighter. She was always freaking out thinking she had put on weight on days off. :D


As for your original question...I am also fighting a losing battle with the fitness. However last week my wife got her hair done. For some reason it took 4 hours. With a new baby in a pram, I had the pleasure of pushing him around the shopping centre for 4 hours. Every time I stopped he would start crying. Any idea how far you can walk around in circles for 4 hours!?!?!?

My feet are still sore.

[Iwannabeacop]

Oh the locker gnomes got me good!!! Man it hurts to have to let out your gun belt!!!

And those days of pushing my kid around in a stroller are long gone (too fast, it was great while it lasted)...now she's 11 going on 21, and often too cool to hang with ole dad...

I'm going to try to find a partner to go running, but am kinda an old man at the station...this really pretty female deputy asked me to run with her, but she's super fit, and well me gasp'n for air and crawling behind her...well that's just humiliating!!!

[Wolfman]

Anyway, every time she had days off we would adjust her duty belt one notch tighter. She was always freaking out thinking she had put on weight on days off. :D

LOL, that is awesome - Would give you green if I didn't have to spread it around :D

[Samuel]

I used to work with a girl who thought she had a weight problem (but was actually fine - and I mean FINE!!!;))

PICTURES!!! :D

Anyway, every time she had days off we would adjust her duty belt one notch tighter. She was always freaking out thinking she had put on weight on days off. :D

Ohman that's so Wrong! Funny, but Wrong! :p

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[Samuel]

..this really pretty female deputy asked me to run with her, but she's super fit, and well me gasp'n for air and crawling behind her...well that's just humiliating!!!

So you said NO???!!! :eek: Bro, your man card is at stake here! Man, I would love to have a hottie to go running with - more incentive to keep going! You can get behind her and you know, Draft or something... :p

[Iwannabeacop]

well i said no to running....but everything else was great...wink wink...let's hope she's not on this post, or I'm SOL!!!!!

[mcsap]

Hi everyone!!! I work a fast fast station in Los Angeles County...I work a PM shift and absolutely love it...but, I get home and am too wired to knock out...then I sleep in, and wham-o time to suit up again...on my off days I'm beat...now, I see my waist line growing...I'm also in my mid-30s and a dad (so my time is stretched)...I wanted to hear how you guys motivate yourselves to get up and either hit the pavement or weights...Any advice would be groovy....thanks all, and please be safe out there....and really, ain't this the best job in the world!?!?!?! Can't believe they pay me to have this much fun....

C'mon MIKE , you CAN do this if you WANT to. I work 12's and do it. You have to DECIDE on a certain date and time that you ARE going out to knock off 1/4 mile and than gradually work your way up. Same with any weight training etc.

No more regular soda or fancy coffe drinks. No burgers and NO fries. Find a way and reason to walk more. Drink more water. Eat more veggies. Try a veggie sub at Subway, they are actually good. If you can watch TV or go online you have time to excercise.

It does NOT get any easier as you get older so you had better get on the stick or you will remain as you now are. This month is my 30th year of jogging. I started just prior to going in the military and never quit. It does a good job of keepi9ng me in shape, keeping me limber, and is great cardio excercise.

I can out run pretty much anyone my age ( 47) and a lot of those who are a lot younger

[Iwannabeacop]

Yeah, I know...and no better way to get a grown man off his arse than shame him:D...seriously, thanks...just for the record, I'm not just sitting on my butt my time off, I do what i can...all kidding aside, I do jog and hit the weights, just not to the extent I did before...sometimes, I'm just too beat...then I feel guilty not having gone and hit the pavement as my partners and my own lives depend on my having my act together...I just wanted to hear how some of you guys and gals stay motivated off duty....that's all....and sarge, it's Mike...not "guy..."

[mcsap]

Maybe you wouldn't be as beat if you were in better shape ??

This job takes enough of a toll as it is , you have to do something to counteract it.

[Iwannabeacop]

I know, you're right...i'm not in terrible shape, but not as good as I had prided myself in being in the past...I'll just push myself, guess there's no other way...

[mcsap]

If it was easy , everybody would be in shape

[Iwannabeacop]

alright Sir...do me a favor...I'm not on 12's, but 5/10's...can you post your routine, and I'll try it out...

[mcsap]

I don't have a set routine, I go when I can. Somehow it has worked out for the last 3 decades.

I work 60 hrs one week and 20 hrs the next. I work 1800-0600 4 weeks and than 0600-1800 for 2 weeks.

On nights, I get up at 1400 , eat a small breakfast and hit the road/track at 1600 and do 3 miles. I'll go out 2-3 times a week depending on the weather and my sched.

On days, I'll go out as soon as I get home OR eat when I get home and than go out around 2100.

My goal is 400 miles in a year. I am a little behind this year due to weather and repeated sinus :mad:infections. I should at least hit 300.

On a GOOD day , I can do 3 miles in 23:30 on a track.