Night Shifted

[AdamCrafter]

I've landed my copy of your tape, and have been having a blast threading it into my daily pattern.

I've become moderately adept at shifting time instructions due my work schedule.
I work the night shift as a typesetter at a small publishing press.

Currently I sleep from 3am-10am, enjoy my 'evening' between 11am and 4pm, work from 5pm till 3am with a lunch break of an hour in there somewhere.

I love hitting the gym when it's kinda quiet there, 10am-noonish, and have been placing your distributed exercise patterns throughout my day.
10am-1pm-4pm-7pm-10pm-1am is my current shot at a good pattern.
Feels good, and provides a chance to pause my head from the troubles of the day.
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Time for a thought triggered by the word 'pause':
van Vogt's Cortical-Thalamic Pause always seemed like a good idea to me... A moment in which you stop just reacting, and pause to consider.


My goal at each of the above times is to "Pause for breathing and consideration." Never a bad idea, but I had not thought to put it on a timed schedule.
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Here I cease to ramble, and just ask the question I came to ask:

"Any suggestions for a schedule for a night-shifted person?"

Many thanks,
Adam

[Steven Barnes]

The most important thing is to put your workouts in synche with your own body rhythms. "Greasing the Groove" over the course of your waking day, you might divide sessions into three chunks, say, coordination, anaerobic, and stretching. If you're ambitious, you might even put a Clubbell or Kettlebell "sprint" in there, too. I take several ten-minute breaks during the day, working various advanced Be Breathed variations, and Pavel's Naked Warrior exercises--this works for me because I like to have a workout even with no equipment. But if you can take a CB or KB to work with you, you can get a short, savage workout multiple times during the day. BE SURE to close out your workout with some advanced Be Breathed movements (what Coach Sonnon calls Biomechanical Exercises) or brief yoga moves, keeping breathing, motion, and alignment in mind. Remember how easy it is to overtrain using this technique, but have fun!
Steve