Kurtis636

I work between 45 and 60 hrs/week (ain't salaried jobs great!), but fortunately the gym I go to is open 24 hours a day during the week. Generally I try to work out at either 5 AM or late night (11 PM, 12 AM).

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sitnspin

I'm lucky enough that I've been back in full time university for the past few years, and I've rarely had a job on top of that (in that time period!). My schedule changes from week to week depending on how much reading I have to do and what assignments are due, but in general it hasn't been too hard to find time to work out. I'm also not training for competition, so as long as I'm working hard and seeing some progress, I'm satisfied.

Honestly Crash, based on things I've read on fighter's blogs, etc, it might come down to cutting your expenses. If the question is how can you free up more time in your week to devote to training, because becoming a fighter is your priority, than you might have to ask difficult secondary questions like, "Am I willing to live in a cheaper, crappier place in order to pay less rent, therefore allowing me to work fewer hours in a month?"

In addition to all this other stuff, I'm also an actor (stage predominantly, but a bit of no-budget indie film work from time to time as well). Because my ultimate goal professionally is to become a high school teacher, I don't care too much about needing to get paid to act. I take theatre gigs if they sound fun, or if I want to work with the people involved. And when I get too busy to act, whatever -- I don't act for a while. This semester, for example, is the first in three years where I've sworn off doing plays altogether.

I had a point... what was my point? Oh yeah -- I have a lot of friends who are trying to act for a living. it's all they want to do, and it's their #1 priority. If they also cared about having nice apartments all to themselves and having cars and regularly adding to their DVD and CD collections, then they'd be in a position of having to work more. Since paying acting jobs can be hard to find, they'd have to get pretty full time day jobs. Suddenly they're working at these jobs all the time, so they can't go to auditions, they can't attend workshops and classes, and they're exhausted.

So instead, these people are 35 years old living with five roommates and eating Mr.Noodles and KD most nights, in order to keep themselves available to pursue acting opportunities, because to them, nothing else matters.

I'm sure you're working so much because you've got bills to pay, but if training to fight is your #1 priority, are there ways that you can readjust your life to prove that?

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MTKrav911

It's hard. But considering I work a desk, my motivation regardless of how tired I am when I get home is to at minimum do a 1.5 mile run daily to prevent lardassedness. Then I teach a kickboxing class twice a week and squeeze in some good workouts between grappling and kickboxing then. So overall, it's a challenge, esp with wife and kids, but it works for me.

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Crashsti

there was a time when i was "poor" and only working like 16 hours a week. looking back i think i was happier back then having less cash and more time for friends and training. Money has a way of pulling you in, you make more so you spend more and the things you buy start costing more and are more pensive to maintain. Thanks Sitnspin!!! there was a time when i was sure i would'nt get caught in the trap of working my whole life away just to have a bunch of stuff. time to look into making some changes.