How does your job prepare you for the mountain?

[Decker9]

Shift millwright, 12 hour days 4/4/365, unscheduled down time isn’t an option. Our plant is 4 levels and built of stairs and ladders, add in a 40 pound tool bag plus parts. The job keeps me in good shape, but is also hard on the body. A mountain hunt is a cake walk compared to a day at work.

 

[K9kodi]

I get out of breath tieng my shoes

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Job? I ain't got no stinking job.

 

[flathead#2]

I retired Monday.
Been busy - I'm already sore.
No longer sitting in front of that stupid laptop all day.

 

[satchamo]

My job actually does the opposite since I sit on my ass all day and stare at a screen.

 

[Snow Panther]

My job actually does the opposite since I sit on my ass all day and stare at a screen.

About same situation for me. Several years ago, with all the "daily steps counters" apps on our phones, I realized that I was way too sedentary, and I started to do a daily walking routine. Depending on the season and weather, I walk either early in the morning before work, or during lunch break, or after work, some times twice daily. During work time, I also try to seize any opportunity to stand and walk down the stairs to get some documents (instead of asking someone to bring it to me).

 

[realunlucky]

I retired Monday.
Been busy - I'm already sore.
No longer sitting in front of that stupid laptop all day.

That's awesome congratulations

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[Forestryman2010]

So I get to spend a lot of time outside in the woods as a forester. I get to walk a lot. Unfortunately, I’m in the Florida panhandle and I’ve found mountain elevation to be very unkind and the air to not be near thick enough.

 

[Huntndog]

I train and board dogs. Stay active through the day. Our kennel is 150 yards from our office, so when dogs come and go I try to walk or run back and forth rather than use side by side. It adds up.
Probably the best thing I did last year was instead of mow the dam to our pond on a tractor I did it with a push mower, up and down. Did as much as I could each day. By the time I got done it would be time to start again…

 

[SleepyJones]

Oil patch trash.
Experience on the backroads (tire chains, tow straps, winches).
Used to being outside in poor weather conditions.
Calling: it's loud on site and I don't care if I annoy anyone with some random bugling (no one cares anyway and I bugled a future hunting partner in, lol).
Scouting: Where I work is where I can hunt so I can 'scout on the fly' when driving back and forth to site.
I'm literally typing this at work right now... so definitely e-scouting.
My schedule is 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off so I have half the year to do whatever I want, plus take additional time off for bow season.
Assigned company truck which I use on days off; cuts my fuel cost down to zero.
I spend a good portion of my work life in dry camps so I utilize my time to work out and it's SUPER easy to eat nutritious healthy food.

 

[Ianmac]

I’m a pencil pushing bean counter! While I’ve always been “in shape”, from sports, my general body type and just being young, only in the last 6 months, after comparing step counts with my girlfriend, have I realized that “in shapeness” was for show. I lift weights about everyday, mix in cardio and eat healthy. And yet, got humbled by my buddy who works construction, never lifts, and eats like crap, climbing a mountain during hunting season this year. Moral of the story is a sedentary lifestyle or job for that matter has some real repercussions, at least for myself. I’ve had to change the way I go about my fitness and only now are my eyes being opened to what the right kind of daily movement can do for you. In hindsight, I feel like an idiot for not noticing it sooner, but grateful to be less naive, at least little bit anyway.


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