Three 12.5 hour night shifts a week, 7pm to 7:30am, usually Mon Tue Wed but it moves. Off the other four days but the first one is basically a write-off because I am sleeping until 3pm.
I want to lift 3x a week. Right now I am doing it randomly when I feel awake, which means about 1.5x a week in practice.
Anyone else on nights? What did you settle on? Train before shift, after, or just on days off?
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Not a nurse but I did rotating shifts in a warehouse for 3 years. Full body 3x beats a split for shift workers because when you miss a day you do not lose a body part for 10 days. Anything that assumes a fixed weekly schedule will fall apart.
Are you eating properly on shift though? My friend is a nurse and she basically lives on vending machine stuff from midnight to 6. No amount of gym scheduling fixes that.
Not great honestly. I bring food but by 3am I am eating whatever is at the station. Working on it. One thing at a time.
ICU, nights for 6 years. Here is what stuck:
So: before shift on one of the work days, then two sessions on days off. That is your 3. Some weeks it is 2. That is fine.
"Never after a night shift" I needed someone to just say that. I have been trying to be a hero at 8am and it is awful every time.