Any heavy lifters with heavy manual jobs?

I'm labouring full time over the summer and find that the day after training, waking up is somewhat taxing, but I feel more mobile (I also roll/stretch pre-lift).

I decided from drop Deadlifts seeing as I do so much deadlift style heavy lifting during the day, if I kept it in I think I'd be dying.

I used to lift big while being a scaffolder and plasterer . I do none of these now lol. Very taxing on the body IMO. Phone Post

I do garbage collection fulltime which I pick up roughly 15000 to 20000 kgs a day. I have to drop weekday training during my heavy season and just do a once a week on Saturdays. I find with a good cardio session and stretch the night before I feel pretty good at work the next day but I have a hard time bringing myself to do that a lot of the time lol. Phone Post

My summer job consist of physical labour on a warehouse. That + deadlifting and squatting 2 times a week (albeit not as heavy) didn't seem to make any problems until I managed to get my other glute really sore so I'll change my routine after a deload week.

8 hours of sleep and 4000 calories per day enabled me to train and work just fine. I'm 22 years old.

I also do a lot of foam rolling (everyday) and stretching during breaks.

Edit. Now that I started to wonder about the "injury" and checked my training log I noticed a straight correlation between glute problems and sumo pulls.

I started doing them to lower the strain on lower back, to which it actually helped, but in exchange managed to jack my glute since my posterior chain gets a shit load of stress from the work, especially the right side since I tend to twist my core to right every time I throw a box etc. = no rest. Stupido. Well you live you learn.

Rusty Shackleford - I do garbage collection fulltime which I pick up roughly 15000 to 20000 kgs a day. I have to drop weekday training during my heavy season and just do a once a week on Saturdays. I find with a good cardio session and stretch the night before I feel pretty good at work the next day but I have a hard time bringing myself to do that a lot of the time lol. <img src="/images/phone/droid.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>



Not a garbage collector, you are a Sanitation Engineer. :)

jdhawgs -
Rusty Shackleford - I do garbage collection fulltime which I pick up roughly 15000 to 20000 kgs a day. I have to drop weekday training during my heavy season and just do a once a week on Saturdays. I find with a good cardio session and stretch the night before I feel pretty good at work the next day but I have a hard time bringing myself to do that a lot of the time lol. <img src="/images/phone/droid.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>



Not a garbage collector, you are a Sanitation Engineer. :)

Haha yes, that's right ;) Phone Post

Rusty Shackleford - 
jdhawgs -
Rusty Shackleford - I do garbage collection fulltime which I pick up roughly 15000 to 20000 kgs a day. I have to drop weekday training during my heavy season and just do a once a week on Saturdays. I find with a good cardio session and stretch the night before I feel pretty good at work the next day but I have a hard time bringing myself to do that a lot of the time lol. Phone Post



Not a garbage collector, you are a Sanitation Engineer. :)
Haha yes, that's right ;) Phone Post


Shit, just drop the "sanitation" piece on your resume and start applying!

Although you probably make more as a garbage man...

That's not a half bad idea you know... I doubt I make more now though, I work for a private company not a municipality. Phone Post

It depends on exactly what you're doing. When i was younger i did labouring jobs that just involved taping together ceiling panels for 8hrs a day, which aside from being boring, gave me no problems at all. On the other hand i also once had to completely tear up the old floor and foundations, and then relay the hardcore and concrete, of an old house by hand with only 2 other people helping. Whilst i was doing that my only weekday exercise was lifting a pint to my lips at the end of the day.

Listen to your body. Most of the pulls and strains i've ever had have been from pushing on because i "shouldn't" be worn out according to something or other i'd heard/read somewhere.

HULC - It depends on exactly what you're doing. When i was younger i did labouring jobs that just involved taping together ceiling panels for 8hrs a day, which aside from being boring, gave me no problems at all. On the other hand i also once had to completely tear up the old floor and foundations, and then relay the hardcore and concrete, of an old house by hand with only 2 other people helping. Whilst i was doing that my only weekday exercise was lifting a pint to my lips at the end of the day.

Listen to your body. Most of the pulls and strains i've ever had have been from pushing on because i "shouldn't" be worn out according to something or other i'd heard/read somewhere.


Thanks for your post, this is really similar to what I'm doing. I'm tearing up floors in a school during the holidays - I've literally removed all pulling motions from my regime until I'm done (end of this week). My forearms are currently ridiculous...

easily did 20,000-40,000 lbs a day at the airport doing baggage handling in the bag room...


on top of unloading and loading aircrafts usually 4-5 flights a day

and still did weight lifting once a week with bjj 3-5x a week

Damn I bet that would make you strong as hell! My friend in our dojo was a longtime mover and he is strong as hell from the craziest positions!

yeah haha i was a beast from what my training partners were sayin..


i eventually got to the point where i said screw the weightlifting altogether as i really truly did not need to do it...not to mention scheduling it in the week so once i dropped it life was a lil easier . :)

doing the airport job i believe really gave me an advantage especially in the smaller aircrafts like the Embraer 190 and 175 .

the "belly" (where you put the bags in like on Greyhound) had a very low clearance where you were either on one or 2 knees unloading and unloading or laying on my back and kinda like bodytwisting the bags from left to right/right to left.

in the bAgroom between flights i had a good amount of down time like anywhere from 30-90 min and i would do pullups at any given time.

sometimes for the JAZZ aircrafts if the weight was too light in the rear belly we would put 300lbs of sand bags to balance the weight. Every now n then i would do pullovers /front raises with the sandbags ( 50lbs ) while awaiting passengers board the aircraft or for clearance to leave the gate.


JEtBlue Airbus320 typically had 200bags easily on their flights but the clearance in the belly was at least 5 1/5 or so feet compared to the damn Embraers which were like 4

I work in a Postal Service Processing and distribution center. Being as how Im huge, I always getstuck with the heavy jobs. Im usually throwing around 40-80 lb bags of mail all day long and go to the gym directly after. I can tell a difference in how quickly I fatigue at the gym, but If i dont lift, my back starts to hurt...wierd I know, but it does.