A LOOONG night in Afghanistan…
As if the days in Afghanistan aren’t long enough. Today/tonight we are making the transition from working the day shift to working the night shift. It means that we all work an 18 hr shift, take 12 hrs off and then begin working from midnight to noon. No big deal really; it just makes my schedule goes BONKERS and throws off everything from the sleep pattern to the workout and cardio times.
So I tried to stay up all night last night to sleep SOME during the day today; funny how that never really works the way I want it to. I managed to stay up till about 0500hrs discovering that the suns starts to rise a 0410 here right now. Went to sleep and woke up again at 0800 (bathroom calling) layed back down but only slept till around 1200hrs when I started to toss-n-turn till almost 1300hrs. Finally gave up, got out of bed and went to the cardio room.
Wanted to do an hour of low intensity, fat-burning cardio when I HAD to go to the latrine 30 minutes into it. So when I got back I just started over at 0…did an hour, then off to work the abs for about 20 minutes, multiple angles and exercises before I finished up with an easy 20 minute jog on the DREADMILL!
Did I do too much cardio, maybe but it felt good I didn’t feel like I "over did it". Anyway, I’m now…4.5 hrs into this looong night in Afghanistan and wondering how many more times I’ll sleep not sleep and train; just to get through the long shift.
May 31, 2007 at 11:09 am
i understand completly dude i did the same thing today im offshore in the gulf of mexico
we changed from nights to days went to bed at 8 got back up at 12 and we will work until 6pm or more sometimes i get sleep dep. out here sometimes and its hard to build muscle without proper sleep, i want to say thanks and stay safe my son was in kandahar i dont know how to spell it wish i never heard of it lol he came back all buff put on some serious muscle while he was there. keepup the good work you looking jacked dude