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In my job I stand all day. My legs hurt. Cycling in the evening suffers.

I am having trouble finding jobs where I can sit down all day and do nothing physical at all.

Please help!

Can anyone give some ideas? All office jobs I see locally are for accounting firms or banks and I dont have the skills to do those jobs.

What is your job? How do you stop it from ruining your training?

many thanks.

danowat

I work CAD all day, doesn't affect my training at all, although sometimes my legs are a little reluctent to work after sitting down all day.

bristolpete

I stand up all day and as such my riding suffers big time. I prefer to only ride on my weekend day off or my mid week day off. Riding after work is simply too hard now so cant see the point in suffering and beating myself up.

amaferanga

Cycle in the morning before work?

bristolpete

But for recovery I have found that wearing Asda long travel / compression socks (cheap and cheaper than compression leggings) at home helps as well as the right footwear in work. Get your feet up on rest days evenings too and of course have the odd hot bath. Its a dirty job but someones got to stand up to earn corn

Zoomer37

bristolpete wrote:

I stand up all day and as such my riding suffers big time. I prefer to only ride on my weekend day off or my mid week day off. Riding after work is simply too hard now so cant see the point in suffering and beating myself up.

Pete you work in a bloody bike shop. All you guys do all day is lean over the counter looking through catalogs for stuff your going to buy next for your bike :P

SteveR_100Milers

At least you get the time to ride, be thankful for that.

bristolpete

Zoomer37 wrote:

bristolpete wrote:

I stand up all day and as such my riding suffers big time. I prefer to only ride on my weekend day off or my mid week day off. Riding after work is simply too hard now so cant see the point in suffering and beating myself up.

Pete you work in a bloody bike shop. All you guys do all day is lean over the counter looking through catalogs for stuff your going to buy next for your bike :P

True. Or swapping lenses with blokes who ride German mean machines !

overgeared

be careful wht you wish for. office jobs may be physically undemanding but they cant half suck the life out you...9 hours at a desk is enough to fry the brain and seriously kill any motivation to train. i´d rather train with achey feet than a head that´s fit for nothing but jeremy kyle and a pizza!

shockedsoshocked

Worked behind a counter for 3 years. Recovery tights and leaning/sitting to take the weight off your feet as much as possible.

You'll never feel the best though.

explosifpete

lucan

Standing up makes me soooooo tired, too. Maybe that explains why I'm so slow. Especially when, sometimes, I have to walk about a bit at work, too. And once, I went up three steps, all on the same day!

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