daily regime

im really struggling lately, trying to balance working out 5 times a week, boxing 4 times a week, necessary mobility work, actually plaing some poker and having social life, any tips?

my current schedule:
12:00 get up
14:00 gym
16:00 some poker
20:00 box or more poker
00:00 poker theory or going out
04:00 stretching and going to bed

it sucks

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what i do is sneak up a session after i've woken up - > get a shower, get coffee and some breakfast and sit and play, that way i "save" around 90mins and im fully prepared to go to the gym afterwards, if you are too inadequate to play so early just do the hand reviews/theory then .. either way fill that gap somehow

don't really have much more to add... another way is to just drop poker altogether most of the week and pull 6-10hrs friday to sunday, thats not something I would do though

anyways... who goes out at 00:00 as a stnd ?! :D

yea good luck with that. I doubt you will see any profit trying to have such a balanced lifestyle in 2015.

My routine is usually gym first thing on the days I am scheduled to lift. And then do everything else afterwards. So basically same as yours with gym always first thing. But I'd say the key to balancing it is realizing that priorities are a thing. And decisions have to be made. For me it meant giving up video games entirely. Because it makes it impossible for me to function. Like I have a legitimate addiction to competitive video games. And then also realizing. Just sitting around waiting to feel like doing things wasn't good for being productive. So stuff like taking 2 hours to get out of bed and getting a shower. Isn't somrthing I need to be doing. And just trying to optimize my time much better. So I guess the 3 typical days I have nowadays are 1) gym. Poker. Optional other thing. 2)gym. Hangout with the girl. Then poker. Or inverted. 3)gym.errands. poker or hang out with da woman. I guess my point is the more stuff u wanna do. The more organized and efficient u have to be. And also as an adult. Time for days off and video games have to be drastically reduced if I wanna follow through with everything I wanna get done.

Maybe you are stuck because you feel like you are going nowhere. Do fulfilling things, whatever they are.

sounds like to me you need more spontaneity and less of a schedule

(this is coming from someone who has really never had any sort of set schedule fwiw)

imo id advise highly against that if you are trying to do many things at once which it seems like dogmeat is. thats a good way to spend the whole day not doing much

i think i need more schedule, but not so strict that everytime i laugh at cats on the internet for 30 mins my day is ruined

On October 13 2015 19:37 handbanana21 wrote: yea good luck with that. I doubt you will see any profit trying to have such a balanced lifestyle in 2015.

you dont think 100 hours at the tables and 30 hours away is enough these days?

On October 14 2015 15:56 cariadon wrote: Maybe you are stuck because you feel like you are going nowhere. Do fulfilling things, whatever they are.

or maybe i m just lazy?

On October 14 2015 21:05 DooMeR wrote: imo id advise highly against that if you are trying to do many things at once which it seems like dogmeat is. thats a good way to spend the whole day not doing much

Doing too many things at once? wat? that's like not much at all ?!

Id say typically the easiest way is to alter your sleep. One of the biggest most basic edges a person can have is to be able to function well on less sleep than others imo.

I think jhysk? on this forum has some interesting experience with nootropics and recording his sleep for sustained perio of time. ive bought myself some Adrafinal, Phenylpiracetam, and fish oil. Havent tried the Phenylpiracetam yet but the Adrafinal seems to be effective so far.

Other than that I am really interested to see others' schedules. Ex. Alarm clock vs no alarm clock etc.

I dont think you mentioned errands but you can probably find time in this too. Cooking, cleaning, etc. you can outsource but it costs $$$.

is the boxing more because you really want to be good at boxing or for the social/intangible benefits? if it's the latter couldn't you do it 2-3x/week instead of 4x and use the extra time for something else? if it's the former, maybe it's just not realistic to dedicate that much time to it + be competitive at poker + regular exercise and social life.

i know you're giving some cushion with the times, but even if 2 hrs workout is more like 90 minutes of actual exercise, that seems like a lot to do 5x/week, especially if you're boxing on top of that and it doesn't even include stretching. i don't know what kind of program you're using but have you considered going to 4x with workouts?

also don't fap or whatever you do for 2 hours in the morning

On October 14 2015 23:08 cariadon wrote: Show nested quote + On October 14 2015 21:05 DooMeR wrote: imo id advise highly against that if you are trying to do many things at once which it seems like dogmeat is. thats a good way to spend the whole day not doing much Doing too many things at once? wat? that's like not much at all ?!

I'm saying if you're trying to do the "fk it I'll just kind of do whatever I feel like" schedule. You're really going to just end up playing poker like 4 times a week for 4 hours a day and lay around the house a lot. Atleast that's my experience. I'm assuming dogmeat prioritizing boxing into his schedule means he's rly into it. So I'd imagine gym, boxing, and poker are important to him. So from gym were gonna need 5 hrs a week for lifting minimum. He's prob gonna have to seperate time to travel to the gym and back. If he has 2 seperate gyms for boxing and lifting that's more travel. And I can't read the OP right now but it was 2 hrs 4 times a week? Between those 2 activities that's atleast 18-20 hours a week. Almost a full time job. Factor in 30 hours a week of poker that's 50. And that's assuming not much time is wasted in all these activities transitioning from one to the other. Time to study and such is going to add a lot of time. It's just not gonna happen. And especially when we're talking about lifting. If someone is taking it serious and running some sort of semi complex program. There's really no room to be inconsistent. So winging it won't work. Schedule is gonna be key. Time management is going to need to be more and more Elon musk quality the more things you're trying to do. Personally I struggle already and to add anything else into my routine would be hard without more drastic changes.

ur schedule seems really inspired to me already, strange that u dont feel happy with it and even call urself lazy

does ur boxing time include all kinds of stamina training etc? It seems tough on your body to spar 4x a week

maybe u could add 1 more study interest outside of poker as a career backup plan, something old people would support like software engineering or whatever you're into. Could be only very small amount of time invested and leave u mentally happier. Or maybe you are just a social animal and missing the interaction that other ppl get at their jobs/schools?

What are you doing between getting up and going to the gym? Seems like you could save some time there. In terms of getting quality sleep it might be worth moving everything back by 3 or 4 hours aswell. Going to bed at 4am and getting up at 12pm might not result in the best quality sleep if light starts coming in to your room half way through your sleep cycle. Seems good otherwise to me

i will probably be deloading every 5th week, so thats some extra time. doomer is right, time management is the key here. going to bed 2 hours late, getting up late/tired the next day etc adds up and results in failure every weekend -_-

On October 15 2015 12:16 ToT)MidiaN( wrote: What are you doing between getting up and going to the gym? Seems like you could save some time there. In terms of getting quality sleep it might be worth moving everything back by 3 or 4 hours aswell. Going to bed at 4am and getting up at 12pm might not result in the best quality sleep if light starts coming in to your room half way through your sleep cycle. Seems good otherwise to me

cooking and stuff
i sleep in completely dark room, i would probably go bed at 1 if i werent ever going out and messing my sleep schedule everytime

On October 15 2015 01:16 bigredhoss wrote: is the boxing more because you really want to be good at boxing or for the social/intangible benefits? if it's the latter couldn't you do it 2-3x/week instead of 4x and use the extra time for something else? if it's the former, maybe it's just not realistic to dedicate that much time to it + be competitive at poker + regular exercise and social life. i know you're giving some cushion with the times, but even if 2 hrs workout is more like 90 minutes of actual exercise, that seems like a lot to do 5x/week, especially if you're boxing on top of that and it doesn't even include stretching. i don't know what kind of program you're using but have you considered going to 4x with workouts? also don't fap or whatever you do for 2 hours in the morning

4times a week is temporary til i get a little bit better. as workout goes i do upper/lower 2x2 and 1 extra upper body high rep bodybuilding session coz my upper body is lacking


for me its always the dilema: poker, gym, social life, pick two :/

Throw in a girlfriend and a couple of kids, see what happens. rofl. It really seems like not that many things honestly. Also you can't just wake up and start lifting heavy ASAP in the morning, your body won't cope.
Maybe this is of some help, i quite enjoyed it when i read it.

http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf

If you just cut out boxing or combine it with ur gym sesh i think itd be much better.

At first I wanted to give advice
Then I realized that I didn't even balance social life enough to go out chasing skirt with dogmeat even once.
I'm clearly not qualified to comment
But for me personally dropping gym or boxing or combining them seems like a must.
I had to make a choice between the gym and floorball myself and frankly the gym's more fitting into a poker player's schedule, so I just quit floorball.

I think going to the gym in the mornings isnt reallly that great if you wanna build muscle.
I really miss power when i do that to lift.

I think waking up and playing a session is way better after you warmed up
Then when you have done your session eat light, go to the gym and then mix in a session again.

I think 5 x gym and 1 or 2 times boxing is more then enough.
The hassle is this big because it is too much.

Working out 2 muscle groups per day is the way to go.

And to add, i think you are not sleeping enough, you really need 8-9 hours of sleep to recover and grow.
I dont think you sleep right away after you are stretching and going to bed.
I would get 1 more hour of sleep time to make sure you are sleeping 8 hours.
This is so important.

no homo