cadding and working out, suggestions please

[Kevin Larrabee]

OK here is my question. Its summer and time to work. Last summer I left Caddying (carrying golf bags) to work at Best Buy because I thought it would put less stress on my body and allow me to work out 6 days a week.

This summer I am considering going back to caddying because the money is just too damn good, usually $80 for 5 or 6 hours of work ($400 in a weekend sometimes). My only concern is how this will effect my training. I would be carring 2 bags for 18 holes and dont know if I would be able to have the strength to then go to the gym and lift. I would probally just do legs on off days of working. I'd like to continue turbulence training for fat loss over the summer as well.

My plan would be to work 20 hours a week or so and caddy on off days or during tournements. Do you guys think I would be able to continue my regiment of TT and do teh caddying?

My other option is just working 40 hours a week again at bestbuy. and keeping my workout regimine

thanks
Kevin

[jwrives]

I would think carrying golf bags around every day would be an excellent workout for functional strength. When I was 20 I worked all summer in a warehouse lifting and stacking 40-50 pound boxes for 40 hours a week and I still managed to work-out regularly. Your young you can handle it.

We only created the gym to take the place of what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers used to do...it was called WORK!

[Phaedrus49er]

Agreed. I spent the summer before my senior year of high school working outside in a brickyard. Not only did it REALLY hammer home the value of a college education, but those 400 hours of work--moving, stacking, and strapping cubes of brick by hand--took the place of most any workout I'd need (save for some pulling movements). I suggest figuring out what caddying benefits most from a physical standpoint, then simply supplement that work with one or two training sessions per week on what is being underused at work.

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