RE: Rotations

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Hi Tim

Most of my rosters, certainly in the last few years, have been similar to

those below.

This is especially more the norm on " remote " locations i.e. jungle, desert,

deep sea seismic, or on short term contracts where financial/logistic

constraints do not allow for the biweekly, monthly shift patterns. Or when

you are working extreme distances from point of hire.

My last two contracts were three months (ish) on with 10 days off and that

included travel time. If travel to home takes two days, or more, say from

Far East of Russia, then it really isn't worth the effort, for all parties,

to shift change too often. The two weeks on - two weeks off or month on -

month off rota does exist, but mainly on older, long running contracts or

for places such as the North Sea where coming and going is a lot easier

(usually) and cheaper.

You should also remember, Tim, that perhaps for the medic it isn't

financially worth doing month on - month off type rosters, as in many many

cases you don't get paid for your time off. For the company they want a

medic on the ground 24/7 but won't want to fork out for travel/expenses

unless they have too. Again more so it a long way from the point of hire.

Cheers and stay safe - S

Re: HELLO / Rotations

High ,

Crappy rota, 4 months on 10 days off !!!

I think 5 months away from my family was the worst for me .... never again.

Don't know about anybody else but I don't think I could handle that kind of

rotation.

All the best and welcome to the list.

TC+

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At 08:10 AM 8/31/2004, Donna M-P wrote:

>I am really enjoying this 3 day " on " one day " off " (w/ yoga) plan, it is

>enabling me to do something just about every day and I don't feel

>overtrained or tired.

this is a really good idea and one that i was planning on using with slim

series, advanced taebo and power yoga since august was a lousy month

for me, fitness-wise, i think that for september, i will prepare for my

SS/taebo/yoga rotation by following the same schedule but with a bunch of

my other, easier, workouts. so it would be weights, cardio the next day

and stretching/yoga on the 3rd day... repeating over and over. i think

that sounds fabulous and im starting my september rotation today! (yes i

know that it is only aug 31st..lol).

-carolyn.

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At 08:59 AM 9/27/2005, billsgirl93 wrote:

>I want to have all of my bases

>covered each week: cardio, strength, core, and flexibility all in 6

>days! Are there enough days on the week to complete these

>requirements--at one hour a day???

what i do is to give myself 2 weeks to accomplish a well rounded

schedule. or you could use a 10 day week instead or even do a simple 4

day rotation.... whatever you want! mixing up all of the workouts into

fun and effective combinations is all part of the fun of being a vidiot.

but i find that rotations and schedules are so individual... each person

needs to tailor their schedule to themselves and to their personal goals

.... but here are some ideas for you:

i assume that you have all of your workouts organized (or listed) into the

above 4 categories... so what i might start out with is

day 1 - cardio

day 2 - strength

day 3 - core

day 4 - flex

start over at day 1 -- this will ensure that everything gets done on an

equal basis and is an easy schedule to remember.

or how about:

day 1 - cardio

day 2 - strength

day 3 - core

day 4 - cardio

day 5 - strength

day 6 - core

day 7 - flex

this is also a very easy schedule to remember and follow.

another idea is to double up the workouts so that you do abs along with

your cardio workout or with your strength workout and reduce the length of

the cycle to, oh, 5 days and even have a day to get in an extra cardio or

strength workout, depending on what your goals are. this one will also

depend on you doing ab workouts that are shorter in length -- say 10-15

mins -- and again, if your goal is to really work your abs then this might

not be the best rotation for that but could be perfectly sufficient

depending on the workouts you are doing.

day 1 - cardio + abs

day 2 - strength

day 3 - cardio

day 4 - strength + abs

day 5 - flex

day 6 - bonus cardio or strength workout + abs

day 7 - rest

however, things get sticky with circuit workouts or cardio+sculpt fusion so

i have an extra category specifically for those workouts. also, there are

different varieties of cardio (floor aerobics, step aerobics, kickboxing)

and different kinds of ab workouts (standing, floor, pilates) and

flexibility training can be split into yoga and athletic routines. i also

divide the strength workouts into full body sculpting or split sculpts and

you could also split your strength workouts into slow/heavy/low rep versus

fast/light/high rep. anyway, you get the idea.

here is my regular rotation which uses all of my categories:

week 1

day 1 - yoga

day 2 - cardio+sculpt

day 3 - kickboxing

day 4 - full sculpt (heavy weight/low rep)

day 5 - floor aerobics

day 6 - pilates + short cardio

day 7 - stability ball + short cardio

week 2

day 1 - athletic stretching

day 2 - cardio+sculpt

day 3 - kickboxing

day 4 - full sculpt (low weight/high rep)

day 5 - step aerobics

day 6 - abs + short cardio

day 7 - split sculpt

i hope that some of these ideas help you to formulate your own plan.

:*carolyn.

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<, (who had well over 50 people in her Turbo Kick class today! Woo-hoo! Gotta love the New Year's Rezzies!)>>

Wow - what fun! I'd love to go to a Turbo Kick class...

Anny in Australia