This is of course the comedy of modern life.
It’s all about “feeling” like you could do something.
Actually doing something…
Is not always all that much fun
It’s easy to laugh at the ridiculousness other middle age mediocre men.
I can, however, see why my 100lb grandfather might laugh at me!
(If he could see me).
I do CrossFit, and just spent 4 days hand digging tens of thousands of pounds of dirt and drain rock while replacing part of my perimeter drains.
I stayed home from the gym that week.
I will say, CrossFit does a better job of preparing you for that sort of thing than triathlon ever did.
you are one of the rare few who will do that.
In fairness, I’m a renovation contractor so I’m no stranger to hard/dirty work. I own all the required tools, I have a dump trailer, a friend has a mini excavator etc. It has been a while since I’ve done that much sustained, monotonous hard labour though, and despite the fact that I am very fit for my age, the shovel always wins. I was completely broken at the end of those 4 days.
I probably should have found some temp workers for the hand digging but it was a bit of an emergency, and the timing worked out well on my end. There really is no reason to take that on when you’re over 40. It’s just a recipe to hurt yourself.
I hurt just thinking about it…
Pretty sure I gave myself another hernia or two during the process.
I mentioned in another thread that where I live, we had 200” of snow this year. Every day that I needed to shovel, I started the Garmin. When tabulated for the year - 33hr.30m/>130bpm of snow shovel. No blower. No plow.
I love shoveling snow. Great workout. I always shovel my neighbors sidewalks and driveways in addition to my own (retired older couple on one side, single mom on the other). We got very little snow on the front range this year. Only a few days required shoveling. On one of those days the single mom shoveled mine to say thanks for always shoveling hers. I was appreciative but disappointed! I don’t just shovel for you. Shannon.
agreed, but that is equipment.
100% agree.
I was doing these when I was focusing on core and large muscle groups.
Dead bug
Glute bridge
Split squat or lunge
Leg raises
Russian crunches
Push ups
Side Plank
Side Lying Hip Lift
Adding resistance bands helped add in a bunch more, though. The other non-equipment ones I was doing are more for mobility and stretching than strength.
