Garden Workout Last Night
My wife started a little gardening before supper while I was in my home office. She came in and said there were a ‘few’ rocks she’d like me to move after supper. I checked it out and the ‘few’ turned out to be about 30 bowling ball sized oval rocks that were bordering a flower bed that she decided to take out of the front lawn! Two hours of work and I had the rocks moved to storage behind the garage and I had a lot of other work accomplished too. As I was doing the work I focused on how I was using my body, turns out I did more squatting and ‘deadlifting’ than I would do in a typical workout, although with a lot less weight of course. And the walking with the wheelbarrow full of rocks and then buckets full of soil worked legs well, I can feel it in my hamstrings this morning. My sore calf began to feel a little tight as well by the end, but it held up well overall.
Instead of being frustrated by not making it to the gym, or worse yet, trying to workout after all the garden work, I’ve learned to appreciate the incredible benefits of the physical garden work and I really don’t mind doing some heavy work now and then…the fresh air doesn’t hurt either. I was contemplating going for a swim afterwards but I was just too tired.
Will definately hit the gym today, it’s supposed to be a lower body workout but I don’t know how feasible that will be. Whatever I end up doing, it’s all good.
July 24, 2009 at 7:22 am
Hey, sometimes the outdoors chores are just as much of a w/o as the gym, but like you said, just a little lighter "weight". If I don’t make in the gym on Saturday’s for my Day#6 routine, that is how I make up for it. sounds like a cop out, but it’s not. Have a good one this evening.
July 24, 2009 at 7:34 am
Definately not a cop out! Thanks for the comment.
July 24, 2009 at 9:08 am
Great attitude…no worries on the workout, you got yours. I was picturing lugging the huge stones like in the Strongest Man comps, and the buckets of dirt being the farmers walk. No wonder you were too tired for a swim. Have a great workout and weekend Tony.
July 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Yup, that counts as a workout. And a good one!