Alternative excercise - gardening

[Mr I]

I know this sounds lame but I've been clearing my garden this week including cutting down trees, pulling them out at the root; cutting with bow saw, hand axe, branch scissors etc.

Some of the trees I had to dig a moat like 1 1/2 ft deep around them to get at the roots with a hand axe and then do like a push pull routine to rip them out, one roots and stump was so heavy I couldn't lift it when ripped out.

I've really enjoyed it though, the trick is not to try rush and get everything done at once but to do it a bit at a time, rest a while then go at it again.


Maybe I sound like your grandad I don't know but I haven't felt this pleasantly tired in ages. :agree:

[coffee-guy]

I love yardwork...

[Bouncer]

yep gardening can be a workout itself. i used to do landscaping in the summer. hard work..

[Bouncer]

:bsflag:

LOL. what you don't believe that i did hard work? :D

yep, used to do it every summer as a teenager. We had contracts with many of the HUD properties in Jersey. weed whacking at 5am in a jersey ghetto in 80% humidity.. ahhh nothing like it.

[coffee-guy]

weed whacking at 5am in a jersey ghetto in 80% humidity.. ahhh nothing like it.

Come back down this way brother - it doesn't get much worse...

Air has been so thick here lately I've had to get back on my asthma medication :eek:....

[Scrumhalf]

I was in Houston for a couple of days last month visiting family and the air felt like it was a liquid going in and out of my lungs. I was glad to be back on the plane heading back to the PNW and 0% humidity... lol...

I don't know how you guys live down there in that soup....

[coffee-guy]

I love that last analogy - soup - ahahahahaha...