Originally Posted by
Erok
My week-long absence from training: let me 'splain to you: Yardwork. Lots and lots of yardwork. Shoveling big piles of dirt into a wheelbarrow with a snow shovel, moving dirt, dumping it, repeat. Digging holes, transplanting, mulching, picking up logs & stumps & pavers, pulling up rogue saplings with my bare hands. In the rain, in the sun. Celebrated Sunday night with a fire and some good Mezcal (con gusano).
This is why I started strength training in the first place! It's all so much easier now, from carrying groceries, to moving furniture, to shoveling snow, to taking my shirt off...
Two years ago, the sheer volume of this work crammed into four days would have killed me. As it is now, all I have to show for it is a sore left erector spinae and right rectus abdominus. (I tried to remember to switch sides shoveling, but it wasn't always possible.)