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Cross-training chores?
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 2008-09-16 10:27 AM |
 83 |  Subject: Cross-training chores?This past weekend, I spent three hours sawing and chopping wood. A great arm/back workout that (from the feel of it) hit some of the same muscles as swimming! Any other good chores or home improvement tasks for cross training? Raking? Speed-mowing? |
| 2008-09-16 11:36 AM in reply to: #1677060 |
Expert 986   Michiana | Subject: RE: Cross-training chores? When it begins to fall.... Shovelling snow! |
| 2008-09-16 11:58 AM in reply to: #1677278 |
Elite 2527 Armpit of Ontario | Subject: RE: Cross-training chores? mbmoran2 - 2008-09-16 12:36 PM When it begins to fall.... Shovelling snow! I was thinking the same thing Twice a week I carry two 5 gal jugs of bottled water (1 in each hand) up 44 stairs. Great lower body workout. We live on a river's edge with a 30 foot steep drop off the back of our property to a flood plane. Until I quit cutting the grass down to the river's edge a couple of years ago, I had an old beater larnmower with ropes tied to it that I would lower down the hill and hand-over-hand pull it back up. Repeat about 100 times for a great upper body workout.
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| 2008-09-16 12:28 PM in reply to: #1677060 |
Extreme Veteran 745 Colo Springs, CO | Subject: RE: Cross-training chores? I stacked 10 tons of hay earlier this summer. That is pretty much a total body workout. If anyone is interested, I have about 4 tons that got thrown in the barn because it started to rain and it needs to be restacked. I won't even charge you for the workout and I'll stand there and remind you to lift with your knees!  |
| 2008-09-16 12:45 PM in reply to: #1677060 |
| New Haven, CT | Subject: RE: Cross-training chores? Don't know if it will do you any good, but PM me if you want me to put you to work doing the laundry, mowing the lawn, etc.  |
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