What Do You Do For Exercise?

[lman]

We had a big storm roll through here a few days ago that took down two trees and numerous large limbs. I finally finished up today. That's enough exercise for a couple of days.

 

[ArlyA]

We had a big storm roll through here a few days ago that took down two trees and numerous large limbs. I finally finished up today. That's enough exercise for a couple of days.

That you did is called isometric and does little for your heart and will give you an heartattack. That is why snow-blowing or shoveling it ARE famous for giving folks heart-attacks.. You need to do something brisk for 1/2 an hour each day despite how "tired" you felt. Ask your doctor or cardiologist about that.

 

[dmccarty]

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Here's today's exercise. Running a chain saw, and throwing the smaller lighter stuff on the burn pile.

Bounced between a chain saw and a trackhoe today.

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Yeah, but the vibration of the chainsaw gave you like a gazzilion steps and active minutes!

Which I think is valid given how much energy it takes to run a chain saw.

I get 500-700 active minutes a week and I think the recommended amount is 150. Getting up and simply moving is better than sitting in a chair watching TV. One can get up and walk or walk in place and still watch TV.

 

[Dftodd]

Yeah, but the vibration of the chainsaw gave you like a gazzilion steps and active minutes!

Which I think is valid given how much energy it takes to run a chain saw.

I get 500-700 active minutes a week and I think the recommended amount is 150. Getting up and simply moving is better than sitting in a chair watching TV. One can get up and walk or walk in place and still watch TV.

Try putting a track back on a track hoe by yourself in 95° Temps.

I'm still logging zone minutes with a heart rate of 140, I've been sitting in the truck for the past couple minutes in the ac

 

[CalG]

Jumping to conclusions is one of my favorite activities.

When I'm not up a tree.

Tomorrow, the top comes down ;-)

 

[gsganzer]

I moved 3 protein feeders and then built pens around them to keep the cows out. Put out 3000# of protein, 1500# of corn and trimmed overhanging branches on the 2700 acre deer lease this past weekend. Also pulled down an old blind and loaded on the trailer so I could haul it home for refurb. All in triple digits. Plus hunted and shot 2 pigs.

I needed to come home to relax.

 

[lilranch2001]

To be totally honest with you, I do not know how a few of you exercise freaks could possibly get any exercise done, for all the amount of posting that you do on TBN

 

[ArlyA]

My spouse worked cardiac rehab for years. These people WERE recovering from by-pass surgery, getting a catheter installed or some other kind of cardiac repair etc, etc. 90% of the guys in rehab would exclaim "I work so had at my X,Y, Z job, I'm getting a terrific workout doing that!". As they slowly, painfully, moved across the rehab floor at 45 years of age. So tell everyone here just how tired you are after doing that job you did today.

 

[BnRidge]

Here, cutting and splitting firewood creates a little bit of a workout. A couple neighbors looked at the 10cord stacks I have (1yr each stack) and mentioned how impressive the amount of work it was. I waved over to the old farm buildings, and told how in the 60s, almost all of the work filling those with feed could have been automated, but unloading would have been all by hand, and would have amounted to half of one of these cordwood stacks, every day, 5cord or about 20,000lb a day every day.
I got ahold of an old soil report for the farm for 1950. It told how on the corn fields 10ton/acre manure was spread for fertilizer. At the time, the spreaders were still loaded by hand.

 

[ultrarunner]

My spouse worked cardiac rehab for years. These people WERE recovering from by-pass surgery, getting a catheter installed or some other kind of cardiac repair etc, etc. 90% of the guys in rehab would exclaim "I work so had at my X,Y, Z job, I'm getting a terrific workout doing that!". As they slowly, painfully, moved across the rehab floor at 45 years of age. So tell everyone here just how tired you are after doing that job you did today.

Often wondered to what extent daily activity impacts health.

20,000 steps in a 8 hour shift with a lot of up and down is typical… a very slow day is still 10,000.

Brush clearing with handlebar trimmer for 8 hours is quite a workout on step hillsides and ravines but neither example is instense…

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Was talking to my wife about this thread and she commented that changing the irrigation sets everyday is about a 2 mile walk. Guess I can get less excercise during the summer now.

 

[Dftodd]

My spouse worked cardiac rehab for years. These people WERE recovering from by-pass surgery, getting a catheter installed or some other kind of cardiac repair etc, etc. 90% of the guys in rehab would exclaim "I work so had at my X,Y, Z job, I'm getting a terrific workout doing that!". As they slowly, painfully, moved across the rehab floor at 45 years of age. So tell everyone here just how tired you are after doing that job you did today.

I did one of those "Heart Health" checkups that they perform at the local hospital. It was perfomed about 5 months ago.

This was after my identical twin had to have two stints installed and a blood clot removed from his heart.

I can say with certainty that if I was just performing my normal job duties, then I would probably fit in with your example.

It's the extra stuff thrown in that keeps me fit. Helping to set up and tear down jobs, sucks, and gets the ol' heart racing. As well as lugging heavy parts two and from a piece of equipment because I can't get my truck close to it.

 

[BnRidge]

Very few job's make someone out of breath enough to make speach difficult for over 1/2 hour at a time. I used to walk for 1-1/2hrs a day, split wood, work on the farm, etc. That was good. But I didn't notice marked very noticable improvement to gout, body aches, out of breath, tiredness, overall fitness, until I took it to that next level of 1/2hr of stressed breathing, "enough to make conversation difficult". Whatever it takes to "get the ol' heart racing".

 

[masseyrider]

. Whatever it takes to "get the ol' heart racing".

Bosoms

 

[Dftodd]

Very few job's make someone out of breath enough to make speach difficult for over 1/2 hour at a time. I used to walk for 1-1/2hrs a day, split wood, work on the farm, etc. That was good. But I didn't notice marked very noticable improvement to gout, body aches, out of breath, tiredness, overall fitness, until I took it to that next level of 1/2hr of stressed breathing, "enough to make conversation difficult". Whatever it takes to "get the ol' heart racing".

I work for a specialty division of a rental company.

Pumps, tanks and boxes. Specializing in dewatering, water transfer, and filtration.

Messing with 6" hoses will make a man out of you.

Running 600ft of 8" hoses will take the man out of you

Setting up and tearing down some of those jobs will have you breathing heavy for hours.

Doctor told me I needed to exercise. I responded to the doc telling him he needed to work with me for a day.

 

[BnRidge]

Bosoms

Yah, but that's back to blowing snow and splitting wood. A heart attack for sure.

 

[MossRoad]

On my 3rd day of installing shingles on a dilapidated garage rehab project every day after work. Lotsa up and down the ladder and balancing. Not a big cardio workout, but man, muscles are sore.

 

[ArlyA]

I'm surprised how many people here think whatever job they are doing, is giving them a cardiovascular workout. Being tired at the end of it, is not a indicator you got it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I’m guessing most don’t get the cardio unless they truly workout, run, etc.?

I think of the Dairy side of the farming family and no obesity or heart problems into their 90’s and they would be the first to laugh or chuckle about city folk paying to exercise…

Sounds like very little of todays jobs provide the cardio required?

 

[ArlyA]

I’m guessing most don’t get the cardio unless they truly workout, run, etc.?

I think of the Dairy side of the farming family and no obesity or heart problems into their 90’s and they would be the first to laugh or chuckle about city folk paying to exercise…

Sounds like very little of todays jobs provide the cardio required?

Nearly no jobs gets one heart going and stresses it enough to do any good. Most of the folks my spouce seen in cardiac rehab, came from the ag industry.