Anybody go by a gym lately....

That's tough. I grew up with asthma and believed I could not run. I bicycled for years and that probably helped me, but you get breaks on a bicycle. Two years ago my commute changed and I felt forced to try running and guess what? I could do it. Now I do cough sometimes and it really annoys me, but I am a good runner and I had no idea I could do it. I take Dulera twice a day and that's it for medication. I had to build up to it.

No ticks on a tread mill.

I thought the same thing, until I started to go there for winters. I had a knee injury years ago, On a particular machine I noticed my bad knee leg could only lift 5 lbs and the other 40lbs. I knew I was off kilter but never realized how bad. so I balanced all my muscles out and it makes a huge difference. I toned up spots that the farm doesnt get. I have nice defined arms, back and legs, like when I was in high school...lol. the gym has made a huge impact on my body, even tho I have a farm.

I have allergy related asthma also. If I keep at the treadmill it goes away. I dont keep at the treadmill tho because my knee is bad and I want to make it last...lol I'm too young for replacement but need one.

Go to a gym and see where you really stand muscle wise, you may be surprised. Its only 2$ a day to go here or 10$ a month.

I've been thinking of selling gym memberships so people can come and work at our all-natural outdoor gym. They can push heavy wheelbarrows through mud, split wood, pull shingles, etc. while getting a tan simultaneously! Should I charge them a tanning fee?

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Hey I like to exercise in the off season too. In winter I lift some weights and try to keep up my strength so that I don't exhaust or injure myself when famring season begins. But what strikes me is this new method of emulating actual work in the gym. To perform all that work but have nothing produced at the end of it! And here America sinks into the abyss of debt and currency debasement simply because we do not produce enough to support our consumption. All the while the citizens are making a sport of performing work tasks. The irony.

It's definitely ironic. I bet you could charge professional athletes a fortune to come 'work out' on the farm. Fence building day? The post driver would be a great whole body exercise.

I keep a large treated fence post inside the lean-too when I need an additional workout, more so in the winter. One excercise was walking around the circle drive at the ranch while pressing the post up and down, in front and behind my neck.

Another was squats and knee bends with the post on my shoulders. One was crossing a gate while balancing the post on a shoulder without dropping it while the other hand gripped the gate to protect certain parts if a boot slipped from a gate rung, because often it did.

The toughest was walking from the gate to the edge of the property with the post on my shoulders through six to eight inches of snow. I really had to pick my feet up and I had a nice muscle burn going when I got back to the gate. I just tossed the post over the gate. Quitter.

................Working hard on the 'Place' isn't the same activity as working out at a gym ! OTOH , a muscle bound person who spends several hours a day building hugh muscular size may not necessarily beable to load square bales of hay for 8 hours in 95 degree direct sun , either .
................A person who works out at a gym can both increase their strength and their overall health and well being by 'Pumping Iron' for strength and doing cardio work as well . Ladies who need to strengthen their bone density to avoid Osteo problems can do so by spending time at a gym in coordination with guidance with their physician . Those who want to believe that they can substitute hard work on the farm for the benefits of a regular workout at a gym are in denial . It just doesn't work that way . , fordy

When I started at the gym I had lower back pain, foot pain, hip pain, sciatica, carried extra weight, took blood pressure medication,and hobbled around doing my chores. In the year plus since I started lifting weights with a trainer and doing sustained cardio , I am a healthy weight, take no medication, and have no pain at all. My body is strong all over, not just the muscles that I used toting hay bales, etc. When I leave the gym I might not have a weeded garden or a full hay loft but I have a much stronger and healthier body than I did before and that is definitely not "nothing produced at the end if it".

...............Post drivers are ONLY good for (2) things , driving posts , and tearing UP the shoulder muscles of those who do the pounding ! , fordy

I can't help but see arrogance that is almost equal to it's ignorance as some people assume because you work out in a gym you must have no idea what a hard days work is like. To each there own, appreciate who you are. Proper physical exercise in any form is positive for our bodies, why make fun of that?

And hitting un-beaded tires with a sledge hammer does not create any dangerous recoil.

I get a lot of back and shoulder work on the farm, but need a little extra chest work and cardio on the side to maintain stud status...

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It is very sad to say that when you go to a livestock sale or a country fair or the local feed store there are just as many overweight and obese people as on the subway platforms or in the shopping malls.

It is absolutely horrifying to look at a photograph of a crowd (country, city or industrial) taken today and compare it to a crowd photograph taken in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s. Comparing the men of my father's generation to the middle-aged men today is a real eye opener. And oh my god - the overweight, obese and out of shape people at political rallies - and it is irrelevant if they are Repubs or Dems.

sounds like my kind of gym...

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I don't think it's an either/or situation; yrs. ago, I walked 28 miles a day behind a mower (the day job), and still swam laps and lifted weights a couple times a week - so I could do the day job!

I visited my friend this weekend. Now, besides the tire, he has a trampoline, a chin-up bar, and weight bench in his yard. His Father-in-law drinks coffee at the gas station across the street, and reports that my buddy is now known "Mr. Zumba."

I don't recommend taking a quick hike with this guy, he'll run you into the ground. He now takes his runs after running his dogs, since his dogs can't keep up with him after a few miles.