Do you even lift, AF bro?

[Strider]

Farm boy strength is a real thing, that's for sure. I guess there is a couple of different types of strength. Pure strength and strength to body weight ratio. I need a high strength to body weight ratio. Rock climbing you need strength to body weight, where as dragging around heavy farm stuff you just need to be able to lift a shit ton.  I guess what's important really depends on what sport or activity you are doing with it.

I've done a bit of climbing before, but not much. There are a few (very few and mostly contained to one state park) natural limestone formations in my area. I used to do a bit of bouldering and top-rope climbing with a friend there. I haven't done that in years though.

Yeah, it's important to be able to lift a metric shit-ton (scientific term) of weight doing farm/outdoor labor stuff. A few weeks ago, I cut up a dead tree, loaded a trailer down with split firewood, and then had to hook the trailer back up (had to drop off the trailer initially and the take the truck elsewhere). Wouldn't you know that the trailer was too low to reach the truck's hitch ball, and it wouldn't jack any higher. Solution? Squat over it and basically do a rack pull (kinda like a deadlift with a higher starting point) to set the trailer onto the ball. I don't know how much it weighed, but it was heavy as fuck. 400 lbs wouldn't be too far off the mark I reckon. And this was after cutting and then splitting wood for a solid 8 or 9 hours.

And that's just one goofy incident in which strength came in handy. Man, I can't tell you how many times stuff like that has happened. Sometimes that kind of work sucks, and sometimes it's one of the best things in the world.

[paulpablo]

Farm boy strength is a real thing, that's for sure. I guess there is a couple of different types of strength. Pure strength and strength to body weight ratio. I need a high strength to body weight ratio. Rock climbing you need strength to body weight, where as dragging around heavy farm stuff you just need to be able to lift a shit ton.  I guess what's important really depends on what sport or activity you are doing with it.

I've done a bit of climbing before, but not much. There are a few (very few and mostly contained to one state park) natural limestone formations in my area. I used to do a bit of bouldering and top-rope climbing with a friend there. I haven't done that in years though.

Yeah, it's important to be able to lift a metric shit-ton (scientific term) of weight doing farm/outdoor labor stuff. A few weeks ago, I cut up a dead tree, loaded a trailer down with split firewood, and then had to hook the trailer back up (had to drop off the trailer initially and the take the truck elsewhere). Wouldn't you know that the trailer was too low to reach the truck's hitch ball, and it wouldn't jack any higher. Solution? Squat over it and basically do a rack pull (kinda like a deadlift with a higher starting point) to set the trailer onto the ball. I don't know how much it weighed, but it was heavy as fuck. 400 lbs wouldn't be too far off the mark I reckon. And this was after cutting and then splitting wood for a solid 8 or 9 hours.

And that's just one goofy incident in which strength came in handy. Man, I can't tell you how many times stuff like that has happened. Sometimes that kind of work sucks, and sometimes it's one of the best things in the world.

I used to work in a normal retail job that involved fucking crazy exercise everyday.  It was before I could drive too in an area with bad public transport.  So a typical day would be walking across these several football fields that were next to my workplace, going in and being rushed like fuck to get a delivery away as quick as possible, which would at the lightest consist of toys and bedding, and at heaviest consist of washing machines, wardrobes, microwaves, lawnmowers, weights and garden furniture. That would be followed by the walk home again.

The bad thing about workplace exercise like that though is that it's just too repetitive and can really fuck your joints up sometimes.

Now all I do is sit down all day in work and I thought I'd turn obese after leaving that job but I suppose my diet and gym visits are still keeping me in good shape because I haven't changed very noticeably since I left.

[CapnAwesome]

You are so not awesome.

Can't fool me, I've seen myself.