Also known as heavy chores :)
Sunday (11/16/2014), I spent winterizing the family mini-farm. Just two weeks ago I could not have done this work but it presented no problems to me yesterday. It felt good to move my body around and today I am suffering mild muscle aches all over my body that I now associate with "good workouts".
My heavy farm chores consisted of (in almost equal parts):
- Hauling horse bedding
- Shoveling the horse shed
- Pulling out & dumping the full horse waters
- Moving already cut firewood
- Unrolling and pulling into the field our new 130 foot hose
My light farm chores consisted of:
- Arranging extension cords for water tank heaters
- Dumping and spreading horse bedding
- Cleaning and putting back the cleaned horse waters
- Running the horses into the shed
- Watching my "almost" step-grandchild
I spent about 2 hours doing these activities. I probably did get a mild aerobic workout from this activity but I'll count it as strength training instead. The areas that got the most workout were back, core, shoulders, and arms.
Updated 2/14/15 some pictures to go with the prose.
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| My youngest talking with our horse Zander |
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| <4 -="" br="" disking="" firewood="" major="" months="" post="" surgery=""> |
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| Son Aaron - splitting firewood |
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| Fruits of our labor - did I mention oak is very hard to split? |
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| Our horses enjoy nap time in the sun. |
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