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It is largely because riding a bike in spandex is a self centered activity, and that is fine, just don’t impede traffic in your “smart shorts” but don’t kid yerself, you aint doing it for anyone but you.
Reagan stayed in shape by working on his ranch.
I can’t particularly say that yardwork (in typically 105-110 degree summertime Texas heat-index) offers much solace to get my mind off the vomitous depths of what America has succumbed to, both politically and culturally.
Contrarily, I do find my 20-mile-long bike rides, three times a week, during tolerable seasons, actually does relax me a fair bit. Along with getting back home from such intense physical jaunts, and then popping in a dvd of some old black-and-white western. That combination proves as generally effective a tonic possible for me.
Meh. Sounds like a city boy living on 3 acres and calls it “country.”
VDH brings it home.
It could be a lot of people are prisses who don’t like getting “dirty” - sweaty from exercise is okay, but no dirt, broken nails, callouses.
Yep.
Working out side on your own spread does reap benefits. I am almost finished putting in 250 feet of no climb, red top, horse fencing with a 1x6 board on top in a cross fence project. Including cutting down and cutting up a large oak tree. All the holes were dug by hand with a post hole digger, 8 feet apart. I live down South so the ground is not frozen ever, but tree roots, rocks and clay do make it difficult at times.
I am pushing 70 so I could only work hard at it for 3 hours a day at first until my body told me to quit but now I can do twice that and feel a lot stronger stretching and nailing off the wire, cementing in the gate posts, etc, etc.
Next project is a pump house for the well and to clean all the water weeds off a small pond on the back 40. It is hard work for an old man but I enjoy it. And my dogs seem to enjoy watching me do it too.
Being outside working on a cool winter day with occasional gaggles of vocal Sandhill Cranes flying in from up North, watching the cows and their new younguns in the back pasture is a pleasure to savor, not work to avoid.
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In most cases, it's probably because they don't have TIME to spend hours doing landscaping. I have children and work 45-55 hours per week(as does my wife), and I sure as hell don't want to dedicate what spare time I DO have landscaping or mowing the yard. I'd rather pay someone else to do it.
beautiful article
This is an excerpt, it should be noted, and not the full piece. Hit the link and read the full article, folks.
God bless Hanson for pointing out one of many values to good hard physical work. Arbeit macht das Leben sues.
The spandex crowd thinks their only expense is paying the yard man. No, they also pay for their gym membership and their “sports” wear and their equipment. That’s four times what it would cost them to get into shape by doing their own yardwork. It takes less time to mow a yard than it does to drive to the gym. Setting out a few bushes and flower pots with the kids much more valuable than shopping for new spandex. Face it, most “landscaping” is done for the benefit of the HOA rather than personal enjoyment.
The only thing Obama ever swung was a golf club.