Inevitable cardio

[Knight_Errant]

Just thinking; I do a lot of what I call 'inevitable cardio'; cycling to and from places, slashing brambles, working etc. How does this effect my rest days? As far as I can see there's no way for me to cut this stuff out, but should I be making more of an effort to make my rest days sacred to rest? What do you reckon?

[slipthejab]

No. It's not going to have much effect on your rest days at all. Other than maybe being a bit of active recovery.

Chance are these bits of cardio aren't taking your heart rate up to the 75-80% of your max. heart rate for 30 min. or more... not even close. So you're not really doing much harm to your rest days.

On the contrary... this is probably a great way to keep active in general.

[Knight_Errant]

Oh great, so I just proceed as usual? awesome :)

[slipthejab]

hahaha... yes.

[PASmith]

Man...what job do you do that compares to doing cardio?
Greek messenger after the battle of Marathon!?!
Paula Radcliffe's pooper scooper?

[Moi]

Man...what job do you do that compares to doing cardio?


Not many of those jobs left now. Machines killed the shovel:rolleyes:

[slipthejab]

Not many of those jobs left now. Machines killed the shovel:rolleyes:

Yeah man that is the truth. Backhoe did away with lots of the ditch diggers. Often times I'll see guys here in HK digging ditches... the roadworks often can't use a backhoe because of the tight spaces or traffic congestion or too much in ground pipes.. so we have lots of Pakitani's that work in the roadworks or mainland Chinese guys (most not under 50 or 60) and they are just ripped. I mean just freakin' strong and wirey and understand the physical world in a different way. Bar benders are the same way (and I don't mean the sweet looking guy making eye contact from across the pub)... last guys you'd ever want to have to scrap with. You might come out on top... but man it's going to be a grind. :p

[Moi]

Yeah man that is the truth. Backhoe did away with lots of the ditch diggers. Often times I'll see guys here in HK digging ditches... the roadworks often can't use a backhoe because of the tight spaces or traffic congestion or too much in ground pipes.. so we have lots of Pakitani's that work in the roadworks or mainland Chinese guys (most not under 50 or 60) and they are just ripped. I mean just freakin' strong and wirey and understand the physical world in a different way. Bar benders are the same way (and I don't mean the sweet looking guy making eye contact from across the pub)... last guys you'd ever want to have to scrap with. You might come out on top... but man it's going to be a grind. :p

My father-in-law was a furnace man in the steelworks. Shovelling coal all day.
Bit like working in hell.

Then they shut 'em all:bang:

[Su lin]

Lol get you 2 old gits :D


"Eeeeeeeeeeeeh things aren't like they used to be, these young'uns don't know they're born" etc etc :D

[slipthejab]

hahahaha... when I was a kid they used to make us walk five miles to school... backwards... while being forced to eat fish heads and gravel... and being whipped with nettles upon my buttocks...:p


Hahahah... yeah this is how people get old. Let me shut my mouth. :p

[Moi]

Lol get you 2 old gits :D


I resemble that remark!:mad:

[adouglasmhor]

When I was a young man I worked on a landscaping squad that repaired historic pathways etc. Digging up and relaying Victorian and Georgian cobblestones, shoveling tonnes of gravel and whin dust. I was never fitter and We used to amuse ourselves at breaktime by having loaded wheelbarrow races, stiltwalking races on shovels, I was proud of my skills with a pinch bar (6ft steel crowbar for digging up cobbles - some of the cobbles are over 18 inches deep). I still did my roadwork and boxing training on top of that, man it sucks being old grrrrr.

[Knight_Errant]

Man...what job do you do that compares to doing cardio?
Greek messenger after the battle of Marathon!?!
Paula Radcliffe's pooper scooper?
More or less anything people will pay me for. I do gardening, I clear fields and forests of the bracken and bramble menace, I muck out horses, etc. etc.

[PASmith]

A guy I know back in London is a scaffolder. Spends his days climbing and lugging big metal pipes around. I've never seen anyone with forearms and wrists like his. Not over inflated like a body builders forearms but dense and thick right through into his hands.
Got a grip like a vice too.

[axelb]

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

More or less anything people will pay me for...

*snigger*

[Knight_Errant]

except that- mind you, shouldn't knock it if you haven't tried it :p