Things That BWE Types Often Over Look!!!

[Kyle Aaron]

Originally Posted by Dominator350

I fucking miss doing manual labour so much. Good manual labour can replace conditioning and muscular endurance training any day in my book.

I once worked in a sheet metal factory, working on a guillotine for up to 8mm thick sheet steel - usually just 4-5mm, though. It'd come in sheets of up to 6m x 2m, a forklift would put it down on a series of rollers and I'd have to move it into position, mark it and cut it up - to within 1mm.

When it was 6m x 2m they sent me some guys to help, but once it was at least cut in half I was on my own - one of the half sheets of 4mm steel weighed 415kg. Shuffling that around to cut it within 1mm wasn't easy, I can tell you. And then I'd have to pick up and stack the pieces on the other side after they were cut.

Work started before the regular buses, so I cycled there, 5km or so each way.

I didn't need a gym membership or time swinging off bars in the park, then, I tell you! Not much in the legs, but my upper body got stacked, and I was fit.

Nowadays I am most fond of deadlift-type movements. Most include a knee-bend, so they're a leg workout as well as a pull. And they're quite relevant to everyday life, plenty of times we have to pick something heavy up off the ground.

[kreationkaze]

Originally Posted by Kyle Aaron

I once worked in a sheet metal factory, working on a guillotine for up to 8mm thick sheet steel - usually just 4-5mm, though. It'd come in sheets of up to 6m x 2m, a forklift would put it down on a series of rollers and I'd have to move it into position, mark it and cut it up - to within 1mm.

When it was 6m x 2m they sent me some guys to help, but once it was at least cut in half I was on my own - one of the half sheets of 4mm steel weighed 415kg. Shuffling that around to cut it within 1mm wasn't easy, I can tell you. And then I'd have to pick up and stack the pieces on the other side after they were cut.

Work started before the regular buses, so I cycled there, 5km or so each way.

I didn't need a gym membership or time swinging off bars in the park, then, I tell you! Not much in the legs, but my upper body got stacked, and I was fit.

Nowadays I am most fond of deadlift-type movements. Most include a knee-bend, so they're a leg workout as well as a pull. And they're quite relevant to everyday life, plenty of times we have to pick something heavy up off the ground.

my brother is in this situation right now, working for a small engineering/sound engineering firm, lifting half tonne amp racks everyday has made him very strong indeed, but i reckon its taken its tole on his knees already