Today I met Chris and Mike from The Gym at Chris's house way out in the Virginia countryside. It was a pretty area but Chris lives off a dirt road that made me nervous because it looked like the places in all the movies where city folks go to either get raped, disappear, or both!
Anyway we met Chris there to chop wood for our workout today. I must say as an experienced sledge hammer swinger and tire hitter that chopping wood aint no yuppy shit like the aforementioned. Hitting a tire is now for fat housewives who are paying 75 bucks and hour. We chopped continuously for somewhere between 60 and 90 minutes and my grip, hands, and entire posterior chain are smoked. We determined that I must have been swinging incorrectly using TOO much upper body during my sledge hammer days, because as soon as the hips became involved, the power output increased dramatically along with the GPP aspect. I thought I was using my entire body and getting my hips involved... I was wrong. Point is there is no substitute for "real" work and that is something we all forget in this soft ass IPAD run society.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas A. Edison
One of my favorite quotes.... Or dressed in sweat pants and looks like lumber-jacking.
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