Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ

I have a great treadmill, bowflex, bike, weights, etc. I have to change it up because I get board fast. Anyway, last summer I cut down 25 huge Ash trees because they died from a flood, but that was one hell of an upper body workout swinging a 30lbs chainsaw around for months and lost 12 pounds of pure fat. Anyway, I was all hopped up on lumberjack adrenaline and told the wife we're going to save $1000's in heading fuel this winter! She laughed and told me to sell the wood on Craigslist and just get the cash instead or at least rent a splitter. My ego was insulted and promptly stacked 8 cords of wood next to the house and then went to Home depot and bought an Ax and wedges.

Never, I repeat NEVER do this because after 3 days of splitting 1 cord I could not move my arms for days and was in so much pain I even deleted Ax men off my DVR. Anyway, I stuck to it and split all the wood and burned it in my fireplaces and it kept the house warm all winter. I'd split a little more everyday (an hour) and 7 months later the wood was gone and my upper body got big and my arms got huge.

It was a hell of a workout and it didn't get boring. The best part was you'd see results via the wood pile getting smaller and this took focus away from the slow results normally compared to your body. The motivation factor was cool because there was a purpose ie., heating your home and I did actually save $1600 bucks. Would I do it again? Fuck No! BUt I did just buy a commercial painter and going to scape the house and paint it myself this summer.

Moral of this story? treadmills, bowflex, bike, weights, are fucking boring when you can get a good workout doing something more productive.