I found a video of an exercise on youtube in which you use a sledgehammer to bang on a tractor tire. I had this fairly snarky and (if I say so myself) relatively clever blog post to write about it. But then I felt a bit sad. It is just too much wasted energy. Perhaps a metaphor for our times.
Now people are doing what used to be called “work” in their leisure time in order to get in shape. Being in shape used to be a means to end, i.e. if you were strong you could break more rocks and get paid more. Now people are using their precious calories banging on tires.
Get a job doing some kind of manual labor. Then instead of paying $100 a month of gym membership, you can get paid $6.55 an hour.
Sounds like a good workout. Me, I drag myself to the hummer, belt it to the gym, and take the elevator up to the 1st floor to walk for 15 mins on the treadmill. But, seeing them girls exercise makes all the effort worth it.
Sad or funny?!
I don’t know really if this pen-pushers life’s any good for me. I have to make a big effort to keep up the long distance running in order not to be harmed by the 55+ hours sitting in an office chair. I’m still fine, excellent, bien chido, but…Getting paid $6.55 an hour for manual labour instead is maybe not the best solution to this problem??