Comment by 300bps
3 years ago
Too much emphasis is put on organised exercise.
Organized exercise allows you to set a specific goal and do targeted exercise to accomplish that goal in the minimum amount of time with minimum risk of injury.
why people pay to go to the gym and deadlift, then e.g. happily pay someone to move a load of soil around the backyard always confuses/amazes me
It's math and risk. If I make $150 per hour and have unlimited capacity to work then it makes no sense for me to do manual labor that I can pay someone $15 per hour to do. And I'll get a much better workout with an hour in the gym than 3 hours moving a load of soil around. And as I stated earlier, my risk of injury doing controlled targeted movements is much lower than randomly twisting and turning and jerking loads of soil around.
Gotta love some good ol' post hoc rationalising.
This is needlessly dismissive. I have a lot of bushes and edges to trim in addition to the usual mowing and mulching. And had a bad sprain from trimming huge bushes. Intentional exercise had its own risks, though they're lower if following a guide or trainer. (I also have a small frame so have to take care not to overdue it regardless of activity.)
Of course I could pay someone to do the gardening or rearrange it to minimize the work. Yet that's not always an option.