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Originally Posted by Exfso
Only problem with this is that it makes you crap concrete and you end up with "metric miles"
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Without going into detail, lets just say I have an 'active' constitution and Opiates have never presented this problem to me!
Oh yeah....
For Arthritis - hot mud baths!
Good heavy mud that heats and compresses all one's achy bits.
I tried this in Russia a few years back and it sorts you out for a few days.
One old
kommisar I saw had to be wheeled up in a chair and lifted into the bath. The poor old guy was obviously in a LOT of pain.
After about two or three hours (the treatments lasted up to eight), he actually got out himself, walked to the showers then got back in!!
The "mud" is mostly just smelly clay, maybe doped with Sulphur.
Its quite a common treatment apparently and very popular.
One of "our" problems is, I think, that all the exercises we were taught, paid money, bought the video to do, may buff you up, and help with stamina, but do nothing to prepare your body for hard physical labour like construction.
Here, you're using all kinds of different musculo-skeletal groups in new and 'interesting' ways. Being able to cycle 50k or bench 220 will do little to help you when hanging upside-down, twisting in the wind and trying to manouver a 2x9 sheet of colourbond onto a shed frame!
Possibly foregoing that sexy filter wheel or 5th guidescope and budgeting for a builder is a good idea. You can say: "I could do it myself, but I feel it's right to spread some or our money around the local community"! (Excuse 3 for not DIYing).
Of course your partner can then turn around and use the same rationale for buying shoes, so there is a downside.
