My Dad Could Probably Still Whip My A**

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One and two generations+ ago: Tough, blue-collared men who moved steel, iron, and concrete to build civilization and a nation.
Today: Pasty, bearded baristas who believe making foam lattes at Starbucks makes them celebrities.
I think they are on to something here.
 
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I lift weights and I am strong, but I don't have a ton of practical strength. You wouldn't be all that impressed by my wood-chopping ability. Fortunately, that's not a need in my life.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I lift weights and I am strong, but I don't have a ton of practical strength. You wouldn't be all that impressed by my wood-chopping ability. Fortunately, that's not a need in my life.
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Practical skills and strength are rapidly vanishing. I love watching these goofballs paying $100+ a month to do cross fit. Why are you beating a tire with a sledgehammer when you could go chop wood and actually have something to show for it? My buddy does it, he put in a fire pit and asked me where I get the wood for mine. I said drive around, there is free wood everywhere. All you have to do is split it. You mean with an axe? Yes or a sledge and splitter. He decided to just get it delivered instead.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Practical skills and strength are rapidly vanishing. I love watching these goofballs paying $100+ a month to do cross fit. Why are you beating a tire with a sledgehammer when you could go chop wood and actually have something to show for it? My buddy does it, he put in a fire pit and asked me where I get the wood for mine. I said drive around, there is free wood everywhere. All you have to do is split it. You mean with an axe? Yes or a sledge and splitter. He decided to just get it delivered instead.
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Crossfit bros are the best. They've got to be walking economic stimulus packages.

Splitting/Stacking wood, hay bales, moving blocks, etc will give you ridiculous amounts of practical strength. You may not be rocked up afterwards, but who cares.
 
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WallyBalls said:
Crossfit bros are the best. They've got to be walking economic stimulus packages.

Splitting/Stacking wood, hay bales, moving blocks, etc will give you ridiculous amounts of practical strength. You may not be rocked up afterwards, but who cares.
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It is the sort of manual labor that old man strength is built on.
 
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There is a local funeral home here who has a guy who manually digs graves for a living. Crazy strength.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Practical skills and strength are rapidly vanishing. I love watching these goofballs paying $100+ a month to do cross fit. Why are you beating a tire with a sledgehammer when you could go chop wood and actually have something to show for it? My buddy does it, he put in a fire pit and asked me where I get the wood for mine. I said drive around, there is free wood everywhere. All you have to do is split it. You mean with an axe? Yes or a sledge and splitter. He decided to just get it delivered instead.
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Are they that practical if they are no longer needed? :)
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Practical skills and strength are rapidly vanishing. I love watching these goofballs paying $100+ a month to do cross fit. Why are you beating a tire with a sledgehammer when you could go chop wood and actually have something to show for it? My buddy does it, he put in a fire pit and asked me where I get the wood for mine. I said drive around, there is free wood everywhere. All you have to do is split it. You mean with an axe? Yes or a sledge and splitter. He decided to just get it delivered instead.
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My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
 
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My dad worked in the coal mine all his life. He's 66 with a bad back, but still unbelievably strong.
 
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volinbham said:
My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
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Actually an episode of Nathan for You where he starts a gym where people move furniture for a moving company.
 
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volinbham said:
My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
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are you offering franchises
 
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RollinVol said:
There is a local funeral home here who has a guy who manually digs graves for a living. Crazy strength.
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sounds like my cousin. country strong. At 50 he can out dig, lift, whatever, any 20 year old. Also a hell of a raft guide. He was known as robo-guide on the Ocoee.
 
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volinbham said:
My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
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That's actually a great idea. You could probably get tons of those little weiners willing to throw their money away on something they can do for their self. I was in flooring for 26 years. I'm still strong as an ox, even though I've never lifted weights and have extreme osteoarthritis(heriditary)
 
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I think my dad and I would split 5 and 5 out of ten fights

(Which is a compliment to him since he's over 50 and I'm in my 20s)
 
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Not only were they harder working men and stronger men from yesteryear but they had better nutrition, we don't use the same fertilizers and we have gmos , more pesticides and preservatives , people lived healthier lives and had less prescriptions, Drugs keep us alive today instead of healing us.

I have been stronger than my dad since I was 19, he could never bench press what I could at 20, or squat why I can today, my dad was an Airborne Ranger who trained in 3 different martial arts including 9 months on Muy Thai Island training. He could kick my ass before I knew my ass was kicked.
He may have slowed down a bit, but his technique is still there and vast knowledge of strike zones and principles.
I also am 4 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier.
When I said "my dad could beat up your dad" I wasn't joking, he most likely still can!
 
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volinbham said:
My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
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That sounds like the same bogus scheme that my (then) wife fell into. She would pay money to a "friend" to go to that friend's house and use her fancy scissors and a glue stick. It was called "scrapbooking".

I tried to start a male version and invited my buddies over to watch football, told them to bring their own beer, and then tried to get them to pay me to use my frosty mugs, chairs and TV. Nobody paid...actually they laughed.

Maybe you'd be better off if you marketed your workout to women.

Oh, forgot to post my original thought. I kind of always thought my dad could take me. I don't think so anymore...he's 87 and I'm 49.
 
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volinbham said:
My business idea is "yard fit". You pay me and we meet at my yard. I have you do all sorts of "exercises" to build old time muscles.

Once you've mastered the circuit of exercises in my yard I'll arrange for you to do similar workouts in other people's yards.

Moron exercisers pay me and people who need yard work pay me. It's a win win for me! :p
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But could you defeat them in a contest of physical superiority if they decided they didn't like that financial arrangement?
 
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