I have a 2nd job at a big box home improvement store in their lumber/building materials dept. lugging bags of sand & concrete, wielding & cutting giant sheets of pressure treated plywood, MDF & Melamine. then there's the lumber I cut at the radial arm saw & up to 24,000 steps. after a full shift, I'm absolutely sore head to toe. at age 59.8 it takes a good 24 hrs to recover. sometimes I need a muscle relaxer for my lower back. none of that holds a candle to precision weight training for muscle development tho. for a time, I was also swimming & running in addition to the cycling & weight training with some occasional racquetball. for a while there, between 49 & 51 I was in the best shape of my life w no injuries. it was a long duration body transformation that started 10 years prior with just walking at lunch. the key for me was timing. timing for the various efforts & nutrition. meaning run today, cycle tomorrow & weight train the day after. occasionally did more than one in a single 24hrs day, like biking 44 miles round trip to do upper body weight training, but that was rare. my mantra was "do no harm". following an emotional trauma Sept/Oct 2010, I lost all motivation but I kept that 2nd job. by August 2011 I was back at the gym & on the bike regularly. it takes a lot of motivation to do it all. I'll likely never have that again but it's no sweat working in some weight training & cycling despite working 6 days a week with about a dozen 7 day work weeks a year (spring & summer). we do what we can, & not what we can't. reminds me realizing some days I was not at my best, like a poor performance or weak run. then out of nowhere, I'd have a run & didn't recognize the legs under my body as I propelled myself around the track at blistering speeds. would love to feel that surge again some day. pardon the wobbling rant. stay true to what's important to you. that's all that matters

recently asked my 91+ yr old Dad what's the point, to anything we do. he smiled & said: "if it makes you happy"