To be fair when I cannot ride my bike, I did learn some Tabata based cardio workouts from my friend and it helps me. I think I do it 3 times as long because as a cyclist it takes a while to get winded.

Also when I saw the UMD video falling to the ground from 30 mph and then getting up, we may not be wrestlers but we are though in that aspect too. I wonder how a muscle man would handle being thrown into asphalt at 30 mph.

Yes there is. My 12 year old girl can lift some from the ground to a wheel barrow. She sometime comes and helps me. She has this anal retentive personality and she is up there making sure the bales are all lined up properly within a millimeter. She cannot stand misaligned hay bales.

im not like most of these people online that talk crap about something they know nothing about...trust me...

I knew my (perfectionist) grandpa had been reincarnated -- interesting that he came back to earth as a girl. If your daughter also drinks Coors beer and is a dead-eye shot with a rifle, I think I know the reason why.


[edit: no disrespect to your daughter. It's just that I've only met one other person who was a terror on misaligned hay bales, which I learned the hard way]

We are, aren't we?

I'm a roadie (as in sound engineer) for an events company; I weigh 280 and I seriously need to lose weight. However, since I've started this job a little under a year ago I can now touch my toes without bending my knees and I can lift myself onto the back of a truck and do 25 more press ups than I could do before.

The weight of some the flight cases we lift is quite big. I lifted a box of PA speakers up 2 flights of stairs the other day cos the venue's elevator had broken and when I got to the top, read the tour label and it weighed 70kg (154 lbs).

Apparently, we're not supposed to lift anything above 25kg (55 lbs) but how are you going to gain any muscle if that is the maximum weight you lift.

I have got to say, i bet some of the "endurance" was caused by you chuckin hay bales all the time, where as the other guy rarely, if ever does it.
I bet he would kick your but in a p90x workout, but he would stand no chance against you on a bike.

I hauled literally thousands and thousands of hay bales growing up in Texas. However, the hardest job I ever had was unloading, transporting and restacking a railroad car full of peanut hulls/shells in 100lb burlap bags. Middle of summer, dusty and & *#%4ing hot! I was a freshman at the time and weighed around 125lbs. Pure misery.

i ride a bike too, except i never workout my bulge. its a good shape too. bucks hay.

I've noticed "ripped" muscular guys are usually first to go for a water break, slow down, or have cramps or heat exhaustion. Sure it's good to work out and be strong, but too much (excessive) lean muscle seems to diminish endurance.

Don't know what you mean by workout your bulge. Not asking, either.

+1. Our bales out here are 120 lbs. Generally, we have our 150 bales stacked, but sometimes I have to move/stack 15-20. It's very much about using the right muscles. You can wear yourself out (or worse) if you're not careful

what a stupid thread

Yes we are.

You may be ideal for a job in commission sales. Talk to a career counselor.

Well, ya'll are just beautiful the way you are.

Don't change a thing.

I used to work for a guy in bulverde who grew hay. I delivered them to all his customers. We would do about a thousand a day loading and unloading a few hundred at a time. Half of it is knowing how to flip them up on your knee and use your leg strenght to get them up there. It sucked lol

Props to you good sir! I move maybe 180 bales in a year.. to be honest it sounds like your friend doesn't know how to chuck hay.

Age and treachery... well done!

Concentration camp look... My lovely bride refers to my physique that way routinely.

incorrect

this is stupid. there are a ton of variables...and that the OP has a continued history of doing this should be a big big factor.

i bet your friend can do more star jumps or squats then push-ups than you.

@ Caloso: persistence hunting. typically there is a group of men that track down the animal. there is a video on youtube, pretty cool. just search "persistence hunting".

if roadies are strong and preserve longer, i want to see OP squat 1.5x bodyweight (1x5), then bench 1x bodyweight (1x5), and finally deadlift 2x bodyweight (1x5).

its about what you train for and how you train.

^^Correct. And Tae Bo never produced a world champion boxer or MMA freak!