Fitness for Mining

So, winter is coming to an end and now we are all looking to go out to the field in search of gold. How many of you just sat in the Lazy Boy eating Cheetos and drinking beer all winter? I will bet that most of you gained upwards of 6 pounds of lard (you know that stuff that jiggles when you waddle?). Physical fitness takes a backseat every winter, and we pay for it with injuries, and an injury out in B.F.E. can be deadly. What about your heart? Being sedatary all winter allows your heart to get weak. Then come spring you go shoveling buckets and lifting and working hard, and your heart and lungs become easily overwhelmed. For some this is just simply being exhausted, and you get worn out well before the job is done. For others the heart has become so weak that it simply can't cope with the stress and next thing you know you have atrial fibrilation and you are 2 hours from the nearest hospital. By the time you get to the truck you would be dead.

Scary huh? The thought of a simple musculo-skeletal injury is enough to make me want to exercise, let alone a heart attack. I don't want to miss any digging.

So, how about we design an exercise program that a person can do 3-days per week and rest on the weekends? Maybe throw in a day or two of cardio? No time for cardio you say? If you don't have heart problems and are under 45 y.o. I may have a good 5-8 minute program for you (performed at own risk).

I need your help with this. What I want are some of the exhausting activities that really wear you out... the activities that make those muscles feel like fire. and I will make a list with the muscles that they work, and design us all a good program based on that.


Activity                                                      Muscle Worked
Getting into trailer                                     Quadriceps
Panning                                                     Forearms
Lifting Buckets                                          Latissimus Dorsi/Trapezius/Deltoids
Starting Small Engine                                Deltoids/Lats
Shoveling                                                   Biceps/Lats/Traps/Delts
                          


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Actually i think he's right i'm goin to rack and ruin so i better do my bit

Homie i'm jumpin in i'm on the 20s , i got no time to waste

And our hoast is right i have gone to seed over the winter, coz everthing hurts when i get up for an hour til i get movin

well done Seanengman

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Latural twistin, pullin with ya pick when ya rakein out, stretchin down and gettin back up and the knees thank god fer cod liver oil caps
i'm gonna end up with that many plastic joints, i won't have a funeral, IT'LL be a tupa ware party

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Nobody wants to buy equipment, so I am trying to form a body weight routine... that everyone can do. I don't want to make it too difficult, people get scared easy.

Working on ideas and will post a routine soon.

Cheers

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Something along the lines of aerobic exercise was going to be put in, but I want to get a general idea of everyones fitness level. I'm going to start a poll, so if you would please participate so I can start.

Cheers

Sean

Posted on: February 23, 2011, 15:03:58

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Okay, added the poll... so, time to dust off, get off your butt and do some push ups. Don't be bashful, do them now. I am bringing back the art of manliness.

Cheers

Sean

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