ow

[dragonlady7]

via https://ift.tt/3fjPvo7

I’m somewhat surprised at how many people, on this post and on earlier discussions of this, have expressed surprise that I can lift 70 pounds. I am a fairly large person and have been pretty active for a lot of my life, having livestock and active hobbies and the like, but it’s a fair handful of years since i did any working out. But I feel like a lot of things are sold in 50 pound sacks on the expectation that a normal adult human can shift 50 pounds fairly easily, and 70 pounds– well, I remember that concrete mix comes in 70-lb bags and I remember being about 14 and having to lift those for some project Dad was working on, and I could get it to my waist but no higher. So these buckets felt about like that, which was annoying because I had to get them slightly above my waist to put them into the garden cart from the back.

I do wish I had better grip strength, I need to work on that.

But the thing that’s brutal about shifting the rocks and gravel really isn’t lifting the buckets. Like, that’s quite heavy, I can’t carry it very far, but I don’t have to. What’s got me suffering and what sucked at the time is that to pick the rocks, out of the ground, I had to either squat down, kneel down, or bend double, and mostly what I wind up doing is bending double, and that’s a shitton of strain on my lower back, abs, and all of the various muscles of my ass and thighs, as well as my neck. So every single muscle in my butt is really mad at me at the moment, and my thighs are considering secession.

It’s the same as any stoop-work, and that’s the other thing I did today, which I don’t know if I mentioned– I sowed a bed of flaxseed, with unicornduke https://tmblr.co/mVpJNDQaUH5cHEJCTfGjjzQ, which was fun but was also a lot of bending.

So anyway. My ass is really mad at me.

I did do one more load– so I’ve made it officially to one ton of rocks shifted on my own. (The tractor did probably 15-20 tons, so like. LOLsob. whatever man.)

<3 to everyone who’s had commentary and advice on the tiny house thing, btw– I’d respond to more comments but Tumblr doesn’t always let me tag people so I feel like I’m yelling into the void. This blue hellsite! (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[buttonsbeadslace]

You are probably stronger than me, then! We get 50-pound boxes-of-reams-of-paper at work, and lifting one of those onto a chest-high shelf is a struggle for me; I wouldn’t want to try it with something heavier. 100% agree that too much bending over is worse than lifting heavy things, though.

[dragonlady7]

Heh, I'm probably much larger than you as well! I haven't weighed myself in ages but I must be 220 pounds at least nowadays. When you've got a fair bit of bulk then a heavy box isn't so proportionally big, I feel like!