According to every book I read, Triatletes are notorious for their disdain for weight training and upper body workouts. Guess what, I feel the same way – it just seems so mind numbingly boring. However, if you give me an activity to do that accomplishes the same goal, I’m all over it. Give me a cord of wood to chop, give me a basement to frame out or give me a slab of concrete to break up and I’m a happy camper.
This afternoon, I had one phenomenal upper body workout – I destroyed a 5” thick slab of concrete that used to be the walkway leading to the front door of the house. We’re not talking jackhammer or Bobcat here, we’re talking a 16 lb sledgehammer attached to 215 lbs of me. Ok, so it was 90+ degrees out and amazingly humid, but I was bored and my bike was in the shop and I needed something to keep me out of trouble. Besides, taking all of my pent up energy out on a poor defenseless slab of concrete was really fun.
The final score: Lurch 1, Concrete 0.
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