I decided we have a bit too much work to do here at home so decided to skip out on going into the gym.

Which isn’t exactly a bad thing as I have a pretty good home routine for my little home gym I have here, the only real difference is that I don’t have the big machines for isolation exercises.

But my home routine today was pretty goodand I could feel I had done some work, glad to report my core has become a lot stronger along with my legs,not saying my arms aren’t strong but I need to be more conservative due to my brain injury as my right side goes into tone if I lift too heavy.

But I enjoy lifting heavy, ok by terms of all out strength it might not be too good, but we also have to work on endurance. That is a big thing for me. I was taught to pace myself. So yes 20kg might not seem all that much to a real strong man, but how often can that strong man lift that.

Also 20kg dumb bells and kettle bells are slightly different to hoisting around 20kg sand bags again and again, all day. Or maybe mixing cement repeatedly. Like 1 spade of wet cement (or concrete) is about 6kg’s, now do that where you lift spades of sand and cement into a wheelbarrow, then psh that wheelbarrow. Gym and real world applications are not the same.

So yes it’s good to be gym fit, but it’s just as good to be real world for and have endurance. This reminds me of my trainer at the gym I go to. His boss said that there were holes in the car park that needed to be fixed, not thinking it would be that hard he (the gym instructor) said he’d do it (how hard can it be). Well it ended up being much harder than he assumed, he said hat he got tired so quick after using a spade and mixing the tar to fix the parking lot, worst was he complained about callouses on his hands.

Gym fit and real world fit are not always the same.