While I was visiting my parents over the weekend, I decided to revisit my youth — one of the
My backyard ab exercise
chores that I used to do in the yard growing up, that is also a great full body and abs workout. And that was…
Splitting fire wood (the old fashioned way… with an axe instead of a machine)
I saw that my dad had some big logs out in the yard that needed to be split for next winter, so I thought it would be fun and be a good workout to get out there and jump right in.
What a great full body workout… and a killer abs workout for that matter too!
I did about an hour and a half of wood splitting, and it felt great. I try to really get some muscle into each axe drop, which I noticed really contracts the abs hard, as well as working the lats, shoulders, and forearms pretty hard too.
As weird as it may sound to some people, I really enjoy hard work like that… maybe it has to do with my upbringing doing manual labor and working all 4 years during my college years for a landscaping company (70-hour weeks every summer)… but there’s just something I love about being outside and doing hard work.
So as much as I talk about gym workouts, sprint workouts, kettlebell workouts, etc in this newsletter, I just figured I would bring back the point that you can also get great workouts outside simply by doing some good old fashioned yard work.
