City Strength
The whole concept of farmstrength, as I understand it, is that you can be called upon any day at any time to do basic chores: bailing hay, reaping, hauling gear, fixing a tractor. I don’t have any of those things. What I do have is a whole mess of snow that is freezing and turning into ice chunks. I also have a whole lot of elderly neighbors. Today’s workout was an hour of shoveling which included a certain amount of ice breaking and, in the end, shovel breaking. I broke our new shovel, so we went and bought two more, metal this time.
Anvil or Hammer 
on February 15, 2007 on 6:29 am
What you did is precisely farmstrength. The idea is to train in such a way that you are prepared to do demanding physical tasks.
And bravo on helping out the neighbors.
on February 15, 2007 on 6:49 am
Thanks Doc, glad I fulfill the farmstrength way of being. Besides, I enjoyed it and felt good for doing it. 🙂
on February 15, 2007 on 2:02 pm
Darn ice doesn’t shovel very well – it took me forever just to get into my car without breaking anything. They were covered in a couple inches of frozen snow/ice covered with solid ice over top. Then Tee’s car was frozen into the snow – had to chip it out – then push it out – where’s global warming when you need it?
on February 15, 2007 on 2:04 pm
lol, yep, you guys got it much worse than we did.