Gardening as exercise!

[newgardengirl]

I'm a totally new gardener and I only started a couple of months ago.

Digging up the garden really is such good exercise. When you spend hours digging and pulling up weeds, especially when you keep standing up and crouching down again it's like doing a load of squats.

My bum hasn't looked this sexy for years!

Anyone else found that they've toned up?

[Squash Muppet]

Hi newgardengirl!

I know what you mean! I can definitely feel a difference in my thighs and I actually have small muscles appearing on my arms! My bum still looks big but hey ho, can't have everything!

Happy growing.
Squash Muppet

[Tigerella]

Hi

I thought your bum looked very nice before!

Tiger

[zebedee]

I know what you mean about exercise, NGgirl, also it's very therapeutic for the mind. However, bear in mind these words (what NOT to say!) When asked by his girlfriend "Does my bum look big in these?" he replied, unthinking. "I'll tell you when you've got it all in!".
A veil is drawn over the subsequent events. Enjoy your gardening (and the sexy new bum!)

[madderbat]

Sorry to say I just ache, but then I could probably give you a generation!

I still enjoy the lottie though and am getting so excited with things growing.

[TonyF]

I think that we should see pics to determine the efficacy of gardening and it's effects on the torso.

Interestingly, for a couple of medical reasons I'm not allowed to do 'explosive' (my doc's words) exercise like cycling or even swimming but he recommends gardening as gentle exercise - he's obviously not carried 70 litre bags of compost up my steep drive!

[rustylady]

Depends what you class as gardening. Occasionally (and only occasionally) I set off to the allotment with the best of intentions on my days off from full time work. It is such a lovely site and sheltered, and I always take a flask of coffee (I have a folding chair in the shed) that if I don't get started on the work straight away it is tempting to just get out the chair and the flask and sit in the sun and look at it. However, generally if you are actually gardening instead of thinking about it, it must be one of the best all-round forms of exercise

[Flummery]

I do T'ai chi which is a gentle all-over exercise regime. I should therefore be in reasonable nick. HOWEVER a good bout of gardening - digging, weeding, raking etc. and I really ache. Anything that hurts so much has got to be good for us!

[JennieAtkinson]

Sadly no neat bum - just aches and pains! Especially today having dug the plot yesterday and carried four 70 litre compost bags from the car to the polytunnel. It was a pottering day today, about all I could manage.

Its gotta be good though, all that fresh air. Today the wind was gusting (a gentle - ha ha) Force 6, but the sun shone all day, so rather than a toned body, I just have a very red face - and no I haven't started the wine yet!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi newgardengirl - methinks I'm doing this all wrong! The only thing I've got is a bad back! No seriously! There's nowt like a good hour digging or whatever on your lottie to give you some real exercise - I belive there are some people who actually pay to go to something called a gym where they use machines or run round in circles to do the same thing....................fancy, missing out on all that fresh air and listening to the birds sing! Bernie aka Dexterdog

[bubblewrap]

I know what you mean about exercise, NGgirl, also it's very therapeutic for the mind. However, bear in mind these words (what NOT to say!) When asked by his girlfriend "Does my bum look big in these?" he replied, unthinking. "I'll tell you when you've got it all in!".
A veil is drawn over the subsequent events. Enjoy your gardening (and the sexy new bum!)

Thought answer was your bum would look big in a tent.

[zebedee]

Thought answer was your bum would look big in a tent.

It does!!! OOOps

[newgardengirl]

Well just remember everyone, try to bend your knees and not your back! I also recommend doing warming-up exercises first to stretch the muscles.

I did ache when I first started, but yoga and pilates tend to sort that out

[zebedee]

That sounds remarkably like foreplay to me! Or am I losing

[Flummery]

I thought that was 'Brace yerself!'