Manual labour is the best form of excercise, better even than weights, because if you create something its an added bonus. I just left a desk job behind and spent 4 weeks landscaping my garden (breaking concrete platforms, cutting down trees, digging up roots, taking all the rubbish to the tip) and Im healthier and stonger than I have been for a long time. Unfortunately the garden is done now, so I'll be joining you with some weights.
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Manual labour is not exactly perfect. Firstly if manual labor is not so repetitive to burn out joints and not so heavy to cause strains, but average manual labor is perfection. The reason is that body is not regularly subjected to the same movements.
Take jogging, initially you burn off some fat, then you start burning fat AND MUSCLE ! ! ! However soon your body adapts to this repetitive exercise and you cease losing weight, why? Because your body had adapted to that stimulus and now your body is far more efficient at reproducing that motion.
Do not believe me ?
Take a marathon runner and ask them to jog up a flight of stairs or to ride a bicycle at a certain pace. Just because they are thin and healthy does not mean they are fit even if they can run a 3 hour marathon . . .
The reality is 75 % of people spend more than 75 % of their days when awake sitting and sedentary ! ! !
All people have to do is move their damn body's as much as they can safely, strength training with bodyweight exercises is not a modern fad, it is what the Greeks and Romans and cowboys used before someone thought up marketing social gyms.
People go to gyms to socialise not to get fit . . .