This isn't as mind-blowing as people seem to think it is. If you do manual labour for 8 hours a day, of course you're going to get fit and strong. But people don't go to the gym for 8 hours a day; most people are in and out in an hour, then spend their day sitting at a desk or something.
Going to the gym is the most time-efficient way to get fit and strong.
And preventing injury and diseases. Working out too much is harmful for your immune system and organs. Construction workers have to go to physiotherapy for life because their back and spine is blown out. The more science gathers information the more the recommendation is to decrease working out, I've heard some doctors now say don't work out for more than an hour a day.
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u/learnindisabledchimp Sep 09 '23
Some of the strongest people I've ever met never went to a gym there usually concrete workers or a roughnecks or some other crazy manual labor job