Why is physically exerting yourself to the point of exhaustion at the gym good for you but various jobs involving manual labor seem to cause permanent damage in the long term?
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I work out on the daily, but it is controlled. Today was chest and triceps, tomorrow back and biceps, the day after legs, and the day after that other miscellaneous supporting muscles. This might vary a little bit. Support muscles day might not be there. Or I will take a day off completely. But I will not do triceps and chest again for at least 3-4 days. This gives them ample time to recover. Now let’s just say you have a hard labor job that works exclusively chest and triceps.( most manual labor jobs would use much more but this is for the example.) you are now using those muscles groups 8 hours a day 5 days a week. The break and weekends you do get are not enough for full muscle recovery. Extend this over years and years and well…you know what happens.
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