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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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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Lots of good points made already about repetition without rest and bad form but I’ll also say that you can get in incredible shape from manual labor. Also in general it’s the joints, ligaments and tendons that suffer the most from crazy repetition without rest.

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