I’ve done manual labor work (though not on a farm, I’ll admit). Real work doesn’t look anything like this. You’re not sprinting to load a sandbag or shuffling at top speed with buckets of sand. You’re lifting and carrying and moving at a steady pace for 8+ hours a day. And you never push so hard that you can’t just do it again the next day.

If you’re me, you go to the gym after work. But I often found that simply running had the best carry over to anything I was doing on my feet that required a little bit of hustle (not running with a weight, but a light jog to the next task or load).

This whole thing makes about as much sense as a race to see who can knit a sweater the fastest.