How fit should you be ??

[Mike Hill]

Not that fit.Its not Special Forces for FFS.

 

IF you have the drive to do the job,you will loose the weight you need to loose.Its not a particularly difficult or dangerous job.

[j warwick]

fitter than I am...

 

That's to much carp fishing for you

[10 Bears]

To echo some of the points above, its just a matter of doing the job for a while. If you are unfit, you will ache and find it hard at first, but you will adapt over time and get much fitter .

 

Just don't think because you have grafted a bit each day you will be able to eat 6000 calories of sugar a day and get fitter - it just wont happen. See the Paleo Diet thread if you need a bit of inspiration on the food front.

 

Just work as hard as you can and don't hurt yourself and you will get fitter. Ultimately, you will end up as fit as you need to be so just crack on!

[Mesterh]

I Agree with Mr Hill.

 

Although not the last sentence, he has obviously never seen me at work.

 

For the right amount of money I can make the difficulty of opening a garden gate equal to that of fueling a Saturn 5 rocket.

[Bewarethemoon]

Not that fit.Its not Special Forces for FFS.

 

IF you have the drive to do the job,you will loose the weight you need to loose.Its not a particularly difficult or dangerous job.

 

 

Of course it's not Special Forces but they're are the best of the best of the best. That said we still work in an incredibly physically demanding industry.

 

Daniel.

[J Scott]

Going from working full time work to full time education in the space of a few months my fitness dropped dramatically.. Started climbing at college now and it's safe to say im struggling, technique has gone off too!

[eggsarascal]

Here's one chaps, how fit do you think you should be to become an arborist ??

 

Fit enough for a days work.

[Mike Hill]

That said we still work in an incredibly physically demanding industry.

 

Daniel.

 

Not really mate.

 

We get to stand around alot,have Tea breaks,sit in the nice Truck Cab between jobs.We are out for about 8 hours a day,actually work for around five.

 

Anyone who thinks that this job is "incredibly physically demanding" is a bit of a "Noddy" or has just left School/Home/The Post Office.

[Taupotreeman]

Seconded on Mike's comment. Eventually you become work fit. Your body adapts to the type of work you do. You still might be fit by average standards but maybe not supremely. I do this job six days a week but can't run that far before being knackered. One of the local ironman competitors was explaining it to me. Want to be really fit, make your body do something completely different three days a week and break the routine.

 

 

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[Ty Korrigan]

Your doing yourselves down here.

Before I was in arb I trained 4 time a week on the bike in order to ride endurance events up to 1200km

Now I ride once a week for the same level of cycling fitness.

I push myself hard and don't plod when dragging branches, cutting hedges or splitting logs etc.

I don't rush about in the tree though.

Ty