Although there is a great difference between manual labor and fitness training, in essence, manual labor can also improve people's physical fitness. Many people who are engaged in manual labor all the year round often have better physical fitness than many white-collar workers. So what's the difference between 5 hours of physical labor every day and 1 hour of fitness training every day?
First, the gap in physical quality.
In fact, whether it is physical labor or mental labor, the body needs to continuously output calories to maintain physical activity. If it can continue to do physical work for five hours every day, it actually consumes a lot of physical energy, which is more than 1 hour of fitness. It's like letting a muscular man who has been exercising for many years go to the construction site to do manual labor for five hours. I'm sure he must be exhausted. Even an ordinary construction worker, his physical labor is not just five hours a day. Long-term physical labor consumes a lot of physical strength and muscle endurance, so people who work for five hours are better than those who train 1 hour in terms of physical strength and muscle endurance.
Second, the muscle gap.
Although both manual labor and fitness training can increase muscles, it is believed that the final muscle gap is still very large due to different muscle movement modes. Just like manual labor, although the training intensity of five-hour manual labor is stronger than fitness 1 hour, manual labor is often simple and repetitive, and often belongs to aerobic training, which does not stimulate muscle growth very much. However, manual labor does not notice your weak muscles. It is often the nature of your job that leads to which muscle you want to exercise today. Therefore, from the perspective of muscle dimension and aesthetic feeling, it is not as good as the muscles of bodybuilders.
Third, the gap in physical health.
"Gentleman" has said that the physical quality of manual workers is better than that of ordinary white-collar workers, but only compared with ordinary people. If compared with bodybuilders, manual labor still has many disadvantages. For most manual workers, the physical harm brought by manual labor is far greater than that of bodybuilders, because repeating an action for a long time is very harmful to the body, and the environment for manual labor is often not very good. Therefore, it will also cause harm to the body, and the most fundamental thing for bodybuilders is to pursue good health. As long as they are properly trained and eat healthily, bodybuilders can be said to be much better than manual workers.
Although people are pursuing health preservation now, it started with the improvement of people's living standards, and people who engage in manual labor often have no living standards, and the manual labor they engage in is also forced by life. Although the two can compare the gap between muscle and physical quality, this fundamental goal is still incomparable.
Are you willing to do manual labor to exercise your muscles?