Raking Leaves is Healthy..

[OneEyeJack]

I had to rake leaves today.Took 7 hours of constant movement.Raking leaves is a good workout.

[OGC]

Want another workout tomorrow ? There are still plenty of leaves in my yard to keep you in shape.

[Foster]

I pay neighborhood kids to do my leaves

I'm fixing the economy

[Lady Resin]

My cellar dweller mows them.:thumbup:

mulch for spring.

[Furtherman]

I raked leaves this weekend too. I actually felt good about it and was laughing how much I loathed it as a kid.

[Sue_Bender]

I had to rake leaves today.Took 7 hours of constant movement.Raking leaves is a good workout.



You should try raking eyes!!

[ahhdurr]

I, too, don't mind raking leaves half as much as when I was a kid.

[led37zep]

I down have a lawn...what the hell am I supposed to do?!?!?!?!?

[Leticia]

I down have a lawn...what the hell am I supposed to do?!?!?!?!?

Down having a lawn is hard.

[jennysmurf]

Down having a lawn is hard.


:laugh::lol::laugh:

[CHUCKWAGONCOOK]

I had to rake leaves today.Took 7 hours of constant movement.Raking leaves is a good workout.
You know what else is a good workout? Taking a 5k walk with Fez on Thanksgiving Day.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo92/chuckwagoncook_2008/012-1.jpg

[danner1515]

I actually decided to use a rake instead of the leaf blower this fall, and I like it much better. It gives me a decent workout, and since it's quiet, I can listen to my iPod instead of being deafened by the leaf blower. Bagging leaves is still a pain in the ass though.

[eeroomnhoj]

I had to rake leaves today.Took 7 hours of constant movement.Raking leaves is a good workout.

I find it very therapeutic to clean up all the leaves. I just hate finding poop in the middle of the leaf piles.

[Jujubees2]

I improved my health this weekend too (and my legs are still barking from all the squatting). Even though I have a tiny yard, I managed to fill 15 bags of leaves. The only thing that sucks is that with budget cutbacks, NYC isn't collecting leaves separately this year and turning them into mulch.

[Contra]

Having a tiny yard with no tree is awsome

[OneEyeJack]

when you bend down and collect up the leaves and put them in a bag its just like doing callisthenics.

[KingGeno]

http://www.thedailyplate.com/fitness/exercise/raking

This activity burns approximately 331 calories per hour for an average, 145-pound person.

[Gvac]

I find it very therapeutic to clean up all the leaves.

It's odd, isn't it? I was just outside sweeping all the leaves off of my porch and I thought about how beautiful it is to see a wooded area with leaves everywhere and the grass growing wild, but how we feel the need to keep "our" property clean and neatly trimmed.

I guess it's a case of trying to be harmonious with nature; we don't chop down all the trees in our yard and we don't pave our front and back yards, yet we want to bend them to our ideal of what beauty is.

Anyway, I like raking leaves.

[lleeder]

I love leaves flavored poptarts.

[OneEyeJack]

Theres a cold snap in the air and halloween is just around the corner. I guess its time to look for the leave rake and start exercising. :glurps:

[CountryBob]

Goddamned leaves! I was raking last year and screwed up something in my shoulder that has not healed. I suspect rotator cuff.

[biggestmexi]

You know what else is a good workout? Taking a 5k walk with Fez on Thanksgiving Day.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo92/chuckwagoncook_2008/012-1.jpg

HA!

[walking joint]

after i'm done raking the leaves I feel great...but while i'm doing it I hate it. My 2 year old 'helped' me last year. while it was cute at times, it adds a good amount of time to actually finishing the process.

[Jujubees2]

Goddamned leaves! I was raking last year and screwed up something in my shoulder that has not healed. I suspect rotator cuff.

Next time wait for the leaves to fall from the trees before raking.

[OGC]

Theres a cold snap in the air and halloween is just around the corner. I guess its time to look for the leave rake and start exercising. :glurps:

Too early, the maples have dropped their leaves, but there are still plenty of leaves still on the trees.

No sense in raking twice.

[FrogSlayer]

the worst are the water oaks and the pin oaks, tiny leaves. I am in the landscape biz, I have 1 lawn in particular that takes me about 5 hours to blow with one of the biggest backpack blowers on the market (Stihl Br600). The years prior it would take me 8-9 hrs.
I only grab the rake when the piles get to big for the blower. I made a few piles last year that would have buried my F350 dually. Doing that with a rake would leave you skinny enough to blow away with the leaves

[biggirl]

raking leaves sucks ass. We rake a big pile for my kids to jump in, but the rest get sucked up by a big vacuum on my father-in-law's riding lawn mower.

[OneEyeJack]

a friend of mines daughter is really packing on the pounds. I suggested since she just lies around the house eating and saying no will marry her, that he assign her chores to be more active like raking the leaves...