Hey I feel ya, I was getting a bit down about having bodyfat as I creep up on 38 after being a wiry bundle of teenaged muscle into my twenties.
Woodworking with hand tools is a surprising amount of exercise, great for pain resistance too, I now have to check if I actually hit myself with an edge by waiting to see if it bleeds... hrrm.
They're so damn important but I never think about them.
I was contemplating taking up leatherworking, but it's a minimum of £140 to get started with all the tools, and that's going for fairly cheap shit that'll probably break pretty readily. That's without taking leather into account.
Still, I have something to do, and it ought to motivate me into exercising more. I was already losing weight, but slowly, and adding exercise into it can only help. I think one of my issues is that the standard "Exercise makes you happy" system seems broken in my head, so I need to find exercise I'm interested in to enjoy it.
Oh god, leather the way I'm doing this shit means I'd need to dismantle a cow and tan it at some point, I think wood is easier, but more to the point, leather is something I can do some things with if I try, wood is something I just get, though there remains the satisfaction in knowing you're starting a project which doesn't have a guaranteed outcome. I've fucked up most of what I've tried to make, some in huge noticeable ways like my first snapped saw handle, others in little scrapes or badly chosen grain directions which only another woodworker would even notice.
Wish I'd picked this up twenty years ago though.
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