Does gardening count as cross training?

[nuthatch]

If I don't get out there and dig up my beds, there will be no homemade salsa this summer!! I've got tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, tomatillos all languishing in their little pots. So I gave up a Saturday ride to dig out some weeds. Here's what my strawberry bed looks like after last summer's "cycling" neglect (a friend is helping me dig). Anyway, can I consider gardening weight-bearing training?

[Irulan]

LOL, I cleared out an overgrown perennial bed yesterday. The Snow in Summer had taken over. Four wheelbarrows out to the dump pile. I saved the lamium, poppies, geranium, and a few other things. It took me five hours.

Irulan

[Trek420]

yes! Gardening counts. You get range of motion, weight bearing excercise....and yummy salsa so it's nutrition.

[KkAllez]

I like your little friend! I've got four fig trees and two tomato plants that need planting. I am trying out those planters where the tomato plant is upside down. So far, I'm not impressed as the two plants I did get planted are getting beat up by the wind. My biggest wish in gardening life is to get a fig tree to make it. I love figs and paying $7.00 pound for black mission figs at the grocery store is pricey. So far, I've not had much luck, but am trying again! I am successful with my herb garden, good thing herbs are like weeds and do better with neglect.

[shewhobikes]

A good day of yard work leaves me more sore than whatever I do at the gym! All that squatting, bending, shoveling, lifting and walking is hard work. Looks like you've got a little helper, though!

[nuthatch]

The little helper later found a good spot in the septic field and had a refreshing wallow - we both had to have a bath!!

[singletrackmind]

Let's see.......
working muscles different from bike ones, a feeling of accomplishment and happiness with some inner peace.

Yep, same as any other excercise-it counts!