Sunday, September 2, 2012

Managing 8 hours of Manual Labor in 101 deg index heat....


How do I do it?

Drink lots of water and an electrolyte filled drink.  I like the Walgreens version of Pedialyte....

About 4 hours in, I carb'd up with fruit and nuts and spicy V-8. 

Wanna hear something amazing about how efficient the human body is at keeping cool if you give it what it needs?

I weighed 178 on my scales before I started. 

During the time I was working..... About 8 hours outside with a 1 hour outside break for lunch, I drank....

1.5 gallons of water
1 quart of Pedialyte
1 pint of beer
1 pint of Diet DP
1 pint of Spicy V-8

So about 2 gallons and 1 pint of fluids. 

A gallon of water weighs 8.33 lbs....

So I took in about 17.5 lbs of liquid!!

Now catch this....

I weighed 173 when I finished!!!

So I was 5 lbs lighter than when I started, which means I sweated 17.5 + 5 =

22.5 lbs of sweat in 8 hours!!!!

Is that awesome or what???


And I only took 1 break to eat and never got uncomfortably hot the whole day. 


You thought I was kidding about the 4 truck loads of limbs???

And I drug most of 'em from the back yard to the street. 


Now doesn't that look better???

When I works I works!!

Axl wishes he looked so good!!

Only kidding....

Guess what I discovered today???

A yard!!!

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