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Wellness Wednesday for October 12, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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Hay bales were only 130lb instead of 140 this year, and the load was only 50 ton, but they felt heavier than last time. Hopefully just lingering effects of that flu, but I obviously need to get back in better shape.

Also hopefully not totally knackered tomorrow; never been able to keep proper lifting form with this stuff.

Back in my day, we were skinny kids that got tired from hucking around little two-string bales.

Man, I feel like "light" bales are the worst because people expect you to throw them around so casually all day. At least with 3-string nobody makes fun of you for rolling them up the stack lol.