Moving house this past bank holiday weekend, was a big dose of non-gym exercise for me. However, to avoid being crippled by next-day aches and pains, here’s how I organised my efforts.
Whilst packing boxes, knee deep in bubble-wrap, I weighed each box with my bathroom scales. By packing together light and heavy objects, I made sure most boxes weighed between 6 kg and 20kg. For safety’s sake, heavier items like books went into the smaller, easier to handle, boxes. The weight was then written on the top of the box.
On the day of the move, I alternated between picking up a lightly weighted box, then a medium weighted box and then a heavy box. This way I could rest between shifting the heaviest boxes.
Of course, I hired a local firm to even out the day’s effort and help move the biggest, heaviest household items no-one should lift alone.
By Easter Monday, I had swapped London’s leafy Regent’s Park for the buzz of the West End, without killing my back in the process. However, I did have that all-over muscle ache that comes from a thorough full body workout.
