Yard Work Conundrum

So one of the things that happens to you as you supposedly mature is you might buy a house.  Buying a house seems like a lot of work and is a total hassle, because renting is so much easier and also better for you. So foolishly I bought this house, goodness knows why.  And once you buy a house, all the yard work that you weren't doing for the past 10 years comes back to haunt you in a hurry. So now basically all my free time is spent doing yard work.  Which is great and it feels even better when you get things accomplished, or you break new things, or sometimes you think you are done with something and someone swoops in and tells you that a much more advanced and elaborate measure is required to fit the mutual need/use.  During those particular scenarios it is not the best feeling when you've spent blood sweat and sometimes tears doing things, but that is an aside. Doing yard work is physically exhausting, it feels like you spent a bunch of time lifting/moving heavy things and thus should garner the same physical benefits of doing said things at the gym.  The problem is that it doesn't.  You do all the work but it's not the same as doing specific exercises at a gym or weight room.  You may feel like you were moving the whole time for hours but it wasn't the same as doing cardio. After a couple month of this your built up muscle mass decreases because instead of banging out sets of 12 at the gym and sweating all over the equipment and getting swole, you are banging out 12 sets of moving dirt back and forth and getting heat rash. And since you are so tired from doing stuff in the yard, you probably aren't super motivated to go to the gym afterward, or there's no time (some people will be like, "There's always time" and sure that might be true if you are an asshole/cunt, but I'd be willing to bet they don't have 3/4 of an acre of yard to wrestle).

I should have known better, so part of this is an apology to all the guys I hassled in the past about buying a house and then not going to the gym.  You were right and I was wrong, yard work does take up all of your time and energy.  I saw this same thing happen to friends and gym colleagues (bros) when they grew up, and I didn't understand.  Oh how naïve I was, with all my care free workout time.  Instead of trimming rose bushes I was crushing lunges and deadlifts. My days are filled with the firm feel of excess paint smacking me in the face, rather than a boxing glove in the grill during sparring.  Some times my mind harkens back to the simpler days, days less filled with horse poop and moving termite filled plywood, and more filled with Russian kettlebells and yoga.