So I been working out, if not as regimentally as I should, but it feels like fake muscles, because they are not being earned through useful productive labor, like shoveling. Shoveling is a whole-body workout that is intense and rhythmical and sustainable longer than some of the dumb-bell things I'm doing now. It's also fascinating how Japanese shovels go the way. And no, I'm not merely confused by hoes: they go the other way, bringing the dirt toward, but probably with a more efficient scoop and range of motion.