[Groesbeck Hurricane]

When I was in my initial training while on active duty we called out several body builders to join our required exercise routine. None of us looked too big. We did nothing more than run seven to ten miles per day (sometimes passing around 40 pound packs). Maybe a few hundred sit-ups and a thousand or so arm rotations and push ups per day. Dozens of other types of similar exercises. When we went to a gym (very rare actually in the group I was in) we lifted 10 to 100 pounds. We could not compete in the gym. Those guys could out lift us all day long. They could not compete in our training. They could not lift their own body weight in push-ups as often as we could or even do pull ups (I don't think I could ever do more than the minimum required pull-ups/chin-ups, I never developed the ability to go above the minimum). Our trainers did not allow us to do heavy, bulk building, lifting. Our jobs did not require huge, massive, heavy muscles. Rather our muscles had to go all day.

Around here on the farm and in other farms I have seen the weight lifters/body builders try and keep up. They do not have the stamina or staying power. Yep, the first ten or so bales are light and easy to toss around. The next few get harder, then they give out! My Wife put one to shame here VERY recently. He could not go more than an hour (with many breaks) picking up 70-90 pound hay bales and loading them on a trailer. She went all day. Don't mention allergies, we have them too! He had zero stamina.

I am a city boy, raised in the small town of Houston. My buddy (who appears rather thin and wiry and grew up in Chicago), Wife (summer farm girl), and myself have put to shame a crew of five loaders for each of the past two years. The others are a weight lifter (who cannot keep up with the speed of his own team), two teenagers, and two guys in their 50s. That is the power of their group in order. The older guys would keep up with us if they had one more like them!