New Fitness Trend--Laying Bricks!

If you listened to my audiocast, I laid bricks all weekend and it should be the new fitness trend for 2010. Every year professional fitness organizations forecast new fitness trends for the year (Swiss Ball, Bosu Ball, Kettlebells, etc.). Well, why not bricks? They do a sandbag workout, so bricks would qualify. What I found out was laying bricks works every part of your body--especially grip, wrist, and forearms. You need good technique, otherwise you will strain your elbows. You also have to bend and pick up the bricks (2 at a time) and then get down on your hands and knees to place them. Since we have become such an industrial/technical society, no one does this work themselves anymore. But I can tell you one thing--you should!