detailing = workout

If you run around doing a lot of washes in a day, totally.



If you're sitting around working on paint but not eating a lot? Totally.



If you're making bangin' bucks and eating at Longhorn every day for lunch, you're going to get fat.
 
lol, I dont think its a workout, unless its a LONG day like 10+ hours...then its more tiring, but you would get tired doing anything for 10 hours straight. I would rather hit the gym than detail a car if I was looking for a workout!
 
5 ' 10 " 225lbs here lol 11 years detailing I think my body adapted to it now lmao. Im getting older and growing outward. lmfao does this help?
 
No, detailing, although it may feel "stressful" on your muscles is not a work out. The amount of washing and polishing and hand waxing that must be done to tear enough muscle tissue to induce "growth" is way too great.



Think of it like this, take cyclists for example, most of them have pretty well built calves, and that is strictly due to pedaling hard for long amounts of time (pedaling actually isolates the calf muscle) but any action in detailing doesnt isolate any muscle to great extent.



Now to build good calves (for those that have the ability to do so) as a cyclists it would take years of cycling alone. For those who workout, they can build the same amount of muscle and size (or more) in a few months of working out their calves with resistance training.



Bottom line, resistance training is how you build muscle efficiently.
 
I would challenge anyone to trail me or my guys for a day and *not* consider what we do some type of workout--perhaps extreme cross-training without weights. :D
 
If I have to polish or scrub carpets (which are most of my details) I'm friggin exhausted at the end of the day... But the only thing sore is usually my back. I always keep telling myself I'm going to focus on better ergonomics but for some reason I never stick with it and just get the job done at the cost of my own suffering LOL. It's better than sitting around being a couch potato but I wouldn't exactly call it a exercise workout routine or anything.
 
toyotaguy said:
lol, I dont think its a workout, unless its a LONG day like 10+ hours...then its more tiring, but you would get tired doing anything for 10 hours straight. I would rather hit the gym than detail a car if I was looking for a workout!
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yeah its not a workout, just tiring. there is not enough physical activity for the body to benefit from.



1st break after engine/interior/wheels/wash/clay.

2nd break after polishing.
 
Depends on what your definition of a workout is. It is definitely physical activity that works many different muscles. You are not going to build muscle with it; with the exception of your forearms. It also gets your heart rate up in some instances.
 
It just depends on what kind of shape you're in. What's tough for one person is absolutely nothing for somebody else.



IMO, if you're gonna do this stuff very much, you'd better find a way to get into the kind of shape where it's not physically demanding.



Hey, it's not like heavy construction work...



ebpcivicsi-Down there in Memphis, the heat and humidity would probably get to me long before the work itself.
 
dsms said:
No, detailing, although it may feel "stressful" on your muscles is not a work out. The amount of washing and polishing and hand waxing that must be done to tear enough muscle tissue to induce "growth" is way too great.
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Wielding an 8 pound DeWalt for several hours doing a correction is definitely a workout. Maybe not in the body building sense but it will keep you toned. Both my kids lift weights (one is 20, the other is 22) and I haven't really touched weights in 15 years (other than a few odd workouts here and there) and I can still cream them in arm wrestling. I do road bike and have 16" calves....and arms.
 
Accumulator said:
ebpcivicsi-Down there in Memphis, the heat and humidity would probably get to me long before the work itself.
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Other than early this past week, we've been at or above 100 for the last two weeks. 105 today and working in the shade, I would have thought maybe low 90s.
 
Scottwax- Heh heh, yeah...you sure get the heat too, huh? And I *do* remember how a Milwaukee rotary felt for a then-teenager, running that thing for hours a day Mon.-Fri. was a bit of work for me back then..might explain why I'm not a big fan of rotaries to this day!
 
i wonder if anyones shop has their buffer attached to the ceiling like a pressure washer at a car wash, haha. would save alot of work or would it?
 
there was a study done about just this... kinda.. it was on manswers a couple weeks ago, and im sure non of you watch that ;) so ill explain.. they took 2 groups of people, all of which had jobs.. they told one group that their jobs were considered a good workout.. they told the other group nothing.. at the end of the test(i have no clue how long) the one group that was told their jobs were workouts had all lost weight without changing their diet or excersize habbits.. the other group did not lose weight... so i guess thats the placebo effect in action.. so to help all the other people like me on autopia (215 pounds, 5 foot 10) yes, automotive detailing is one of the most intense workouts out there :chuckle:
 
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