Quote from: Dabs on Today at 01:21:05 PM

Quote from: savetherainforest on Today at 12:47:18 PM

... with chains on his hands.

He always needs to be "El_Naturrel" with all organic products on his hands, like: leather. Roll Eyes

Off topic:

I'm tending towards the opposite, with stuff like plastic or metal, those things are a little more durable and will last longer. Granted, non-stainless metals may corrode or rust, but even then it will take a long time if they are thick enough. Sunken ships at the bottom of the ocean have been rusting for decades or centuries.

Wood will last and is strong enough, but untreated it will degrade faster than concrete or metal. Specifically for resistance training, I prefer free weights over stuff like giant rubber bands. Dumbells. Barbells. Cast iron plates. I mean, if you do Olympic style lifting, then bumper plates would be for you. They just won't last as long as metal plates. I'm still going to make a wood flat bench and wood squat stands, they'll be good enough for several years.

I understand your point. But this is a philosophical nature debacle. Basically, we associate ourselves with degradable things that we are in the grasps of understanding and connecting with them. Basically if we associate ourselves with metal. That is unnatural with us, thus it will be harder to relate on an energetic level. So... I'm more inclined to think that a more gentleman way is the leather way not the metal way. Because you would need to be a true yoggie shman master to be able to entune to the nature of metal. And besides the fact that would make you 'energetically rigid', it would also make you slow and fixated in paths and ideas.