big bone

due to the current shoulder injury, I am having treatment from a Chiropractor a few times a week.

He asked me today: "Are you lifting weight?"

"No, not exactly, perhaps a 10 lb dumbbell here and there." I replied.

"You have good muscle tone considered as a lady's frame." He said.

"My mom used to say I am not fat, I was born with big bone." I laughed thinking about my mom before she passed away 5 years ago.

"It's not big bone, you have big muscle lining up your back, that's why I thought you are in training of lifting weight." He explained.

"Oh yes, now that you remind me, I actually move water." I replied.

"What do you mean you move water?"

"I have a small outdoor pond with goldfish in it, every week I have to change 25% of water, instead of just using a hose, I use a bucket and move the water around the garden, that is a 100 gallon pond. I don't know how much water weight." I said.

"1 gallon of water equals 8 lbs." He said.

"I move 5 gallon 5 times to take the water out, and 5 gallon 5 times to put the water in once a week." I said.

"Well, you have been lifting 40 lb a set 10 set every week! No wonder you got muscles lining up your back!" He was surprised.

"Luckily I don't even know I was training my muscle in the last 4 years, I bet I could not do it intentionally in a gym!"

You know the conversation reminded me the movie of "Kung Fu Kid", when the kid has to learn to take his jacket off and on and going on and on, before he knows it, he gets good at the basic hand-motion of Wing-Chung. Maybe I will get good at moving water later!