[skookum]

> ...shelves built, home improved, practical skills acquired.

Shoveling snow/dirt/other substances, chopping wood, pushing wheelbarrows, or loading trucks would be better examples of real-world equivalents to the more-maligned functional exercise regimes, but there's only so much of those most of us have opportunity to do. Apart from adding sheer volume it's also a little harder to build a progressive overload program around those types of activities.

[thaumasiotes]

> there's only so much of those most of us have opportunity to do

For most of those tasks, someone else will pay you to do them. The problem isn't a shortage of opportunity.

[mirimir]

Sure, but they might expect more work than you'd want to do.