Well, I mean, if you drank boiling water, the blisters will be so painful you'll only be eating through a straw, so ya, i can actually visualize this working.
After having kids I peaked out at 200lbs. Winter was pretty hard. With summer I lost the 20lbs pretty quick. I think I need to be down to 170 to actually be 'in shape' but I enjoy binging a couple cases every now n then but i just use it as a meal replacement like slim fast. I look at these other guys, I guess gen Z, and see them at the parks, they can't do chin ups, can't scale a light pole, can't climb shit. Just fucking pathetic. Seriously, my grand pappy always said the gym was for bleached asshole mother fuckers, all you gotta do in shape is get a sledge and wedge and split wood for a few weeks and you'll be more fit than ever before. You get the heat, you get the sun, you get the motion from the swing and it's like the same muscles you use for swimming. It gets the chest, the shoulders, the arms, the picking up the wood gets the thighs. You get the bulging blood vessels across your forehead and that's when you're doing it right.
The best tree fight I had was using a dull axe to cut out a length from a red oak that fell on our atv trail. I just fucking wrecked that tree one chip at a time. Took a while but I always win at the end. Just apply brutal overwhelming force to any situation and you'll definitely get some sort of results.