the shovelglove workout

And here I am spending $40 a month on a gym membership:eek: ! All those years of useless pushups and early mornings at the gym! Hell, I don't even need to buy a sledgehammer. I have one out in the garage for the zomb...to drive in stakes to anchor my sappling willow:D

Meh, I did a real shovel-glove workout for 12 hours a day out in the 90 degree summers...i'll pass. Plus, I don't take workout tips from a guy that doesn't have the common sense to put away his TIE fighter and X-Wing before he takes pics that he plans to post on the net:D

Jake
 
People who come off couches quickly, unexpectedly after years of watching the Simpsons, have heart attacks shoveling snow.

I used to shovel the neighbor's sidewalk for them. This was when we lived in Idaho Falls. They were a great old couple, both with bodies that had various failing components, and I didn't want to see either take a fall. Today, though, I have no elderly neighbors, and I let He who put the snow there, take it away.

Unless we're snowed in. Then I wait for the machines. One year I shoveled two feet down times God knows how many square yards- we live on a acre. And we were still SNOWED IN.

edit- if you're going to go through the motions of work, why not do real work? This shovelglove- what about a real garden, you can move some dirt then- or a corn field. Instead of cutting trees down with a khuk, I could bang a stick against the curb...I dunno...it's all over my head.

munk
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Meh, I did a real shovel-glove workout for 12 hours a day out in the 90 degree summers...i'll pass. Plus, I don't take workout tips from a guy that doesn't have the common sense to put away his TIE fighter and X-Wing before he takes pics that he plans to post on the net:D

Jake
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BUSTED!! That's funny!

And Bladite.. sooner or later you WILL kill a cat, if you keep that stuff up. They won't be able to resist you!

Andy
 
munk said:
edit- if you're going to go through the motions of work, why not do real work? This shovelglove- what about a real garden, you can move some dirt then- or a corn field. Instead of cutting trees down with a khuk, I could bang a stick against the curb...I dunno...it's all over my head.

munk
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i often dig out people, and pitch in for help... but it's not always winter, and not everyone has piles of wood to split. "my" woods don't have enough deadfalls. what's a guy gunno do for wood chopping? :)

i DO goto the gym. i have some weights. i'm amused by the hammer thing though. it IS consistent. i tried it with a 10 lb hammer. gah, it gets your blood pumping. i can see it as a good thing to work on if you do anything like smithing :> consistent balanced exercise. ever see a smith with a right arm like popeye but the left like olive oil? :) heh.

you train, so you can be called on to do real work. when you have to. for glory, old ladies, and hot ladies too. also for cookies. the kittens will have to fend for themselves.

just make sure the head on your hammer is secure or you'll have an accident.

that's what she said :)

bladite
 
"just make sure the head on your hammer is secure or you'll have an accident.

that's what she said"

OK, that made me spew some wine......

Andy
 
Ok, ok, ok, ok....I recant;) First of all, my first post came off as sort of athletic elitism.:foot: I am not any longer an athlete in any stretch of the imagination, although i do go to the gym sometimes:p Also I have no room to talk about Star Wars (which I love with all my closet geek heart), because i got up this morning and hit THREE places looking for a video game before i came to work this AM:o . It was not ment to sound so freakin' harsh, but due to my wife being stranded in Ohio for 4 hours and having to take a BUS instead of the PLANE she paid for and getting home 6 hours later....grrrr.

Anyhooooo, I tried the shovel glove workout this morning. Only i took it to the extreme. I used a maul instead of the hammer because I had forgotten that I had busted the handle on my sledge last spring. I couldn't be bothered to cover the head of the maul...that would be too safe:rolleyes:

I gotta say, I'm pretty whooped this morning! It was a lesson i hade learned every summer from the time i was 12. Training and doing are two different things. You can do lat pulls, raises, and flys all you want. However, wheel concrete for an afternoon and you will find muscles in your back that you never knew you had.

This is how i feel after my shovelglove workout. So a very sore guy retracts his statements. While I doubt i'll do it again anytime soon, i am feeling it. Great iso workout for those that don't have the time or a nearby gym. Just please cover the business end. Had I not be wearing steel toes i might have done some damage:eek:

:)

Jake
 
When I swing the maul into wood I'm very careful. It has the potential to do some serious disk damage in my back. And all those little muscles and connectors you didnt' know you had will hurt the next day.

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The lady knew what she was saying.
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Bladite, there's always work to be done, but you're right about not always having a wood pile or snow to push around.
I forget sometimes that life outside Montana is not quite like NY.

I have this image of you and other forumites digging out the entire town when winter comes. Now, that would be exercise.




munk
 
munk said:
edit- if you're going to go through the motions of work, why not do real work?
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Real work does seem to be the best workout, but there's not much call for it when you live in an apartment in the middle of a large city. I am fairly active but am still in far worse shape than I was 3 years ago, when I was working as a receiver/human forklift at a large bookstore. Lifting weights a couple of times a week is not the same as stacking and unstacking large unwieldy boxes full of books (and magazines, those 80 lb. magazine boxes are the worst) 8 hours a day. I've gained way too much weight since returning to software. Maybe I'll go buy a sledgehammer (should also come in handy if I ever need to do something like, say, get drunk and destroy the kitchen ;)).
 
munk said:
Bladite, there's always work to be done, but you're right about not always having a wood pile or snow to push around.
I forget sometimes that life outside Montana is not quite like NY.

I have this image of you and other forumites digging out the entire town when winter comes. Now, that would be exercise.
munk
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NY? i used to live in nearly canada i was so north in NY - seriously, 2 miles to the border. but now, i don't live in NY :)

still, just 2 hours north of me is some the nastiest coldest recorded weather :> on occasion. hah.

most of us PROBABLY don't do physical labor for a living. certainly not on the level of say, shoveling STONE all day. god. but imagine the muscles? i can knock off a hundred pushups, maybe 5 pullups ;P (working on that), and the shovelglove workout with a 4 lb hammer for 14 minutes? i'm sweating my ass off. i expect i'll get to 10 lbs soon enough... oiy.

i have some free weights, those will get used. however, i have an *actual* log in my apt. it's 3 feet by 6 inches or so around. iirc, it was 35-40 lbs. doesn't seem like much right? 30-40 curls with that, and you know you're holding something. i "found" it in the woods and walked it out only 1 miles, and i died. think about it. what's the most amount of weight you normally carry in your arms for any time? whoa. we're soft. yah, i can put 40 lbs in the backpack and go for a nice walk, but carry an awkward object? no so much. it's all new muscles.

hopefully, y'all give your axes or hammers a try, and see what it does. it can't hurt if you go slow, and it can only help the shoveling er chopping later :)

bladite
 
Bladite, this has inspired me...
Normal exercise strikes me as a waste of time, it just feels pointless. Shovelglove on the other hand would help me in my normal work life, and looks like fun. Especially the 14 min limit.....
I'm getting a 10lb sledge hammer tomorrow and will ease myself back into some exercise. Too long has been spent sitting on my ass reading forum messages :cool:

Jeff.
 
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