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- Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: New to forum: Actual sledgehammer user
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14285
Actually using a sledgehammer
I have actually been using my 10lb sledge to demolish the crummy old concrete pond and rockery at the end of my garden. Just for half an hour a day. I was doing quite well until I broke my sledgehammer's handle (basically I hit a rock with it, the handle snapped and the head flew off. Fortunately, n...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:59 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove women!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26464
(waves) Regular Shovelgirl of nearly two years' standing here! It's some of the most fun you can have with a household implement, clothed or otherwise (you or the implement ...) I probably should explain that, like Noel, I don't only do shovelglove - I do about 15 mins of yoga pretty much every N-d...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:03 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: About the sweater and other kinds of padding...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12731
I like to shug out of doors to be out in the fresh air (well, air anyway - here under the Heathrow Airport flight path I'm not sure how fresh it is), so I usually use my hammer 'naked', as it were. When I do have to pad it to use indoors, as in the past week or so when the UK has been under an unacc...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:29 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelgirls? Or is it a guy thing?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29623
- Sun May 24, 2009 9:31 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Engels vs. Engels, the rematch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10641
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:31 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Greetings and naked shugging (the hammer, not me!)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11638
I shug outside in my back garden whenever I can, so I don't normally bother to put anything round my hammer. There are noticeable white marks on the concrete outside my garage where I've hit it on the ground while shovelling. I am quite good at hitting myself in the shins or thighs while swinging it...
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:40 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Grip (Get A)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9118
- Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: My Idea for a Shovelglove Addition
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16343
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:15 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: New sledgehammer exercise
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8468
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:53 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Starting Shovelglove with a small mod
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15202
Jack. Flag. Whatever. That's awesome, I ought to find a Welsh flag to wrap around mine. I love how quickly your wife went from ridicule to 'I want some of that'! My husband still watches me with amusement if he's around, though he does keep saying 'I must try it some time'. I suspect my 10lb hammer ...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove sequence
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14199
Just a quick update: I've been using this 'one-sided' routine for some time now - usually once a week or so, as I like to mix my routines up regularly. It definitely counts as 'hard'. Today I did 7 then 14 of: shovel, bell ringing, churn butter, drive fence posts/smite the orc, one-legged squat and ...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:18 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Moved from 4 lbs to 6 lbs.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8433
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Hi I'm Xenia a new member here
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6768
I think us woman can be sexy with muscles. I seriously doubt men are turned off by muscles. And if one of them is... well then a throw back him back! Real men like muscles on women, IMO. Cool Yay. Way to go, sister! What you're suggesting does sound quite sensible as long as the weights don't fly o...
- Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Where to start?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10574
I've just had a poke around and found the following bunch of links to threads specifically about women and Shovelglove, hope this is useful. http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=244 http://www.everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=500 http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=777 http:...
- Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Where to start?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10574
Hello, and welcome to the most fun you can have with a piece of household equipment. If you browse through the threads you'll see lots of people have useful advice about starting slow and building up to 14 minutes with a light weight. To start with, until you've worked out what's right for you, coul...
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:13 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Do you shug with shoes on?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21385
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Newbie Question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23268
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:44 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: I think it's a sign...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18303
More real-life-shovelling anecdotes: yesterday I spent about 2 1/2 hours doing some serious double-digging and weeding in a friend's garden, including excavating 6 or 7 housebricks from about a foot down (his soil is full of building rubble). 'I'm really going to feel this tomorrow' I thought. Wrong...
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:07 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Newbie Question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23268
I've got two squat things that I do. The first one I call 'bell ringing' as it reminds me of old-fashioned church bellringers pulling bell ropes. I tend to hold the sledge about a foot from the end with the head facing downwards, lift it up over my head and then swing it down as I squat, swinging it...
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove sequence
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14199
I did try this yesterday. I didn't go beserk with it - I did 7 reps of everything on one side, 7 reps of everything on the other side, then did it all over again with 14 reps of everything, which took me up to the timer. I found it an interesting variant which I shall try again some time. It is defi...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:44 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove sequence
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14199
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:22 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Force = mass x acceleration
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14824
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:22 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: One more Shovelglover!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13188
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:12 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: I think it's a sign...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18303
Well, here's a bit of 'anti-stiff' encouragement for you. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours doing actual digging, as I was having a spring-bulbs-planting bonanza in my front and back garden. I was digging 12in deep trenches to stick my tulips in, all through my heavy London clay soil. Now in the p...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:23 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Ross' sledge hammer workout - a nice twist on SG?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13772
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: One month of shovelgloving
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12483
It's great to hear how well this is working for so many people. I've been at it for nearly four months now. It's ideal for me since I work from home, as I can just pop out the garden with my sledgehammer while my lunch is cooking. (I usually prefer to do it in the garden as I'm slightly less likely ...
- Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:57 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove for girls?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12891
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:56 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Shovelglove supplement: Chin up bar
- Replies: 9
- Views: 25390
- Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:37 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Basic routine??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22680
I had to do some "real work" with the shovel this week (moving mountain of woodchip mulch) & found it was really easy & fun after SGing all these weeks. I got into the groove, alternating arms, & made sure my form was good - no back pain, & a satisfying (and productive)workout. If I had a woodstove...
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Macebell?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13940
That's an amusingly scary-looking piece of kit. I like the look of the sword-pulling thing. I'm going to try that with my hammer, which I am rapidly becoming very attached to (my dumbbells aren't exactly gathering dust, but they're not coming out to play as often as the hammer). With you on the not ...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:55 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Getting the legs involved.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17880
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:26 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: I won't be doing this
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7940
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:24 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Hello, I'm new!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13226
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:10 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Hello, I'm new!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13226
I ... managed to have a great time nonetheless (the hospitality of my co-workers, and the charming local custom of hitting the pub before/instead of dinner were instrumental in this). Reinhard Ah, that time-honoured British custom which Londoners are particularly good at observing .... everyone hit...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:07 pm
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Hello, I'm new!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13226
I had my first go with it yesterday afternoon, and it felt quite different from anything else I've tried. The 10lb hammer didn't feel as heavy as I expected, but I was careful to hold it quite near the head. I found I was putting quite a lot of knee bending into the shovelling movements in order to ...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:31 am
- Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
- Topic: Hello, I'm new!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13226
Hello, I'm new!
I signed up yesterday, and today I went out and bought a sledgehammer, so I thought I'd say hello! This is such a brilliantly simple and functional idea, I had to give it a try. The obligatory bit about me: I'm a 45-year-old, 5'5" girl who has always done some form of exercise - I walk everywhere (I...