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by Huffdogg
Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:43 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Progress Report
Replies: 20
Views: 35748

are you driving for work or flying? If driving, mostly, I see no reason why you couldn't simply take your shugger around with you. Hmm...I'm seeing a usefulness here for a "collapsible" travel hammer. Telescoping detachable handle perhaps?
by Huffdogg
Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:39 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Be Careful With That Sledgehammer
Replies: 16
Views: 55614

I have to say that your personal experience from the program is most likely a result of failure to do the movements safely and properly rather than an "incompatibility" with your physique.
by Huffdogg
Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:55 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: SG Supplemental: The Cinderbell
Replies: 4
Views: 13573

I think that a bit of research might show you that certain lifts ARE better than their "useful movements" equivalents, in terms of body health and risk of injury. The bar is milled to the dimensions it is for maximum strength of grip with little chance of losing it and causing injury, and the specif...
by Huffdogg
Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:59 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Shovelglove and balance/coordination
Replies: 6
Views: 17764

A lot of fitness pundits will tell you that anything that promotes overall core strength will naturally improve your balance, but coordination is not necessarily the same thing. It seems to me that you have to train your body to conduct complicated and intricate motions in order for it to become acc...
by Huffdogg
Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:40 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What's The Best Book You Read This Summer?
Replies: 15
Views: 31367

I just started the third book in the Troy trilogy by David Gemmell. Just recently finished the second one. His writing is incredible. He has a slew more books, but I've so far only read these two and one other trilogy by him. These take the broad storyline and major characters of these historo-mythi...
by Huffdogg
Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:30 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

Yeah unfortunately I'm just naturally exactly the opposite of you when it comes to push-ups. I generally consider them nothing more than a necessary evil. Hopefully before too long I'll get access to a pool and not have to worry too much about it. Hope, hope.
by Huffdogg
Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:46 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: My homemade "hammer"
Replies: 9
Views: 18978

Yeah I've had a really dramatic change in body type just from the 30'ish pounds I've shed already. I have a tendency to build muscle mass very easily, and I can already see visible differences in upper body mass, so I know that in addition to the 5 or 6 inches I've lost from my waistline, I've also ...
by Huffdogg
Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:32 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: My homemade "hammer"
Replies: 9
Views: 18978

Marc I just saw your posted statistics on the tracking of your weight loss project and wanted to say congratulations on a truly phenomenal execution of a long-term plan. Looks like you're well within reach of hitting your one year goal, or perhaps even more! That's a huge motivator for someone like ...
by Huffdogg
Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:53 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

This workout has evolved a bit over the last week to include more reps of some key exercises. I have to say that I am definitely feeling it in the abs much more than I ever expected to when I first began Shugging. My only concern now is the lack of workout for the chest. Any advice on how to get mor...
by Huffdogg
Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:41 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Julia Child
Replies: 10
Views: 22353

Do you have a particular type of cooking that you are more fond of than another? That might give you a good starting point for your self-guided home-schooling in the culinary field ;)
by Huffdogg
Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Burgers According to Bobby Flay?
Replies: 18
Views: 40022

Bobby Flay is extremely overrrated IMO. He's rather a hack. Personally, I add some seasonings to my meat when I make up my burgers, and occasionally a tiny bit of minced veggies, but usually those just make the patty fall apart too easily, which is an issue with real beef patty burgers anyway. The o...
by Huffdogg
Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:54 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

No, those numbers are total. I do half on each side. Sorry, should have been clearer about that lol.
by Huffdogg
Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:04 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

this is a cross-post from my facebook note where I have been sort of blogging all of my fitness efforts (of which shugging is only the latest, although currently most prominent facet). I think I may have hit on something that will give solid results over a good deal of time without needing extensive...
by Huffdogg
Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:51 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

In keeping with what I've seen from some others here on the shugg forum, I've decided to replace my balance squats at the end of my routine with normal moves of some kind. Lately I've just been mixing it up, usually doing the basic shovel movement to finish out my time. I may work in something new a...
by Huffdogg
Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:43 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Moves
Topic: Didn't see anywhere...Leaning Tower (Tree in the Gale?)
Replies: 3
Views: 23350

yeah...I've been working on that. Nothing so far, though :cry:
by Huffdogg
Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:56 am
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Gaining weight on No S Diet and Shovelglove ?
Replies: 18
Views: 35863

really? I've been told by most crossfit advocates that it's pretty well guaranteed to add mass due to the explosive strength requirements of a lot of the exercises (particularly the olympic lifts).
by Huffdogg
Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:12 am
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Gaining weight on No S Diet and Shovelglove ?
Replies: 18
Views: 35863

I started in on the Wii Fit at 250. I think you'd be fine on it. Alternately, you could probably pick up one of those old "step aerobics" platforms from the initial Step craze in the late eighties and just set it up in front of the TV and work it for a half hour or so every night.
by Huffdogg
Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:14 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Gaining weight on No S Diet and Shovelglove ?
Replies: 18
Views: 35863

Agreed. If anything, hm83, you should downgrade to a lower weight hammer and maintain your routine for a longer period of time. Chiang' is totally correct in that you need to maintain an elevated heart rate for weight loss. While any sort of movement for an extended period of time is technically "el...
by Huffdogg
Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:12 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Gaining weight on No S Diet and Shovelglove ?
Replies: 18
Views: 35863

If you're doing Shovelglove with a 20 lb sledge, you're almost certainly putting on muscle weight.
by Huffdogg
Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:04 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

So I've struck onto something else here that seems to be working much better, mixing things up a bit differently. 50 x stoke furnace 50 x churn butter 50 x drive fenceposts 50 x scratch back 50 x flip lever 50 x chop tree (the swing going from approximately head height to just below waist) 20 x Lean...
by Huffdogg
Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:00 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Before Or After Breakfast
Replies: 9
Views: 18418

A lot of factors go into this, also. If it's a matter of you having a really active lifestyle and needing to do it when you have energy still, then that's one thing. If your daily workout is the only exercise you get in an otherwise largely sedentary lifestyle, that's something else altogether. Pers...
by Huffdogg
Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:45 am
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

Thanks Phayze. I actually posted something in the Moves section last night that I just tried for the first time. That Leaning Tower (as I'm currently calling it) move and a roughly shoulder to waist Chop the Tree found their way into my routine last night, and I can feel it all through my abdominals...
by Huffdogg
Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:08 am
Forum: Shovelglove Moves
Topic: Didn't see anywhere...Leaning Tower (Tree in the Gale?)
Replies: 3
Views: 23350

Didn't see anywhere...Leaning Tower (Tree in the Gale?)

I was looking for something to engage my lateral and oblique abdominal muscles more, and stole this from a medicine ball workout I saw using a similar principle. You simply hold the sledge overhead, with fully extended arms. Have your arms spread as far apart as is comfortable, ideally with one hand...
by Huffdogg
Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:41 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Small nitpick, about the word "vegan"
Replies: 17
Views: 33079

^ +1
by Huffdogg
Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:56 pm
Forum: Shovelglove Routines
Topic: Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects
Replies: 11
Views: 40820

Newbie's daily routine-seems lacking in abdominal effects

Here's what I've been doing, in various orders: 50x shovel coal 50x churn butter 50x chop wood 50x flip lever 50x back scratch 50x ab burner finish out the time with a few full arm swings just to stretch out the arm and shoulder muscles; I usually have enough time left for 3 or 4 swings on each arm....
by Huffdogg
Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:53 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Shovelgirls? Or is it a guy thing?
Replies: 17
Views: 29554

jules wrote:I'm basically using the hindu squat. http://www.twohunderedsquats.com which I learned about in another thread on this forum --
FYI=This is a bad link. You need to edit the spelling of "hundred." ;)
by Huffdogg
Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:50 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: Shovelgirls? Or is it a guy thing?
Replies: 17
Views: 29554

jules wrote: A couple of times a week I work out with my adjustable dumbbells -- but was mostly doing deadlifts and squats with that.
This part caught my attention. What kind of adjustable dumbbells do you have?
by Huffdogg
Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:44 pm
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: What weight sledge?
Replies: 6
Views: 13431

Re: Adding weight--The hammer mod I saw on the link from the main site seemed pretty foolproof. Even without the hot glue OR epoxy, the heavy-duty wire ties laced through those diving weights, with the handle between the two ties, gives a foolproof attachment so long as the ties don't break. And goo...
by Huffdogg
Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:20 am
Forum: Shovelglove General Discussion
Topic: One hundred pushups: my thoughts
Replies: 19
Views: 39201

New shugger here; just a couple of days into it so far and I already realized I violated a primary rule and began with a pair of S days. :? Ah well, live and learn. The good news is that I started out light, as I tend to get my reaction from any new exercise about two days afterwards. I'll likely wa...