Everyday Systems

I was talking to my spouse this morning, when she said, "Hey, I've been noticing that I'm having trouble turning the water on in the shower when I follow you. " "Oh, really? Sorry." "Yeah, and releasing the parking brake, too. So please take it easy, strong guy." This is after 16 months of SG'ing @ ...

I'm wondering how many people have tried doing this movement with feet parallel (rather than offset, as shown in the video). I've found a welcome workout burn in my abdomen by standing with feet apart, but parallel, and striking for a fence post directly out from my navel. However, it does strike me...

One of the added benefits of SG for me is that it entertains my kids while I'm working out. My wife still treks to the gym 3 days a week to swim, so I often am home to work out with SG just after the kids D & T (8 & 4) wake up. They find it very entertaining and, in fact, I had to keep them from mim...

Day 2. So, I think the one-footed versions of chop wood and shoveling are no real substitute for the regular variety, but still a good add-on if I've run out of ideas at the end. Churning butter still works well. Since one of the strengths of shovelglove is to involve a variety of motions that work ...

I found myself looking for a little more variety in this morning's shovelgloving. Usually after my 14 minutes, I pick up various juggling props for a little bit more of a workout. Sometimes its heavy balls (heavy relative to juggling that is, 2 lbs.). Sometimes its pins, and I try to sustain some on...

A good plan, perhaps. I also thought we could introduce some new move titles or retitle old moves to reinforce this position. My suggestions:

Master of Your Domain.


King/Queen of the Castle.


Pass the Shovel on the Left Hand Side

This may have been covered long ago, but has anybody googled the term "shugging"? I happened to do so when thinking of mentioning my new exercise routine in a holiday year-in-review mailing. The results were, uh, troubling. It's a fair estimate to say that some of the competing definitions (e.g. in ...

[please be advised that all emoticons have been disabled] Friends, Shovelers, Countrymen, I read this article in today's on-line Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120801672.html with great astonishment that this movement of ours slipped below Ms. B...

Thanks. Mostly just 14 minutes, sometimes followed by some heavy ball juggling and some balance work with juggling pins. I was aware that muscle generally weighs more than fat, but I was also aware that it tends to burn calories more rapidly. I was hoping the equilibrium point would be reached soone...

I went for a check-up yesterday after about three months on the shugging bandwagon and heard this term for the first time. The doctor described the "Angle of Louis" to me in explaining that the reason my chest felt weird was probably because of all the new intra-rib muscle pushing my ribs into a new...