First timer

Grumbles · Post by **Grumbles** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:02 pm

Just started shovel gloving this Saturday ( i know that I'm not supposed to on the weekends but i figured my body could use the work). Much say its left me a lot more tense and sore than i thought.

My first workouts went something along the lines of:
50 shovels (each side)
50 chops (each side)
40 churn butters (each arm)
25 curl swings/no names (each side)
and then some 2 handed back scratchers till time ran out or I physically couldn't lift the hammer

Not to sure how thrilled my college will be with me having a sledge hammer in the dorms so I can keep working out after break but oh well, nothing in the rules says i can't have one

.

Thats really it, just wanted to say hi.

Keenan

Post by **reinhard** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:58 am

Welcome Keenan!

It is a surprisingly tough work out. 8-12 pounds don't sound like much, but at the end of a stick, it's a lot.

Thanks for sharing your routine. Hoping to get that long planned "routines" section of the site up over the week or two...

Reinhard

phayze · Post by **phayze** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:28 pm

Welcome to the forum! It's so nice to see such a steady flow of newcomers lately.

Sounds like you're off to a fantastic start, just keep that hammer out of sight when the RAs are around and be careful not to knock any holes in the dorm walls.

Grumbles · Post by **Grumbles** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:48 pm

Well i came across some bad news, I need to take a train to get back out to school and apparently AMTRAK wasn't to thrilled with the idea of sledgehammers on their train so I'm gonna have to buy one when i get out there :-/. Stupid no freshman cars rule. Oh well, and I'll prolly have to hide it from my friends b/c of their stupidity they'd prolly try and and hit each other or something stupid like that.

Day 5 and I haven't had any troubles with getting up to do this work out all week. No work either because they don't love me. I've been considering doing it 2x a day because of that little fact but figured I'd come here for some advice first.

Happy Holidays,

Keenan

phayze · Post by **phayze** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:31 pm

sorry to hear about the AMTRAK thing, but on the bright side you won't have to deal with transporting back and forth over holidays.

I'm building up to 8 workouts per week, with the extras on Tues, Wed and Thurs, but I don't recommend shovelglove twice per day, just for fear of stagnation. I like to do bodyweight exercises for my afternoon routines

There's also the trap of using those extra workouts to justify skipping a morning, thus trashing your habit-forming. And then there's my problem of overdoing things in the afternoons and having to skip a morning to recover . . . that sucks too. So, if you do go for extra sessions I'd recommend taking them fairly easy, and I would also advise using a different reps/set schedule and/or different moves just to keep things interesting.