Everyday Systems

Love this site. Have been shugging for about 3 months now. Don't post too often , just linger. Quick question for all of you, have any of you achieved the same results or similar to Reinhard? Reinhard, how long did it take for you to look like you do in your pics? Anyways, great website and I can't emphasize the respect I have for Reinhard for keeping this board up and running. Thank you so much!

Hi hockeystar,

It's hard to say... it didn't take long for me to notice I was getting much stronger. But all I have for "hard evidence" are those photos on the "before and during" page 2 years apart. So at most 2 years.

It probably didn't (and won't) take quite that long, but it can't hurt to convince yourself that it will. You want to think long term, about still doing this when you're 80. I'm sure I could get myself into ridiculously good shape by shugging 20-30 minutes a weekday instead of a mere 14, but I know I'm not going to be able to keep that up for years and decades so I don't even bother starting.

Reinhard

hockeystar wrote:Quick question for all of you, have any of you achieved the same results or similar to Reinhard?

Well... I used to weigh a flabby 175 pounds in October of last year. I got tired of it and started cutting out all the snacks and fatty foods I used to eat. That dropped my weight some (about 7 pounds in the first month), but I needed to tone up too.

Then, around December of last year, I ran into the shovelglove website and read it (and the accompanying Urban Ranger and No-S-diet pages). I started with a 10 pound sledgehammer on 12/12/2006. I've kept it up since.

I also walk everywhere I can these days. To the grocery store. The post office. You name it. If it is within a 30 minute walking distance, I just walk.

Doing all of this, I am down to a lean and muscular 142 pounds now. I see a two-pack developing and I think it is realistic for me to have well-defined six pack abs in the next three months.

Best regards,

---Kayvan

I doubt I'll ever look like Reinhard, but then I don't look my age, either (47). I'm more defined and a little bigger in the arms and shoulders, but mostly I'm just stronger.

On top of stronger, thought, and maybe more importantly, I can work much, much longer without getting tired. To me, that's the big thing. I can run wheel barrows up the driveway that I wouldn't have thought about doing before, split wood, shovel gravel, and move stuff around that I wouldn't have even attempted alone when I started. And my grip strength is much improved: on a day to day basis, grip strength is very useful for carrying/moving/forcing things.