Everyday Systems

That's right! I just finished my first week of shovelglove (M-F). I read about SG months ago but I only finally got around to walking to Home Depot to pick up a sledge on Sunday. I've also been doing the No S Diet for quite a while but I have not been very good at it. I generally slip up 2 or 3 times a week. I'm very much a social eater. Hopefully I stick to SG better. Of course my girlfriend say she can already tell a difference from SG so that's a pretty good motivator right there.

I've done a full 14 minutes each of the five days so far, but I didn't want to hurt myself so the first day I did a lot of freestyle, just sorta walking around my place holding the sledge mixed in with a few reps of each exercise. Each day I did gradually less free-style. Today (Friday) I didn't do any free-style. I did 20 shovel, 20 chop-wood, 20 tuck bales (although I do a variation on it where I alternate sorta leaning left or right each time I lift up instead of going straight up), 10 churn butters, 20 flip switch, 20 "curls", and 20 more shovels. (20 means 20 left and 20 right) The last 20 shovels were really hard. The "curls" are where I basically hold the sledge in both arms like a barbell and curl it up.

And for anyone that likes Tool, the first two tracks of their album 10,000 Days are both 7 minutes long. So I just start that album playing and find that to be a pretty good music to listen to while shovelgloving.

Great job!!!
Peace and Love,
Debs

It's great exercise if you want to be functionally strong. I've been doing it for years now, although not as consistently as I should.

walking to Home Depot to pick up a sledge on Sunday

Beautiful! As long as you weren't snacking on sweets while you walked

I'm very much a social eater.

Because most social eating is at meals, I find that no-s actually works better in social situations than most other diets... Was there anything in particular that was messing you up? Office food, maybe?

Sorry for the delayed response (vacation then massive post-vacation backlog).

Reinhard
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Wasn't snacking while I walked to Home Depot. I've never really been much of a snack eater anyway, so starting the No-S Diet was a good fit right away. You are right about social eating mostly being at meals. And they usually involve an appetizer or two which is where I assume I'm breaking the diet since those aren't on my "plate".

Go Roshambo!

Keep focus on just doing the minimum and before long Week One becomes Month One, becomaes Year One etc.

Cheers,

Rich