NYTimes: Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back?

Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, and wood chopping motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and holidays. Baffled? Intrigued? Charmed? Discuss here.
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NYTimes: Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back?

Post by reinhard » Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:26 pm

“I see too many people,†McGill told me with a sigh, “who have six-pack abs and a ruined back.â€
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/core-myths/?em

Don't think we shuggers need to worry about this -- shovelglove is at least as much a back workout as an abs one.

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