Creaky's Intro
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:13 am
Hi Everyone,
I found this site last night by searching for 'functional exercises', bought my hammer tonight and used it. It felt good to do some real exercise. I may be a bit sore tomorrow. I was only able to do 8 minutes with a 8 pound (10.5 with handle) hammer. I felt my form getting bad and knew I needed to stop.
When I was a teen, I worked outside for the park service, picked up trash, cleared trails, etc. The shovelgloving had me doing the same type of movements. I like the SG as it feels like I'm doing real work, not just pumping iron.
I also walk during my breaks and lunch at work. I started to add some squats, lunges and calf raises during my walk to do some lower body exercises.
I also started the No S diet. I've lost 90 pounds over the past two years by exercise and watching what I ate and am looking to lose 30 more pounds to reach 150 lbs (5'6" female). Both SG and No S seem to be ways that I can continue to do for the rest of my life which is what I was looking for.
One question - on the SG page are listed about 4 exercises, but when reading the forum there seems to be variations and exercises created by users - is there one posting or page that lists the different variations? Maybe I could use the google search, but am not sure what keywords to use. Thanks in advance.
Creaky
I found this site last night by searching for 'functional exercises', bought my hammer tonight and used it. It felt good to do some real exercise. I may be a bit sore tomorrow. I was only able to do 8 minutes with a 8 pound (10.5 with handle) hammer. I felt my form getting bad and knew I needed to stop.
When I was a teen, I worked outside for the park service, picked up trash, cleared trails, etc. The shovelgloving had me doing the same type of movements. I like the SG as it feels like I'm doing real work, not just pumping iron.
I also walk during my breaks and lunch at work. I started to add some squats, lunges and calf raises during my walk to do some lower body exercises.
I also started the No S diet. I've lost 90 pounds over the past two years by exercise and watching what I ate and am looking to lose 30 more pounds to reach 150 lbs (5'6" female). Both SG and No S seem to be ways that I can continue to do for the rest of my life which is what I was looking for.
One question - on the SG page are listed about 4 exercises, but when reading the forum there seems to be variations and exercises created by users - is there one posting or page that lists the different variations? Maybe I could use the google search, but am not sure what keywords to use. Thanks in advance.
Creaky