![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
First off, my upper body is, well, challenged. Okay, my whole body is challenged, but my upper body has always been weaker then my lower. It was worse before I rowed crew in college, but that was back in the days of the dinosaurs.
Second, I've managed to get into an aerobic routine (30-45 minutes of elliptical each morning while watching DVDs) to get my weight & cholesterol down, but I wanted more. I discovered shovelglove and knew it was for me. My plan is to do SG on Mon/Wed/Fri and stick with the elliptical on the other days. I can't give up my movie habit!
Hoooookay. Anyhow, today I got my sledgehammer (10 lbs). I tried the first four routines in the plain vanilla system and the only one I can't do is NoName. I think the problem is that my wrist just isn't strong enough to keep the SG parallel to my forearm. If I get a good swing going I can do it, but I'm relying on inertia and not getting much of a workout.
One thing I tried was to go with the inertia, but then brake and hold for a beat when the SG arrived at horizontal before letting the SG go back down. My question is this: is doing this a good way to build up strength in my wrists so that eventually I can curl the SG in a more controlled way, or is there a better method to working up to good NoName form?
(I searched the archive and couldn't find any reference to this particular problem, so I'm probably the first to say that part of the initial routine is actually be *too advanced* for me...)
Any thoughts?