Hey International League of Shovelglovers!
I have been totally out of the SG world for the past two months... Well today I was feeling like I needed a major pick me up... So I picked up the trusty hammer (poor thing has been treated like a stepchild! All neglected in the corner of my room...)
Well I only mustered up about 9 minutes today, and it was all really slowwwwwwwww....... I was trying to do "Chop down the door" aka "The Fireman", but it was more like "Timidly knock on the door so quiet no one will know you are there...." LOL..
Still, it did *something*... A few hours later now and my biceps are telling me "Hey leave us alone!"
I actually hurt my left knee a bit the other day in Yoga, so I skipped practice today to let it heal... I was a bit upset that I wasn't being more in synch with my body signals... Well *S#it* happens right?
At least it gave me a chance to pick up my stepchild hammer again and reconnect to it... Even in super slow motion, and a somewhat depressed state, it had a very positive and unique effect on me... It's really unlike any other weightlifting regime I can think of...
Funny.. When I was at the gym last week, I tried a few things with the "Cable" machine... This is *supposed* to be more of a free range of motion weight station... I was looking at the chart of suggested movements on the thing and they had one which was called "Chopping Wood"... I'm sorry, but there is no way I could ever effectively fool myself into thinking that I was chopping wood with a cable attached to a nautilus machine!
I'll just stick with the sledge..
It seems my hand and arm strength have diminished a little bit.. Well at least the grip part.. I have to stop taking long breaks from this...
From now on you will be seeing me every week.. Even if this means not doing 14 minutes... Chances are, I'll be up to that soon, but if not, heck 8 minutes is still far more desirable than *no minutes*!!!!
It feels nice to notice the immediate tonicity of my biceps... I will just have to couple this with stretching before and after... I did notice something I didn't like about SG (I know sacriledge! LOL)
Well at least for me, when I was SG'ing often, I found that my shoulder girdle really tightened up, but in a *not good* way... I want my chest and arms to be strong, but not bound up or restricted... That started to happen... I realized that when I tried to do some Yoga stretches and my chest just wouldn't budge... SG may not be the only reason for this, as my massage has the same "shortening" effect on the biceps and pec muscles... So does being on the computer a lot.. Just from positional shortening....
Well let's hope post stretching will counterbalance it all! I've been quite negligent about it, and unlike our Reinhard, I don't find "Yawning" stretching to be good enough! LOL.....
Glad to be posting again with all you Warriors!!!!!
Hope to be back up to my old "Rahhhh"-ing self fairly soon!
Love,
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Deb
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Rahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL...
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