Well, today is My fifth straight day for Shovel Gloving (I started on a wednesday, and worked through the weekend because im going away on monday and tuesday for a few days).
First observation: I have never done any exercise program for 5 consecutive days ever. I attribute that to the sheer Novelty (read: ridiculousness) of the system.
Second Observation: everything is burning....it really works.
My Shovelglove inaguration came about because I wanted to buy a piece of exercise equipmnet...im pretty overweight, and i decided it was time to do Something about it. I looked through the want adds, and decided on an elliptical stepper..it was expensive, but still way cheaper than buying new. I called My girlfriend, and told her, and as always..she was very supportive.
Over the course of the work day, I had talked myself out of the stepper. It was alot of money, I didnt really have room for it, and maybe more importantly, I was pretty sure I'd hate it.
I told My Lady friend, and she agreed with My concerns.
So she sent me a link to a novelty website She had found some time ago...shovelglove.com
We both laughed over the ridiculousness of the site, had a good laugh, and ended sentences with things like" pfft...can you imagine?"...and "who comes up with this stuff?"
Of course..the mind works in funny ways. Watching "Smite the orc" videos, and stoke the furnace...Which I like to call "Impale" made me feel inspired.
As I met Gayle (the lady friend) after work for dinner, she had also admitted to thinking about tucking bails all day.
We had a giggle, and both promptly went to Canadian Tire (A Major hardware store chain up here in Canada), and bought His and Hers Sledgehammers. She had the little yellow 6 pounder, and I had the massive hickory-handled 12 pounder (well..it looked massive next to hers anyway). Heh...after the first day, I was thinking how I'd wished I'd bought the 6 pound sledge. The lady at the check-out that rang us in gave us more than a few strange looks.
Anyway..thats my inagural post. I just wanted to say thank you to the system's designer. I really feel this is something that might work for me. That's something I wasn't sure I'd ever see.
Wish me luck
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New ShovelGlove Guy
Welcome to the group, Laird, and congratulations on making it through a record 5 days!
12 pounds is surprisingly heavy when you start swinging it around! It's what I started with myself, but it took a while to really get comfortable with. Make sure you throttle your initial excitement and don't overdo it. Go nice and slow, with low rep counts, and sticking within your 14 minute minimum=maximum.
Best of luck to you and your lady friend and looking forward to hearing more from both of you,
Reinhard
12 pounds is surprisingly heavy when you start swinging it around! It's what I started with myself, but it took a while to really get comfortable with. Make sure you throttle your initial excitement and don't overdo it. Go nice and slow, with low rep counts, and sticking within your 14 minute minimum=maximum.
Best of luck to you and your lady friend and looking forward to hearing more from both of you,
Reinhard