Flip Lever Stress

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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Flip Lever Stress

Post by dpartner » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:23 am

I'm new to this.
Do any of you find that the flip lever puts stress on the wrist?
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Post by Pete » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:42 am

I haven't noticed any undue amount of strain on my wrists as yet.

mostly I think because I'm holding the handle down a bit, and under my arm, so my forearm acts as a brace?

But hey, if it hurts, don't do it for a while, switch over to something else. How many are you doing?

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Post by reinhard » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:09 pm

I can't say I've ever noticed "wrong" feeling strain, but flip lever is hard. If you haven't, you might want to wait till you've beefed yourself up with some other movements for a few months before attempting it. Flip level is one of the more isolating movements, many others work those muscles (but less excruciatingly) in tandem with others.

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Post by dpartner » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:33 pm

Which real-world movement does flip lever imitate?
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Post by reinhard » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:01 pm

Well, "flipping levers." But as you can tell from its original/alternate appellation, "No Name," verisimilitude to this (or anything) is not its forte.

http://shovelglove.com/flip_lever.html

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Post by dpartner » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:53 pm

Wow, those are large levers!

What is the correct position of the hand -- palm up, palm in, or palm down?
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Post by gratefuldeb67 » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:55 pm

If you love doing this one, eventually you can become a

Large lever lover... :P

(PS... strain at the wrist might just be coming from trigger points in the neck and shoulder area, which leads to carpal tunnel like symptoms under load... I personally don't do Flip Lever.... It's really hard!!!)

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Flip the lever

Post by Kevin » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:33 pm

I always think of this one as "bust the ledge", where you are demolishing a brick ledge that sticks out on the top of a low wall, knocking the bricks up and off.

But that's a stretch.
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