Another curl like movement

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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Kevin
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Another curl like movement

Post by Kevin » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:28 pm

I decided that I wanted a more natural analog to hit the biceps. So, I'm pretending I'm doing this:

I'm in a tunnel, moving dirt from the solid wall of dirt in front of me to a cart that's immediately behind me. I attack with the shovel, then toss the dirt hard (it's the hard toss that's like a curling motion) over one shoulder into the cart behind me (right hand forward over the right shoulder, then left over left). I vary the height of the "attack" from chest high to ground height. 50 with each arm forward.

This seems to hit the biceps pretty hard.
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Jammin' Jan
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Post by Jammin' Jan » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:24 pm

So you are doing the basic shovelling motion, but higher up?

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Higher up...

Post by Kevin » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:10 pm

Higher up, to lower down, just as if I was trying to tunnel forward: it's bringing the head up and over your shoulder quickly - without twisting your body - like you were tryng to throw the dirt off the shovel immediately over your shoulder. I guess you could also look at it as being in a shoulder height hole and wanting to clear the edge of the hole with the dirt.
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