Everyday Systems

I can remember going to a gym for Nautilus back in the early 1980s. One thing I understand now is that the program seemed geared for body builders more than for ordinary folks interested in getting or staying in shape. There was an emphasis on training to exhaustion. If you could do more than 12 rep...

I found this on Slate.com today. There is actually a town in Italy which is offering to pay its citizens to lose weight. The article isn't as flippant as the title sounds. There are some interesting points about the relationship between short term thinking and bad habits and addictions. Even if you ...

Maybe you are being a little too hard on yourself. If I understand your original post correctly, you have a fairly consistent walking and yoga routine and you periodically add a new exercise like weight training but find yourself quitting after a few months. I applaud you for being a regular walker ...

Thanks! Lots of good ideas. I bookmarked GoAnimal.

That is an excellent idea. I've just started shugging and I find that my grip is a weak spot and of course you can't do the big movements for the shoulders and back if you can't hold onto your shovel. Controlled movements like your medicine ball routines are good for the hands and forearms. (I've al...

I know part of the inspiration for shovelglove was a description in a French novel of the stomach muscles of some coal miners (didn't Zola write about coal mines?). I found this passage in George Orwell's essay "Down the Mine." Most of them are small (big men are at a disadvantage in that job) but n...

My ten pound sledgehammer is still wending its way from the Amazon but I thought I would dive into the bulletin board since I've been reading it and enjoying it for some time now. Like others I am attracted by the good humor and simplicity of the Everyday Systems programs. For the moment anyway, I a...