Making progress
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:10 pm
Hello
Reinhard, firstly thank you coming up with Shovelglove and sharing it so willingly. I'm sure you've improved the lives of so many people; people who (If I'm any guide!) would have just carried on being a lump if it wasn't for your myriad health systems.
This is my first post, so a bit about me would probably be fitting so you can all get an idea of who I am. I'm a 17 yar old from England. Next October I'm off to university. In no particular order, these two things make me want to look awesome so as to help me along in my 'socialising'... I think we all know what I mean here!
Shovelglove and NoS are constituent parts of my campaign to achieve this. So far I've been plugging away at it for a few months somewhat intermittently, but with renewed motivation after discovering the HabitCal. Underestimate that thing at your peril!
So far I've seen great changes in my upper body! I now have visible abs, including obliques and the other little ones around the ribcage, and much more general meatiness all over. It will take a bit more NoS-ing to get ripped, but it's heartening to see progress even if only I know where to look for it! Again, I have Reinhard to thank for this
This sort of (kinda) brings me onto my main question about progress and how it happens. Because aesthetics aside, I do want to get physically strong from this more than anything.
And yet, there's a lot of gym websites and trainers who dismiss high rep exercise for strength gains. They instead recommend heavy weights and low reps, leaving anything >20 for endurance only. Perhaps they are talking in the short term world of monthly memberships and daily protein shakes?
Because many people seem to have become very much stronger after taking up SG and that's just the ones who choose to post on here. Basically, I'm curious as to how this happens when conventional sport science says it shouldn't. Are the gym trainers wrong? Or is SG a different type of exercise entirely to the dumbbell swinging they're presumably thinking of?
On a practical level, if you wanted to get stronger from SG, do you have to push yourself to swing harder or use more leverage every session? Or does it come naturally so long as your 14mins is reasonably taxing?
Sorry for the essay, well done if you got this far As you can see I'm a physiological n00b. I'd love to hear your views on this as far more experienced practitioners...
Peace,
Ayad
Reinhard, firstly thank you coming up with Shovelglove and sharing it so willingly. I'm sure you've improved the lives of so many people; people who (If I'm any guide!) would have just carried on being a lump if it wasn't for your myriad health systems.
This is my first post, so a bit about me would probably be fitting so you can all get an idea of who I am. I'm a 17 yar old from England. Next October I'm off to university. In no particular order, these two things make me want to look awesome so as to help me along in my 'socialising'... I think we all know what I mean here!
Shovelglove and NoS are constituent parts of my campaign to achieve this. So far I've been plugging away at it for a few months somewhat intermittently, but with renewed motivation after discovering the HabitCal. Underestimate that thing at your peril!
So far I've seen great changes in my upper body! I now have visible abs, including obliques and the other little ones around the ribcage, and much more general meatiness all over. It will take a bit more NoS-ing to get ripped, but it's heartening to see progress even if only I know where to look for it! Again, I have Reinhard to thank for this
This sort of (kinda) brings me onto my main question about progress and how it happens. Because aesthetics aside, I do want to get physically strong from this more than anything.
And yet, there's a lot of gym websites and trainers who dismiss high rep exercise for strength gains. They instead recommend heavy weights and low reps, leaving anything >20 for endurance only. Perhaps they are talking in the short term world of monthly memberships and daily protein shakes?
Because many people seem to have become very much stronger after taking up SG and that's just the ones who choose to post on here. Basically, I'm curious as to how this happens when conventional sport science says it shouldn't. Are the gym trainers wrong? Or is SG a different type of exercise entirely to the dumbbell swinging they're presumably thinking of?
On a practical level, if you wanted to get stronger from SG, do you have to push yourself to swing harder or use more leverage every session? Or does it come naturally so long as your 14mins is reasonably taxing?
Sorry for the essay, well done if you got this far As you can see I'm a physiological n00b. I'd love to hear your views on this as far more experienced practitioners...
Peace,
Ayad