Well, as it happens, I started doing Shovelglove a couple of years (maybe?) ago. But due to various things (including my own faults, I'm sure), I let it slip.
So now I'm starting again. I had gotten a six-pound sledgehammer for my weak self, and the day before yesterday, I jumped right in and did fourteen minutes of sledgehammer slinging. It was a ton of fun.
I think before I had started with nine minutes, going off the logic that my dentist schedules things in ten-minute increments. Fourteen seems to work for me now, though!
Of course, since we're cleaning up after a hurricane, I didn't shug yesterday. But I'm going to get on a regular schedule!
In addition to stabbing people I don't like, churning butter, and paddling my canoe around, I'm counting my reps in Spanish. It may sound silly, but in my language studies the thing I do LEAST often is count. The repetition and speed means I have to think fast until the numbers become totally natural.
So it's also an intellectual exercise! Of sorts.
Taking up shugging again
Welcome back!
I notice it gets much harder to count (unless I know the language really well) toward the end when you get exhausted -- but I imagine that's when the practice does you the most good.
Reinhard
It may sound silly, but I do exactly the same thing.I'm counting my reps in Spanish. It may sound silly, but in my language studies the thing I do LEAST often is count.
I notice it gets much harder to count (unless I know the language really well) toward the end when you get exhausted -- but I imagine that's when the practice does you the most good.
Reinhard
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So today I did Timothy's Shovelglove 101 just to see if there was anything fun there that I could add, and it confirmed something I already knew: at just over five feet tall, I have hopelessly short arms!
I can't do his "bullroarer" at middle grip--I have to hold my shovelglove even farther from the head so I won't jab myself in the armpit and lose my rhythm.
I've decided to see it as a good thing; it's just a little more difficult, which means I have to do a little more work and get the effects.
Short limbs run in my family. My father (who has to be at least average height for a man) has a ridiculously short inseam and he has to cuff most of his pants.
I can't do his "bullroarer" at middle grip--I have to hold my shovelglove even farther from the head so I won't jab myself in the armpit and lose my rhythm.
I've decided to see it as a good thing; it's just a little more difficult, which means I have to do a little more work and get the effects.
Short limbs run in my family. My father (who has to be at least average height for a man) has a ridiculously short inseam and he has to cuff most of his pants.
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It CAN be hard. I have the toughest time with remembering the difference between seis and siete toward the end when I'm getting tired, and every so often I go nuts and do forty-two of an easier move just for the counting, and I still find it hard to remember cuarenta.
There's an added bonus--if I have the TV on while I do it, I'm usually watching HGTV, and numbers come up a lot. Since I'm in Spanish mode for numbers, it doesn't mess up my counting!
There's an added bonus--if I have the TV on while I do it, I'm usually watching HGTV, and numbers come up a lot. Since I'm in Spanish mode for numbers, it doesn't mess up my counting!