Everyday Systems

You can also build the heavier weight in gradually - ie start the first 5 minutes with the heavier weight or end the workout with the heavier weight and gradually increase the time. Or do one workout the first week with the heavier weight , then a couple of workouts the next week etc. Lots of ways ...

Here is a link to a school for shovel glovers
http://www.urbanprimalist.com/id3.html

Mr Engels is mentioned albeit briefly.

Cheers
J

Be carefull with zip ties. over time they have a tendency to weaken where they lock together especially if under tension as they would be as yu flig the weight down and stop it. i would checkthe zip ties every couple of weeks and likely replace they every month or so. Check where the zip tie feeds ...

I am not an expert, but I would suggest trying some or all of the following

Slow down the speed of your movements for a while

try doing less of each movement at a time, in other words rather than doing one set of 20 woodchops, do 10 then repeat for another 10 later in the workout. Think more sets ...

For those Canadian Shovelglovers, Canadian Tire's latest flyer has sledges on 1/2 price various sizes/weights.

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J

I've got one in the doorway to my living room. I can't do anything more than hang like a dead fish off it at the moment, but at least I can do that regularly. It's a bit of a talking point, too, especially since people over about 6' have to duck under it.


When you are doing weight lifting ...

You can do some moves with a heavy bar that are difficult to do with a sledge. As i noted in some other thread, I use an old barbell bar cut down to about 4 feet in a kayaking motion. i stand with feet farily wide apart and semi lunge from sie to side as I kayak. if yu go fast it can wind you awfull ...

Since SG imitates life why not have your routine do the same.

Dig a hole for the fence post.

Go out and chop down a tree to make the fence post

Hoist the sack to put the concrete into the hole

churn butter to mix up the concrete

pound the post into the hole

shovel again to fill in the top of ...

I have used a bar in the past although I have never loaded it with plates. I do use a 4 foot bar that weighs about 16 pounds. I use it in a kayaking motion. I semi lunge from side to side as I kayak through the Bering sea looking for seals to ... Depending on how fast and deep you kayak this can ...

I'm still trying to figure out an effective way to tie it on without the sleeves whipping around all the time.

Shovel naked You don't really need anything around your Hammer. It does soften the blow if yu happen to graze yourself while swinging around though.

Cheers
J

They say art imitates life - isn't that what Shvel glove is all about

Shovelglove;
Imitating
Life

Shovelglove;
Imitating Life
to improve life

Ok maybe nw I know why I don't create slogans for a living.

Cheers
J

quote]I personally just think warrior is a diluted term. Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Rainbow Warrior, Warrior Weekend, Weekend Warrior, Warrior Diet, etc etc. Same word.. very different meanings[/quote]

I guess I shouldn't suggest combining the terms then!
Peasant Warrior or Warrior Peasant ...

I apologize - I see i beaten to the punch in this post bysgtrock

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Plus you can always slap cheap ankle weights onto it to "upgrade" more gradually. They come in all ...

I posted on another thread about trying to use adjustable ankle weights to increase the weight of your hammer but then tried it myself and discovered you needed a ton of duct tape to even come close to making it safe.

What I discovered last night was my dear wife had 2 one pound wrist weights that ...

What you could try is to buy the adjustable ankle weights. Look for the ones that are made of very heavy nylon fabric and have a flat area with 5 sleeves in them. In each sleeve is a one lb lead weight which is removable so you can adjust of course from 1 to 5 lbs. The flat area wraps around your ...

One more quick comment if I may, to the OP. You really may have started out with too light a sledge but as per Reinhard I would give it a month or so before you move up. You may want to move up 2 levels when you do. ie if you are using a 8 lber skip the 10 pounder and go to a 12 lber. Start out very ...

reinhard has a good point in not trying to push the weight up too fast. What happens to a lot of people is as their muscles get stronger they try to push up the resistance to match the increse in strength. What they don't realize is that tendons, ligaments and fascia tissue must adapt and grow ...

This means your body has adapted to the new work load. This is common when you first begin to exercise. You can now do one of 4 things to increase your work load
1) increase your weight - not recommended so soon.
2) increase your range of motion - this can be done by actually increasing the arc of ...

Inspired by a section in the 1970's HeavyHands book by Len Swartz where he described using a weighted shovel to exercise, I found a snow shovel handle with a tapered end where the shovel balde used to be. I put a ten lb weight on, then drilled a small hole below and above the weight and put a small ...

I'm kinda of sporadic on the shovel glove as I do Heavy hands and I was training to do the Trans Rockies bike rce this summer, but now that its over I am trying to get back into the Shovel glove. i use a slightly different variation of the shovelling move.
Essentially I hold the hammer with a fairly ...