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Quite a few people on another forum I read are doing the One hundred pushups challenge

Is anybody succeeding? I don't see how anybody is going to do 100 pushups in six weeks if they can only do one or two at the start.

The whole philosophy of "six weeks from now you'll be able to do XXXX" seems ...

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Chiangmaiboss: That is very impressive. Yesterday I combined the week 4 day 1 workouts from 200 squats and 200 pushups: one set squats, one set pushups until done.

By the end I could barely move. There is no way I could combine that with the shovelglove moves!

Huffdogg: Welcome. I agree that the ...

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Congratulations on taking the plunge and getting a hammer!

It is certainly wise to take it easy until your body is used to shugging. I think that building the 14 minute habit right from the start is a good idea, even if that means you spend half the time swinging a broom stick or pantomiming the ...

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Reminds me of the time I decided that flipping pancakes with my cast iron pan was a good idea!

And I won't mention the time I juggled tennis balls filled with lead shot

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Very interesting. Considering how most people in the world live is a great way to gain perspective about our own lives.

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I am going to try it next saturday with pushups and situps. I will let you know how far I get.

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Wow! The card game is a great idea. It sounds very difficult to get through the whole deck.

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Jules, it is a wise move to leave out the pushups for now. Correct form pushups require quite strong isometric contractions in the back and abs for stability which doesn't sound like it would be good for you at the moment.

And congrats on 45 squats, that's a good number for anyone.

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Good point. I have seen people on the other forum mentioning how they felt frustrated because they only managed 18 rather than the required 20 pushups on the final set. For most people, that sort of self-applied pressure is not going to lead to a long term exercise habit.

Regarding chest and ...

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Quite a few people on another forum I read are doing the One hundred pushups challenge , so I thought I would have a look at it. It looks like a well structured progressive program spread over 6 or more weeks and the constant progress tracking seems to keep people motivated. However I have seen more ...

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I have missed shugging sessions due to injury, and while it can be frustrating I think you are doing the right thing by taking a complete rest for a few days. There is nothing to gain by working through an injury and making it worse.

Depends on the injury though. My knee plays up from time to time ...

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Spleener's words are wise.

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reinhard wrote: My dad learned his English in Australia (he's from Germany) so I like to think I'm some fractional part honorary Aussi.

That's good enough for me! So G'day Mate

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Reminds me of the Big-endians and Little-endians in Gullivers Travels. Which is an excellent book by the way.

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I would like to weigh in on the side of the Sometimesians. I think that the "sometimes" adds a lot. It makes clear that although treats are OK on S-days, moderation is still the guiding principle.

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I agree that moderation is relative. The Buddha believed that his approach walked a middle path between unrestrained indulgence on one hand and the equally extreme ascetic practices of the day. His idea of moderate eating? One meal a day, eaten before noon. Makes No S look decadent!

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Hah! I have The Matrix Principle as well and my experience was quite similar to yours I think. I found the methods very demanding and effective but quite complicated. I never really got past the simple half-rep and ladder patterns.

Out of curiosity I did a simple matrix* today with the sledgehammer ...

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I don't know too much, but I used to spend far too much time lifting weights in the gym, messing around with things like Matrix Training , creatine supplements and other crazy stuff.

Curiously, looking at the matrix training website I linked just now, he makes this interesting statement:
As ...

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14 lb is pretty sturdy to start out with, but it should be fine given that most people see pretty impressive strength gains during the first few months of a strength building program.

And I agree with your observation that the faster you swing the more you have to work to control the ending of the ...

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I like it. Running with hand weights has been around for a while. Running with a sledge hammer seems like a logical next step. And if anyone asks, I could just tell them I am late for a house demolition on the other side of town

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I agree with Bushranger and the others on this. I never stretch before shugging. I just start with some slow shoveling and build the intensity from from there. I don't start the most intense movements* until around 4 or 5 minutes in so I am nicely warmed up.

Another perspective on this comes from ...

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I have experimented with a number of movements while standing on one leg. Some feel more suited to this than others. I find the various wood chopping, post driving and shoveling movements quite awkward on one leg but the one-handed butter churn movement, flip the lever, one-handed sack hoisting etc ...

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phayze wrote: Explosive strength is just different from maximum strength, so there's obvious benefit in both methods.

Thank you for a much clearer explanation than I could manage of why I like to do both fast and slow (but always controlled) versions of many of the movements.

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I definitely treat exercise missed due to injury as an exemption rather than a failure. As for your fear of this leading to the slightest ache letting you get out of exercising, my way of dealing with that is to rely on my personal honesty (such as it is). Deep down I know when I am really injured ...

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You are not alone in doing flip the lever in a slow and controlled way. It is a common technique from weight lifting which makes the muscles work much harder than when a fast swing with a lot of momentum is used.

I have experimented with doing some of the other movements in a slow and controlled ...

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sgstarling wrote:I agree DC++. Seems like it might be kinda what Reinhard describes as his 'freestyle' stuff.

I like some of the large fluid movements.

They are the ones I liked as well. Of course the "Animal Stick" looks a lot lighter than a sledgehammer so it might be a little harder ...

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Some of the movements in that video look quite interesting. I might give them a go.

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heh heh, that does sound familiar.

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Congrats on starting up again. To paraphrase the Buddha, "There are only two mistakes one can make with shugging; not starting, and not going all the way".

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No wonder he joined the socialist party a few years later!!

Coincidentally, I just finished reading The Call of the Wild a few days ago.

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Hello - I thought the idea was just one exercise routine per day?
I do more exercises than the 14 minutes of shugging, but I am careful to keep them separate, and track them as separate activities in the HabitCal. The reasoning is that if the daily shovelgloving time is allowed to grow then we ...

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Also, the book is available for download from Project Gutenberg for offline and/or eBook reader reading.

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Yes, it is great.

The two quotes which are most striking to me, and whose wisdom I am most in need of are:
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up: a single slip ...

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Ah zip-ties. Is there anything they can't do?

I guess it would also be possible to simply wear the wrist weights on your wrists, but then the weight will have a much smaller effect due to the loss of leverage.

Fortunately I am a long way from having to upgrade my 12 pounder.

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I haven't attempted the one-handed version. Far too scary! But I am now doing the two-handed version with the 12 and 8 pounders. To succeed with the 12 pounder I have to warm up but not be too tired (so I do it roughly 5 minutes into my routine). The biggest thing is the speed of the move. It just ...

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I found this on YouTube. It shows indian Gada style mace swings (as mentioned in a few previous threads) using a sledgehammer. The most impressive are the one handed movements.

I have tried doing these and still find the 12 lb hammer too intimidating. I could probably manage it but it scares me a ...

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I have used both hickory and fiberglass and much prefer the hickory. The fiberglass handle on my log splitting maul has a noticeable seam from the molding process which annoys me while the hickory feels smooth and nice.

Like Reinhard I also like the idea of hickory, but in my case aesthetic ...

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Yes, weighted juggling balls are pretty obviously a Bad Idea to everyone except me.

I think we have the opposite juggling polarity. I found toss juggling pretty easy to pick up and taught myself the 3 ball cascade purely from seeing someone juggle on TV for a few seconds. Now I am proficient with 4 ...

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Ross recommends juggling for a variety of reasons, but somehow Iâ€™ve never quite gotten my head wrapped around the whole â€œtoss/catchâ€ . . .

Interesting. I have been juggling for years. Nice to know it is also good for me* :)

A good resource for learning juggling (either the basic 3 ball ...

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I will have a look at my app then. It is currently a little rough on a PC since it was written as a Pocket PC app.

If there was enough interest I could port it to Java or a Java applet pretty easily which would let it run on most platforms.

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Sounds remarkably similar to what I was looking for a few months ago to help with randomised juggling pattern training. I couldn't find anything though so wrote my own to run on my PDA (uses .Net so also runs on windows PCs).

It is a countdown timer that reads a list of things from a file. Each ...

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I didn't notice until after posting this that there are separate fora for describing moves and sequences. Sorry. I will leave this here for now but if anyone is actually interested I can post a better description of "push the #%&* tree off me" to the moves board.

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Yes, Naked Shugging. Anyone else do this?

Oh yeah it's not what you might think. Basically I haven't bothered putting any sort of padding on my hammer. I work out on a carpeted area clear of furniture plus I have been using the hammer around the garden as well. So I just didn't put a glove on. I ...

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I have been listening to Xavier Rudd, specifically his Food in the Belly album. His songs are meaningful and have a great steady rhythm.

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Greetings and naked shugging (the hammer, not me!)