Everyday Systems

I also do kettlebells as well as Shovelglove; I keep a kettlebell in my office at work, and do a few swings and other exercises in my office during the day, and then do the Shovelglove at night after I come home. I think the two complement each other very nicely.

I agree about the two ...

fungus wrote: Is this where I post the link to the ultimate hammer?

/What the....??? Oh, it's brass...no sparks when you strike other metal bits.

Hi

has anyone gone heavier than 20 pounds

Well....somebody sells heavier hammers just for workout purposes:

http://www.torqueathletic.com/ns/category.php?prod=MA04-1

WAAAAYYY too pricey. Plus, I think they make them up on an "as-purchased" basis. Call it a hunch, but they don't have photos ...

Tartanic...enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQQAdRspLjM

Just a brief hello and a couple of notes...

I've been doing the 14MAD for about two months now. Until recently, I've been using a 20lb kettlebell, but I just aquired a 12lb sledge (birthday present) and have started with that. Now, I do MWF with the hammer alternated with T/Th on the kb.

I've ...

Low-carb diets to be taken with a grain of...er..salt?

http://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/lcd.html

Not trying to be discouraging because if you read down into the article, there is some effectiveness. There are some health caveats, however.

Cheers!

-Frank

The bit about granola bars tweaked my memory about some recent posts.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18549_8- ... ealth.html

Cheers!

Frank

No one is saying you can't lose weight by eating snacks.

Well, no one is saying that you can't lose weight using ANY diet. However, according to the No S structure as I understand it, one increases the risk of failure by adding more complexity. The complexity comes from having to judge how much ...

It's tough when one doesn't have support from the family.

I "remember" by reaching down and grabbing my spare tire. :wink:

If someone offers, try,"No thank you, I'm not hungry. You have mine."

Just pile a little extra on your plate (you don't have to eat it) at meal-times and you've got the ...

I think the subtext is "unrestricted snacking". Makes for easy reading. "Hey, I'm doing absolutely nothing new, and now I'm eating healthily" Also, I notice the plug for energy bars. I've eaten them myself and thought, "hey, it can't be that bad, it's supposed to be a health food."

I've done the ...

Junk food is addictive!

Well put!

I'm sure that they make it that way. I wouldn't be surprised that, down the road, they find out that the junk-food manufacturers make their products addictive in the same way that the cigarette manufacturers went about increasing the addictive potential of ...

About letting myself get hungry before my next meal, it isn't just my neurotic aversion to letting myself feel needy that drives me: when I under-eat and I'm out on my bike I start to lose vision and become weak and shaky. I suspect I'm approaching fainting. I never let myself actually pass out ...

As an alternative, you could also decrease your leverage by moving your hands closer together on the handle. I imagine that this would allow more "modulation" of effort contrasted with increasing your hammer size.

I say I imagine, because for the time being, I'm using kettlebells.

Cheers!

-Frank

Hi all, me again with another knotty "driving me insane" "rules" thing.

So, it's breakfast, I'm late eating and very hungry: I decide what to have - it's going to be poached eggs on beans on toast. I have my plate, my eggs, my beans - only I have this unusually small loaf of bread and I'm ...