Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, and wood chopping motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and holidays. Baffled? Intrigued? Charmed? Discuss here.
I'm a current NoSer who is doing monthly resolutions and will begin shugging March 20. I quit smoking Jan 20, and start No S Feb 20.
I was in a music shop Friday night, and I found a wonderful little device. It gives my hands something to do, a way to work out excess nervous energy, and it is getting my grip ready to start shugging. And it looks like this:
They make a light tension for women and youngsters to start out on, and they have two progressively higher tension versions for the seasoned hand.
Yeah those are great for building strength for playing guitar
Do you play?
I play and sing.
Just doing the SG will build your grip strength.
I used to just lift and lower the hammer with the handle pointing straight up, hand over hand, like you were raising and lowering a bucket of water..
Not lifting from the shoulders..
This increases hand grip pretty well in the beginning of doing SG, without being too hardcore.
I own a mandolin, but what I do to it can't be called playing with a straight face. Practicing on my mandolin may be a monthly resolution for another month down the line.
Hahah, can't be *that* bad! LOL
I love mando! Big Dave Grisman fan.
Wish I had one.
Yeah, practice!
It's even a good weight loss aid.
You can't snack while trying to play whilst strumming!
Take care, Debs
Well there's another advantage to shugging I hadn't thought of - building strength in my hands to improve my guitar playing (and boy, does it need it). Nice one, Debs!
It's vital to know exactly how ridiculous you are.
Debs
