About a month ago I mentioned that I was doing Shovelglove as a daily workout, and a few people expressed interest as to the results.
Well, it’s been a month. My exercise routine, in addition to the Shovelglove routine, is cardio five days a week (treadmill or elliptical trainer at the gym at school – one of the reasons I really started exercising seriously was because of blood pressure, so I do a lot of cardio), with situps three days a week, and a bit of free weights and that pull-up machine that counters against your weight kinda (it is most seriously a nifty application of physics) and leg machines two days a week. So it’s a pretty thorough regimen, although not exactly in bodybuilding land, of course.
Adding the shovelgloving to it has made, frankly, an immediately noticeable difference. My upper body muscles have grown a bit more and are very definitely firmer. (I suspect that shovelglove, being a “lift a little a lot” rather than “lift a lot a little” routine, probably does more to enhance muscle definition as opposed to size.) Right now I’m doing the basic shovel/butter churn/chop wood/bicep curl workout, although I have been experimenting with mixing in the tricep tote-the-bale exercise as well. The first few days, I was straining my lower back a bit, but after I made sure to stretch it out afterwards that wasn’t a problem at all.
And it is a lot of fun to do. The site author is right: fourteen minutes a day is nothing. I usually do it while watching a bit of TV.
If anything, my only complaint is that the ten-pound hammer I have is getting too easy. I don’t want to jump to the twelve-pound hammer too quickly (my disaster sense tingles at the thought) but the ten-pounder is honestly starting to feel a little basic for many of the exercises. When it feels too easy for all of them, I’ll make the jump.
So, yeah – it’s pretty decent, for those of you who were wondering.
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Just from what I’ve been hearing from my actually muscular friends, the ‘definition’ part is not an alternative to size building; what it is is merely evidence that you are losing body fat. It ends up meaning about the same thing, though. It just means you’re losing intramuscular fat. Keep burning fat, you can work on size when you have a real idea of your size (ie: after getting where you want to be fat-wise).
How many reps are you doing with each exercise?
I’ve been following the basic plan he gives (with a little extra), with:
50 shovel per side
20 butter churn per side
40 wood cutting per side
10 bicep curl per side
If the exercise starts to get too easy, I increase the reps I do (for example, increasing 20 wood cuts to 40).
I usually get through this cycle twice, with a little experimentation at the end (I like to do fake combat moves, pretending I’m a dwarven adventurer fighting orcs or something).
That’s pretty much what I’m doing now, although I alternate between butter churn and lift-the-sack as I see fit.
Hey, you there; any further update on the effects of the sweaterhammer exercise system?