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Even pre-9-11, sledgehammers and airplanes just didn't
mix. So what's a shovelglover to do when he flies on
vacation? This was the conundrum I had to face last
week.

Honestly, my plan was just to skip exercise
completely, lie on the beach and relax for 7 days. But
I got antsy. I'm so used to my 14 minutes every
weekday that I had to do something. The economy hotel
we were staying at didn't have much of a gym, so I
didn't really have any props. But I figured the spirit
of shovelglove: imagination, resourcefulness, and
schedualistically insignificant time would be enough.
So for 14 minutes each day, I did whatever exercises I
could think of to perform in the limited confines of
our hotel room, from pushups to situps, to backpack
curls and sack hoists, to the "wall of pain." Not
nearly as much fun as swinging a sledgehammer, but not
a bad workout. By the end of the 14 minutes I was
pretty winded, and couldn't do a single pushup or
situp more. I think this represents a new zen-like
level of shovelglove mastery: shovelgloveless
shovelglove, shovelglove of the spirit.

Be that as it may, it's nice to be home swinging
actual steel again!