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Hi Storm,

This does look interesting. I'm on a "book diet" right
now for budgetary reasons, but I think I'll wishlist
it.

Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0926888072/everydaysyste-20/102-0494050-5332924

(group members: if you're interested and not on a book
diet, buy through the link above and I get a tiny cut)

I'm honored that you would compare me to this guy!
He's way more hard core than I am (a lot of *you* seem
way more hard core than I am!), but I do see the
similarity in kind, if not degree. Shovelglove is
almost like Steve Justa light, for folks who don't
have a scrapyard or nebraskan wilderness to tool
around in. I'll stick a link to this on the home page
in the section where I mention kettlebells and other
similar stuff.

Reinhard

--- Storm Fox <storm_m_fox@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> In case anyone was wondering who this Steve Justa
> character that Reinhard keeps getting compared to,
> he is a monster (at one point, his bodyweight was
> 365#, but upon realizing it was a struggle to tie
> his shoes, he began a very high repetition lifting
> program and hard farm labor. The result was that
> his bodyweight dropped to a lean 240#. His book,
> Rock, Iron, Steel: The Book of Strength is very
> creative and against the grain, but he is about as
> hardcore as they come. He is a Nebraskan manual
> labor guy, and he sets up training programs that
> compliment his performance on the job (whether that
> job is loading 80# hay bales, building or tearing
> down bridges, or any number of hard, physically
> demanding work.) rather than compromise it. This
> means that while he loves hard work, he fully
> understands that the nasal blood erupting, nervous
> system draining, soreness and exhaustion enducing
> programs of many guys are of no use to him, however,
> he has torn calluses (when you do a partial
> deadlift of 2050 pounds, of course something's
> occasionally going to give!). 
> THe reason some guy thought Reinhard borrowed from
> Justa is that he dedicates an entire chapter in his
> book to something called "The Shovel Lift." The
> weight is at one end of a pole, one hand grabs the
> handle about 18" from the weight, the other is far
> enough back to gain leverage. The apparatus is
> deadlifted, and in a controlled manner, rotated back
> behind the body, and rotated to the front. The
> movement is reversed and repeated, and both sides
> are trained (Change hand positions). Mr. Justa has
> done this lift with over 200 pounds (there is a
> picture, or I wouldn't believe it.). There are also
> variations of the shovel lift, but you get the idea.
> So, if two guys with totally different backgrounds
> who know nothing of each other independently come up
> with vaguely similar ideas...Oh well.
> You can see reviews of Justa's book at amazon.com,
> and you can see his book and a list of the articles
> he wrote for MILO at ironmind.com. I'm trying to
> keep the links coming.