Every once in a while I surprise the person I'm defending against by not letting them put their stick down on the ice. Everyone expects opposing defencemen to lift their stick up off the ice. What they never expect is that they won't be able to get it down again just by pushing hard downward. Not with me. They won't get it back down. You should see the surprised looks I get from the men when it happens. I'm stronger than I look, especially for maintaining a steady resistance against them. Why?
The 15-lb baby, of course. And before him, my (then) 30-lb daughter. Actually, I eventually stopped carrying her around much, because she's big enough to walk by herself, and I think it just encourages sookiness to carry them too much once they're older than 2 or so. At least with my daughter - carry her once and she would subsequently expect it, and whine if you didn't do it. No thanks!
Think about it this way: that was 2+ years of training, carrying a weight that gradually increased from 7 lbs to 30 lbs, generally doing the carry on one side only. I was training every day, sometimes for long periods of time, with a dangly wiggling weight, often while doing something else with my free hand. Then, when the baby was born, back to the 7 pound weight, but also back to holding for hours each day (nursing). I'm not one of those "carry your baby all the time" people either. But just the everyday stuff is still a lot of carrying. Most people don't carry a 15-lb weight around their house, putting it down occasionally on the floor, sometimes on the bed, into the crib, out of the crib, picking it up again, shifting it to the other arm, etc.
There is no weight training system advocated by anyone out there that compares to the kind of strength you build by carrying a baby around. Not explosive strength, but solid and steady and seemingly infinite.
Another advantage for moms who play hockey: wriggly little kettlebells.
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