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The brilliantly wacky novel Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sings praise to a lowly towel:
“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value… You can wrap it around you for warmth…wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat… More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker)…will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
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| | To add to Douglas Adams’ formidable list, you can use a towel to get strong.
Fold a wet towel. The more times you fold it, the more challenging the exercise.
“Plank” while standing up and start wringing it out while employing power breathing and other tension techniques from the StrongFirst Bodyweight Fundamentals. Try to get every drip of water out of the towel.
Rest, then get the towel wet again, and twist in the opposite direction. Do “fast and loose” drills between sets.
Grip master John Brookfield hails this exercise as “a very simple, very effective way to train your entire lower arm…probably one of the best exercises I have ever found for the lower arms overall.”
A more localized variation of the drill is wringing out a washcloth and eventually a hand towel with one hand. Gather it up into a progressively smaller ball in your hand.
To make the rest of your body strong anywhere in the galaxy, even in its locked down corners, you absolutely need our online bodyweight strength course.
StrongFirst Bodyweight Fundamentals. Do not leave the solar system without it.
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