15, 10
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initially I’d said 15×7 cleans each side, I’d rather get more than just cleans, so I’m saying 100 cleans a side all in all across movement’s
1st Lift :
KB OA Press
8, 8 each side
KB OA Clean
12,1,2,8,8,6,8 each side
KB OA Press ss w/2H Swings
4,4,3 each side
Calling it here at 50 cleans each side.
May get the rest in later.
The superset was as many swings as pressed per one side done after both hands presses ie 4pl+4pr+4sw – to get density, keep heart rate up
The kettlebell is great for density, and to keep heart rate up – strength & conditioning in one
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ran errands for an hour or so, and ate
•two donuts
then back to lifting to finish the 100 reps a side as I had pizza in the oven
2nd Lift :
KB OA Clean
15,7,7,8,8,5 each side
got this done before the pizza was ready –
under 15:00 I would say, density train x/50 side to 10:00 or less – you’ll be more fit by the time you do it
should I be buying bigger bells?
I feel that a one arm clean habit here could be the best simple “odyssey”/madness program I could do at this point.
Buy a 100lber from titan (update : from anywhere but titan), then kettlebell kings or repfitness for the next three after that, as rogue kills you with shipping
I’m totally “punch drunk” from today’s sessions – you have fast rep speed/turnover between reps, called “cycling” by crossfitters, you can keep the rest between sets minimal – it ends up feeling like you ran sprints as far as your heart beating while huffing and puffing, but it’s got the lower body snap, and a serious upper body pull
I’ll stick to this 32kger for awhile, then start making one arm clean bell jumps.
I bought the bell expecting to get into swings, thus far I don’t much like one arm swings, am okay with the two handed swing, but have really found myself digging the clean.
Which I don’t see why in six months time I couldn’t be better than now with a 56kg/123lb, 68kg/150lb, or even 80kg/176lb kettlebell at this cleaning madness
A kettlebell cleaned lots and pressed some – I’ll be a stronger weightlifter from it, though I’m excited about the what the hell effect applied not only to oly/military press, but to pullups, body composition, and the mile run.
I too am looking forward to bringing my bell to parks and such, getting out of simply lifting in the yard.
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•eat pizza – 2100 calories of frozen pizza
•cream soda, two big swigs
I left the milk in the snow near the gym, drat, real late for the first meal
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3rd Lift :
2H Swing
15
KB OA Clean ss w/2H Swing
3 sets of (5l+5r+5sw)
Side Bends
10 each side
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•big swig cream soda
•drink milk
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I’m going to get very strong and in shape with the kettlebell as the tool.
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I’m envisioning mismatch presses, mismatch floor presses, mismatch bridge presses, the bottoms up press, and obviously the one arm cleans with bigger bells.
We’ll see when I’m able to get them.
They’re not in stock.
The kettlebell seems the answer to my gym urge without going to a gym, now to
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It’s still kinda blowing my mind that I’m not that fat at 6′ 285lbs.
“You’re a big dude, but not fat”, the funniest description of me that I’ve ever heard.
Part of me wonders…
Could I condition my way to 308lbs while getting leaner?
Est big with massive clean and press volume, calisthenics on the side.
It’s pretty safe to say that the daily pushup habit has carried me to muscular/described as not fat while so heavy.
Truly I don’t give a shit what I weigh right now. It’s all about the performance metrics.
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Your reality. Not theirs. Yours.
You do you. Always.
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•frozen pizza, 700 calories
•18oz cream soda
did not cook steak or ground beef today – either would be better than pizza – I’m steering more towards eating right lately, back to better for tomorrow – either chicken or beef, probably with potatoes
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•twix – 900 calories
•two chicken and cheese burritos
•milk
again how hard is it to eat big?
The truly big, strong dudes have a different relationship to food than everyone – gomad isn’t a thing to me, it’s basically normal – I may never drink less than four gallons a week – I love milk.
Given the time freedom, and space I’ll lift three times a day, cook two giant steak meals, get 5000+ calories without issue, and be even bigger.
If I was to be unemployed with money not an issue 7000 calories daily would be real plausible alongside lifting in a way everyone else deems to be in bad taste.
Make myself punch drunk with prowler, yoke, kb cleans, etc
Smash dip, pullup, and burpee volume again.
I truly need to incorporate strongman into my regular day to day – own a gym, own a gym, own a gym.
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Basic barbell work, a bunch of milk, a bunch of food sure makes the path to size simpler especially at the beginning, but…
Once you’re already big, when you already know how to train with intensity you have a whole lot of leeway as to what you do.
It’s train hard and eat to fuel it.
When you’re built to squat and bench (I am) it’s better to focus on oly variants, deadlifts and shoulder press variants.
My buddy with orangutan arms is built for pulls – he’s better served by a bench and squat habit.
You get big and strong with the ones your leveraged for.
You get freakishly strong when you’ve brought the ones you’re not perfectly proportioned for to the same level.
And for me, when I up volume to the absurd, leverages don’t matter – I just get it, very strong from lots and lots of sets and reps.
Dip Odyssey of Summer 2019
KB Clean Odyssey of now Winter/Spring 2023
I made myself punch drunk today with the effort on the brief clean workouts.
I’ll be condensing the work more and more, and very likely upping the bell after awhile when the bells are available to buy again.
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Persistence & Tenacity