Month: June 2023

6/23/23
While I still have daily mandatories to hit, today I decided to get in a good lift, intending about an hour, while judging how it felt as I went to decide the exact amount of work.

A ladder of 1-9, and a pyramid of 1-8-1, both by 1s, both each side, pressing the 32kg kettlebell was what ended up happening, taking an hour and five minutes including both setup and breakdown.

1-9 ladder by 1s = 45 reps/side
1-8-1 pyramid by 1s = 64 reps/side
109 reps/side total = 218 reps total
It’s a decent volume of presses, heck 24 cleans/side as I had to shoulder the bell for each set

I decided on this, wanting 100+ reps/side, and though taking my time, had pushed well enough to be a bit dizzy near the end – I was pretty close to keeping it within an hour, the initial ladder taking about twenty minutes, after which I decided the exacts of to instead pyramid the next portion, and to one rep shy of the ladder.

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In a couple hours I’ll get the burpees/snatches/dkbs in, as I don’t miss daily mandatory PT.

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A fairly easy ladder to 15 reps by 1s with the 32kg bell could be the 40kg bell purchase point.

All out milking the heaviest bell I currently have (the 32kg bell) in my eyes would be a 1-20-1 by 1s pyramid to earn the purchase of the 40kg bell.

400 reps/side in a reasonable time frame to earn a not exactly 20lb implement weight jump.

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As I did this session I realized truly, though I’ve known it well already – today really internalizing/grokking it, how one stop shop, one lift – simple answer a one bell kettlebell clean(s) and presses is for your training.

The kettlebell feels more rugged a pressing implement than dumbbell or barbell, while one arm lends itself more rugged than two handed.

Yesterday’s one arm 20kg & 16kg improvised 36kg pressing, and the three bell two handed presses in addition put me on the “explore kb pressing” note.

It’ll probably, with lunges, be my next month’s training focus.

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I threw in a handful of front squats, maybe 5/side as singles on some of the final come down sets.

Bell travel to parks and such, to make interesting video backgrounds – I was meditating on that during the set.

I know of an abandoned car on the woods line, that strikes me as a cool one.

Cemeteries?

There’s probably a clearing in the woods if not many that could be done.

Heck incorporate train tracks somewhere.

Any park really, beaches.

There’s many options.
Especially if I’m willing to put some miles in my car.

A less than a grand purchase would stock me from 16kg-48kg in one bells by the 4kg jump.

I could personal train SOMEWHERE with kettlebells, calisthenics with that I’m sure…in addition to self getting fit and jacked.

Heck, that could be on the side of the moving work I do which is effectively day labor, but a form of gpp for which I am grateful.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again ; my personal workouts are winners workouts in addition to the job.

I’d never quit daily PT just because my physical activity can be pretty high via the manual labor of the job I work.

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I still want to do weighted pushups with a chick standing on my back…at four corners = back to the fitness video – will travel note.

Persistence & Tenacity

Lifting Music :

dustin lynch, lauren alaina version of “thinking bout you”

started the session with a handful of country songs that make me cry (sad/reminiscent/hopeful), sometimes that’s where it makes sense to go to get in the zone for putting in work

6/22/23 (Part Two – Note To Self Part One Isn’t Online – they could be combined)
Is it optimal?
Shop scale said 290lbs this morning.

I’ve just eaten, again, almost 10pm, having naught but a larger glass of juice around lunch hour until about 330pm when I had a big meal, plus a reasonably sized glass of juice between then and now.

My day’s consumption looks like ;
•orange juice ~350cal
•corn dogs ~1200cal
•tuna salad ~500cal
•trail mix ~1800cal
•milk ~1500cal
•cranberry juice ~225cal

Ballpark 5500 calories, 6′, 290lbs.
I guess it makes sense, 5500 calories on a fairly usual day isn’t a small human.

Early afternoon we drove by every fast food restaurant – I had no food on me, just my jug of water.

I nearly asked the driver to pull over, but decided I’d rather get back, buy groceries, eat at home right before lifting.

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It’s interesting to mostly be doing strength involved conditioning.

Today I mostly played, using a 95lb barbell, and all three kettlebells, going for feel, doing stuff with the implements I usually wouldn’t.

First mandatory burpees and kettlebell.
Then playing with the weights.
Finishing up with mandatory deep knee bends.

I did a standing behind the neck press variant trying to put it in the area of my lower traps.

In a two hands press I used three kettlebells (see below).

One arm barbell rows. Muscle snatch.
Supersetting power snatch with one arm kettlebell clean and press. Kettlebell curl. Barbell curl and press.
Heck I was doing the kettlebell snatches from the dead hang.

Today’s lifting was feel good play.

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Okay alluded to earlier ;
Today was fun.

Nearly at the end of my lift, having already done stuff with both the 20kg and 16kg kettlebells I had an idea ; 20kg+16kg=36kg

Though it felt a tad weird, it was manageable to hold both bells in one hand.

I pressed the two together for five reps or so, then switches sides repeating.

Then the fun stuff ; really mismatched bell clean and presses.

I got my 32kg bell out too, put that in my left, the other two in my right.

Got the pair of bells in my right (the weird implements) to shoulder, but failed to shoulder the 32 in the left.

I let it back to the hang, then shouldered it, 1, 2, first then second style (as I originally had when doing 75lb db w/32kg kb a few months back) and pressed the trio/pair for four reps.

32 & 16kg tgu anyone?
That could be on the menu.

What I did today could be filmed, the clean seamed video worthy, especially when it’s done at once and not alternatively (note that mismatch pairs quickly progress to cleaning like that), and with the 75lb dumbbell in addition there’s a bunch of room for sig klein ish mismatch lifting.

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No one says your gym implements must perfectly match.

You can get weird with it, let them be mismatched.

You’ll be stronger for it.

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6/21/23
Work worked out to two small jobs, a delivery to a rather high end seaside place, then a long drive to another small (for us – maybe not for the other crew) job.

When we arrived to the second job, a leaving contractor said aloud “”Ah, you’re here to move the WHOLE HOUSE. The house, not it’s contents – it, with everything in it.”

Now that makes ya feel good.

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Fairly late, well I had mandatory stuff to do ;

•kettlebell snatches
•burpees
•deep knee bends

I did em.

And came up with what I’d be typing from doing so…

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Now I can’t let that contractor down.
Maybe that is how I present to a large majority of the world ; “big, strong guy”.

Can’t let them down!

And my weakness isn’t strength, I’ve done plenty of gym lifting, I wrestled in high school, I’m working in manual labor.

At 285+ lbs what I need is “conditioned strength”, a higher level of ability to go mixed with my plenty of strength.

So, my back yard training is PERFECT.

See the three again ;

•kettlebell snatches
•burpees
•deep knee bends

What do you notice there?

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Full body? ✓
Muscularly engaged? ✓

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CONDITIONING w/Strength Component!

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And I felt phenomenal doing it.

Throwing myself to the ground envisioning a future.

Smiling as I connect with the feeling of muscular activation in my upper back.

Really pumping the deep knee bends, filling my legs with lactic acid, overshooting the minimal requirement…

Opting to do a few more burpees to love an extra moment of my heart bumping, panting for air – in the moment loving it…

CONDITIONING IS FREE

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Working out is something you can always do.

The money cost is free. My session today, I had a financial input of zero as the kettlebell was a gift, and the gloves (kettlebell handcare + keep my hands clean) are from work.

No one can stop you from working out.
You need nothing to do so. You can do so right where you are, right now.

It’s a win, a daily win you can always choose to do.

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“Can you train the kettlebell every day”, they ask online, and there’s a million “answers” mostly noise…my say?
I say “do it – see what what it does for you”.
Me personally…I’m on my kettlebell journey.

And loving it…

This brings me to ;

The First Minisession :

For the past few days I’ve been doing a real effective, real fun session – the bonus being it’s how I’m getting in part of the day’s mandatory PT in.

With a requirement to perform 100+ deep knee bends I’ve been matching them rep for rep with one arm swings each side with the 20kg kettlebell, each time aiming to keep the thing under twenty minutes.

So in twenty minutes I’ve got 100 deep knee bends in, generally a little over that, and 200 one arm swings split evenly between hands, again – generally a little over that.

Note ; it amuses me greatly how the big neighborhood dog amps up whenever he’s being walked by as I workout.

The Second Minisession :

I rested a while, this lazy rainy saturday basically spent sleeping in, eating a couple easy to prep meals, and doing a couple workouts.

This second minisession is completing to 500+ swings on the day as yesterday I went to bed thinking I’d do exactly that today.

Note : been rained on this entire day’s workouts.

Yep. ✓
Did 310 swings, split – I think, 50/50 each side, did a few burpees (had to – daily PT), and stirred the pot, a fun exercise, holding the bell’s horns.

You can get a lot out of a little when you put in a lot.

I feel real good with the frequent workouts.
The thing too is that I was exhausted when I woke up, had slept a mostly unbroken thirteen hours – after a week of work, workouts, and probably not enough food.

That’s something for me to work on, speeding up my metabolism by eating more frequently – though I’m used to fasting.

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Third Minisession :

9 o’clock hour, did 500+ one arm swings – a handful of sets of 30, the largest count with hand switches something like a set of 54 reps (final set – ending strong), though all of it done pretty low in height as said beneath the picture of bud jeffries (who presently I’m similar to in height/weight – rip bud, I never got to meet you) with the 20kg bell, in about 30:00 – completing 1000 one arm swings on the day.

Man the contrast of flashing screens in neighborhood windows as you’re breathing heavy, swinging the bell, getting rained on – listening to wes watson audio, making your self talk right, positive, and most importantly… envisioning a better future, having a life that fulfills and works for me!

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P.S. It’s amazing how strong I am prepping pushups within a couple hours of a good kettlebell pulling session.

Really primes me, an example of the “what the hell” effect.

I get this “primed” for pushups carryover from the barbell military press, as well as I’ve recently discovered by all kettlebell ballistics.

6/16/23
A cool aspect of working at the yard/shop/warehouse is the ability to spend the day shirtless while on the clock.

Two birds with one stone – vitamin d, three really, physical work, money.

Some of the coworkers have latched onto referring to me as a gorilla, making monkey noises, etc – this seems the evolution from the nickname “Skinny J”, though it involves different guys.

A couple days ago a gorilla action figure was held up with the comment “relation?”

Today one swinging back by to pickup his paycheck, well I heard monkey noises coming from, as he bounced around in the driver’s seat of his jeep.

The gorilla thing would fit better bearded, the growing back of which I’m committed to – no porn, no masturbation – I’ve been laughing at myself for not having taken some shots the past few weeks.

I don’t know if I’m okay with this.
Laughing at myself for not taking shots.
I need to be opening my mouth!

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It was cool that I got all that shirtless time at work, as it got overcast by the time I got home with a nice lobster back sunburn.

Hilariously working with my back to the sun the entire time, meaning only sunburnt on my back.

My deep knee bend and kettlebell one arm swing supersets had me be rained on for one mississippi if that.

The sky opened up at a light rain, and stopped just as soon – a split second.

Just enough time,.as the rain hit my shoulders and upper back to think “well I train outside – I’m getting rained on – continue”.

I really like this mental place, where weather is irrelevant to me – where I’m going outside to train today, and it’s there everyday.

What I miss of the gym is the crowd.
Right now I’m lonely training alone, though I do so anyway.

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The supersets of dkb and oas makes for two days in a row now of doing just over 200 swings a day.

I could do this level indefinitely, though it definitely affects the heaviness of my legs come the end of the day.

It’s a good volume for leg soreness between work which is walking, carrying, stairs, and some sitting on the truck’s bench seat, then 100 dkbs, now 200 swings too.

Interestingly my chest is muscularly sore.
Maybe the “catch” at the bottom?
Maybe ripping the bell down for the hike?

It surprised me to feel.

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And I did the second minisession ; as I had yet to burpee and snatch, so I did…

I’m going to have to get out of the yard to run bleachers, run/walk on the track, and really should go for walks if not fartleks on the streets.

I need more movement, though the kettlebell is a source of wind, and I see it improving my ability to both carry, and to “body” (brute force manpower) and/or manipulate odd items/movements through space.

The kettlebell is helping with work.
I see it lots.

Amazing for grip strength, I expect veiny forearms from getting into, and continuing with one arm swings.

Notably I have more a mental issue pushing reps on the one arm swing than I do on the one arm snatch – they’re very close movement patterns, I’m using the same 20kg bell for both (at present), and yet you can tell the difference in training effect.

I’m discovering to do both.
And mix in other stuff…

I daydream of a solid bench (meaning an actual solid bench – the equipment/furniture itself), an axle bar, and FINALLY putting up a 405+ bench.

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Tomorrow 500+ swings on the day, maybe get the bell out to the dip bars, pullup bars, a park or something.

This will tell me I’ve trained based on how 200 rep days feel a couple days in now – I bet I’ll feel solid, well worked, and get a small but noticable tad of fat loss.

Why not dedicate saturday to all day off and on training with minisessions?

It could end up being 1000.

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I intend to finish the 100+ dkbs daily thing for this month, but I’m really looking forward to dropping the movement in favor of lunging and the kb swing.

July could end up silly with swings.
I’m excited.

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Never do the same exact workout two days in a row.

You can buy the day’s groceries every day, never shopping at the same one twice in a row.

Make the day a little less groundhog day that way.

Persistence & Tenacity

6/15/23
I put the weights away thinking to myself “I’m in a state of positivity right now – stay disciplined – never watch porn again – do THIS as often as necessary”.

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See. I work a physical job, but that’s not reason to not workout outside of that.

You work the physical job since it’s necessary to have a high level of physicality.

I’d suggest a well monied white collar type landscape the shit out of their yard in their free time for the above reason.

Build yourself a wall, a fence, an outdoor pullup bar, something for that reason.

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You workout/train because it’s what you do…

What you do to not waste your lifetime in front of a television.

To not be the one hiding in substances, outside of work, at work…

Because your level of physicality, of physical condition is not acceptable in your own eyes.

That’s the same reason I cold turkey off of television in all it’s forms!

There are things, and I see everyone doing them, that in my own eyes are not acceptable to self.

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I wipe dirt off my torso.
It from the handful of burpees tacked onto the second minisession of the day – where I matched deep knee bend reps with one arm swing reps a side with the 20kg bell.

P. Thank you!
The 20kg bell has been coming in clutch.
I’ll have to tell you tomorrow at work – the gift is seeing use in my yard.

Soon I’ll have to get the bell to some park of other, get pullups/dips mixed in with the bell’s ballistics.

Could get some people to train with that way. It’s exposure.

Fat. Days of stubble.
Now, what matters!
Making myself better with the kettlebell and commitment to not making myself have to shave again for porn/masturbation.

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This was the first ~”high” rep kettlebell one arm swing session.

I like the movement now.

Sometimes I’ll do it over snatches or cleans.

And pretty soon I expect to purchase another bell size up.

Plus there’s always going the odyssey route, really push reps, volume for fat loss and large veiny forearms with a thick wrist.

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The reason for frequent workouts is…
they’re winners workouts!

Persistence & Tenacity

6/14/23
I’m a little caffeine addict when I drink the stuff.

Already having said yes to a shift tomorrow, and knowing that it’s a late start, not feeling that I’ll need to get to bed at a reasonable hour…well I’m a little caffeine addict when I drink the stuff.

An iced coffee after work, then an hour and a half later here I am refilling the cup with milk, instant coffee, and strawberry powder that I blended.

Shoot! I dumped in too much coffee powder.

Hopefully I don’t die tonight, nor more closely to typing, during the burpees soon to commence.

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At work the customer was on the phone with the manager/shop as we were on site.

The customer says to me near the end “J, I put in a good word for you and the other helper”.

The driver being old and crotchety isn’t exactly good customer service – it can be cringeworthy on certain jobs with these/some of these knuckleheads.

I’m good at customer service – there must be a way to really make money from that, however – I view it as a golden rule type thing, I as help act like I want help to act.

Polite. Does the work paid for without complaint.

I’m not going to gripe, complain, or flip out at/argue with the customer – I’m going to pack their things, and pack extra additions with “alright, okay, I got you, etc”.

Making money from it, good customer service ; forget the car salesman and waiter/bartender rejections.

There is a way out there for me to make a good living.

Those managers don’t know me, and wouldn’t be the one dude delivering houses with good customer service while the rest of the crew rages about the fact they’re where they’ve put themselves.

Knowing your choices put you exactly where you’re at either breaks you or empowers you.

I see the stubble on my pudgy, nearly double chinned face, so it’s burpees, and recommitting to no porn, no masturbation.

And tonight I’ll bic my scalp, establish the beard line – I find the act of shaving enjoyably meditative.

You simply run the razor over the established line daily from the first time establishing the line til about the month or six week mark.

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This is by no means a standard of “not out of shape”, but whatever you weigh, whoever you are – pick any style of burpees – I tend to do “cdc style one pumps”, set a 20:00 timer, and do 100 before the timer dings.

Doing this does not indicate you are in shape.

Far from it, but do this enough, while decreasing the time, and you may end up getting in shape.

I say this ; “fat body don’t do burpees” – quote that to me.

Put this on a tshirt, now is that a ? or a .
I definitely have ideas for gym shirts, could find some way to sell em, tied into here.

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Thank you tailgating motorcyclist…
Who flipped me off? It was hard to tell, as I let him by with a smile.

He did some rude hand gesture, but I didn’t see any single finger. It looked a rude backhand.

I let that inspire actually doing a proper amount of burpees tonight.

The 100 took ~18:00. I’ve a ways to go to actually being in shape.

With these, I too did a set of kb snatches each side, and the day’s 100+ deep knee bends.

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On another note ; I did not do any pushups before work today. That is rare for me.

And interestingly, before we drove off to our first site (the one of grade a customer service) we hilariously put a vending machine, owned by a coworker, into his pickup truck.

It seems he’s found a place to vend with his, I’m assuming salvaged, vending machine.

How long had he had a vending machine in storage here?

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Had an interesting dream last night ;

My childhood best friend wasn’t doing well – deep into conspiracy theories, doing drugs, living in a car, seemed unhealthy.

It’s not an overly strong feeling, but I wondered “is he dead”.

Went on facebook tonight (really shouldn’t), and saw that my highschool best friend had his second child today, both since I’ve lost touch with him.

Lost touch with both of them.

I prayed about it all, me included – to find the woman, the means of money, to make it happen.

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A cat ran right in front of my car, STOPPED running right centered in the middle of my car – I’d slowed down from 30ish to 20ish, and honked. THAT got it to continue running.

As much as I laugh about the munchkin jailbird driver refusing to hit squirrels, and the contrast of the crotchety old driver who does not give a fuck, hell at this point in 2017 in a similar situation I bump bumped over a raccoon – that night not slowing down, swerving, or honking…today I slowed down, honked DIDN’T splat some dumb ass collared cat.

But then again, I pointed out a sitting cat to a buddy back in 2016, squared dead center with his car’s grille.

He hadn’t noticed it. He didn’t kill it, and it took a few honks to get it to move.
The cat was chill where be sat…in the middle of the street, content like and all that.

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P.S. here’s a cool article on physically strong old school college wrestlers – motivates me to do more mace again, and get to a pullup bar and start really getting reps, ping, ping, ping, ping!

https://web.archive.org/web/20160608133435/https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/16421

6/13/23
I don’t know that I’ve ever naturally worn a hoodie to lift in june – maybe outside of extenuating circumstances, but tonight I did.

845pm, had deep knee bends to do which I’d almost completely forgotten about, plus some burpees and kettlebell snatch which too are daily right now.

I think the 100+ daily requirement on the dkbs will stop come next month. It was a month thing in my eyes when I started.

I’ll keep them involved, just stop counting – see below.

However, kettlebell stuff, and some burpees seems to be an indefinite thing.

Just the other day I finally started to almost like one hand swings with the 32kg bell.

So I have a new avenue of training that I’ve just started working into my sessions.

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Really,.you can just play around.

I’m not particularly enjoying counting, reps, sets, whatever right now – looks like next month, having finished the current month requirement, it’s just going to be mixing exercises together, a handful of kettlebell lifts with calisthenics, and to stop logging exacts.

Most of my lifting history has been sans logs, and I’m feeling going back to that after, dang logging everything or close to it for the past, a little longer than, year and a half.

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What I’m digging about the kettlebell sessions is that it’s an easy on recovery, muscularly engaged/demanding, sprint type stimulus.

You know what?
Maybe that’s why I’m sleeping lots of hours lol, easy on muscular recovery at least – kettlebell work gets you huffing and puffing like sprints – is worth doing daily, am doing so.

The bells truly have me seeing my future, a good future, financial included, being tied to them.

A lot to put into them. A lot to get from them.

A new avenue for me.
Right now both simpler than gym memberships, and simpler than barbell setup/breakdown for me.

For me.
I put my hand on the kettlebell and I know it’s for me.
I hit my stomach, touch my toes, throw myself down, stand up…and know it’s for me!

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I laugh at how lower body heavy my training is at the moment again.

Deep knee bends, and all the kettlebell stuff.

However, all the snatches are doing a great deal for the appearance of my upper back.
It’s pretty cool, and I don’t disagree that the kettlebell “what the hell” effect does apply to lat hypertrophy too.

I’ll see how pullups, and running both end up with little to zero specific work, just lots of kettlebell.

I wouldn’t be surprised to kettlebell my way to 15+ pullups (or better), 7:00 mile (or better) with just another few months of kettlebell.

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“WTH” Kettlebell :
I’ve already been experiencing the effect with biceps, pretty easily curling lifetime PR vicinity anytime I deign and/or impulsively and/or playfully :)- grab a barbell for a quick set.

The one arm clean particularly, though the bell in general on that one.

I’ve moved away from most stuff but the 20kg snatch, only the last few days starting to do every lift with the 32kg bell again.

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Been relistening to this a bunch lately :

They Hated Me – Wes Watson

There’s truth to just exercise yourself positive, today, yesterday, tomorrow til some tomorrow where it does get better!
I’m doing so alone, daily, working physically so as to mentally be where I need to be.

Kettlebell & Burpee, but Pushups have done it before – you never quit, you always work.

“see them as they should be” jumped out at me from the listen today, definitely can practice positivity with the most negative of the guys I work with.

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6/8/23
I can already tell that I’m going to end up investing in a larger stock of kettlebells.

My intention is in one bells, not pairs – you can easily lift mismatch pairs, and I already do for see saw pressing (with a 75lb dumbbell and 32kg kettlebell) – be rugged, lift mismatched pairs.

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Though I’ve now had about 4½ months of access, it’s been the past month and a half or so that I’ve started to have the “how” click more and more, therefore enjoying the process more and more, and therefore doing more and more with them.

🙂 a definite positive feedback loop yeperdo 🙂

My coworker gifting me his unused 16kg and 20kg bells has come in clutch – the 32kg bell I’d purchased still mostly feeling a tad heavy for the desired training effect, then for awhile I did frequent but minimal snatching with the 16kg, and recently upped the bell to the 20kg while also upping my reps/volume some.

I’ve noticed I’ll do far more using ladders than straight sets – therefore it’s a useful approach, ie do whatever works.

Rough goal is (working my way to) 1000 snatches weekly.

In addition to the kettlebell snatches I do some burpees, the reps per set on this slightly increasing – I’m doing pretty minimal volume on them, but daily frequency, and they are getting easier.

I honestly expect to, and feel that I am, leaning out with these – only doing occasional barbell work, and really needing to start doing some running.

I’m aware that I want to get to a 6:00 mile again…THIS YEAR, and am not necessarily doing the steps of that path.

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However kettlebell snatching and burpees are a great one stop shop, a great place to springboard off of in any/all directions.

I’m not stressing the fact I’m not forcing myself to run, or to do pullups, or whatever – I know the kettlebell and burpee habit has the team on it’s back.

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Training needn’t be so rigid, nor so quantifiable.

It’s entirely acceptable to work til you know you’ve worked – the purpose getting to the place of heart beating, sweat covered, uninhibited personality…euphoria.

Then do this daily.

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6/7/23
It’s the right path!
I feel it, intuitively, instinctively.

My workouts are kettlebell snatch, burpees, and with the two I’m on a kick of running 100+ deep knee bends every day – trying to, but not always having these as part of an outdoor lift… otherwise they’re checked off late night in the kitchen lol

Three daily requirements in addition to the nightly pushups.

I’ve been enjoying my sessions, getting pumps and out of breath in brief periods, most always under half an hour.

Strength. Conditioning.
There’s definitely an “and” in between the two above – I’m getting both at the same time. Gladness in doing so :)-

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Today I did the see saw press.
It’s a rather challenging movement.

I once read an anecdote, saying a winner of one of the major bodybuilding competitions in the 1950s did no other upper body work.

I believe it.

Try the movement out.

If you’re like me, only able to moderately load it with what you’ve got (I have a mismatch pair of 75lb dumbbell and 32kg kettlebell that I use) then you push the reps up into the stratosphere.

If you have heavier bells, well by all means OBVIOUSLY weight it up, load it heavy!

Build your obliques and shoulders with the movement.

Upper body all in one. It’s a worthwhile movement. Mostly lost to time. Be the exception. Bring the movement back…to the future!

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Looking back, the see saw press has an absolutely freakish effect on upper body strength, while too is a crazy metabolic booster…

Especially factoring in the mismatch pair that I press with.

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I notice the bells go up for more reps…a tad easier.

I notice the burpee reps feel a little more smooth/crisp/fluid, and a tad easier (going to 10 now instead of 7 – creeping up).

Until next time,
-J

Recent Lifting Music :

creek will rise – conner smith