Month: October 2024

Certain old time lifts would be very useful in the present.

Humanity has become weaker overall, snd even the gym goer has become affected by this, most particularly in ability to lift weights overhead since…

The press was abolished from olympic competition (may the ioc never do to wrestling what they did to the clean & press).

The dumbbell swing stopped being, not only a main lift but done at all…

I was thinking about this as I swing snatched double 32kg kettlebells.

The double kettlebell snatch, even in the swing snatch which is definitely easier than in the dead snatch, is worth more than it’s weight on a barbell.

Being a 225lb/100kg power snatch has long eluded me (and I’ve been close plus done 205lbs on so many occasions, and even for a very noteworthy early am hurry up volume session) it strikes me that we’re I to swing snatch my double 40kg bells I’d be good for over 225lb/200kg on the barbell version.

Why?
The swing snatch has a much larger arc vs the relative vertical pulling line of a barbell snatch.

And turning the bells over on a double bell dead snatch would require as much pulling strength in an awkward way as can be.

The kettlebell forces you to improve at using your hips and is a more demanding implement on the upper back than a barbell is.

I was thinking about it, and realized a dumbbell swing would be the largest arc though, not having to turnover like a kettlebell needs to.

…..

October 28, 2024
As I came in from the day’s second session, the second being a quick 200 reps total of one arm swings and in mind I was writing the above.

(these partly done as sets with one hand switch, partly done as h2h which allows me to go higher rep as it’s easier mentally for me – I did 25 left + 25 right as my highest rep set with normal oasw vs 70 total reps in one set of x35 each hand done h2h)

I’m still chasing the 10x40kg bottoms up press, and do expect to soon be purchasing a 48kg bell.

It’d be cool to have a pair so as to be able to say “I’ve clean and pressed a pair of beasts”, but I don’t care to spend ~$200 twice when I only need one for bottoms up pressing, and prefer alternating c&p singles when I do heavy workouts.

I could very well “win the internet” on a 48kg/beast amrap pretty quickly, I’ve done 16x40kg right hand more than once, and I think the best set written of online is 18x48kg.

I’m close.
I’m pretty good at this kettlebell stuff.

And so far as I can tell very very few have bottoms up pressed 48kg on the english portion of the internet.

Persistence & Tenacity

“Studies Have Shown”
The god of both the evidence based lifter and of the science based lifter is the study.

A certain type of person, due to religious belief or something will immediately defer to the invocation of “studies have shown”.

Therefore, to win any and all training based arguments, simply invocate these studies, and what they have shown (particularly best when these studies have been made up in the moment/on the spot…all in your head).

Once for a laugh, as I gave a coworker a ride home, I explained this concept to him, then made up the most exaggerated of “facts”, stating it with the segue of “studies have shown”…”ah, no way – they have”…he bought it, I laughed, pointed it out…
“No way! It works!”

On one side is instinctive training, bro science, and all the n=1 anecdotes (my personal favorites).

One the other side is science based training, those who look for optimal training (and only optimal training), and those who want lab coats to say what is and isn’t possible for you based on studies done using leg extension machines and horribly unphysical college students.

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Persistence & Tenacity

#sciencebasedtraining #evidencebasedtraining #strongmantraining #bodybuildingtraining #nattyornot

October 20, 2024 ~545pm
Today was Day 365 Overhead Press Every Day.

I sit here eating dinner, chicken breast with white rice and shredded cheese, goat milk (a new discovery) to drink, reflecting on my training over the last year.

I’ve put on a lot of shoulders in the past year of, what could’ve been called, shoulders every day.

At the start I was using the barbell, and at the start I hit my what was only my second time pressing 225lbs (with a gap of about a year), and also early on this year I did it or heavier a handful of times having a PR last November of 235lbs.

About that same time I purchased a 40kg kettlebell, and with that everything has changed.

…..

Being able to both press and snatch the 40kg bell, both sides, about a month later I purchased a second matching 40kg bell, the idea to hit an overweight Sig Klein challenge.

I have not yet completed that challenge, but after a few months I started to bottoms up clean the 40kg bell, and there became a quest.

I started doing bup amrap sets with the 32kg.

Eventually I got my first 40kg bup.
My most recent PR was x9 right hand.

This, maybe six months, of bottoms up press as primary, now stacked with about a month of daily sledgehammer levering training – I’ve put on forearm size to say the least.

…..

The day after tomorrow, October 22, will be an entire year day to day.

I continue the streak, as I’m still actively chasing bottoms up press 10x40kg right hand…from there I’ll probably have to buy a 48kg…or at least get 48+ via bell with hat or stacked bell bottoms up press.

WHILE continuing to chase the 20lb sledgehammer lever.

My training has become fully outdoors, the feats like training for old time circus strongman.

-J
Persistence & Tenacity

#strongman #overheadpress #kettlebell #shoulderday

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