7/23/23
I’ve got plenty of caffeine in me, about a liter of cherry pepsi, a light dinner in me, a medium bowl of buttered rice pilaf, a big bowl of peanut butter cereal…I feel real good, energy got right much hours in the day later after sleeping in and then waking up exhausted, so I’m going to add to the good – I’m not taking the day off after all.
8pm hour, kettlebell one arm swings – a quick 50 reps total a side ; this getting me euphoric, a bit out of breath with a pump from my glutes to my lats, a tad in the hands.
It took under ten minutes from stepping outside to being done with the session entirely, bell away, cleanup/breakdown finished.
I love this aspect of the kettlebell.
I just step outside, do the thing, and my logistics being no concern take little more.
I could take the bell to a park, the beach, a mountain/the woods, but kiss principle (and full honesty laziness) ; I step outside, and never have to take a day off.
Like calisthenics, owning a kettlebell IS high frequency logistics.
Now there’s an issue of hand care with lots of kettlebell ballistics…I bypass it entirely by wearing mover’s gloves as I lift.
They can tear up, but being reversible a ~$8 pair of gloves is ~8 months of usage.
I have a few pairs. Do the math.
…..
The kettlebell is an awesome thing.
It doesn’t take it out of me like gym training has in the past – as far as I’m concerned there is no balancing act necessary between the labor job I work and the usage of the kettlebell.
These brief kettlebell sessions make me feel good, build me up, making me strong everywhere I need to be real world.
With the bell I’m training every property, strength, conditioning, grip, bulletproofing myself…making myself happy, giving myself a daily euphoria.
Only starting the kettlebell in 2023/my late 20s is a hindsight is 20/20 thing for me, as every young man should be planted in front of an amply stocked line of kettlebells (I’d say one bell of 16kg, 24kg, 32kg, and 40kg qualifies as well stocked, maybe with a 20lber to start) with his father or an uncle or someone to teach him real quickly what to do with them before unleashing that youthful angst/energy/drive unto the dominance of the thing…
Uncle Vladdy! If only you were not but a figment of my imagination! What I missed by not throwing the bell around for the wrestling and shot put performances of my youth!
↑ dude, definitely something to take note of here – why am I not at bjj or doing adult track meets
Persistence & Tenacity
guardians of asgaard – amon amarth