3/31/24
I don’t recall when I typed it up.
Saw it today while video editing between sets of 34kg buc&p.
And I’d have seen it tomorrow anyway.
On the digital sticky notes I’d written on the digital calendar for the 1st ;
“start dribbling soccer ball as a new skill in addition to kb training”
It’s Easter Sunday, some stores are closed, some aren’t.
I wasn’t even sure if I had a soccer ball.
I went looking. Found two ie had them already.
Made my selection, and pumped it up.
My internet speeds at home are mad slow.
While videos upload I do other things.
So it was outside an hour after the kettlebell, playing around with a soccer ball for the first time in nearly a decade I’d say.
Immediately I felt small muscles firing, and understood (again) the need for agility.
I’m going to practice dribbling a soccer ball every day in april, alongside my daily overhead pressing (which is really kettlebell at this point) of course.
Tried handstands the other day, they’re rusty and that wasn’t even a thing I was great at.
I’ve been moving away from quote unquote “normal” lifting.
The kettlebell is plenty of real world strength, the main variant – bottoms up clean and press, the total body tension is nuts.
Ab and/or oblique soreness has been the usual lately, then it’s anybody’s guess as to where, if anywhere else, I may feel soreness.
My quad at the kneecap, one side, the other, or both – I’ve felt it there.
An odd observation has been that my free hand on buc&p – that side of the upper back is what’s sore later.
Frankly 1950s bodybuilding was big on the concept of rib cage expansion…I dare you to make a heavy and high rep buc&p your main lift for a time, then come back and tell me the concept isn’t truth.
Kettlebell one arm stuff, mace, and the panting of anything really (burpees, sprints, jump rope)… it’s real.
Sternum cramps…a few periods over the years I’ve felt them, and they’ve always meant muscular growth.
Wherever I may be in life, here’s one big positive I’m conscious of…
The kettlebell training, how good I’m getting at bottoms up work/play/stuff…it has me giddy.
Giddy is the only word.
A moment of buc&p each day, covers everything, and now I’ve started a playful physical skill.
Dribbling the soccer ball.
Why that?
Cause it’s wholly new to me, and can be done anywhere.
Three tennis balls could work for juggling.
Heck it could’ve been handstands…maybe that’ll be brought further soon…
What I know is, it’d behoove me to continue kettlebell training, have my playful skill…and then go for brief runs cause I keep saying I’m going to make a run for a ≤6:00 mile (& 20+ pullups (which could fall to the wayside of kettlebell)) these warm seasons.
A shift in my training…
Back to well rounded athleticism.
Persistence & Tenacity