Woah! I hadn’t typed anything up for here and posted yet this month.
Haven’t had much interest in blogging.
I prefer to write where it’s seen, read…
Basically I leave a lot of replies on reddit mostly on r/kettlebell, and sometimes write an ig thread, screen grabbing them for future video overlay use.
Why all the comments? …
Just to get a rep!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkm7sPdEcH8
gang starr – just to get a rep
I’ll probably forever care more about youtube than all the other platforms.
Though I can be reached at any of the aforementioned above as I check them all way too often.
My youtube videos are on a hilariously long delay. On shorts alone I could schedule out six months, maybe eight.
I tend to post kettlebell stuff to reddit first as u/J-from-PandT.
My ability on kettlebells is getting impressive, particularly on strength juggling and the high wrist demand press variations.
I basically freestyle the kettlebell most days, jump rope some days, and besides my daily pushups I’ve been doing daily hindu squats.
Been living on large pieces of pork cooked in the crockpot, and copious quantities of milk.
It’s like the poor strongman’s diet, which consists mostly of milk, pork, onions, instant mashed potatoes, ramen, and lots of those snack packs of sandwich crackers.
There’s a little bit more foods included, but those are the “meal prep” – the rest a night or two a week or something, and it’s really only $70/week TOPS.
I’m not tracking that too closely. It’s probably more like $50/week.
1lb pork = $2 to $2.70
Milk = $2.60/gallon
Round those to $5/day, $35/week.
It’s at $70/week tops right now.
My weight seems to be staying in the 295lb area.
There’s not much training volume, but (nicely) appetite is pretty high, and I can see more thigh + a little less gut.
I feel more fit from kettlebell, hindu squats.
Been focusing on how I breathe a lot during workouts.
I like in/up + out/down both on hindu squats where that comes completely naturally, and on kettlebell swings where it takes a bit of conscious effort to stick to – if you’re mental keeps on point it feels a more effective, if counterintuitive, way to breathe.
I’m coming to believe in strength training that you can do well enough, and do so forever on basically everything being moderate ; weights, reps, effort, etc.
Or maybe it’s that I’ve plenty of base built with far more challenge before getting here.
I can already see over the next three to fifteen years that I’ll get to a spot where had I gone the powerlifting route I’d have ended up world class at it…but I hadn’t, the all over the place methods and tools with god tier consistency – now having found kettlebells…I’ll be that strong on “Backyard Circus Kettlebell” which is what I’m thinking of what I’m doing as.
To be freakishly strong at bottoms up variations, at flipping the bells, these moreso than the more traditional kettlebell lifts.
It’s 2am and I’m stupid hungry.
This is why I make sure ramen, peanut butter, cheese are always on hand.
Any two, or all three, combined may not be fancy, but it’s plenty of nutrition for your dollar.
-J