4/26/24
Ten minutes of soccer ball, a handful of 10cts, then kettlebell ;
Bottoms Up Clean & Press
30x16kg right
I gutted this set out, at 15 you know the grip is working, and are using determination to gut it out – at 20 you think you’ll go past 30…at 28 your hand starts locking way harder, and you barely get the 30…(though that may have been entirely a psychological limit)
Then went for a fifteen minute walk.
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wrist curling/flexing, shoulders (stretching/active mobility and shadow boxing), pretending to row, “pull aparts”, etc freehand with pair of 2½lb plates – this was quite useful
followed by soccer ball, 14ct the best in about ten more minutes of it
and I got the idea to take the ball to a park and just kick for distance, run after it, repeat, maybe with kettlebell incorporated “playful cardio for fat men who hate running” (didn’t do so today, but definitely something to try out)
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A bit of yard work (helping out a neighbor)
Nice afternoon physicality today.
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Not gonna lie, the 304th subscriber came in, and that got me a little hyped up for another session ;
Jerks 40kg
x12 left
x20 right
Press 40kg
x1 fail 2 left
x3+sledge lever + 1 + sledge lever, pressing right, levering to nose left
And after replying to comments for the night, well it’s not dark yet, might as well extend the evening’s physicality with a bit more soccer ball, basically 330pm or 4pm to 730pm almost completely outside, half playfully training, half lazing about.
14ct – lost control as I thought “hey, I’m about to PR”
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Comments on youtube blew up to a degree at 7-9pm, more than just you Balbos 🙂 – spent the time to respond to everything.
The positive feedback helps me more than anyone commenting knows I’d say.
After a dark period, really struggling, I think I’m finally starting to rise, to see the channel taking off, to see myself stronger, better, fit and probably doing performing strongman stuff.
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Lately my feeling has been ; “why bother with high rep pushups – keep them perfect and crisp to compliment the high rep kettlebell pressing (and now jerks as well)”.
It’s a good combination.
I’m on a path to getting seriously strong overhead.
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Late night about to bic my scalp and shower up a realization ;
“I can push the high rep kb jerks in a way that more easily gets me into conditioning territory than the pulls (cleans, snatches, and including swings) – by being built for pressing just as I did with dips five years back I can get into that territory – moreo than with the kb pulls as it was with the dips vs pullups”.
My buddy built to pull could do the high level of strength involved conditioning with pulls.
Me being built to press/push I can do this with presses/pushes/jerks.
I got into that “Cardio Calisthenics™” territory with dips that way, go stupid strong doing high reps and high volume DAILY.
It’s a possible game changer for me were I to run “Heavy, High Rep, High Volume Kettlebell Jerks Daily”.
I think til the adjustable arrives I’ll have to do bup or buc&p with the 16kg, jerks daily, sometimes high rep cleans, occasionally 2h swings with the 40kg.
Life is full of infinite possibility.
Continue here (well youtube technically) build it to where it builds everything else.
Fixes money, supplies more training equipment and a better space to train.
With the access I can see myself getting to strongman and/or weightlifter through heavy kettlebells.
Someone in human history, past, present, or future would/could/will c&p dbl 203lbers.
Could be me.
Let’s see.
Persistence & Tenacity