4/29/24
It’s supposed to arrive today, and I’m seriously excited.
A 16 to 32kg adjustable kettlebell, by the 2kg jumps!
Think about that by the 2kg jumps!
I’ll be able to stay at the 35+ rep range for the right hand bottoms up press, and use this bell to get comfortable and baked in strength for a 32kg bup left, will be able to double bell at 16, 20, and 32 matching weight if not shape, and slight mismatches of weight as well.
As soon as it arrives it’s gonna be more one hand swings (training that to comfortable with 32kg) with a sharp focus on bup and buc&p.
I want the double 32kg bup!
I too want to muscle out/cross hold the pair of 32kg bells.
Will I ever touch a barbell again?
Will I bother this summer with pullups?
(I do intend to keep walking, eventually run/jog/sprint – the ≤6:00 mile is still on my mind even if pullups aren’t)
But the kettlebell is primary, the kettlebell is the passion, is the content, IS FOR LIFE (I mean that in every way – not just time, but health, and living fully)…
(Kettlebells For World Health)
I’m excited.
Like I’m a kid, it’s christmas eve, and we’re driving from school – first to my friend’s house, then to grandma & grandpa’s.
Playing with a cool toy as we wait for nana to arrive, and the food to be ready.
Antsy.
Excited.
Pure in the moment and only joy.
…..
I might be fat faced, chubby cheeked, with a double chin, but diet has been approaching keto – we’ll see how strict I end up, as is it’s monday.
Just after midnight I was hungry and had a little more of my kielbasa, egg, and onion mix.
As long as I cook some meat and eggs each night it’s pretty easy to only eat off that til friday night when I’ll grocery shop, get a pizza, donuts, and probably cherry pepsi.
The anabolic diet, I read the book when I was in high school, seems I’m trying it now.
The most challenging part really is to limit milk intake. I think a quart would be the daily upper limit to minimize weekday carbs.
I’m completely okay with unlimited onion in my otherwise carnivore meals.
One big onion between two pounds of sausage, or split between that and a bunch of eggs – it’s very little carb, very little calories, and just adds to the enjoyment.
…..
Otherwise as men we should be pretty well content to eat our fill of meat and eggs.
Born in the mid 90s I’ve spent my entire life hearing bullshit propaganda against all the good foods.
On the occasion I had them as a child I ate them greedily ; my experience in youth a denny’s being very telling.
I’d ask for half sausage half bacon, eating those first, then the eggs (probably with syrup), then heavily buttering, adding syrup, and eating the french toast, then I’d butter and jam the toast slices eating that last, and yes – as a skinny child, shy of kindergarten I’d eat a few more butter, jam, and if they too were there on the table peanut butter packets.
Notice the order of eating started at the fatty meat, then the eggs, then dairy, fruit, and lastly grain.
Children instinctively will eat all the good stuff mom says is bad cause time magazine and the six o’clock news say it is so.
Instead of milk til like age 7 it was soy milk, then low fat, and by 16 or so it was FINALLY whole milk for me.
And I developed a total love for the stuff.
…..
Roughly ten minute/half mile walk.
Forcing the habit.
Need to lose fat.
Followed that up with playing with buc&p, one arm swings (both at 16kg), some 12lb shot put curl/throw/toss and drop/catch, and the soccer ball for just over half an hour.
Didn’t get many counts today with that, but was managing to incorporate my knee occasionally, and kick higher – more ball control if not higher count.
An hour and a half later kicked the soccer ball for a moment, then jerked the double 40kgs for x10, and x12.
That’s definitely a fitness movement, while the clean was mad scary due to humidity at that later hour.
I think I prefer the one arm jerk, somehow it felt harder on the triceps (and this whole thing is probably a push press not a jerk anyway lol).
Either way, it’s applying the 225lb barbell jerk for reps thing I did years ago to the kettlebell.
It’s gonna be good.
I jerk a 40kg or pair of 40kgs, and I bup and/or buc &p light (soon to double bell and progress past 16kg when my 16-32 adjustable competition bell arrives – big smile, I’m excited (the shipment got delayed)).
Sometimes I 2h swing or clean the 40kg for reps.
I think I’d be able to rep a ~60kg, and honestly a bell around that size is on my agenda to bottoms up press.
Performing strongman here I come (while lean from sausage, onions, and eggs).
I miss the gym to a degree, but this journey is far more epic than “I spent a bunch of hours lifting alone inside at weird hours late at night”.
The program of soccer ball & kettlebells.
Will I ever do any fight training again though?
…..
Took about twenty six hours to eat the 2lbs of kielbasa, ten eggs, and an onion.
Two days of food, one meal at 8pm last night (the only meal that day), then three feedings today between lunch and 10pm.
In total I drank a quart or 40oz of milk, and probably a quart of orange juice alongside these feedings.
I had a handful of chocolate covered coffee beans, five beans at a time, a few times.
Keto? Maybe.
It’s pretty low everything right now.
If I am actually disciplined with diet, with brief daily walks, with my multiple kettlebell minisessions, and daily soccer ball play…
It’s gonna be good in a few months.
Tomorrow I cook some really tasty sausage with an onion, and maybe up the eggs (I can find 60ct for ~$12 – it’s the most affordable thing right now)
Persistence & Tenacity