October 20, 2024 ~545pm
Today was Day 365 Overhead Press Every Day.
I sit here eating dinner, chicken breast with white rice and shredded cheese, goat milk (a new discovery) to drink, reflecting on my training over the last year.
I’ve put on a lot of shoulders in the past year of, what could’ve been called, shoulders every day.
At the start I was using the barbell, and at the start I hit my what was only my second time pressing 225lbs (with a gap of about a year), and also early on this year I did it or heavier a handful of times having a PR last November of 235lbs.
About that same time I purchased a 40kg kettlebell, and with that everything has changed.
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Being able to both press and snatch the 40kg bell, both sides, about a month later I purchased a second matching 40kg bell, the idea to hit an overweight Sig Klein challenge.
I have not yet completed that challenge, but after a few months I started to bottoms up clean the 40kg bell, and there became a quest.
I started doing bup amrap sets with the 32kg.
Eventually I got my first 40kg bup.
My most recent PR was x9 right hand.
This, maybe six months, of bottoms up press as primary, now stacked with about a month of daily sledgehammer levering training – I’ve put on forearm size to say the least.
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The day after tomorrow, October 22, will be an entire year day to day.
I continue the streak, as I’m still actively chasing bottoms up press 10x40kg right hand…from there I’ll probably have to buy a 48kg…or at least get 48+ via bell with hat or stacked bell bottoms up press.
WHILE continuing to chase the 20lb sledgehammer lever.
My training has become fully outdoors, the feats like training for old time circus strongman.
-J
Persistence & Tenacity
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