I don’t grasp the concept of having a weak midsection.
Training was always compound lifts, never once putting on a belt, doing partials, calisthenics alongside the entire time.
I wonder if I can dragon flag, about a decade ago at 235lbs I shocked a training partner by doing one.
I’ve actually done a human flag before, that was about four years back, off of the ability to do 6 handstand pushups against a wall, and 8 or so pullups at a bodyweight of probably 260lbs.
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Everything one bell with the kettlebell is core work.
I actually find the one arm swing harder than the snatch – you have to keep the bell centerline, and hit the brakes at eye level, back down, repeat.
On a snatch the brakes are when you punch through/punch under, you’re hitting the gas through a longer range of motion that a one arm swing.
To me it’s just easier.
Presently I don’t think you need to go too heavy on your bell selection.
I’d like to have a bell of ~50kg and one of ~60kg, just to see if I can snatch them, and how long it would take to strict press the 60kg bell.
With the kettlebell these are the parameters I’m thinking of.
I really have it in mind to eventually have a much better selection, and to be regularly pressing 175ish lbs.
lol “ish”
A shower thought was a cool workout idea “mile ish + 100 ish burpees”.
Cool Workout Idea – “Mile ish & 100 ish Burpees” :
Set cones ~50yds apart.
If you jog/run down and back it’s 5 burpees at one end.
If you hit burpees on both ends it’s 3 burpees at a pop.
Run 16x/32x lengths, you’re around 1600m, and with the 16x & 5s you’re at a mile with 80 burpees, with the 32x & 3s you’re at a mile with 96 burpees.
Not an exact mile?
Not exactly 100 burpees?
Who cares.
Strength involved conditioning is life.
Maybe park a bell on one side or both sides of the run/jog – burpees and/or kettlebell.
Fun fun.
It’s another option.
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They say with high frequency training to back off by the time/if/when your strength dips down 20%.
The left shoulder irks me. Even the 32kg oap feels relatively heavy.
Heck, a 95lb barbell oap was danged near a max lift…
But right arm. Right arm I may be able to c&p a 60kg kettlebell should I have access.
It’s weird, having the “dark times” on the left pressing, but be in PR territory every time right hand.
I continue to press.
I press on.
The dark times will go away eventually.
I’m committed to daily overhead pressing, and really wanting access to the full line of at least one bells.
Really run the c&p to old time strongman status.
Lately I’ve been feeling that performing strongman ala old time strongman is at least in my vicinity of present ability if not already there.
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Fixing The Kink In A New Jump Rope :
It’s long annoyed me that when you buy a jump rope, the plastic that is the rope portion has many kinks from being folded up about eight times to fit in a little box.
You want at most one, this perfectly centered at the center of the rope, that which hits the ground.
For days now I’ve had this new, $5 impulse purchase born in the opposite of weakness hanging perfectly balanced and centered off a hanger.
A hook too would work.
Now the rope ain’t all kinky.
It’s ready for use, a few less catches on you going to happen.
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It might be time for “Egg Power Diet” again, that this time around being full freedom to eat whatever again so long as each day contains one dozen eggs and one pound of beef.
Seriously, my only dietary guideline at present is “have some meat every day”, and beef just feels more robust than most other choices.
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