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"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

1-arm swings and stacked kettlebell 70 lb getup PR

Feels good to stick with a training plan and reach all my goals.  I think it is important to set short-term goals when it comes to training and life.  It is one of the keys to my happiness.

The goal was to do 200 1-arm swings with the 24 kg bell as well as banging out 5 getups with the 24 kg bell on both arms.  Today I did  1-arm swings for 10 rounds of 10/10.  First 5 rounds I did on the 2nd minute and the next 5 rounds I did on-the-minute.  Felt moderately easy and I really got my heartrate up in the last 5 sets.  The plan for the next 3-4 weeks is to add in some high-pulls so I can start working a larger range of motion.    I think I will stick with my goal of 200 swings/hi-pulls with the 24 kg bell and continue to increase the weights I use for getups.

I also did 5 rounds of getups, not including the 12 kg and 16 kg rounds which are my current warmup weights.  I did 3 rounds both sides with the 24 kg bell, the final 2 rounds I did a stacked getup with the 24+8 on my right side and 18+8 on my left side.  A solid  70 lb getup for another PR :)  There are plenty of 'little' guys out there doing getups with huge weights but I'm not inclined to compare myself to other people.  A year ago my shoulders were so damaged from a lifetime of training that I thought I would never put anything heavy overhead again.  Stabilizing and moving around with 70 lbs locked overhead felt fucking awesome :)

 
 
 

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