My lower back issue is almost 100% better only a week after I first noticed it. Unfortunately my right elbow started hurting pretty badly about 5 days ago. I am pretty sure this is a repetitive use issue, not from kettlebell training but instead from my many years as a professional online poker player. I had terrible problems with my hands and elbows after playing over 3-4 million online poker hands over the course of about 7-8 years. These pains went away within a year of me leaving poker (well, kicked out is more like it) but out of nowhere my right elbow is quite sore. It hurts when I squeeze my right hand into a fist so that leads me to believe it is referred pain from my hand. I'm going to have to back off when training my right side. Instead of not training the right side at all I'm going to go about 50% lower training weight and see what happens.
Today I did Kettlebell Getups and Hi-pulls. I typically do hi-pulls first but I wanted to go for a PR on my left side and thought it would be best to do it fresher than if I did it after hi-pulls. I trained with my girlfriend Grace who is doing the ROP. We alternated me doing getups and her doing her clean and press ladder. It made for a nice pace as we are trying to stay fresh with this type of training.
I did 5 getups with the 16 kg , 18, 24, 24+4 left and 24 right, 24 kg bell. Pretty amazing thing doing a 28 kg getup on my left side! 3-4 months ago I could not do a getup on my left side with the 16 kg bell. Feels pretty good :)
Grace and I are both doing hi-pulls so we alternated doing 8/8 reps for 5 sets on the 2nd minute and 5 sets on the minute. I used the 12 or 16 kg bell on my right side so as not to aggravate my elbow. On the left side I used the 12, 16, 18, 24, 24 kg bells for both rounds of 5 sets. We'll see how the elbow feels tomorrow. I must remind myself to ice this thing!
Oh yeah, while doing hi-pulls I dropped the 24 kg bell on the backswing for the first time since training with it! It was getting hot as hell with both Grace and I training and my hands got too sweaty. Wow it made a tremendous thud! I'm glad it happened because now I know it is not the end of the world if I have to let go of the bell for whatever reason.
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