September 2012

Only 7 workouts in September.  Not really working on what I ought to, but better than nothing.  Self discipline / motivation is in the tubes.  I just feel drained.

September 30, 2012

Swings
28kg; 12 x 5/5/5/5/5
Left, Double, Right, Double, Left
300
18 minutes

Pushups 3 x 11
Horizontal Pull 3 x 7

September 23, 2012

Swings
24 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5/5
Left, Double, Right, Double, Left
375
18 minutes

Pushups 3 x 11
Horizontal Pull 3.x 7

September 17, 2012

Swings
24 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5
300

Pushups 2 x 10
Horizontal Pull 2 x 10

September 16, 2012

Swings
24 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5
300

Pushups 3 x 10

September 15, 2012

Swing
24 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5
300

Pushups
3 x 10

September 14, 2012

Swing
24 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5
300

September 9, 2012

Swing
20 kg; 15 x 5/5/5/5
300

June 5th, 2012

Snatches:

24kg x 5/5
20kg x 5/5
16kg x 10/10

For five sets.

100/100 total

STRONG BY SIXTY

I just turned 50 so I'm looking forwards and backwards.  I've been doing kettlebells etcetera for almost five years now.  One would say I've progressed little.  And they would be right.  Frustrating.  But I've learned some valuable lessons along the way.  Lessons about people, motivation, self-determination, accountability, energy, physiology, recovery, and programing.

Currently, I'm reading a management book about principles and goals.  Essentially the book advocates selecting several meaningful phrases to help remind you to keep the main thing the main thing...so I've been hunting for meaningful verses, saying, stories, and phrases.  One I've been tossing around is "Strong by Sixty" or Strongx60.  The idea is that in 10 years I want to be significantly stronger.  Oftentimes people take the short path, the short cut, looking for that instant gratification.  Good programs are well thought out and followed.  10 years gives me 120 months, or 60 two month cycles, or 40 three month cycles.  Plenty of time to focus.  Build some decent movement patterns and top them off with some decent strength.  Brick by brick.  I'm still coming back from torched adrenals, and these past two weeks a really sore knee (mobility issues in the ankle and hip).  But hey, I've got 120 months to make progress.  In a year I could do three months each of KB muscle, RTK, Power to the People and ETK(+).

I have to admit that one of the things that's drawn me to this thought is an article in DD's Spring edition of Hard Style.  There is an Article by Paul McIlroy on all the thing's he's accomplished following the principles in PTTP.  He's been at it for 10 years.  He's done some amazing stuff.  And I think I can too.......

Today - Light Snatch work
20kg; 5/5
16kg; 10/10
Four rounds
24kg; 5/5 x 5
85/85

The Avengers - Best Line

You’re going to lose. It’s in your nature… You lack conviction.


— Agent Phil Coulson

Some people call it motivation.  I call it energy.  Agent Phil calls it conviction. 

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Just now getting over a cold. Based on today’s performance I would say that I must have already been coming down with a cold during my last session. I was still a little light headed after my training and I have a little tickle in my chest so still not 100%, but I had the itch.

Superset snatch work
Snatch 20kg 5/5
Snatch 16kg 10/10
for 8 rounds

120/120 total

Walked the dog for @ mile.

The Vortex of Sadness

Slept like crap. Boss is in town. BP is a little higher than normal. I tried to jump rope today...long story. Managed 10 minutes, and I fear I'll have sore knees tomorrow. Snatch work: Snatch 20kg 4 x 5/5 Snatch 16kg 4 x 10/10 Total 60/60 Is all I could eek out.

Backfill

OK. Time for an update. It seems with me it's either sink or swim, but mainly sink. Last fall I was doing complexes at the recommendation of my trainer...and then I crashed. We suspected adrenal fatigue. No energy, poor sleep, work like a dog and not lose weight (I was even keeping a food journal averageing <2000 cals a day). So around Christmas we cut waaayy down. Mainly it was a stop and smell the roses program. In January I began to do some light snatch work which was new for me. Usually I ‘m working cleans and presses, but now we switched focus to slowly make progress on stamina. And I was. But then work got in the way. My current prescription for training is more of a tabata knockoff (See what Dan John has to say here, here, here, and here). However, since I haven’t done much in the past two weeks, I decided to just go easy and take one step back into the January program which was kind of a drop set format: 5 snatches right and left with the 20kg, immediately followed by 10/10 with the 16kg for 1 round. Normally I would do seven rounds for 105/105 total, but went with only five rounds today.

Snatch 20kg 5 x 5/5
Snatch 16kg 5 x 10/10
Total 75/75

The get-ups are partials. Mainly just time under tension, doing kalos stenos type circles and pry’s.

Partial TGUs 16kg; 2x1/1x5/5

Then I took the dog for a walk.

I just got a pedometer for grins and giggles. The walk was just shy of a mile. Today’s total so far is 2.58 miles.

I will also put in about 10 minutes of club bell work just to loosen up the shoulder’s.

Light and easy. Easy peezy.