At least, if you saw my head yesterday you would think they do. I whacked it pretty good. Got a big ole golf ball sized knot right in the middle of my head. Hurt like a @#$$@#!!
Anyway, sometimes pain lets you know you are alive. I was living yesterday! After hitting my head, I was still able to knock out a few sets of pull-ups and reverse pushups. No sprints this day, it was raining so hard I would have needed a boat.
Today was a lot less painful and my workout seemed to go really well despite the new shape of my head.
7/28/10:
Double Snatches with 2 24kgs: 5 x 15 sets
Pistols with 24kg: 3/3 x 4, 2/2 These felt the best they ever have!
Presses w/ 32kg: 4/4 x 4, 3/3 These also felt great; they had good speed.
Hopefully I can do some sprints tomorrow. It will only be 96 degrees. Won't have to worry about getting my blood warmed up...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Back to Reality
Vacations always seem so short. Especially when they are over and you go back to the real world. At least the memories will last for years, if not lifetimes. Maybe life is supposed to be about making good memories.
Anyway, I was able to train while on vacation. And why wouldn't i be? Kettlebells are made to travel; they come with that nice handle made for carrying them wherever you wish to take them. That and you can run sprints as long as you have space to run...
This week, my back to reality week, is also my deloading week. Time to back off a bit.
So, today this is what I did:
Dbl kettlebell snatches with 16s: 10 x 8
Cross body, bottoms up pistols w/ 16kg: 3/3 x 5
1/2 kneeling waiter's press w/ 24kg: 3/3 x 5
Then, I practiced handstands and neck bridging throughout the day.
Today, I held a handstand for about 4 to 5 seconds! No walls, in the middle of the room. Its a start....
Anyway, I was able to train while on vacation. And why wouldn't i be? Kettlebells are made to travel; they come with that nice handle made for carrying them wherever you wish to take them. That and you can run sprints as long as you have space to run...
This week, my back to reality week, is also my deloading week. Time to back off a bit.
So, today this is what I did:
Dbl kettlebell snatches with 16s: 10 x 8
Cross body, bottoms up pistols w/ 16kg: 3/3 x 5
1/2 kneeling waiter's press w/ 24kg: 3/3 x 5
Then, I practiced handstands and neck bridging throughout the day.
Today, I held a handstand for about 4 to 5 seconds! No walls, in the middle of the room. Its a start....
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Do these kettlebells make me look fat?
Cause I'm getting heavier! 5 lbs heavier anyways... I weigh 168 lately. My kettlebell sessions have been making me more hungry. Eating is good.
It has been a good week or two since I last posted. I celebrated my 13th year of marriage to my perty, hot wife. And, I now have a 6 year old little man. My boys are growing up!
Training has been going pretty well. Still playing with the moves I want to get better at like the bent press and the pistol. Here is a look at what i've been up to:
7/6/10
TGU w/ 24kg 3/3
SLDL w/ 2 24's: 5/5 x 10
Bent Press w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 6 sets - felt thick after doing these!
7/8/10
TGU w/ 24kg: 3/3
Snatch w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 12 sets
BW pistols: 5/5 x 6
Hand stand pushups: 5 x 6
I've been doing 70 yard sprints over the last week. They feel really good. Except for the fact that they are much longer than 40 yard sprints!
That's it for now. Have a good weekend.
It has been a good week or two since I last posted. I celebrated my 13th year of marriage to my perty, hot wife. And, I now have a 6 year old little man. My boys are growing up!
Training has been going pretty well. Still playing with the moves I want to get better at like the bent press and the pistol. Here is a look at what i've been up to:
7/6/10
TGU w/ 24kg 3/3
SLDL w/ 2 24's: 5/5 x 10
Bent Press w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 6 sets - felt thick after doing these!
7/8/10
TGU w/ 24kg: 3/3
Snatch w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 12 sets
BW pistols: 5/5 x 6
Hand stand pushups: 5 x 6
I've been doing 70 yard sprints over the last week. They feel really good. Except for the fact that they are much longer than 40 yard sprints!
That's it for now. Have a good weekend.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Can You Feel It?
Feeling really good lately. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. It must be because I feel like my training is going well. That just makes me feel good!
OR, maybe I feel so good because this weekend, I will have been married for 13 years! That seems so crazy to me. I remember the first day I saw Addie just like it was yesterday. She was riding in an elevator with her Football boyfriend at NC State. He never had I chance after that...
I have been blessed with a great life: a wonderful wife, and 2 beautiful boys. Everything else is just icing on the cake. Yep, I am blessed.
Here is my training over the last few days:
6/22/10
A - Single Leg Dead Lifts w/ 108 lbs: 5/5 x 10 sets
B - Bent Press w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 5 sets, then 3/3 x 1 set
6/24/10
A - Snatch w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 12 sets
B1 - X body pistols w/ 16kg: 5/5 x 5 sets
B2 - Buttoms Up Press w/ 24kg: 5/5 x 5 sets
Tomorrow: Sprints!
Have a good one!
OR, maybe I feel so good because this weekend, I will have been married for 13 years! That seems so crazy to me. I remember the first day I saw Addie just like it was yesterday. She was riding in an elevator with her Football boyfriend at NC State. He never had I chance after that...
I have been blessed with a great life: a wonderful wife, and 2 beautiful boys. Everything else is just icing on the cake. Yep, I am blessed.
Here is my training over the last few days:
6/22/10
A - Single Leg Dead Lifts w/ 108 lbs: 5/5 x 10 sets
B - Bent Press w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 5 sets, then 3/3 x 1 set
6/24/10
A - Snatch w/ 32kg: 5/5 x 12 sets
B1 - X body pistols w/ 16kg: 5/5 x 5 sets
B2 - Buttoms Up Press w/ 24kg: 5/5 x 5 sets
Tomorrow: Sprints!
Have a good one!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Flying
I've started sprinting again. And it feels good! I feel like I can fly again. There's nothing like it. I am mixing short sprint sessions on my days off from kettlebells. So far, so great.
Training has been going very well. At least I think so. Today looked like this:
A - Snatches w/ 32kg: 4/4 x 10 sets
B - X body pistols w/ 16kg: 3/3 x 6 sets
C - Double Cleans w/ 2 32kgs: 5 x 9 sets
I decided I wanted to get good at doing pistols for some reason. Must be all this heat making me a little crazy...
Training has been going very well. At least I think so. Today looked like this:
A - Snatches w/ 32kg: 4/4 x 10 sets
B - X body pistols w/ 16kg: 3/3 x 6 sets
C - Double Cleans w/ 2 32kgs: 5 x 9 sets
I decided I wanted to get good at doing pistols for some reason. Must be all this heat making me a little crazy...
Friday, May 28, 2010
Sugar Cookies
About 17 years ago, when I started dating my wife, I went to my wife's family Christmas get together. I'm very introverted and I was in a room full of people that I did not know. It was awkward. When it came time for everyone to exchange presents, it was more awkward. I remember watching everyone open their gifts and someone had laid a gift by me with my name on it. When I opened it, it was a bag of home made sugar cookies. Addie's grandmother, Peggy, didn't want me to be left out. So, she baked me some sugar cookies.
She may have already had some made, but it didn't matter. She gave them to me because she didn't want me to be left out. Every year at Christmas, I looked forward to getting those cookies, even when I was "too healthy" to eat them. I knew Peggy was giving me love with her cookies.
I'm telling all of this because this week Peggy passed away. Yes, in about one month's time, Addie lost both her mom and her grandmother. Not just Addie, though her and her family feel the losses the most, but the world has lost two wonderful ladies. Ladies who lived their life by loving others. Ladies who didn't let life's road blocks stop them from reaching out and making the world a better place.
In the last month, I have learned a great deal about life. Life is what we make it. We can live it and make the world a better place by loving others, or we can just exist and take up space. If we just exist, when we are gone, no one will know. But if we love and make a difference in people's lives, those people will be moved to do the same and the whole world will know. Peggy and Kat both made the world a better place. I guess now its my turn. Watch out though, cause I don't bake cookies...
She may have already had some made, but it didn't matter. She gave them to me because she didn't want me to be left out. Every year at Christmas, I looked forward to getting those cookies, even when I was "too healthy" to eat them. I knew Peggy was giving me love with her cookies.
I'm telling all of this because this week Peggy passed away. Yes, in about one month's time, Addie lost both her mom and her grandmother. Not just Addie, though her and her family feel the losses the most, but the world has lost two wonderful ladies. Ladies who lived their life by loving others. Ladies who didn't let life's road blocks stop them from reaching out and making the world a better place.
In the last month, I have learned a great deal about life. Life is what we make it. We can live it and make the world a better place by loving others, or we can just exist and take up space. If we just exist, when we are gone, no one will know. But if we love and make a difference in people's lives, those people will be moved to do the same and the whole world will know. Peggy and Kat both made the world a better place. I guess now its my turn. Watch out though, cause I don't bake cookies...
Monday, May 17, 2010
Lean and Mean
About 17 weeks ago I set out on a new training adventure. Actually, I set out to test my limits; again. I decided to try Geoff Neupert's Kettlebell Burn program. This a program designed to burn fat. When I started the program, I weighed 168 and I was already at 6% bodyfat. So, honestly, I didn't really expect much of a change. But I do enjoy a challenge. Anyway, by the end of the program, and all the way through it, I was amazed. Now I am down to 163 lbs and I have 3.8% bodyfat! I have muscles that have muscles! Geoff's program rocks!
Losing the bodyfat was awesome, but what was even more amazing is that my strength sky rocketed. By the end of Geoff's program, I was snatching 32kg over my head 63 times per arm in 15 minutes. That's 126 times! That's almost half my own bodyweight being snatched over my head in ONE arm 126 times! Not only that, I was doing 20 turkish getups with the 32kg in 10 minutes! My body feels so solid and strong; it is an amazing feeling.
So, between 4 to 5 lbs of bodyfat and got stronger. Not only did I get stronger, but I legitimately PR'd every single time I trained. By that, I mean that I consistently achieved more reps every single time I trained. That is freakin' amazing. How was I able to do that? Simple; solid program design. Geoff's Kettlebell Burn is brilliantly laid out. He is a genius when it comes to program design. I never had to test my range of motion, I never worried that I shouldn't be doing a particular exercise. I trained. I followed Geoff's program. I got stronger - everyday. I got leaner. I got results. Period.
Thanks for stopping by!
Tim
Losing the bodyfat was awesome, but what was even more amazing is that my strength sky rocketed. By the end of Geoff's program, I was snatching 32kg over my head 63 times per arm in 15 minutes. That's 126 times! That's almost half my own bodyweight being snatched over my head in ONE arm 126 times! Not only that, I was doing 20 turkish getups with the 32kg in 10 minutes! My body feels so solid and strong; it is an amazing feeling.
So, between 4 to 5 lbs of bodyfat and got stronger. Not only did I get stronger, but I legitimately PR'd every single time I trained. By that, I mean that I consistently achieved more reps every single time I trained. That is freakin' amazing. How was I able to do that? Simple; solid program design. Geoff's Kettlebell Burn is brilliantly laid out. He is a genius when it comes to program design. I never had to test my range of motion, I never worried that I shouldn't be doing a particular exercise. I trained. I followed Geoff's program. I got stronger - everyday. I got leaner. I got results. Period.
Thanks for stopping by!
Tim
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