So what, you just…swing the KB ten thousand times? I mean it’s straight forward.
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Well, 20 workouts in 26 days which all consist of 500 kettlebell swings is pretty much the least fun thing you can do in the gym for 26 days.
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You could superset them with some high rep Bat Wings.
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In all seriousness, I’d rather run Mass Made Simple again or the Kroc Squat program than do the swing program again.
Apart from maybe Smolov Jnr, this was the most miserable challenge I’ve done.
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Besides the obvious suck, how did you do with the Smolov Jr. just curious?
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It was about 6/8 years ago, so my memory is a bit hazy and my logs don’t go back that far. I definitely got hurt, repeatedly and often. I think I made it through the 3 weeks but I wouldn’t like to put money on it. It sucked, pure and simple, even at the ridiculously low levels of strength that I had at the time. I was definitely in pain (not discomfort, or stiffness, or DOMs, actual pain) a lot and I don’t remember any great strength increase from it.
Maybe I did something stupid with it, maybe I just wasn’t ready for it, but I have absolutely no desire to try it again and find out.
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I honestly don’t know how you do this…
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You mentioning this makes me tempted to do it again too to quickly drop a bit more weight. Excited to see how it goes for you the second time round.
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I guess it’s simple and you don’t have to think much, but you just seem to enjoy punishment. I like to sprinkle in my suffering instead of making it the focus of my sessions.
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Here is an example of your ‘rest day’, right off the bat:
Here is another example of your ‘rest day’:
250 pushups and 400 air squats. Then overhead carries and single leg rdls. On a rest day.
What you replaced the program with is literally the most impossible thing I have seen. There’s no telling if you can do the 10K challenge as written or not, because you just didn’t do it. But if you did it AS WRITTEN, I’d wager you’d get through it.
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Fair point. I still don’t think my grip is up for it.
I actually really want to try the 10000 swings in 10days challenge at some point
Anna, just go back and read what you wrote just now, please. You claim your grip isn’t up for 500 a day for 3 days in a row - which nobody’s is, it takes a few workouts to get used to it better - but you want to do 1,000 swings for 10 days in a row. Does that strike you as ridiculous?
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By the way, my nutrition has been on point -
Turkey meatballs with mixed veggies
Strip steak (perfect sear and inside) with a salad on the side
Salmon with white rice and soy sauce, cucumber-tomato mixed withy avocado vinaigrette on the side
Tonight is more salmon with a spicy szechuan sauce on top of a salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, and spinach
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Oh, the 10k swings in 10day challenge doesn’t have a prescribed set scheme. It was the consistent, unbroken 50rep sets that got me in the original 10k challenge
That steak is 
on point!
1.5-2” thick steaks, that dark sear, believe it or not, I get on an electric stove with the heat at 5.5/10. The super high heat sear is bullshit unless you actually need your meat raw, whereas a nice rare and even all the way through is achieved best with medium-medium high heat.
Most people use pans that are too thin to cook steak, so the high heat is needed to make a sear because the steak, whether it is at room temp or a little chilled, can cool down a thin pan enough that it won’t get that nice initial sear. My thick-ass cast iron pan gets SUPER hot at medium/med high heat, and stays that way. I preheat olive oil til it’s smoking, 3 minutes a side. After the first flip I melt some butter in the pan and spoon the boiling oil-butter mixture over the seared side, then and at the very end, I flip the steak once more, spoon the same mixture over the other side, and finally, I flip the strip steaks on the fat strip and render that sucker down by half until it melts like butter in your mouth.
Phew! Rant over, but I’m passionate about my steaks, ya know?
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I use a similar technique making steaks for my brother. I actually do a hard sear (8-9/10) then convection bake 350f for 13-15min
YES!!! I use a heavy bottomed ceramic pan. The thing weighs at least 8lbs
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Yeah, the sear-then-oven is also a great way, I’ve done the same in the past. With REALLY thick steaks (2.5" and up) a super sweet way is to cook it for like 40-45 minutes at 225-250, which lets the seasoning really cook into the steak and gets the meat just ever so slightly cooked throughout, barely enough to notice, THEN sear it at the end - a reverse sear is a great trick, especially when you’ve got actual minced garlic vs garlic powder on your steak, since the minced garlic burns as soon as it’s seared, and the minced stuff can get nice and creamy in the oven at a low temp and then crisp up at the end when it’s mushy.
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NOTED! The only thing I care about more than perfectly cooked steak is perfectly cooked fish
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I confess I got a container of PBfit today, smelled a little suspect after blending it with my protein powder, but was plenty tasty, just PBfit protein ice and water.
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