dawg and Jack, if you ever need something fun to do, give the highland games a try!
Thanks Harry. I am looking forward to throwing with you some day.
Thanks Carl. I just can’t get over how pathetic my attempts felt. the good news is, now that I’ve seen a bunch of people doing it, I have a better idea of what to practice.
8/30/10 5/3/1 bench(5) cycle 11
240x5 (needed 11 for a PR, just keeping to the minimum)
bbb militaries and barbell roze
staying light, trying to recover from the games
kettlebell conditioning report:
i am getting a little more consistent. last week a did a couple sessions, doing 10 half ladders of 3 (3-2-1 reps with each hand) with 1 minute rest between them. for this particular workout, you are supposed to do it for 12 minutes inclusive of rests, so that was 60 reps in 12 minutes with 9 rests. Yesterday I did 8 full ladders of 3 (1-2-3-2-1 with each hand). full 3 ladder is 9 reps, so that was 72 reps with 7 rests. today I tried to add in a 4 ladder on the 3d and 6th sets. a 4 ladder is 16 reps.
i got the first one, but pooped out on the second one only getting 13 of the 16 reps. so it was 5x 3-ladder, and 1.8 4-ladder. total reps was 74 with only 6 breaks. as soon as I can do the whole 12 minutes in 2 ladders with 1 break, I’ll increase the weight to the next kettlebell size, which is 58 lbs.
I do it fasted, first thing in the am. this has been totally toasting my hammiez and erectors, so my deadlift and squat are taking a temporary hit. in the long term tho, I expect this to boost both lifts by better developing those muscles. we’ll see…
I am still not doing getups. i have been doing this workout in the parking lot at the office, and kneeling on that surface is just too much for my whiney fat old bones. I have collected all the wood I need for my platform, so I will finish that tonight, and do my kettleshit in my garage while I’m still too groggy to realize how much it sucks. since I’ll have a better surface, I’ll start doing get ups tomorrow.
sadly, the one time I tried it with the 38lb bell, I looked much like a giraffe trying to fuck a raccoon, so i will prolly use my weight for distance weight with only 20 lbs for the get ups till I get the movement fingered out.
there is a guy selling 12’ pine logs in the 5-10" diameter range. I will buy my first caber at 11am today.
wow, another self-serving overly long post that no one will read. I just tell myself that my fans demand it.
self-delude Harder,
old lardass
kettlefag… thats a new one on me. Way to go at the games. I need to throw some stuff. Damn nice training John!
Yeah, I read the whole thing. Are the logs debarked? Bark still on could be rough. Pines got a lot of sap so be forewarned. Aren’t all our posts self serving to a certain extent? Did the raccoon tease the giraffe?
why else would a giraffe attempt such a stunt?
no, it has about half the bark on it. I am going to peel that off tomorrow, and duct tape the area that touches the chest shoulder and ear. I am going to name it connor. sadly, i have now way to weigh it.
since I wont use it too often, I don’t want to buy a drawknife just for this one caber.
but i will if I have to.
With my pine caber, I just scraped the bark off with a hatchet. Worked pretty good.
I’m reading.
Those turkish getups are hard. I used to see a guy who looked pretty svelte in my gym do them with some serious DBs and finally asked him about them. Serious work.
I often sit down to log and feel like it’s such an esoteric pile of shit I’m writing. But then I remind myself that I enjoy perusing others’ logs. So maybe someone will glean something from mine.
Very cool about the games.
All this talk about turkish get ups and kettlebells makes me want to get back to doing handstand push ups. Damn you.
Inventive lifting.
Does the caber have a target weight, or is it just a certian diameter and length?
willy, I don’t know. all the cabers we used at the games were 15’ plus and weighed between 80 and 95 lbs. I found a guy with a bunch of 12’ logs, and figured that would be the closest I’d get. I made sure to choose one I could lever between my palms with the fingers interlaced.
JoeGood CorpsBro - hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
i came into work today and debarked most of the tree with a pruning saw, worked great.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I’m reading.
Those turkish getups are hard. I used to see a guy who looked pretty svelte in my gym do them with some serious DBs and finally asked him about them. Serious work.
I often sit down to log and feel like it’s such an esoteric pile of shit I’m writing. But then I remind myself that I enjoy perusing others’ logs. So maybe someone will glean something from mine.
Very cool about the games.
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sadly, i don’t think i’ll ever have a girl refer to me as svelte…
this fan is reading.
nice job at the meet sounds like a great time, glad you hooked up with Carl,
bet he is a class act.
get ups are not fun-
and somehow your puke in the gutter and cant get up
reminded me of when my friend and I are drunk and urinating on a car when the window
rolls down and a large hairy hand puts a red siren on the roof good times.
train more fun shit harder
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
reminded me of when my friend and I are drunk and urinating on a car when the window
rolls down and a large hairy hand puts a red siren on the roof good times.
train more fun shit harder
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now THAT is a story!
no lifties or kettlekwear today, but at lunch i did throw some shit. I did the weight for distance
21 lb x 10
31 lb x 10
41 lb x 3
22lb hammer x 7
caber pick x 10. I can now pick, pop, and balance fairly consistently. next step is to walk/run with it and try to turn it. I can’t do that in the field for fear of tearing up ankles, knees, etc. on the weekend, no one will be here to protect the lawn, so I will tear that shit up.
have a great weekend harder!
old lardass
Nice going O.L., you’ve really been busy. Awesome meet recap, congrats! I saw that vid of the turkish get up, that looks like fun.
Got an 80 degree and 2 2 oclocks yesterday. Just couldn’t get that 12.
still, harry , you turned it twice.
9/7/10 threwshit
no kettlekwear this morning.
lunch, threwshit.
56 lb for distance x5
42 lb for distance x3
22lb hammer x 8
caber x4.
I am getting better at being able to pick and balance the caber up to the throw point. with a short caber, it doesn’t mean anything cuz its easy to turn.
distance throws kicked my ass.
this was all I could get done at lunch because of a meeting. hoping to plan better and spend a little more time out there tomorrow. My comp on sunday has no masters class, so I’ll be throwing the 56lb for distance and the 22lb hammer. I haven’t been practicing the stones because I usually don’t have time, and I don’t have stones yet. anywho, the 56 kicks my ass, adn the only reason i threw the 42 today was I felt guilty for not throwing the 56 more, so I tried to work on my form. sadly, I was so beat by then, even the 42 sucked.
I want to hit class B distances in the hammer (63 ft) and 56 lb weight (21 ft) at the meet, so we’ll see. i think i am close on the weight, but way short on the hammer. we are not doing any height things, just the stones, the wt, the hammer and the caber.
Do 50,000,000 winds with the hammer, release dosen’t seem to be as important as building the strength and timing on the winds, at least from this neophyte’s viewpoint. With decent balance and timing, I thing 21 feet with the 56lb weight is reasonable.
I’m thinking of driving up for the October 30th games. Will you be able to make that one?
You’ve really taken to this highland/kettlebell training. Awesome.