On Friday night we did a bunch of skin-the-cats, then with a partner, alternated on 3 single kettlebell clean and jerks for 10 minutes. Emily and I did (I think) 11 rounds (both people going through 3 reps on both hands). We used a 16-kg kettlebell. I liked this workout because it was hard without making me stop to rest. I should have used an 18 or 20 probably. I was impressed with Emily going with the 16 all the way through, because originally she intended to use a 12.
After that we all did a one-lap farmer walk inside the gym carrying the heaviest combination of kettlebells that we could. I ended up carrying a pair of 32 kg's with a pair of 12's. (Reach through the 12's to grasp the 32's with a thumbless grip in order to carry them all together.) Together this is almost one and a half times my body weight. It wiped me out like a max deadlift workout would. The great thing about it was that if you didn't do the math, it didn't seem that hard--a short distance, though heavy. But then when you think about how deadlifts are not normally carried but just picked up and put down, while this was walked one foot at a time and balanced, it's easier to see why it was so tiring. The guys went a lot heavier.
This made my elbow sore, but it seems to have recovered to its now-normal low-level achiness.
Late this week I'll do a deadlift workout and see if I can do better than my recent 3 reps at 105.
After that we all did a one-lap farmer walk inside the gym carrying the heaviest combination of kettlebells that we could. I ended up carrying a pair of 32 kg's with a pair of 12's. (Reach through the 12's to grasp the 32's with a thumbless grip in order to carry them all together.) Together this is almost one and a half times my body weight. It wiped me out like a max deadlift workout would. The great thing about it was that if you didn't do the math, it didn't seem that hard--a short distance, though heavy. But then when you think about how deadlifts are not normally carried but just picked up and put down, while this was walked one foot at a time and balanced, it's easier to see why it was so tiring. The guys went a lot heavier.
This made my elbow sore, but it seems to have recovered to its now-normal low-level achiness.
Late this week I'll do a deadlift workout and see if I can do better than my recent 3 reps at 105.
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