JC84
Level 2 Valued Member
Hello all,
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
I've been following S+S for about the past year and last week got to feeling fully comfortable with Simple Timeless - I managed 6 sessions in 7 days, all with the 32kg, and felt great! Witness, if you will, my wonderfully neatly logged progression from the 24 below, scrawled on the Super Joints / McGill Big 3 cheatsheet I keep stuck on my living room wall.
First off, thank you Pavel and team. I started the program after my third child was born, in an effort to find something I could do regularly in my ever-decreasing free time and still see tangible progress. And I have. My back feels better than it has in years, I've picked up skateboarding again after a 16 year hiatus and I'm progressing better now than I did when I was 21. I've got energy, my elbow tendons don't hurt and lots of other good besides. I even semi-consciously hip-hinge my way through emptying the dishwasher and swinging kids. I'll chuck a glowing review on the Kindle store, I promise.
To the point. Yesterday I did the timed 24kg for the first time and it was surprisingly, gloriously easy. I had no problem completing it and hardly felt out of breath. I think waiting 5 weeks into using the 32 before trying it is probably why. So, naturally, I'm enthused to try simple timeless, but I don't have the money right now to purchase a 40kg bell, and thus can't do the route laid out in S+S. With that in mind, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to the best way to get there with just the 32? Shall I just keep up the timeless 32's and the timed 24's for a couple months then give it a crack?
On another, but similar, note - once I've got that, I'd like to learn some new stuff with the kettlebells I have, and was hoping someone here could point me in the best direction for that. Essentially I'd like to learn all the major moves, so to speak, whatever they may be. I've been doing my best to avoid looking into what else I can do with my kettlebells so far, just to keep my mind on task.
Thanks very much,
James
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
I've been following S+S for about the past year and last week got to feeling fully comfortable with Simple Timeless - I managed 6 sessions in 7 days, all with the 32kg, and felt great! Witness, if you will, my wonderfully neatly logged progression from the 24 below, scrawled on the Super Joints / McGill Big 3 cheatsheet I keep stuck on my living room wall.
First off, thank you Pavel and team. I started the program after my third child was born, in an effort to find something I could do regularly in my ever-decreasing free time and still see tangible progress. And I have. My back feels better than it has in years, I've picked up skateboarding again after a 16 year hiatus and I'm progressing better now than I did when I was 21. I've got energy, my elbow tendons don't hurt and lots of other good besides. I even semi-consciously hip-hinge my way through emptying the dishwasher and swinging kids. I'll chuck a glowing review on the Kindle store, I promise.
To the point. Yesterday I did the timed 24kg for the first time and it was surprisingly, gloriously easy. I had no problem completing it and hardly felt out of breath. I think waiting 5 weeks into using the 32 before trying it is probably why. So, naturally, I'm enthused to try simple timeless, but I don't have the money right now to purchase a 40kg bell, and thus can't do the route laid out in S+S. With that in mind, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to the best way to get there with just the 32? Shall I just keep up the timeless 32's and the timed 24's for a couple months then give it a crack?
On another, but similar, note - once I've got that, I'd like to learn some new stuff with the kettlebells I have, and was hoping someone here could point me in the best direction for that. Essentially I'd like to learn all the major moves, so to speak, whatever they may be. I've been doing my best to avoid looking into what else I can do with my kettlebells so far, just to keep my mind on task.
Thanks very much,
James