Mitch
Level 2 Valued Member
Hey StrongFirst tribe!
Brand new to forums and SFG community. I bought "Simple and Sinister" last month having only done a group kettlebell class years ago -- your classic "sweat, grunt and push to failure as much as you can for 45 minutes" class. never again, right?
I started S&S on the 2nd of this May. By the end of the first week I was doing 10 TGUs (five each arm) with an 12kg bell -- and I was struggling. I did 5x10 swings with 24kg, but only with two hands, and it wasn't pretty.
In four weeks, I was doing 10x10 swings, single-hand alternating, with a 24kg, and 10 TGUs (alternating sides of course) with 20kg. Never seen improvement like this in my life.
The downside of these amazing gains is that now I've got a ravenous appetite to push farther. I had an idea for how I might try to move towards the Simple Goals (swings and get ups in 16 minutes with 32 kilos) across the next couple months.
Has anyone tried Grease the Groove with S&S? Say for instance, doing 2 to 4 sets of 10 single-hand swings, and maybe a couple of TGUs on each side, periodically throughout the day? I imagine it would be with a fairly heavy bell -- maybe 24 kg?
I'm fortunate enough to have a schedule that allows to me to follow a protocol like that, so access and convenience are not obstacles.
I'm happy to just keep doing the usual S&S training, do all my swings in get ups in one visit to the gym, if that's the best way to progress. But I'm wondering if a GtG protocol would help improve technique more quickly and safely as I move toward heavier weights. I'm wondering if the long rests that GtG grants you will allow you to do more than 10 sets of swings and 10 TGUs within a given day, and if doing more sets means the neural pathways get trained better/faster as a result.
Any thoughts and recommendations greatly appreciated!
Brand new to forums and SFG community. I bought "Simple and Sinister" last month having only done a group kettlebell class years ago -- your classic "sweat, grunt and push to failure as much as you can for 45 minutes" class. never again, right?
I started S&S on the 2nd of this May. By the end of the first week I was doing 10 TGUs (five each arm) with an 12kg bell -- and I was struggling. I did 5x10 swings with 24kg, but only with two hands, and it wasn't pretty.
In four weeks, I was doing 10x10 swings, single-hand alternating, with a 24kg, and 10 TGUs (alternating sides of course) with 20kg. Never seen improvement like this in my life.
The downside of these amazing gains is that now I've got a ravenous appetite to push farther. I had an idea for how I might try to move towards the Simple Goals (swings and get ups in 16 minutes with 32 kilos) across the next couple months.
Has anyone tried Grease the Groove with S&S? Say for instance, doing 2 to 4 sets of 10 single-hand swings, and maybe a couple of TGUs on each side, periodically throughout the day? I imagine it would be with a fairly heavy bell -- maybe 24 kg?
I'm fortunate enough to have a schedule that allows to me to follow a protocol like that, so access and convenience are not obstacles.
I'm happy to just keep doing the usual S&S training, do all my swings in get ups in one visit to the gym, if that's the best way to progress. But I'm wondering if a GtG protocol would help improve technique more quickly and safely as I move toward heavier weights. I'm wondering if the long rests that GtG grants you will allow you to do more than 10 sets of swings and 10 TGUs within a given day, and if doing more sets means the neural pathways get trained better/faster as a result.
Any thoughts and recommendations greatly appreciated!