DFW is clean before each press. Likely because there is not a “ballistics day” - cleans are the ballistic.I notice that the Kettlebear Program programs a different sort of ladder than the one I am using for 'Dry Fighting Weight'-the Kettlebear Program has you doing only ONE clean per ladder of Double Clean and Press, for example: he writes only one clean on the second ladder, followed by two press. On DFW, I am doing a clean before each press.....I am doing too many cleans? Even if I am- it can't be a bad thing.....
"So, perform your Double Cleans & Presses, and immediately upon completion, perform your Double Front Squat set, then rest. Also, each comma represents a clean before the number of press reps eg. one press, one clean, two presses, one clean, three presses…"
I notice that the Kettlebear Program programs a different sort of ladder than the one I am using for 'Dry Fighting Weight'-the Kettlebear Program has you doing only ONE clean per ladder of Double Clean and Press, for example: he writes only one clean on the second ladder, followed by two press. On DFW, I am doing a clean before each press.....I am doing too many cleans? Even if I am- it can't be a bad thing.....
"So, perform your Double Cleans & Presses, and immediately upon completion, perform your Double Front Squat set, then rest. Also, each comma represents a clean before the number of press reps eg. one press, one clean, two presses, one clean, three presses…"
@KIWI5, if the Dry Fighting Weight program made it into our blog, I think you can rest assured it's a program that will deliver the results it promises. I recommend you do it as written and don't bother comparing it something else you found that happens to be similar in some way. Thinking is a distraction in this case - do the program, get the results, and then consider trying the other program if you wish.
JMO, YMMV.
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Yes, and I've had this experience. I tried altering S&S to a heavy 2 hand swing followed by TGUs. It still yields results but it left my belly sagging out! 1 hand swings pull your midsection in. Also, you're obviously stronger if you're lifting the same weight with only one hand rather than two. This is crystal clear.So true!
Once a programme is altered it is not the actual programme anymore!
It is something else. Most of the time worse.
What do you get out of sledge smashing? What is the use of such an exercise?The best part of a three days a week routine is I get to sleep in a couple days a week now. Even though it's only half an hour to an hour, you sure can feel the difference.
When I go back to S&S I may do three days during the week and play by ear on the weekends. I usually save the weekends for deadlifts and sledgehammer smashing because the noise isn't an issue because it's not three in the morning.
What do you get out of sledge smashing? What is the use of such an exercise?
I remember swinging things when younger in order to improve my judo and MMA strength. I wasn't aware at the time that anyone else did it, felt like I was doing something dumb, and gave it up. Funny how common sense shouldn't be discarded in favour of "what everyone else is doing". Now it's trendy and there is probably science to back it up too.Weighted, explosive tai otoshi uchikomis. The perfect reverse swing.
Chopping wood with a heavy axe and sledge hammering a tire are two almost century long tested and proven exercises for fighters (boxers, wrestlers, judokas...).