lucaband
Level 3 Valued Member
Hello everybody: Luca here, 45 years old, originally from Italy, migrated in US 12 year ago and currently living in beautiful (and wet) Washington State.
Fallen in love with kettlebell during quarantine (probably the only good thing I got from that) and I’ve been doing it for 8 months now quite consistently, 6 days a week. Then, I discovered Pavel and after I went through both “S&S” and “ETK” I discovered that.. I did plan my training schedule in a very much wrong way ! ? (well, maybe not wrong but definitively inefficient ?).
Before going to the I’m seeking for an advice section, let me check with you if my understanding of the Pavel’s kettlebell world are now becoming …. better:
Note: kettlebell training already provided a huge benefit for me as I never stopped training and I definitively saw benefits in endurance and strength .
RULES are also important here: I train BJJ 6 days a week. I try to train smart (not every day is heavy rolling day) but I feel bad (physically and mentally) if I skip on day of training. And I feel benefits to apply the same rule to Kettlebell training by doing that 6 days a week as well.
All above said, and thanks to all the information I gathered from this forum and Pavel’ books…. Aaand keeping in mind that I’m very much a newbie in the Kettlebell world.. I was wondering what are your opinion on the following schedule:
Monday – heavy
Thank you very much in advance folks!
Fallen in love with kettlebell during quarantine (probably the only good thing I got from that) and I’ve been doing it for 8 months now quite consistently, 6 days a week. Then, I discovered Pavel and after I went through both “S&S” and “ETK” I discovered that.. I did plan my training schedule in a very much wrong way ! ? (well, maybe not wrong but definitively inefficient ?).
Before going to the I’m seeking for an advice section, let me check with you if my understanding of the Pavel’s kettlebell world are now becoming …. better:
- There’s always 1 kettlebell per training cycle per exercise:
- low vs. medium vs. high is referred to the total trained volume for the day, not the weight you lift each rep.
- Not all exercises are meant for the same purpose: (the “slow and high reps are two flips of the same coin” statement in ETK was like lighting a light bulb!)
- You have exercises like swings and snatches that are by nature high reps, lower weight. In comparison, low rep “slow” exercises like GU and C&P can be done with low reps and higher weight.
- You progress with your kettlebell different for different exercises.
- Availability permitted, you can start a set with 44 KB for snatches, 53 for KP and 70 for swings. Once you have done ROP with those weight you move forward
Note: kettlebell training already provided a huge benefit for me as I never stopped training and I definitively saw benefits in endurance and strength .
RULES are also important here: I train BJJ 6 days a week. I try to train smart (not every day is heavy rolling day) but I feel bad (physically and mentally) if I skip on day of training. And I feel benefits to apply the same rule to Kettlebell training by doing that 6 days a week as well.
All above said, and thanks to all the information I gathered from this forum and Pavel’ books…. Aaand keeping in mind that I’m very much a newbie in the Kettlebell world.. I was wondering what are your opinion on the following schedule:
Monday – heavy
- Hard C&P
- Hard Swing
- Light GU
- ST pushup light
- ST goblet squat heavy
- Easy C&P
- Easy Snatches
- ST pushup heavy
- ST goblet squat light
- Easy swings
- Medium snatches
- Hard GU
- Medium C&P
- Medium Swing
Thank you very much in advance folks!