Marco Masoero
Level 1 Valued Member
Hi everyone, let me introduce myself, I'm Marco and I write from Italy.
Lately I've been training with a program I created with the specific intent of gradually increasing the weight of the kettlebell I use.
For this purpose I have created a 4 week program that encompasses all the movements that can be done with a Kettlebell, with a fairly high number of repetitions per workout.
Here is an example of a workout:
10 Series
10 Clean & Push Press Alternated
+
10 Two Arm Row
or:
10 Series
10 Clean + Back Lunges Alt
+
5 + 5 Windmill
or:
10 Series
5 + 5 Clean + Push Press + Windmill
+
5 Upright Row
In total there are 33 workouts and here you can see them all:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qAvS3vjuh0JYMX9vn4n90X6HT6dfaJt0c9w0ZqF2Q1c/edit?usp=sharing
All workouts consist of a main exercise of at least 100 repetitions and one or more accessory exercises and are almost always divided into 10 total series.
Between each series I make the necessary recovery to be able to do another complete series.
In this way, by training only with one kettlebell and in a relatively short time I was able to improve a lot so that in the next cycle, which I just started, I moved on to 28kg.
So far so good, except that I feel particularly cooked even if I have had days of recovery.
I feel drained like my nervous system is a little burned.
This is because I am keeping the runtimes pretty tight, and the 10 sets also get me up to 170 bpm.
Now according to Maffettone's number to stay in the AGT I should keep the heart rate below 136 (180 - 44, my age) and to do this I should no longer adjust to the time but to the heart rate and stop the series no longer at the end.
Now my question is, does it make sense to split total work by heart rate to stay in AGT regardless of the number of reps per set?
The goal would be to keep the same volume of work but not burn me.
Sorry for the length of the question but I had to give some context
Marco
Lately I've been training with a program I created with the specific intent of gradually increasing the weight of the kettlebell I use.
For this purpose I have created a 4 week program that encompasses all the movements that can be done with a Kettlebell, with a fairly high number of repetitions per workout.
Here is an example of a workout:
10 Series
10 Clean & Push Press Alternated
+
10 Two Arm Row
or:
10 Series
10 Clean + Back Lunges Alt
+
5 + 5 Windmill
or:
10 Series
5 + 5 Clean + Push Press + Windmill
+
5 Upright Row
In total there are 33 workouts and here you can see them all:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qAvS3vjuh0JYMX9vn4n90X6HT6dfaJt0c9w0ZqF2Q1c/edit?usp=sharing
All workouts consist of a main exercise of at least 100 repetitions and one or more accessory exercises and are almost always divided into 10 total series.
Between each series I make the necessary recovery to be able to do another complete series.
In this way, by training only with one kettlebell and in a relatively short time I was able to improve a lot so that in the next cycle, which I just started, I moved on to 28kg.
So far so good, except that I feel particularly cooked even if I have had days of recovery.
I feel drained like my nervous system is a little burned.
This is because I am keeping the runtimes pretty tight, and the 10 sets also get me up to 170 bpm.
Now according to Maffettone's number to stay in the AGT I should keep the heart rate below 136 (180 - 44, my age) and to do this I should no longer adjust to the time but to the heart rate and stop the series no longer at the end.
Now my question is, does it make sense to split total work by heart rate to stay in AGT regardless of the number of reps per set?
The goal would be to keep the same volume of work but not burn me.
Sorry for the length of the question but I had to give some context
Marco