acutaiar12
Level 7 Valued Member
Hello everyone! I’m on my 3rd of 4 weeks away from my kettlebell, and missing it a lot. I haven’t been away from one since March 2020. During this time, I’ve just done NW and LSD running to get something in.
One of the ways I have coped with being away from my bells has been studying @Pavel Macek ‘s training log, which is a goldmine of information. It got me thinking a lot about my training and my training goals. For the past past 8-10 months, my goal has been “Timed Sinister”. I thought that was the only goal worth pursuing. Then, I saw this post here:
The Sinister standard is not a destination, it's a "North Star" to keep you "on course"... a finger that points the way. Get your head out of the map, look around, take on the scenery and enjoy the journey.
So, the Timed Sinister standard still is a goal that guides my training, but not something that needs to be pursued so intensely right now.
This changes my training goals. In two weeks, I start student-teaching and working full-time. My training goals are now to be minimalist and get the most out of my training with the time I have available.
Then, I read this post here:
My thoughts today:
There is something very liberating about 1 man 1- kettlebell.
Swings get easy? Switch to power swings. Easy again? One hand swings. No sweat? Snatch! Get-ups get easy? Add a 5-10 second pause at each of the stages. Do some overhead walk. Practice your cleans and sooner or later you will be ready for ROP. If I had to choose only 1 bell today, 32 would be it. I hope next year I will write 36.
This is perfect since I have a 36kg bell, which is a little less than half my bodyweight. I am thinking about following the plan outlined in this post:
1. Continue training S&S until I own the timed standards with 36kg. I have achieved the timed standard once with this weight, but it was not pretty and I am not satisfied with it. I could continue training the usual 10x10, 10x1 S&S method. Or, I can start waving the load. I won’t be in a rush to own this standard. I want to be able to complete this standard any day of the week, no matter how I feel.
2. Then, I will start the original ROP with the same bell. C&Ps and swings and snatches. There are so many ways to make the C&P easier or harder that I feel as though I can constantly be gaining in this movement. And for the snatches….200 in 10 minutes with 36kg sounds impossible right now, but why not go for it? I’ll just need a pull-up bar to add in pull-ups as well. On variety days, I can practice regular S&S training; windmills, side presses, and eventually bent presses; bottoms up drills. Imagine finishing a ROP cycle with bottoms up presses or bent presses? I could also add in some kettlebell juggling in the summer, pistol squats, there are a lot of cool thing to add.
I wouldn’t be in any rush to finish these goals. I would just enjoy the training process and train. I’m not sure if these are reasonable goals or not. But, it’s something to shoot for. I’d like to hear some of your opinions if that’s possible.
Quick background: 21 years old, ~80kg bodyweight, 1000 pound total before pandemic (~88kg bodyweight then); half-marathon during pandemic; ROP cycle with 28kg C&P and snatches; 8 months S&S; own timed standards 28kg; achieved once timed standards 36kg; some Timeless Sinister sessions (but sore the next day). The bells I have available are my 36kg bell, a 48kg bell (which would be put on the back burner) and a “longevity 20kg bell”.
Thank you for your time to read and respond!
One of the ways I have coped with being away from my bells has been studying @Pavel Macek ‘s training log, which is a goldmine of information. It got me thinking a lot about my training and my training goals. For the past past 8-10 months, my goal has been “Timed Sinister”. I thought that was the only goal worth pursuing. Then, I saw this post here:
The Sinister standard is not a destination, it's a "North Star" to keep you "on course"... a finger that points the way. Get your head out of the map, look around, take on the scenery and enjoy the journey.
So, the Timed Sinister standard still is a goal that guides my training, but not something that needs to be pursued so intensely right now.
This changes my training goals. In two weeks, I start student-teaching and working full-time. My training goals are now to be minimalist and get the most out of my training with the time I have available.
Then, I read this post here:
My thoughts today:
There is something very liberating about 1 man 1- kettlebell.
Swings get easy? Switch to power swings. Easy again? One hand swings. No sweat? Snatch! Get-ups get easy? Add a 5-10 second pause at each of the stages. Do some overhead walk. Practice your cleans and sooner or later you will be ready for ROP. If I had to choose only 1 bell today, 32 would be it. I hope next year I will write 36.
This is perfect since I have a 36kg bell, which is a little less than half my bodyweight. I am thinking about following the plan outlined in this post:
1. Continue training S&S until I own the timed standards with 36kg. I have achieved the timed standard once with this weight, but it was not pretty and I am not satisfied with it. I could continue training the usual 10x10, 10x1 S&S method. Or, I can start waving the load. I won’t be in a rush to own this standard. I want to be able to complete this standard any day of the week, no matter how I feel.
2. Then, I will start the original ROP with the same bell. C&Ps and swings and snatches. There are so many ways to make the C&P easier or harder that I feel as though I can constantly be gaining in this movement. And for the snatches….200 in 10 minutes with 36kg sounds impossible right now, but why not go for it? I’ll just need a pull-up bar to add in pull-ups as well. On variety days, I can practice regular S&S training; windmills, side presses, and eventually bent presses; bottoms up drills. Imagine finishing a ROP cycle with bottoms up presses or bent presses? I could also add in some kettlebell juggling in the summer, pistol squats, there are a lot of cool thing to add.
I wouldn’t be in any rush to finish these goals. I would just enjoy the training process and train. I’m not sure if these are reasonable goals or not. But, it’s something to shoot for. I’d like to hear some of your opinions if that’s possible.
Quick background: 21 years old, ~80kg bodyweight, 1000 pound total before pandemic (~88kg bodyweight then); half-marathon during pandemic; ROP cycle with 28kg C&P and snatches; 8 months S&S; own timed standards 28kg; achieved once timed standards 36kg; some Timeless Sinister sessions (but sore the next day). The bells I have available are my 36kg bell, a 48kg bell (which would be put on the back burner) and a “longevity 20kg bell”.
Thank you for your time to read and respond!