Been out of the loop for a while, since I've been doing some training for the National Guard, and have been on base for the last week and a half. It will be another couple weeks or so before I go home, but the good news is that they have kettlebells at the gym here, from 16-32k. My training hasn't been too inturupted, since we have evening off and nobody else uses anything heavier than 20K. I have made a couple adjustments to my training, since it seems as though I'm not capable of ignoring the occasional "squirrel!" that I run across. General format is the same, however.
I really want to get a solid 1/2 bodyweight press (for at least 2 or 3 reps), and the
soju and tuba press program seems perfect, since it uses few reps at a higher weight. It will get more time consuming in a while (at which point I'll be home and doing some GTG reps), but for now it goes pretty quick. I'm using a 32K bell (which is just barely my 2RM); a 28K might be more ideal but they don't have one here. If I have to, I'll just do the first half of the program and then start over. Since I'm doing an actual pressing program, I've eliminated TGU's and swapped push presses for jerks in order reduce interference from overhead pressing volume. To compensate for geting rid of TGU's, I've added dead bugs to my warmup, and I'm being much more consistent with my end-of-session loaded carries. Right now I'm still training every day and alternating two different kinds of sessions, but I'll add a third (light) session later if I need the recovery time between pressing sessions. An example of the two days is like so:
Oct 11
EES warmup
Jerk-6x10@24K
Snatch-10x5@24K
Farmers Carry-4x35 seconds @ 32&24K
Oct 12
EES warmup
Press-4x1@32K (day 1 of the S&T program)
KBS-2H-10x8@32K
Barbell back rack step ups-6x1 minute @ 135lbs
I'm hoping that, by keeping all my other overhead work ballistic in nature (jerks and snatches), I won't interfere with the pressing. Ballistics, grinds, and loaded carries, all done in a manner that avoids heavy use of anaerobic glycolysis. The more things change, the more they stay the same...