s&s

Hi all, I would appreciate if you could give me some feedback on my swing technique. These swings are with 24 kg, which is the weight I'm trying to progress to. So it's s rather challenging weight. Swings with both hands are in the same video. A few things I'm not sure I'm doing right: -...

Strongfirst community, I have a question about overtraining when first starting S&S. I am currently on the practice phase in S&S book, where I am practicing swings and get up technique. It says to practice everyday after the mobility in sets of 5 to 10 on two hand swings and in sets of 5 for...

Hello! I am a noob so forgive me for some of what may be obvious questions. I've lurked around on this forum a little and it seems as if there's a great community of helpful people here, so I'm looking forward to being a part of it! I just purchased Simple and Sinister and have a 35lbs...

Background: 30 y/o, 5' 10" 180lbs, male. I've been working out pretty consistently for the past year as schedule allows. Starting Strength was my introduction, followed by PTTP and S&S. Situation: I work offshore on a 28 days on, 28 days off schedule. I have been alternating between PTTP and...

Warning: I am biased by practice. It happened out of a sudden, that I started SAS yesterday, and I am happy that today I have just two sessions under my belt. It was kind of coincidence, that I stumbled into SAS. Three weeks ago, I was on the motorway to enrich my family of bells. I drove home...

Hi fellows, I am currently doing 20kg swings (2 hands) and 16kg TGUs. As per the goals (simple/sinister), when should one expect these weights to even out? For example, the 'simple' goal (men) is 32kg for both swings and TGUs. Would the TGU 'catch up' with the swings as one nears this goal? Or...

Hi all, it's been a while! My need for adrenaline got me in trouble again. I took a nasty spill while downhill mountain biking injuring my leg, ankle and shoulder. The good news is I was cleared to train again a few weeks ago, and today I was cleared for Swings and TGUs. I'm starting back...

Consistency in strength training is not my strength. This is where S&S comes to play: a simple routine I have to repeat until reaching simple, and maybe more. Since mid 2016 Ive been having an annoying tendinopathy in my right patellar tendon. I had the same problem for 10 years on my other...

I am thinking about idea of mixing exercises from Simple & Sinister (Swing & TGU) and old Program Minimum (Snatch & BP) into a "park bench" program between more intensive cycles. It's from Program Minimum [Squared] but I would like to program it more like S&S. The idea is to do these trainings...

After 16 months of barefoot S&S training, I've went up a full shoe size. I've been having foot pain while walking. Yesterday, I noticed that my shoes were very tight on my feet. Odd that I didn't notice that until this week! I bought the exact same shoe a full size bigger, next day shipped...

Hi everyone, My name is Mihael, I'm 39 years old. I've been lurking in here for a while, picked up tons of great info over time, thanks everyone for that. I've been playing around with kettlebells for a while, but lately I finally decided to commit 100% to the S&S program. Big progress came...

Hi all, I'm not finding it easy to do the S&S stretching exercises. On both exercises I find it hard to hold the position as I find both quite uncomfortable (besides the stretch feel that is usually not that confortable). Also, for the 90-90, I'm not so sure how to find the position or if I'm...

Odd question to the group. My waist line, as measured around my belly button, has stayed the same for about a month. Yay! The area around my lower waist where my pants sit is getting thicker - my obliques? - as my pants are fitting tighter. It doesn't seem like it's fat, as again the waist...