jadam318
Level 1 Valued Member
I'm new here. My name is Adam. I started S&S this winter. I'm 5'11" tall and about 220 pounds. I don't know my BMI, but my belly still jiggles when I brush my teeth...so its not where I want it to be quite yet.
I want to pass a quick "thank you" on to you active posters here in the forum. Until today, I was missing something in the S&S programming. I started S&S back in January using a 16KG bell for everything. Since then I have worked 6 days a week (most weeks), and a couple of weeks ago I relegated the 16KG bell to warm-up duties only. I'm not using only the 24KG kettlebell for both swings and TGUs.
But the swing has been kicking my butt. As a matter of fact, my thought this morning was, "Man, 10 TGUs with 24KG just felt easy. Why do swings with this thing feel so hard?" Thanks to digging through some old forum posts, I found my flaw. I was striving for 100 non-stop swings before moving up to 32KG. For whatever reason (maybe I misread the book, maybe I'm just ignorant), I did NOT realize that the standard for S&S allows for pauses between sets of swings. This morning, I did 60 swings (3 sets of 10 per arm), rested about a minute and a half or two minutes, and then did 40 more swings (2 sets of 10 per arm). There is no way my technique wasn't suffering, even though I was focusing as hard as I could on it.
I learned this solely by reading on the forum here, so thank you to everyone who posts here! Tomorrow morning I will take a run at the S&S standard with 24KG using pauses after each set. I suspect I will be shopping for a 32KG kettlebell very soon.
I want to pass a quick "thank you" on to you active posters here in the forum. Until today, I was missing something in the S&S programming. I started S&S back in January using a 16KG bell for everything. Since then I have worked 6 days a week (most weeks), and a couple of weeks ago I relegated the 16KG bell to warm-up duties only. I'm not using only the 24KG kettlebell for both swings and TGUs.
But the swing has been kicking my butt. As a matter of fact, my thought this morning was, "Man, 10 TGUs with 24KG just felt easy. Why do swings with this thing feel so hard?" Thanks to digging through some old forum posts, I found my flaw. I was striving for 100 non-stop swings before moving up to 32KG. For whatever reason (maybe I misread the book, maybe I'm just ignorant), I did NOT realize that the standard for S&S allows for pauses between sets of swings. This morning, I did 60 swings (3 sets of 10 per arm), rested about a minute and a half or two minutes, and then did 40 more swings (2 sets of 10 per arm). There is no way my technique wasn't suffering, even though I was focusing as hard as I could on it.
I learned this solely by reading on the forum here, so thank you to everyone who posts here! Tomorrow morning I will take a run at the S&S standard with 24KG using pauses after each set. I suspect I will be shopping for a 32KG kettlebell very soon.