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Off-Topic Do Kettlebell "People" Wear Long Pants in the Gym?

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Shorts all year long. Because I train TGU, I'd wear pants if I had been able to find some rough enough to endure the gym's synthetic field (my knees are an ugly thing to behold)
 
Target brand joggers if getups are involved.

Though day in day out I wear Jed North bodybuilding shorts. Shorter than the average exercise shorts, so the clothes are never in the way of the movement.
 
Steve Freides said:
"kettlebell people" wear long pants in the gym, and then wondered why that is
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I always thought that it was because kettlebell focused training doesn't build the calf muscle very well.

People try to accentuate their features that they are most proud of. Guys with little calves keep them under wraps.
 
Torin said:
I always thought that it was because kettlebell focused training doesn't build the calf muscle very well.

People try to accentuate their features that they are most proud of. Guys with little calves keep them under wraps.
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It depends on how you focus your training. Joe Daniels is a monster and pretty much uses kettlebells all the time.
 
silveraw said:
It depends on how you focus your training. Joe Daniels is a monster and pretty much uses kettlebells all the time.
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I've been doing that goblet squat position calf raise (1:55 in the video) for a long time, but had never seen or heard of anyone else doing it. I usually do it weighted, holding a KB as in a regular goblet squat. Great drill.
 
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silveraw said:
It depends on how you focus your training. Joe Daniels is a monster and pretty much uses kettlebells all the time.
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Joe Daniels is a legit beast.
I only meant that the average user that just does the standard exercises doesn't get a lot of direct calf work.
 
Torin said:
Joe Daniels is a legit beast.
I only meant that the average user that just does the standard exercises doesn't get a lot of direct calf work.
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Reminds me of something Pavel said in one of his books. He was on a base somewhere working out with one of his Snake Eater friends. They were wearing shorts. After the session they bump into another Snake Eater who asks, " Are those your legs or did you both just ride in on chickens ? " I believe he said warriors don't need big legs.
 
Don Fairbanks said:
Reminds me of something Pavel said in one of his books. He was on a base somewhere working out with one of his Snake Eater friends. They were wearing shorts. After the session they bump into another Snake Eater who asks, " Are those your legs or did you both just ride in on chickens ? " I believe he said warriors don't need big legs.
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Isn’t that where the “real men ride chickens, we don’t eat them” line came from?
 
Don Fairbanks said:
Reminds me of something Pavel said in one of his books. He was on a base somewhere working out with one of his Snake Eater friends. They were wearing shorts. After the session they bump into another Snake Eater who asks, " Are those your legs or did you both just ride in on chickens ? " I believe he said warriors don't need big legs.
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Someone - can’t quite remember who - has an exercise blog called Ride Chickens. Must be the same thing.

-S-
 
Steve Freides said:
@Don Fairbanks, try a Google on "ridechickens" without a space between the words.

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Without the space made all the difference.
And Steve is the OG at We Ride Chickens !

We Ride Chickens

From "Enter The Kettlebell" by Pavel Tsatsouline, Page 82: "A passing-by jarhead buddy of his joked, “Are those your legs, or are you riding a chicken?!” Fighting men ride chickens - got a problem with that?" I am not a fighting man but I choose to ride chickens, to be strong and thin. A few...
ridechickens.blogspot.com ridechickens.blogspot.com
 
I workout with both KB abd BB and wear pants and shorts on different days.
 
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