watchnerd
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The meditative flow, the time under tension
That's why I like it too.
Weighted yoga.
The meditative flow, the time under tension
That’s it.That's why I like it too.
Weighted yoga.
Aaron17, As an instructor , what are your thoughts on using heavier bells for snatches and get-ups in regards to preparing for the SFG very?Any particular programming / plan you would recommend?
Hi. I've followed this thread with interest, but now I have a question that I'm hoping somebody could shed some knowledge on .
Why can't the TGU be a press builder? Surely after each movement this presents an ideal opportunity to stick a press in if you want to? Both on the way up, and on the way down? I might be missing something but I tried it tonight, once on the left and once on the right. Total time for one side was approaching a minute thirty. (32kg) I'll be honest, I couldn't manage another L/R combo like that, but I don't consider myself to be kettlebell conditioned, (closing in on timeless simple with the 32 with only other experience the Dan John 10K challenge) but I enjoyed the extra dimension and think I'll incorporate it in, and I think continue to add reps when I can. Yes it may slow my timed simple ambitions, but I know I'll get there, RoP is my next program so I feel I'm getting 'ahead of the game' somewhat.
@Lotto , definitely a press builder in that format. Eleven presses a side with a 32 in :90, guessing that will work.
Mine is
@Don Fairbanks and @barrak.
As expected I'm feeling the effects of incorporating a press into my TGU yesterday. Enough that in this mornings SS practice I didn't add any in. Just didn't feel the strength was there to execute with good form.
I thoroughly enjoyed the added challenge and dimension yesterday, enough that I want to incorporate it into my SS practice. My aim would be to become proficient in another KB movement as I only practice 2 at the moment, prepare myself for RoP and that's about it.
My question is, one press at every step of the TGU (with the 32) won't allow me to do it every SS practice at the moment, how best would I incorporate it to get the 'best bang for buck'?
On 2H swing days do a press at every stage?
Every SS do only on way up?
Every SS do only on way down?
Do one at each phase of the GU on each set?
Or any other combination that would suit my aim?
I'm thinking 5 presses in total for each arm is where I am at physically to enable me to add in every SS practice. Thanks.
Good question!! I’m leaning toward 63 snatches with a 63 lb bell...since I was born in ‘63. Not 100% certain, though.What work out are you doing for your 57th?
I find, and I know others do, too, the getup magical at restoring functionality to high-mileage shoulders.It's really a physics problem.
As a total body load, 40 kg isn't that heavy when compared to barbells. That's basically an empty barbell + 2 x 10 kg plates.
So in order to make a 40 kg KB "hard" as a grind, you have to get into a lot of "difficult leverage" positions.
If you have access to a barbell, you have options that are more scalable, less technical, and probably less risky lifts than trying to use a 40 kg KB to do TGUs in difficult leverage positions to get equivalent loading.
Unless you just want to get good at heavy TGUs for their own sake.
Yes, without a doubt from my experience...I find, and I know others do, too, the getup magical at restoring functionality to high-mileage shoulders.
I find, and I know others do, too, the getup magical at restoring functionality to high-mileage shoulders.
One cue I'll venture to say is underused is imagining an energy source at the elbow of the bearing arm, pressing up into the weight and down into the shoulder. I think it's all too easy to treat the weight overhead as some sort of balancing act rather than an act of stabilizing strength.
-S-