Riley O'Neill
Level 3 Valued Member
There are all sorts of challenges you can do with a Kettlebell. You can do the Beast Tamer challenge. You can do S&S with 56kg or 64kg. You can go train in Kettlebell Sport, power your way through meets, go to Russia and beat Ivan Denisov and crush his world records. You can get your SFG I and SFG II certifications and successfully take dozens of students form being weak and poorly conditioned to strong athletes, bonus points if your students are 50+ and under your guidance avoid injuries. The upper limit knows no bounds.
I am also looking far into the future. In 7 and a half years I will be 40. I can make decisions now that will have an outcome of what sort of 40 year old body will I have. I remember when my dad turned 40 and the health of many of him and a lot of his friends. Guys with bad backs, bad knees, bad shoulders, guys who would go on to have strokes and heart attacks (None of them did StrongFirst or anything remotely like it). I don't want any of that stuff to happen to me. In 17 and a half years I will turn 50. In 27 and a half years I turn 60. My grandfather died at 39 and he made a lot of poor choices which brought him to that fate. Mentally I have been reverse engineering what a lot of people in bad health do wrong and then avoid those habits.
Maybe take a look at this as how you want to age and what type of older person you want to be. There are some guys who make goals of getting as big as possible or winning some sport or some short term goal, which these are all fine but for a long term goal you need to plan that you won't be young when you finally reach your goals. The dividends don't mature until you are middle aged.
I am also looking far into the future. In 7 and a half years I will be 40. I can make decisions now that will have an outcome of what sort of 40 year old body will I have. I remember when my dad turned 40 and the health of many of him and a lot of his friends. Guys with bad backs, bad knees, bad shoulders, guys who would go on to have strokes and heart attacks (None of them did StrongFirst or anything remotely like it). I don't want any of that stuff to happen to me. In 17 and a half years I will turn 50. In 27 and a half years I turn 60. My grandfather died at 39 and he made a lot of poor choices which brought him to that fate. Mentally I have been reverse engineering what a lot of people in bad health do wrong and then avoid those habits.
Maybe take a look at this as how you want to age and what type of older person you want to be. There are some guys who make goals of getting as big as possible or winning some sport or some short term goal, which these are all fine but for a long term goal you need to plan that you won't be young when you finally reach your goals. The dividends don't mature until you are middle aged.