Mike Whitenton
Level 4 Valued Member
Move Well for Good Training Log Introduction
Background
Way back when (about 10 years ago), I ran ultramarathons. I had a blast but life stress and training stress became too much and about that same time I stumbled upon StrongFirst and kettlebells. I reached timed Simple and stalled out at 40kg (again, life stress). Since then I've bounced around between Crossfit, old school S&C, and StrongFirst. After getting back into running last year, a major surgery set me back about a month. I could tell I had a lot of strength deficiencies and so I've returned to the Simple and the Sinister.
Current Program
I'm running S&S 2.0. I'm stay with two handed swings at the moment because should and spine rotation issues. My get up is lagging behind my swings a bit. I own 24kg for GUs, but 32kg for swings. I recently played around with the beast and was surprised that, with 3 min rests, I can get between 8 to 10 sets of 10 before my form or power breaks down. I'm thinking I should start incorporating the 40kg into the 32kg practice and work on power, but I'd welcome feedback on that. It does feel glorious to swing the beast...
Goals
I'm turning 39 in a few days (March 17). I'm a professor, who's married with two kids (4.5 and 6.5). I'm looking to be strong enough to be useful in pretty much any plausible scenario with endurance to match. I'm currently at 194 lbs and around 13% body fat at 5 ft. 11 in. I'd like to see both of those numbers drop a bit, but as long as I'm strong and conditioned and can move well, I'm a happy camper. Or I'm trying to be.
So I'll be posting my training here and welcome feedback, encouragement, critique in programming, etc.
Happy to be here!
Mike
Background
Way back when (about 10 years ago), I ran ultramarathons. I had a blast but life stress and training stress became too much and about that same time I stumbled upon StrongFirst and kettlebells. I reached timed Simple and stalled out at 40kg (again, life stress). Since then I've bounced around between Crossfit, old school S&C, and StrongFirst. After getting back into running last year, a major surgery set me back about a month. I could tell I had a lot of strength deficiencies and so I've returned to the Simple and the Sinister.
Current Program
I'm running S&S 2.0. I'm stay with two handed swings at the moment because should and spine rotation issues. My get up is lagging behind my swings a bit. I own 24kg for GUs, but 32kg for swings. I recently played around with the beast and was surprised that, with 3 min rests, I can get between 8 to 10 sets of 10 before my form or power breaks down. I'm thinking I should start incorporating the 40kg into the 32kg practice and work on power, but I'd welcome feedback on that. It does feel glorious to swing the beast...
Goals
I'm turning 39 in a few days (March 17). I'm a professor, who's married with two kids (4.5 and 6.5). I'm looking to be strong enough to be useful in pretty much any plausible scenario with endurance to match. I'm currently at 194 lbs and around 13% body fat at 5 ft. 11 in. I'd like to see both of those numbers drop a bit, but as long as I'm strong and conditioned and can move well, I'm a happy camper. Or I'm trying to be.
So I'll be posting my training here and welcome feedback, encouragement, critique in programming, etc.
Happy to be here!
Mike
