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Kettlebell Q&D: Does it make sense to apply the principles to reality-based self-protection training?

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Guys, I'm kinda proud of today's achievement. I'm very sure that's a piece of cake to most of y'all, but to almost 50-year-old me, it's a giant step.
I finished my first 'real' (in the sense of following the original instructions) Karl Gotch bible workout today, in 39:35 minutes, with ample rest.
I'm 213 lbs and 5'11".

Lovin' it!

The old-time catch-wrestling conditioning stuff was the stuff that got me started on serious training some 19 or so years ago :)


"Karl Gotch bible"
regular 52 card deck
clubs = Hindu jump squats
spades = Hindu squats
hearts = hindu pushups
diamonds = half moon pushups
joker 1 = 40 hindu squats
joker 2 = 20 hindu pushups

red cards: do as many reps as the card shows, aces=11, faces=10
black cards: do twice as many reps as the card shows; aces=22; faces=20

Shuffle the cards, then draw one, do the reps, next one till you're finished

If I'm correct, that's 115 hindu pushups, 95 half moon pushups, 230 hindu squats and 190 hindu jump squats.
 
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DuncanGB said:
Holy smokers - those jokers are no joke
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The funny thing is this: After a while, the regular hindu squats and pushups are really not that hard, so 40 squats or 20 pushups are really nothing. The jump squats and the half-moon pushups are where it's at ;)
 
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