JoeVarden
Level 1 Valued Member
I am starting this training log for 3 reasons:
1. To keep motivated and to motivate others
2. To keep track of my progress
3. And most importantly, to embed my self in this amazing community even further!
Background
I am a 24 year old, 6ft 5inch Male from Manchester, England. I currently do MMA and am looking to compete in the near future (once Coronavirus decides to stop ruining everybody’s year). I have wanted to learn more about kettlebell training for a while and after seeing Pavel’s appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, it forced me to delve a bit deeper into the world of kettlebells and StrongFirst.
I have spent the last two weeks reading the forum and the S&S ebook as well as watching countless YouTube videos. I also spent last week doing S&S and I loved it! I can really see how the swings and TGU’s will transfer over to my MMA.
Goals
Like anybody else, I want to OWN simple, move onto sinister and hopefully start to incorporate some presses, cleans and snatches etc, similar to the Viktor Pesta program.
I’m also spending this time in isolation to improve my boxing and kickboxing specifically. Jiu Jitsu will have to wait until the gym is able to reopen. In addition to S&S, boxing and kickboxing, I will be doing hill runs/sprints between one or two times per week depending on how I feel.
So.. let’s do it! Tomorrow, 25/05/2020 is Day 1 of my new journey. I can’t wait! I will try my best to post detailed and thoughtful descriptions of my daily training with a bit of diet information also.
NOTE*
I currently only have a 16kg kettlebell which I feel is perfect for now whilst I master technique. A 24kg bell is on order and should be here in a couple of weeks!
1. To keep motivated and to motivate others
2. To keep track of my progress
3. And most importantly, to embed my self in this amazing community even further!
Background
I am a 24 year old, 6ft 5inch Male from Manchester, England. I currently do MMA and am looking to compete in the near future (once Coronavirus decides to stop ruining everybody’s year). I have wanted to learn more about kettlebell training for a while and after seeing Pavel’s appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, it forced me to delve a bit deeper into the world of kettlebells and StrongFirst.
I have spent the last two weeks reading the forum and the S&S ebook as well as watching countless YouTube videos. I also spent last week doing S&S and I loved it! I can really see how the swings and TGU’s will transfer over to my MMA.
Goals
Like anybody else, I want to OWN simple, move onto sinister and hopefully start to incorporate some presses, cleans and snatches etc, similar to the Viktor Pesta program.
I’m also spending this time in isolation to improve my boxing and kickboxing specifically. Jiu Jitsu will have to wait until the gym is able to reopen. In addition to S&S, boxing and kickboxing, I will be doing hill runs/sprints between one or two times per week depending on how I feel.
So.. let’s do it! Tomorrow, 25/05/2020 is Day 1 of my new journey. I can’t wait! I will try my best to post detailed and thoughtful descriptions of my daily training with a bit of diet information also.
NOTE*
I currently only have a 16kg kettlebell which I feel is perfect for now whilst I master technique. A 24kg bell is on order and should be here in a couple of weeks!