fleurjr
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So I have finished my first week with S&S. I am at a local gym that has a 30# and 50# KB. I know the book says to start with 35# (or 44# if you have a BP over 200#). I am caught somewhere in the middle. I am a 6'0" 205# male, bench around 250# although I don't train it on a regular basis. I initially tried 30# swings one armed for all ten sets with a 2min rest. This felt too light for me so I started alternating 30# swings for each arm then 50# swing each arm. If I had access I would do the 44# but I don't. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself so I am trying to resist doing the 50# KB for all my swings (even though I feel like I can). What do you all think of this plan?
30#KB one armed swings x2 sets then 50# KB one armed swings x 2 sets then back to 30# for 2 sets then 50# for 2 sets the 30 for 2 sets (total of 5x10 on each arm). One min rest intervals between sets. After each week, if I have successfully complete this without break in form and overall feel well I will subtract 10 secs from rest. If I don't feel good about it one week I won't. I will do this until I reach 1:1 work to rest ratio. Then I will replace a set of 30# one armed swings for 50# ones. I will also put the rest back up to one min and restart the process. All Get ups will be at 30# until I feel like my tech is sound.
Obviously this is a bit more confusing (although makes sense to me) and strays away from the central theme of simplicity. I just think 30# swings were too easy and I didn't want to jump into 50# swings only this soon. At some point I plan on buying some KB's myself and circumventing this problem.
Thoughts?