Anon999
Level 6 Valued Member
Lockdown has taught me that a partial Turkish Get Up can be more brutal than a full Turkish Get Up. Allow me to explain....
A few weeks before the Great Kettlebell Shortage of 2020 and the Global Shutdown of 2020, I bought a 24KG that I hauled each day to my building's gym. The kettlebells in the gym went from 10 pounds to 45 pounds in increments of 5 pounds, and hauling the 24KG bell allowed me to start to progress my swings and goblet squats with heavier weights. But I was not ready for 24KG Turkish Get Ups because it was a weight that could too easily be out of my control and come crashing down hard.
My building's gym closed up on St. Patrick's Day. Starting immediately thereafter, all of my goblet squats and swings used 24KG instead of just some of them. No longer able to do Turkish Get Ups with the gym's 45 pound bell, I turned to a 25 pound kettlebell I had in the back of my closet. I added shoulder presses throughout the get up and cut back on rest breaks to try to make the lightweight bell more challenging.
This week, I stopped (for now) using the 25 pound bell, and have been doing all of my get ups with the 24KG bell. These are not full get ups, just partial get ups. For the first three days, I was just going to the part where I support myself on one extended arm, and for the last couple of days, I've been going to the part where I start to get on my knee, but my weight is still supported on one arm. (And of course, then I reverse the process.) Though these are only partial get ups, these are the most brutal get ups I have ever done. I am working hard at keeping the bell firmly under my control at all times and to be able to have the bell descend in a controlled fashion rather than come crashing down. My survival instincts tell me that this level of control is important for me to get down before I start dealing with those shifts of my center of gravity when I lift my supporting hand from the floor and when I stand.
I know some of you have already mastered the Turkish Get Up with 24KG or higher, and I respect that. But as someone who started off my training as a relatively weak middle-aged dude, I have to work with where I am at right now. I didn't expect lockdown to cause me to start exploring the 24KG Turkish Get Up though.....
A few weeks before the Great Kettlebell Shortage of 2020 and the Global Shutdown of 2020, I bought a 24KG that I hauled each day to my building's gym. The kettlebells in the gym went from 10 pounds to 45 pounds in increments of 5 pounds, and hauling the 24KG bell allowed me to start to progress my swings and goblet squats with heavier weights. But I was not ready for 24KG Turkish Get Ups because it was a weight that could too easily be out of my control and come crashing down hard.
My building's gym closed up on St. Patrick's Day. Starting immediately thereafter, all of my goblet squats and swings used 24KG instead of just some of them. No longer able to do Turkish Get Ups with the gym's 45 pound bell, I turned to a 25 pound kettlebell I had in the back of my closet. I added shoulder presses throughout the get up and cut back on rest breaks to try to make the lightweight bell more challenging.
This week, I stopped (for now) using the 25 pound bell, and have been doing all of my get ups with the 24KG bell. These are not full get ups, just partial get ups. For the first three days, I was just going to the part where I support myself on one extended arm, and for the last couple of days, I've been going to the part where I start to get on my knee, but my weight is still supported on one arm. (And of course, then I reverse the process.) Though these are only partial get ups, these are the most brutal get ups I have ever done. I am working hard at keeping the bell firmly under my control at all times and to be able to have the bell descend in a controlled fashion rather than come crashing down. My survival instincts tell me that this level of control is important for me to get down before I start dealing with those shifts of my center of gravity when I lift my supporting hand from the floor and when I stand.
I know some of you have already mastered the Turkish Get Up with 24KG or higher, and I respect that. But as someone who started off my training as a relatively weak middle-aged dude, I have to work with where I am at right now. I didn't expect lockdown to cause me to start exploring the 24KG Turkish Get Up though.....