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Do S&S and you've got everything you could ever want physically. The only exception is if you're a real specialist competitive lifter, and even then you'll want to keep S&S 2 or 3 times a week. It trims your body up real fast, and gives you remarkable real world strength and cardio endurance. It's one program where you get strong and slim at once - lots of programs leave you slim.

I reread the entire S&S book again last night. This time around, after 2 years on the program, I fully understood everything. I was reminded of the importance of shoulder packing and some other things in the TGU. I was also reminded that unless you're some kind of superhuman, attaining and maintaining Simple is as far as you need to go. Also, having had to give up TGUs for a long while due to a bashed knee, I was reminded how important the TGU is to specifically compliment the swings, and like Steve Friedes wrote, it's a compliment to the swings and not really something that works all by itself, but with swings it's remarkably strengthening. It's a kata.

I could do the TGUs again today finally! I'm recharged for S&S!
 
S&S with the 32kg went well again today. It's hard work, which is part of why it works, but at least with S&S I know my hard work is yielding the results I want. My goal is still to do S&S regularly with the 40kg bell. I'll work up to that.
 
I'm getting interested in adding some callisthenics back into my life. My chinup bar in my doorframe is not wide enough for pullups, but it's great for chinups. I made myself a dipping station 15 years ago. Doing a few of these a day won't harm my S&S I don't think, and might actually help with both S&S progress and with judo.
 
Restarted chinups and dips this morning. I could do 6 strict chinups in a row. I couldn't go all the way down with my dips due to my sore shoulders from judo.

Maybe the fact that I stopped doing these when I got into S&S has impacted my judo negatively in the sense that I'm getting a lot sorer from training now than every before. I wonder...
 
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
 
Stuart Elliott said:
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
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How does that apply in my case? I'm intrigued!
 
Hmmm... I have to move back up to 40kg for S&S. The 32kg is keeping me fit enough to train super hard and to recover very fast, but I'm missing the strength I used to have when I did S&S with the 40kg but less judo. A tricky dilemma.
 
How many times a week you do Judo and how many S&S?
I would suggest to start with choosing one day, do the 40 that day and the 32 the rest.
Choose one after a Judo session, but 2 days before the next.
 
caddo2000 said:
How many times a week you do Judo and how many S&S?
I would suggest to start with choosing one day, do the 40 that day and the 32 the rest.
Choose one after a Judo session, but 2 days before the next.
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Judo is Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri.
 
Yesterday:

12 reps with the 300lbs barbell.
Lots of presses with the 24kg kettlebell and some with the 32.
A bit of 10lbs mace work.

I'm starting to really become critical of weight lifting that is not including cardio or endurance training. When I lifted the barbell, I held it as long as possible. I feel kind of icky today not having had a big cardio workout yesterday. I'll need to do S&S today to fix that!
 
Last night did S&S with the 32kg, and also did one set of TGUs with the 40kg. The 40kg definitely feels better - it feels like I'm getting more bang for my exercise buck so to speak.
 
It took 10 minutes to finish the S&S swings with the 32, and I spent 20 minutes doing the TGUs very slowly.
 
Under the weather today plus my shoulders are strangely feeling better than usual. I'm taking the day off kettlebells.
 
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