magus71
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Update:
I'm continuing the soldier's "special populations" ie fat people, training. As I mentioned in my post, he's lost significant weight here, but with it, he lost what little strength he started with. The cure? Old School barbell and kettlebell training. The challenge is keeping his body fat low enough to stay in the army. He hovers at 22%--exactly meeting regulation requirement, but his retention in the army is a unit commander decision, and the commander states that he wants this soldier at 21% before he can reenlist.
The program's core is now 5x5 squat and bench press, with hi-rep kettlebell swings. He's continuing to lose weight and his strength is improving every workout, especially on squats and swings. His schedule is every other day, but I'm not dogmatic about this; recently he failed to progress on bench, so he took two days off. When he returned he was stronger than ever.
Looking back, his biggest problem was not his weight, but his lack of strength. His feeble strength made every training session more difficult than it needed to be.
Yesterday, he was able to complete 200 kb swings, sets of 25 with a 53 lb kb, averaging 1 min 30 secs rest between sets. Kettlebells have increased his work capacity by vast amounts and in a very short time.
I'm hoping the squats force his body into the adaption it needs. I'm waiting for that cascade. The interesting factor will be how this affects his body fat levels. We weighed him and measured body fat again last week. He'd lost 5 additional pounds, but was still at 22%.
I'm continuing the soldier's "special populations" ie fat people, training. As I mentioned in my post, he's lost significant weight here, but with it, he lost what little strength he started with. The cure? Old School barbell and kettlebell training. The challenge is keeping his body fat low enough to stay in the army. He hovers at 22%--exactly meeting regulation requirement, but his retention in the army is a unit commander decision, and the commander states that he wants this soldier at 21% before he can reenlist.
The program's core is now 5x5 squat and bench press, with hi-rep kettlebell swings. He's continuing to lose weight and his strength is improving every workout, especially on squats and swings. His schedule is every other day, but I'm not dogmatic about this; recently he failed to progress on bench, so he took two days off. When he returned he was stronger than ever.
Looking back, his biggest problem was not his weight, but his lack of strength. His feeble strength made every training session more difficult than it needed to be.
Yesterday, he was able to complete 200 kb swings, sets of 25 with a 53 lb kb, averaging 1 min 30 secs rest between sets. Kettlebells have increased his work capacity by vast amounts and in a very short time.
I'm hoping the squats force his body into the adaption it needs. I'm waiting for that cascade. The interesting factor will be how this affects his body fat levels. We weighed him and measured body fat again last week. He'd lost 5 additional pounds, but was still at 22%.