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Enter The Kettlebell – Week 5 Done

A beginning is only the start of a journey to another beginning.~ Author Unknown As we finish up week five of the Program Minimum, it’s a good time to reflect on why we start with swings and get-ups. As Pavel says in Enter the Kettlebell, the Program Minimum (PM) is designed to deliver: The conditioning of…

How To Do The Pump

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Rohn I’ve got both baby!  I was really excited to get to today’s get-up practice and had to slow myself down while I finished my warm-up session.  Once warm-ups were done, I set my Gymboss for 5 minutes and practiced the…

The Secret To Setting Goals

We all know that the new year brings a host of new goals set by people wanting to lose weight, get a raise, stop smoking, etc., etc. etc. Problem is, most of those folks never reach their goal. Oh, they give it a good shot.  Maybe buy a gym membership, go a few weeks.  Or…

When Less Will Get You More

Keyboard – golden key Success, originally uploaded by csitscenter. Less will get you more? Howzat? We moved our get-up practice to Saturday afternoon and I decided to drop my training weight to 16 kg from my usual 24 kg. While the 24 kg is still giving me a great workout, I wanted to try the…

Enter The Kettlebell-Raising The Intensity

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.~Winston Churchill We’re in week 3 of the Program Minimum phase of Enter The Kettlebell.  If you’ve been following along, you know that we’ve been using the Art of Strength, Enter The Kettlebell workbook.  You probably also know that we’ve…

Don’t Think About It, Just Do It…

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.~Steven Kaggwa TGU’s on Saturday afternoon.  It wasn’t our usual workout time, but our Friday evening was full and fitting practice time in was out of the question then. Our usual time to exercise has always been the late afternoon and early evening, so 2:00 o’clock on a…

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