
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~ Lily Tomlin There’s nothing like a lazy Sunday to help you get your bearings back and your priorities straight. We spent about two hours on Saturday afternoon pulling weeds and roots from our front lawn before we stopped and did week 7′s “heavy” day. We spent extra time with…
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Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”~ Mark Victor Hansen…
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There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that’s if we quit. ~ Author Unknown Our Enter the Kettlebell journey continued into the second week of the Rite of Passage workouts. This week we keep our “rungs” at three, but do four ladders. We’ve also upped our reps on inverted rows to five…
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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. ~ Jamie Paolinetti MOVE!!! Yeah, it’s that easy. Look, I know it’s Winter and it’s probably either snowing or raining or about to where you are. And there will be times when you’ve had a hard day and it’s…
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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…
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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…
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