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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…

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…

Making New Kettlebell Friends…

“Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.” ~ Pearl Bailey ETK Training Log Update Monday – Joint mobility work followed by 10 minute warm-up.  Keeping up with the goblet squats. 12 minutes of 35-rep sets of hand-2-hand swings/5 rounds.  (40 reps on…

Kettlebells – #1 Rust Inhibitor

If you rest, you rust. ~ Helen Hayes Regular Exercise Beats Back Depression According to the National Institute of Mental Illness, more people suffer from depression than AIDS, cancer, and coronary heart disease. And this time of the year doesn’t help matters much.  Days and days of grey skies and snow and rain, less daylight,…

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…

Killer Joe

This here’s the story about Killer Joe He’s a real bad cat, ‘forget I told you so… -Manhattan Transfer, “That’s Killer Joe” The turkish get-up is one kettlebell strength move that’s absolutely killer.  Done right, it takes tremendous strength, coordination, balance, flexibility and focus. You may know how to do the get-up, and you may…

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