“There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom” ~ Albert Einstein
Which is why I rely on coffee or green tea. Those atoms can be a bit tricky to deal with.
Last Thursday, I got a bit of a wild hair and decided to do my level 7 Long Islander workout with my 20 kg kettlebell instead of the 16 kg that I’ve been working with.
I was feeling strong and thought I’d get a benchmark of where my progress was. And it wasn’t a bad plan, but it’s one I probably won’t repeat again for a couple weeks.
I managed to get almost all the way through the workout, until I reached my last two sets of the longcycle push-press. I could feel my elbows getting tweaked, so I decided to letter common sense rule the day, and finish the last two sets with 16s.
I took Friday, Saturday and Sunday off and came back to level 7 today. This time I went through it with my 16s, while my wife used her 8kg. Today I tried to relax whenever I could and picked my times in the rack or in the lock-out to do so. I found that there’s plenty of time to do that with the clean and 1/2 snatch, but the longcycle push-press takes up the entire 1:30 second time period when I’m doing 15 reps in that time period.
My goal for this week is at least one more level 7 workout, and two would be nice, before finishing up the week with a level 8 workout.
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