7:30am - Kettlebell warm up
1/2K halos - 8kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
16kg Roll to press (TGU start) - shoulder cam shafts, each arm
Arm bar 16kg, 1+1, x 2
16kg BUP, 2/2, x 2
Arm bar 16kg, 1+1, x 2
Crooked Arm bar 16kg with 3 presses and rotations, 1/1
7:45am - Drive to Greenlake
8:00am- Training session - 16kg BU CL / BUP, 20kg PR, rack walks7:45am - Drive to Greenlake
16kg BUP, 2/2, x 2
5x:
20kg PR ladder, 3/3, 2/2, 1/1
Pull-ups on rings, 3
16kg BU CL + walk or 20kg rack walk
30/30 total presses
20kg PR ladder, 3/3, 2/2, 1/1
Pull-ups on rings, 3
16kg BU CL + walk or 20kg rack walk
30/30 total presses
8:30am - Complete
Notes - Well, when a 20kg kettlebell crushes you and brings you to your knees, you had goddamn better pay attention and get your shit together. And today was that day for me. As per my notes from the weekend, did a ton of walking, and mixed with pull-ups from rings, which I think are doing good things for stretching out my lats and gravity helping as well, got some good improvements in how my back was feeling. So much so I thought, in thinking about today's training, that I could go light on presses with "just" a 20kg, mix the presses with pull-ups (something I have not done before but have ready much about this from Pavel, it seemed like a good combo), and some lighter BU CL with walking or rack walks.
Fucking dumb but I think I realize why. I felt ok during the training session but at the end immediately started tightening up again in that same area, L erector, low back, glute medius. I thought back to my training over the past months, how this may have started with windmill practice in early April mixed with DB Jerks, and started just realizing - my body is rejecting load right now. Period. Particularly it seems, load in a grinding fashion or more particularly, overhead load. The movement of loading up one side, which fires up the obliques, in a rack position, or an overhead press position, etc. I think is just not the right thing for me to be doing right now and I am going to have to listen and figure this shit out.
Here is some shit that is working right now.
Walking - very good, feels great. Bodyweight squats - feel very good. Farmer carries (doubles only) - still think these are good, because the weight is in m HANDS and not distributed in a manner that is putting stress on the low back or overly firing one oblique over the other (which a one-sided carry does do). It's distributed all over. As I said above it seems that once the weight gets to the rack or overhead, right now, the body is saying NO. NOT right now. Please let me heal up.....
Pull-ups - feel great, I think it is due to gravity taking stress out of the equation as it relates to the low back, and I can focus on the pull with the lats, and my grip providing a lot of strength and control on the rings. Indian Clubs - a great re discovery. Mobility work - all kinds, feels good. Halos, arm bars - feel very good.
Plenty of stuff is NOT working right now as per above which is the stuff I love to do. There's a time and a season and it would appear that if I want to get back to pushing around some heavier weight and progressing in my practice with KBs, I need to focus on some things that clearly must have been missing lately, and that's not necessarily training stuff.
Writing this evening, feeling better for sure, but I spent a lot of the day in discomfort. I can't be having this. I was with my kids all day, on Memorial Day, and damn it if I didn't just grit my teeth and try to make a good day for them. A nice breakfast, took them out to Remlinger Farms for a full day at the farm, and then came back and cooked a BBQ and had my neighbors and their kids over to boot. All while feeling shitty, pissed at myself a bit, and just a bit bewildered. I need to be at 100% for my kids, I need to be moving well, and I need to pick myself up here and get my shit together. I've been all over the place mentally and emotionally lately too, and it's really hitting me square in the face that I have some stuff to figure out so I can move forward in a positive direction. No doubt plenty of this goes back to the divorce, final on December 1, now 6+ months later, I think all of the hard pushing I have been doing professionally, with training, and otherwise is catching up to me and I have to face reality here for a bit and seriously think about what the fuck has happened here and how best to take this and go forward.
Notes - Well, when a 20kg kettlebell crushes you and brings you to your knees, you had goddamn better pay attention and get your shit together. And today was that day for me. As per my notes from the weekend, did a ton of walking, and mixed with pull-ups from rings, which I think are doing good things for stretching out my lats and gravity helping as well, got some good improvements in how my back was feeling. So much so I thought, in thinking about today's training, that I could go light on presses with "just" a 20kg, mix the presses with pull-ups (something I have not done before but have ready much about this from Pavel, it seemed like a good combo), and some lighter BU CL with walking or rack walks.
Fucking dumb but I think I realize why. I felt ok during the training session but at the end immediately started tightening up again in that same area, L erector, low back, glute medius. I thought back to my training over the past months, how this may have started with windmill practice in early April mixed with DB Jerks, and started just realizing - my body is rejecting load right now. Period. Particularly it seems, load in a grinding fashion or more particularly, overhead load. The movement of loading up one side, which fires up the obliques, in a rack position, or an overhead press position, etc. I think is just not the right thing for me to be doing right now and I am going to have to listen and figure this shit out.
Here is some shit that is working right now.
Walking - very good, feels great. Bodyweight squats - feel very good. Farmer carries (doubles only) - still think these are good, because the weight is in m HANDS and not distributed in a manner that is putting stress on the low back or overly firing one oblique over the other (which a one-sided carry does do). It's distributed all over. As I said above it seems that once the weight gets to the rack or overhead, right now, the body is saying NO. NOT right now. Please let me heal up.....
Pull-ups - feel great, I think it is due to gravity taking stress out of the equation as it relates to the low back, and I can focus on the pull with the lats, and my grip providing a lot of strength and control on the rings. Indian Clubs - a great re discovery. Mobility work - all kinds, feels good. Halos, arm bars - feel very good.
Plenty of stuff is NOT working right now as per above which is the stuff I love to do. There's a time and a season and it would appear that if I want to get back to pushing around some heavier weight and progressing in my practice with KBs, I need to focus on some things that clearly must have been missing lately, and that's not necessarily training stuff.
Writing this evening, feeling better for sure, but I spent a lot of the day in discomfort. I can't be having this. I was with my kids all day, on Memorial Day, and damn it if I didn't just grit my teeth and try to make a good day for them. A nice breakfast, took them out to Remlinger Farms for a full day at the farm, and then came back and cooked a BBQ and had my neighbors and their kids over to boot. All while feeling shitty, pissed at myself a bit, and just a bit bewildered. I need to be at 100% for my kids, I need to be moving well, and I need to pick myself up here and get my shit together. I've been all over the place mentally and emotionally lately too, and it's really hitting me square in the face that I have some stuff to figure out so I can move forward in a positive direction. No doubt plenty of this goes back to the divorce, final on December 1, now 6+ months later, I think all of the hard pushing I have been doing professionally, with training, and otherwise is catching up to me and I have to face reality here for a bit and seriously think about what the fuck has happened here and how best to take this and go forward.
