8/8/15 Saturday August 8, 2015 (pull-ups, push-ups, DB 28kg carries)

Writing this on Saturday night.  I did this session with my son, as my daughter was playing at a friend's house.  It was fun to go down to the lake with just my son and play around together.  I love him seeing and experiencing this with his dad.  Earlier in the morning the kids wanted me to line up some KBs for them to deadlift.  My daughter did 8kg, 12kg, 16kg, and then a 24kg.  My son did the same, though the 24kg was pretty tough for him.  Flash forward to us being at the lake together, and he wants to deadlift the 28kg.  Insistent.  I let him try 3 times.  First rep, he almost locks it out, and holds it forever.  We rest a bit, he comes back, 2nd rep, he locks the damn thing out.  So cool!  Third rep, he didn't quite lock out and was getting tired:).  Shit I think the first time I tried to deadlift a goddamn weight was when I first started learning KBs - literally I never learned how to deadlift with a bar.  Stupid.  I love that he is doing this at age 6 (and my daughter too).

Hanging from rings

8 pull-ups (rings)
5 push-ups

7 pull-ups
5 push-ups

7 pull-ups
5 push-ups

Pistol squat, 1/1

6 pull-ups
5 push-ups

5 pull-ups

5 push-ups

Pistol squat, 1/1

Total pull-ups - 33.  Up one from last week.  Frankly I was shocked that these were not difficult.  I figured after upping the load during the week on KB training I would be a bit down on recovery, but I got a great night's sleep last night and felt very strong and refreshed.  This is extremely encouraging.  I have looked into dip belt+chain options online for use in attaching a KB for weighted pull-ups, and sent those to Kevin.  Once he gives a thumbs up I will purchase something and then switch the training protocol to start working on weighted pull-ups.  Pretty psyched about this.

4 sets of DB 28kgs farmer carries up, probably about 75 seconds each (timed with my phone).

Farmers were noticeably easier than last week.  I'll do another week with DB 28kgs, and really try to push the distance for 4 sets.  Assuming that goes ok, I will then bump to 32kgs and see how that goes.  Love these.