Progress

Been quite some time since last blogging! Attended the level II cert. in St. Paul the first weekend in July, and have come to realize that getting a ton of information and working it there really does a number on the nervous system. BUT once getting back to routines, the information is fantastic and extremely beneficial. Outside of some playing around trying to get some videos going on the YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheArtOfKettlebells?feature=mhee#p/u) I've had for a couple of years, the workouts have been following Dan John's 40 day plan.

The 40 day program calls for a posterior chain movement, a push, a pull, a ballistic and abdominal movement. I chose a pistol squat, military press, pull up, hanging leg raise (HLR) and snatch. One solid week into the program and am already setting new PR's for myself. Sunday pulled off 5 strict military presses (one clean) per side x 2 sets with the 28 kg. Then on Monday night at the Y (no k-bells) hit for the 1st time 5 bottoms up military presses per side with a 45 lb 'iron grip' plate. The abs are definitely doing well as I was able to get 2 fairly nice full front levers outside the HLRs, and have been varying pistols naked, to 24 kg bell, to the 45 lb plate. PR and now somewhat standard is 50 24 kg snatches switching hands only once (this should continue to improve with comfortability. All in all, jamming along. Just need to see about journaling more often, although the routine is the same for another 5 more weeks! So not really much to blog!