Nothing ventured nothing gained should be my motto this week. I decided to try to swing the 32kg again on Sunday and have reintroduced the 16kg into my presses.
My workout on Sunday was very Rights of Passage based as I find this a really effective program for becoming confident with a new weight.
I started with clean and press ladders 1-5 . On the first rung which is just one clean and press I’m using the 16kg. The aim of this is to regain my confidence and eventually lift this weight. At the moment I need a bit of a push on the right and the use of a helping hand on the left. When I can lift without these aids I’ll move onto 2 reps. The rest of the ladders use a 12kg and concentrate on not moving my hips out to support. I just about managed 5 sets before form went.
The next stage of this ROP day is swings. I decided to take another shot at the heavier kettlebells because I can’t quite believe how easy I found those swings last week. Again the 20kg,24kg and 28kg were fine. By this time on a sunday most people are tucking into sunday roast and the gym is very quiet. So I picked up the 32kg- made sure form was good and swung! I manged 3 swings and then stopped just to make sure I didn’t hurt myself.Wow that feels good. After this I went back to timed swings with 16kg. This is much harder than I expected so am building up 1 min at a time.
Finding time to train during the rest of the week was hard because my day job is so demanding - leaving home at 7:30am and returning at 9:00pm for three consecutive days really hit me hard. I did manage a quick workout using one of Chuzzy’s strength workouts (Dble chest press, rows,squats and swings) midway through. But no decent workout until Thursday.
Thursday and Friday were ROP days. C&P ladders 1-4 and swings on Thursday and snatch ladders on Friday using the 16kg-I managed 3 sets of ladders 1-5 this week , some more heavy swings (5 with the 32kg) and 12kg TGU. Friday I also ran round the school field with 6 classes in turn- making around 8-10 laps for Sport Relief. At one time I would never manage this but now barely break a sweat! Just as well because I had some pretty intense meeting commitments after that.
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