Maintenance Man

In my desperate attempt to prevent overtraining… *cough*… it’s been over a week or so since I did any substantial sort of PT session. I broke that trend yesterday (in spite of having family visiting!) with a half-way decent workout; sort of a maintenance workout to keep at least some of the fires burning. [...]

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Cycling, But Going Nowhere…

Yesterday, I found myself with some time on my hands, and as usual when that happens, I do some PT. After a morning of mostly just lazing around, interrupted by a quick hike over to the 7-11, I decided I wanted to get a workout in before heading to the office party over at [...]

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Well, according to the Wunderground weather site, it got up to a blistering 9.1 degrees F today in Colorado Springs. I typically walk from my hotel to the office building; today it seemed a little chillier than when I did it yesterday. Apparently, it was–around -6 F. It didn’t feel that bad, [...]

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Swinger, Baby, Yeah…

Today’s session was again the three rounds of five minutes, focussed on kettlebelling goodness. First five was simply doing (mostly) two-handed swings with the 24 kilo bell. Round Two was five minutes with the long cycle clean and jerk (LCCJ) with the 16 kilo bell. Started off the third round with 42 [...]

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…

I’m pretty much a soggy mess right now; trying to see through salt-streaked glasses while I type and chill down from today’s PT. It probably should be called, “How to sweat buckets in three easy rounds.”
A simple protocol again; three rounds of five minutes each, with kettlebells.
Firstly, you take two kettlebells, and do several [...]

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Getting Along Swimmingly…

… thank you very much.
I was inspired to finally hit the pool again today. I’ve been wanting to for a while, but just didn’t muster up the gumption to get over there after a workout yet. ‘Til today.
I caught some shows this morning dealing with diving, looking for underwater treasure–Megalodon teeth and such… [...]

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Private Party

Today was a fasting day, and before adjourning to a friend’s Birthday/House Warming party, I held a private party of my own. Just me–and my kettlebells!
Simple protocol, timed using my GYMBOSS timer. Five minutes snatch with the 16 kilo bell (switching hands when necessary), one minute rest, five minutes long cycle clean and [...]

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Third Of Three

So, Friday’s German Longsword practice went well, with Chris spending most of his time bringing Hallie up to speed (she had missed a couple of practices) and Fritz and I worked on the first longsword play, until we took a water break and we worked for most of the rest of the night on falling/rolling. [...]

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Swing My Bell-ell-ell, Swing My Bell

Since I did a power PT on Sunday, today’s session would be all about sustained strength (aka “strength-endurance,” “prolonged strength,” or “strength-over-time”), featuring “fun with kettlebells.”
For the ramp-up to get my blood moving, I did a simple set of ten push ups on my Perfect Push Up (or are they “Ultimate Push Up”–I’ll have to [...]

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Heavy, Dude…

I must have the worst case of dyscalculia… once again I was prepping for a Power To The People (PTTP) type lifting session and hosed up the weight amount when loading the bar.
But let me back up a little. Longsword on Friday was excellent, a good training session going over in some detail the [...]

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