Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Years with Kettlebells + Situps






Last night my New Year's was pretty relaxed.  I had a beer and not too bad of food.  I celebrated the New Year on East Coast time, 9PM here.  It was perfect, I have celebrated this holiday plenty of times before and I hadn't seen the clock strike midnight all year, so I wasn't going to start the last day of the year.  I fell asleep on my couch 10 min before midnight, then my girlfriend woke me up with a kiss and I went straight to bed waking up refreshed and ready to start a great year of training.  I have a lot planned for 2011,  I think big things will happen.  I will go over some of my goals in a later post. 

Today I started with some clean and jerks at 80% effort with 195lb for sets of 3, plus deadlifts at 80% effort with 325lb for sets of 3.

then...

5 Rounds for time of:
10 KB snatch R arm 53lb
10 KB snatch L arm 53lb
20 GHD situps
t= 8:17

Yesterday I did  20 min row @ 1:57 pace which felt great.  Then I practiced skills with the KB such as running and overhead work + muscle up practice + ring HSPU practice

A couple days ago I did squat cleans and front squats with a ton of pullups, total of 125 chin over vertical plane pullups.  This got me a little sore but not too bad.  Still working on squat strength and speed.

Tomorrow is a day off and I plan on sitting in my ice bath again.  I really think the 10 min I'm spending in ice has been absolutely crucial with my recovery right now!



3 comments:

  1. Hope you have a good safe year and I look forward to seeing you in Cali in the summer!!

    is James doing your progamming for you?
    Also, how are you doing your ice baths? Ive heard of doing like 5 in ice, 5 in hot, then back to ice. have you played with it or are you just doing 10 mins straight?

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  2. Thanks man, James is doing my programming right now, so Im following everything he says. He is just having me sit in an ice bath for 10-15 min every other day, this is the same thing I did back in college. Haven't experimented with hot cold yet, but the 10 min in ice works wonders!

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  3. Did Tay take these photos? They are really good Joey!

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