Doubles Tour

Doubles Tour

Fifteen pax thrashed to the mellifluous harmonies of Ratt, Cinderella and Dokken for the next stop of the Doubles Tour.  In case you didn’t get the t-shirt, previous locations were my garage, Meathead, Diamond Head, and Skunk Works.  And maybe a few other places.  Tour life is a grind..hard to keep all the places straight.

Today was to be a pure KB workout and, as such, the call was for a KB warm up, sans SSH.

• 2H Swings x 20
• Prying Squat
• Good Mornings x 10
• Halos x 10 ea way
• Dead Snatch x 5 ea side

Line up abreast on the curb

Saw a You Tube video (can’t find the link right off, but apparently Brown has seen it) of a snatch to walking lunge (S/WL) that I wanted to try out. So we did.  Do a snatch then lunge walk in the overhead position.  Rinse and repeat on the other side until you reach your destination.

• S/WL x 10 yards, 1H swings x 10 ea side
• S/WL x 10 yards, high pulls x 10 ea side
• S/WL x 10 yards, cleans x 10 ea side
• S/WL x 10 yards, goblet squats x 10
• S/Backwards WL x 10 yards, 1L RDL x 10 ea side
• S/WL x 10 yards, Dead Snatches, 5 ea side
• S/WL x 10 yards, Good mornings x 15
• S/WL x 10 yards, Mosey

Partner up with similar sized bells for doubles.  Partner 1 works, Partner 2 gets a short breather.

• Dbl Swings x 10, 3 sets
• Dbl Cleans x 10, 3 sets
• Dbl See saw press x 6-8, 3 sets.  Push press as needed.
• Dbl Swings x 10, 4 minutes

COT

MOLESKINE:

Some new stuff and some new standards.  Not sure what to think about the snatch to walking lunge combo.  Sometimes different is better and sometimes it’s just different.  They are two great exercises on their own but when combined they lose a bit of their stand-alone potency.  Still, not a bad complex to have in the toolbox.

The front half of the workout was effectively a warm up for the doubles on the back half.  A bit of a KB renaissance is sweeping Area 51, and (in my opinion) a large part of that has to do with doubles. I sound like a broken record, but guys are figuring out that they have much, much more reserve strength that they had given themselves credit for, especially on the ballistic exercises like swings, cleans and the like.  Once you swing a double 35 (or 40 or 45), the light bulb comes on.  One size does not fit all for KB:  as demonstrated today, the pressing bell is about half the size of the swinging/ballistic bell.  Put another way, most guys but pressing bells and unknowingly cheat themselves on the ballistics.  Well, know you know.  You’ve done it.

Rock Thrill drove up with a 30 lb bell today.  This afternoon, he’s shopping for a 24 kg (53 lb).  If you want to get better with the bells you have to have more than one.  And one of them needs to be heavy.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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