Portion Sizes Not FDA Approved

Portion Sizes Not FDA Approved

Four men gathered on a rainy Saturday morning to gorge themselves on a heaping helping of supersets at the kettlebell buffet.  The small number of the Faithful proved to be an asset since we could complete the bulk of the workout, including some gear stations, under the narrow canopy and manage to stay somewhat dry.  Pop Tart and Squid were as giddy as kids on Christmas morning since the good people of Amazon and the United States Postal Service finally saw fit to deliver their new kettlebells.  By the way, Pop Tart informed YHC that he found bells on Amazon for less than a dollar a pound plus free shipping, if any PAX are looking to add to their collection or take the plunge with a first kettlebell purchase.  We lined up and jumped into supersets consisting of four exercises stacked on top of each other with no rest in between.

Superset 1: 20 two handed swings, 20 goblet squats, 20 clean & press (10 each side), 20 renegade rows (10 each side).  After the first time all the way through, repeat the superset cutting the reps in half.

Superset 2: 20 two handed swings, 20 good mornings, 20 sumo high pulls, 20 Romanian deadlifts (10 each side).  After the first time all the way through, repeat the superset cutting the reps in half.

Superset 3: 20 two handed swings, 20 floor press (10 each side), 20 weighted crunches/sit-ups, 20 flutter kicks with bell press.  After the first time all the way through, repeat the superset cutting the reps in half.

After such a a display of superset gluttony we had to keep moving so as not to let the food coma set in so we transitioned to gear stations.  Each man bellied up to a station and would go hard for 2-3 minutes before rotating.  Stations included jump rope, sandbag clean & press, medicine ball sideways throws, sit ups and wall ball shots, dumbbell thrusters (squat into a shoulder press), battle rope, farmers walk with kettlebells, double kettlebell swings.

The finisher: 100 kettlebell swings with one free grounding of the bell per man.  Additional groundings could be purchased by running to the end of the parking lot, performing 10 merkins, and running back.

The finisher redux: We had approximately two minutes left before 8:00 am when we all wrapped up our 100 swings so each man chose a core exercise.  Fletch picked Dolly with kettlebell press, Pop Tart had us do some one legged bicycle with oblique crunch thing, Squid picked the Russian twist with kettlebell which was simply brutal, and YHC wrapped things up with a 20 count elbow plank.

Moleskine: Thank you to the three men who ignored the rain and joined me at Olympus.  Pop Tart and Squid have dived headfirst into the realm of kettlebells which makes YHC very happy.  Fletch is simply good at everything.  If we could harness the energy created from his jump rope turns the oil, solar, and wind energy companies would be out of business.  It sounds like the Day Zero crew tackled some sandbag work which is music to YHC’s ears.  The Rock boys will get the full Olympus experience later this spring as well.  Kettlebell and gear workouts are spreading far and wide to society’s benefit.  Lifting heavy things up and putting them down again is good for the mind, body, and soul.  That’s just science.