Wednesday, July 19, 2006

More on sport/obsession (too long): Kettlebells, Strength, Fitness, Martial Arts

More on sport/obsession (too long): Kettlebells, Strength, Fitness, Martial Arts

A rant by Rif.

2 comments:

Tom Furman said...

Vivid reality. Lots of guys our age can barely walk, are out of shape, and look ten years older. These are the athletes. Hard seeing someone who teased me about being clean living and fit most of my life. They chose mass quantities of consumables, booze, and drugs. Payback is a bitch.

--Tom

Mark Reifkind said...

yeah but they never did what we did, or still can do. and they have to still inhabit their disgusting mainframes. I would rather have climbed the geights and seen what I have seen that never gotten off the floor and be perfectly safe/whole. We all gonna die anyway.

190 x 1 x 12, 210/225 static holds, 24 kg goblet squats, floor pushups 30, 20

 This went VERY well almost all reps identical. Realized I get better drive AND minimize shoulder stress if I unrack it with more weight on ...