Back to training.

As much fun as I had at the Hungarian RKC these last days my training, as it always does when one travels, takes a hit. It has to. One can only deal with so much stress and recover and traveling is stressful.

This is true for anyone but for someone like me who craves stability and control it is even more stressful. Add in my jacked up knee and trying to train while traveling and teaching is out of the question.

Add to that the weeks before where I have to play it safe to ensure I am ready and fit for duty as an instructor and I have a few months where my training is focused on not getting hurt, not making progress.

But thats over now and it looks like the next biggest trip I have to take won't be until Oct when Tracy and I go to Phoenix for another HKC with Keats Snideman. That gives me plenty of time to get some momentum going.

I did walk my ass off this weekend and got to demo quite a bit as well as getting to teach the snatch section and doing lots of snatches and snatch holds during that segment, as well as some cleans with double 24's and presses as well but it's not the same.

It's also interesting to see just how little, instead of how much, training I can do and still maintain my strength and muscle size. "Hi, my name is Rif and I'm a trainingvolume-a-holic." But I'm working on it and this weeks schedule is proof.

I didn't have this problem when I was a powerlifter because the heavier you go the less you want to do; it's just that simple and that true, for almost everybody.

I also want to experiement a bit now, with two hand swings, two kettlebell swings, cleans and presses,push presses and, dare I say it?, perhaps, jerks. with both one and two arms.

I've been relegated to just one arm swings, snatches, and just lately, presses for so long( not to say I'm not grateful I could do those) that I am itching to try these other movements that I haven't been able to tolerate forever.

So today was wade into training itself as well as these new movements slowly. Very slowly. My back feels great now and I plan on keeping it that way.

Training:

KB sumo deadlift

24 kg x10

32 kg x10

40 kg x10

48 kg x10

these felt great and I took bigger jumps than last time. One , just to do less overall work and two , to see if I could. No problem.

Two Kettlebell clean and press, long cycle

2/14 kg x5/5

2/16 kg x4/4

2/20 kg x3/3

2/24 kg x2/2 x 2

these went great as well. low volume but that was the plan. Want to train again tomorrow as well. More focusing on greasing the groove I think that beating any one move to death, as per my usual M.O.

Snatch

16 kg x10/10 ( 2 sec hold at top of each rep)

20 kg x10/10 ( same as above)

these felt great.

two hand swing

24 kg x 10 sets of 5 10 sec rest/sets.

these felt great as well. really wanted to keep reps and sets low to see how the back copes.can't wait to train this greatest of all kb movements. A nice way to start my journey back into a serious and progressive training cycle with new moves and new challenges. Can't wait.

Mini band TKE's

2x20/15

red and black bands. Nice, these really hit the VMO strongly which my left knee sorely needs.

Stretching

about 10 minutes. I need more. A lot more as my legs are serious tight from all the walking and standing but I only had an hour and my head needed to train more than I needed to stretch.will stretch and foam roll later today.

datsit