Back to Enter the Kettlebell; Six Week Self-Assessment

If you read the last post here I had started slipping with my training. To combat that I trained five days a week with a basic program. I did swings, push-ups, and squats, usually finishing in 15-20 minutes. Now I'm ready to address my strength issues. I'm returning to the Rite of Passage from Enter the …

Regaining Discipline, One Small Step At A Time; Six-Week Assessment

This one slipped up and caught me by surprise. For close to two weeks I hadn't picked up akettlebell. I had skipped a workout, then another, and another, until I realized I was lacking my old self-discipline in training. I remembered a progressive way to start a habit that I had read about. Want to …

Hitting the Redline: Six Week Fitness Self-Assessment

After the last competition's poor showing I decided I needed to train smarter and more comprehensively. Problem is I don't seem to be responding to high volume or heavy weight (90+% of max) as well as I used to. At least as often as I was training. My focus on overhead pressing left everything else …

I’m Shrinking! Six Week Assessment

We're two weeks away from the competition day on June 1 and I'll predict that I have added a rep to my military press record. The snatches I'm not so sure of.  The six-week assessment creeped up so I had to evaluate what the diet's been doing. I know I'm getting stronger with the ease …