Quarantine fitness

Missus is shit at pushups so I'm now doing this with her. https://hundredpushups.com

Swings done. Just over 30 mins all in.

All fine apart from my forearms which became fatigued at the end of the first set and continued getting tired throughout the rest of the sets.

All good though, don't feel knackered. Will see how I'm feeling later.

Reckon I could do 24kg it my forearms could take it, right now no chance.

Upper calf muscles still fucked from skipping session a couple of days ago.

The burpees are great for shaking off the lethargy of being at home, the dread of the swings has set in now.

My god these swings are horrific I’m at 170 now and had to have a break, the dog started getting in the way which was the excuse I needed.

Surely you haven't left much time after lunch?!

I don’t think I can do 500, up to 250 now and nothing left, might have to downgrade to 250 a day this week. 20kg is my only bell and I haven’t done them for ages, well that’s my excuse.

Did you do them in the 10000 swing recommended sets?

The key is doing the recommended sets, having 30-60 seconds rest between each 50 then up to 3 mins between sets.

Cardio wise this was fine, much tougher on the grip and forearms.

I did 10,20,30 then tried 40 but couldn’t so dropped to sets of 20. This may be where I went wrong.

Have you been doing swings prior to this or have you just started this challenge without a base of swings in the tank?

Might try the other 250 in a bit using recommended sets.

I haven’t done swings for a good few months which is why I thought 20kg would be ok. Pretty sure my technique is ok it just said my energy so quickly.

Where are these recommended sets? 10x10 with minimal rest in between has been hard enough.

There’s no recommended sets for the burpees but there is a programme for the 10000 swing challenge.

10, 15, 25 the 60 second rest (with a strength movement in between in 1,2,3 increments).
50 swings, 3 mins rest.

Repeat 4 more times.

Yeah but not all of us are swinging a 28kg bell 😂

Aye, can’t be fucked with burpees at the moment, lol, just want to fuck around with the kettlebell.

Maybe the burpees took their toll on your energy stores.

And what constitutes a strength movement?

Keen to try TGUs today, but reckon the press off the deck will be tricky!

I'm doing the press but you can choose/switch between different ones.

https://www.t-nation.com/workouts/10000-swing-kettlebell-workout

For me it's a good time to do the press as I've been using the 16kg for pressing but I'm now strong enough for a 20kg, but only at low reps.

It's funny doing this when you start looking forward to pressing a 20kg bell as it feels like a rest between all the swings.

Yeah probably did actually, I got absolutely no joy from any of them!

Fair fucks for doing both in a day, go big or go home.

I don't quite see the point in arbitrary rep goals for strength stuff. Just do it to failure and then recover and do it again to failure. Oh, I see you do have a program of sorts so maybe you're just starting to far into it. People trying to smash big stuff out of the park then knackering themselves and can't do it again. Every gym lounge everywhere :)

I was struggling for motivation after my marathon got cancelled, I bought loads of kit for bench and squatting and would go outside and do a half hearted session as couldn’t get myself into it for some reason. I have found these challenges a good way of getting back into it although haven’t used much of the equipment I have bought in the run up to lockdown, the value of it has risen massively it seems though.