Great Kettlebell Session

I just had an awesome session with my 16kg kettlebell.  Mind you, it is pretty insignificant compared to what the athletes in the AKC are doing right now, but with only three and a half weeks under my belt, I'm pretty darn happy with how things are going.  I actually feel like I can get in a good groove now technically.  Even my left hand snatch is starting to feel right (most of the time).

Today, I did sets exclusively for time.  I did not count reps at all and focused only on being as relaxed as possible and respecting specific technical points in each of the movements.  This is how my session played out.

• Long Cycle (one hand) - 5 minutes per side
• Snatch - 2 rounds of 1.25 minutes per side
• Jerk - 3 minutes per side
• Clean - 2.5 minutes per side
• Clean - 2 minutes per side
• Jerks - 2 minutes per side

That was pretty much non-stop, switching back and forth from one hand to the other.  I had to stop to switch my wrist band from side to side (only have one for some stupid reason...), and took the opportunity to do some wrist mobility at the same time (à la Intu-Flow).  I find it fairly taxing on the wrists.  I guess we will see this weekend at the cert course if my grip is right...  Anyhow, the whole thing took me just shy of an hour including a joint mobility warm-up.  And as I wrote in an earlier post, this kind of session keeps my right in that "aerobic" heart rate zone.  So if you are thinking of buying a treadmill, don't.  Pick yourself up a kettlebell instead!!

PS In case you don't know what I look like, that picture is not me!! ;-)  That is Coach Valerie Fedorenko (the master...).  Can't wait to meet him this weekend!!