Full of energy on Wednesday I was. When I started cycling I'd do a tour with Wexford Wheelers and then repeat the circuit the following few days to get routes into my head. Similarly I'd been doing this with the Kettlebell. When we'd do a routine on Monday I'd repeat it on Wednesday at home. So Mick was explaining what Igor Morozov had done on his visit earlier in the year on his day off. Off for a run, 40 minutes skipping then 40 minutes of 1 minute on, 1 minute off jerks with 32Kg bells.
Hmmm...I can do that...sort of. So Wednesday came and I warmed up for 40 minutes of minute on/minute off jerk with 1 x 20Kg bell. Starting off with 16Kg for 3 sets to warm up at 20 reps each I was ready for the 20s. Yep...20 reps for the first 2 sets then the body said Nyet (Russian for feck off). So I alternated 3 sets 16Kg, 3 sets 20Kg with 16 reps for the 20s.
40 minutes came...yeah, still feeling fine so we aimed for the hour. Whoa...1 hour and 9,840Kg later and we were fried. It's like one of those breakthrough moments. And it felt good. I was ready for anything. Then I forgot about the test on the following Friday that nearly killed me. 8 minutes of jerks followed by 8 minutes of snatch. My feet touched the ground again.
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