I’ve posted a handful of times here about fitness and strength, but I’ve been mum on the subject for a while. Here’s why: 2013 was an awful year for me in terms of working out. A lot of it was bad luck. I suffered a series of minor injuries (for the record, none of them… Read more »
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Thoughts on Strength
On Thursday, I set a new personal strength record. I pressed a 35lb kettlebell five times on my right side, and three times on the left. This was a “test” workout, geared to assess my limits and see if I’ve gotten strong enough to progress from the 26lb bell I’ve been using for my regular… Read more »
Easing out of 2012
It’s time for the obligatory end-of-the-year retrospective post (in which I will reflect on the year in general and provide copious numbers of back-links to previous posts). I’m less than an hour away from hitting my “time in the saddle” goal for 2012, and we still have two weeks of the year left. I think… Read more »
Kettlebell Recap
Since my declaration a while ago to use this blog to talk about fitness as well as horses, I haven’t done the greatest job keeping up. But 2011 was pretty big year for me as far as strength goes. After my stint doing 100 swings for 30 days, I tried to up that to 200… Read more »
Swung
Last week I finished my 30 days of 100 swings a day. On my last day I did all 100 with the 53lb kettlebell. That was hard, but it seemed like a good way to finish up the exercise. I really enjoyed my 30 days of swinging. I’m significantly stronger than when I started and… Read more »
Stronger Still
The last couple of days I’ve hit some new milestones with my swings. On Thursday I did all 100 swings without a break, using the 26lb kettlebell. It only took a few minutes, but by the time I got to 90 I wasn’t sure I could do the that last 10. I did though, and… Read more »
Still Swinging
So far so good on my swings project. I’ve done 100 swings a day for 8 days now. I’ve already moved through some seriously sore muscles more than once. I’ve been using both the 26lb bell and the 35lb bell, switching back and forth depending on how energetic I’m feeling at the beginning of any… Read more »
100 for 30
I declared a while ago that I was going to expand this blog to encompass overall fitness as well as horseback riding — and I’ve not mentioned working out since. This isn’t because I haven’t been doing anything. It’s because I haven’t been doing anything in a very focused manner. The result is I’ve lost… Read more »
On a Different Note
Although the main subject of this blog is (and always will be) horses, lately I have felt an inclination to post more about fitness and my struggle to become and stay fit. One of my big reasons for desiring to stay fit is to facilitate my life with horses, so I think adding the subject… Read more »