Thursday, August 12, 2010

Rite of Passage

The past two weeks have seen me embark upon the Rite of Passage program from Enter the Kettlebell. This is my second attempt with this program having done around 5 or so weeks of it earlier in the year.

At the moment I am working on 5 ladders x 1 rung on my light day, 5 ladders x 2 rungs on my medium day and building up to 5 ladders x 5 rungs on the heavy day. The first heavy day was 5 x 3 with the intent of doing 4 ladders x 3 rungs on Sunday.

My variety days at this stage have been a bit non-existent. Tossing up whether to go with deadlifts or to do as Pavel suggests in the book and work on cleaning, snatching and doing get-ups with the 24 kg bell. I think I might opt for the deadlifts and kick them off from tomorrow.

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The running has temporarily ground to a halt. The Rite of Passage at this stage is leaving me a bit fatigued so I'm playing it safe and just doing the three days of KB'ing and then progressively add in the variety days. It's not to say that I won't run (the weather isn't helping I'm not going to lie) but will just insert them as I see fit.