Showing posts with label barefoot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barefoot. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Kettlebell Long Cycle

I decided I need to couple some more kettlebell work into my training. Balancing heavy barbell wotk with lighter unilateral movements will hopefuly correct some bodily imbalance issues that have developed from doing mostly bilateral movements. There is something that is often off in my hips or back. My assumptions. I am recruiting improper muscles. I have a limb length difference. That's it. One or a compination of those is causing some problems.

Today I planned on going a 10 min clean and jerk kettlebell test...I decided just to go longer. I did 10 minutes on my right hand then 10 minutes on my left. I did set the bell down for less than 5 seconds at a time. But I was pretty consistent with the movements themselves.

35# Clean and jerk/press
107
114

Total : 221

~40 ring push ups

Mobolity work with jump stretch band (upper and lower body)

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Run day

Today I started reading "In Defense of Food-an eaters manifesto" by Michael Pollan.

He is pointing out how marketing has changed our way of thinking of what to eat. In the past, our mothers learned from their mothers what to eat. Over the last 80 years or so this knowledge was lost since mother were bombarded with marketing. More so than eating a variety of foods, our focus shifted to obtaining calories, nutrients, and vitamins. There is more to foods than just the main chemicals within them.

More than likely, you are smothered by the "western diet". Your food consumption is greatly composed of refined flour, sugars, processed 'foods' and lacks in prehistoric-like foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, fish, and free-range or grass fed animals. 'Foods' because much of the product eaten is really not food, but rather lab created food substitutes. Breast milk vs baby formula for example. One is natural, the other is just some combination. The original baby formula consisted of cow's milk, wheat flour, malted flour, and potassium bicarbonate.

More on this later...


I ran in the grass a bit barefoot did some running/footwork drills, and cartwheels. It feels good to be barefoot, especially on the grass.