CHARGE! - Transformation Begins
Sunday, August 30th, 2009I am back from holiday and I am feeling good. Colitis is under control, my weight is stable at much lower calories, and I am ready to do some serious training.
For the next three and a half months - that is, until the Christmas holidays! - I will be attacking a multi-faceted training plan, designed to augment all aspects of my physicality: strength, stamina, skill, speed and controlled savagery. It is my own version of cross-training - you can read more details in the ‘Workout’ section of my Bodyspace - but incorporates barbells, kettlebells, calisthenics, martial arts and a sprinkling of insanity!
I haven’t go all my goals worked out yet, but here are those I do:
1. Rip an entire deck of cards in half with my bare hands.
2. Complete 100+ pushups in 2 minutes
3. Complete 100+ Sit-Ups in 2 minutes
4. Complete 20+ Pullups with Tactical (No-Thumbs) Grip
5. Gymnastic Bridge for 3 minutes (to advance to Full Wrestlers Bridge)
Why the numbers for 2-4? They’re the desirable/competetive figures required of Navy SEAL recruits*. Colitis means I can’t be in the army, but I can train to be ‘army tough’ - hell, I’m training to be Special Services tough! Achieving Pavel’s challenge of 200 snatches in 10 minutes with a 24KG kettlebell would also qualify as Special Service Tough, though I only have a 16KG kettlebell at the moment, and my snatch numbers with it are vastly beneath that target. Still, that is why we train; to get better.
It’s going to be hard, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Now…CHARGE!
* Minimum figures = Pushups/42, Situps/50, Pullups/8
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