from Bill, a student at the eve classes in Richfield


 
You are here by invited to the first outdoor Crucible of 2010 on January 2nd in Minneapolis at Breck High School!

There's a tough group of folks led by RKC Kathy Crawford and her husband that does an outside Crucible every Saturday morning at 7am at Breck High School. We've been out in 12" of snow, blowing wind, rain, weather never matters, every Saturday for the last year.

Why not get off your duff after drinking and eating too much for two days and make something of yourself! 

What: 100 yard Crucible of 20 Swings, Double Clean and Step Press for 6 Steps, Repeat for 100 yards. Bring two (2) Kettlebells that you can Swing, Clean, Press, and hold on to for 30 minutes or so.

When: 7am January 2nd SHARP! You're late you watch. I'd get there about 15 - 20 minutes early so you can find a spot on the end line. If there's more then one line, Mr Crawford (aka Tom Malone) will send them off.

Where: Breck High School practice football/soccer field.
123 Ottawa Avenue North, Golden Valley, MN 55422 (Google it). Right across from the parking lot.

Amenities: NONE! No bathrooms, no food, no water, no emergency services, NADA! Just you, your kettlebells, and a bunch of others.

Attire: Warm clothes, Boots, Gloves, anything to keep the bite of Winter and Wind Chill at bay.

One thing we do provide is MUSIC. Submit your songs for inclusion and we'll tee up a playlist for the event. We use a home made boombox with a 300 Watt Amp that rocks the neighborhood. Submit one song per person and we'll pick the best (yup, our choice as always).

Get the year started right and come out, grab 2 of your favorite KB, and get on the line!



The Saturday Class for the 2nd will be making an outing of this, call me or email for details

so you want to lose weight, get strong, and not bulk up..... want to lose weight, get strong, and not bulk up?

follow this protocol for 6 weeks

measure your
1. Weight
2. Waist, biceps, thighs, and chest in inches or centimeters
3. Clean and press the heaviest kettlebell you can for as many repetitions as you can complete with perfect form

record that and email it to me

then

follow this plan


eat whatever you like, within reason, make it healthy but no worries on the quantities
just stop when you feel more thirsty than hungry, start each day with a cup of live culture yogurt, have a light lunch that has a salad as a main component, and start each evening meal with a large salad (mixed greens, some bitter-read mustard, collard etc, no iceberg lettuce)


Day 1

10 minutes of Turkish Get Ups with a water bottle with 1 inch of water in the bottom(when you can go through the entire motion with the bottle, you can switch to a light weight)

100 swings with a med weight kettlebell as fast as you can perform them, shoot for 2 minutes or less

Clean and press in a ladder rep/set pattern with 3 ladders (your rep set pattern will be emailed to you when you send me your info)

Day 2


10 minutes of Turkish Get Ups with a water bottle with 1 inch of water in the bottom(when you can go through the entire motion with the bottle, you can switch to a light weight)

100 swings with a med weight kettlebell as fast as you can perform them, shoot for 2 minutes or less

Day 3


10 minutes of Turkish Get Ups with a water bottle with 1 inch of water in the bottom(when you can go through the entire motion with the bottle, you can switch to a light weight)

100 swings with a med weight kettlebell as fast as you can perform them, shoot for 2 minutes or less

Viking Push Press on the 15:15 protocol with a light-med bell, shoot for 6-8 reps per set, complete as many sets as possible with perfect form

Day 4


10 minutes of Turkish Get Ups with a water bottle with 1 inch of water in the bottom(when you can go through the entire motion with the bottle, you can switch to a light weight)

100 swings with a med weight kettlebell as fast as you can perform them, shoot for 2 minutes or less

Day 5

Active Rest, do only turkish get ups with a water bottle, no weight

Day 6

Do nothing but eat well and enjoy a day of rest

Day 7 Test your Clean and Press totals again, divide the total on each arm by 2, this is your new starting ladder, you will halve each set (ie, if the total is 8, the starting number is 4, second set would be 2, last set would be 1)

Day 8 Active Rest, only turkish get ups with a bottle

Day 9, begin cycle again


complete this protocol for 6 weeks

measure all information again



better is better

yes, I am making this point again

better is better

more is less

efficient movement is fast and powerful

work for that,
the effortless power

not powerful effort

selah

and now


The Workout of the Day


FMS Corrective Strategies and or Z-Health Warm Up
10 Minutes of Kalos Sthenos with a light Kettlebell
10 Minutes of Swings 12-24kg Bell:Resting when any of the 4 Elements of Efficiency are no longer present
10 Minutes of Hardstyle Turkish Get Ups with a bell weighing no more than 20% of your bodyweight
Z-Health Cool Down



you screw around too much,
stop screwing around