Had to bring the tires in for this one. The storm was out of this world!
Circuit was rounds of
4 tires flips
Sandbag burpees and cleans to press and overhead walking lunges
Towel drags with DB rows
Pull ups
Finished with I go, you go Kettlebell Swings doing 20, 12, 8 and 5 for 8 minutes.
Our sessions are getting busier and we are adding more classes. We have had some great success stories this session, some of which amaze even me. Everyone worked hard and it’s paying off in a big way. I didn’t get a lot of pictures or videos this session but here is just something I put together of several of our different classes.
Represented are our evening Operation Weight Loss Crew as well as Tuesday and Thursday morning Kettlebell Express class and our Wednesday Kettlebell class.
Enjoy.
This is one of the workouts we did in the new gym. It’s so big we can do the sleds inside.
This was our Friday the 13th workout.
One group did KB swing suicides and the other group did Burpee suicides. Each group did about 5 minutes before resting and switching.
Second set was a walking KB see-saw press while the other group did Squat Thrust Broad Jumps to the last cone. Again they went about 5 minutes before resting and switching.
Of course they will tell you that the sets were much longer. I beg to differ; I had the timer set on my iphone. Ok, I admit, a couple of times I accidentally pressed pause.
To quote one of our morning boot campers, “The devil wears Umbros”. I met everyone this morning in my devil costume complete with blinking horns that I bought at my last AC/DC concert. They knew right away this was going to be HELL.
After a warm up we did mini workouts.
1. A Kettlebell Deadlift, Swing ladder just to get their hearts racing and glutes firing.
2. 15/15 swings for 15 sets
3. Rows and Push ups on the KB
4. 10 Jacks and 5 Burpees every minute on the minute for a long time
5. A big lap with the KB in the rack
I don’t know if what I heard was screeches of delight or horror.
I love Halloween!
I know I said I was going to blog on a more regular basis but so far that is not going so well. I’m just a blog-loser.
We are wrapping up our 2nd week of boot camp. We have had more new people sign up this month than we have in a long time. Our numbers are higher than they have been in a few months and that is with cutting out our T/TH 5:30 am class. We are beyond happy right now. We love all of our new people. They are working hard and having fun. At least it looks that way. Maybe those aren’t tears of joy after all.
Our new building is coming along and the word is that is might be ready next week. This really is a dream come true for Mike and I. As many of you know, I started this business in 2005 on a plot of grass that I paid $25.00 rent to at Gym Force. Mike joined me shortly after and we moved from there into an 800 sqft storage area inside of the Cheer Center. We’ve spent the last 2 years in our current 2400 sqft location and now are about to move into a 5600 sqft location. I have a lot of “fun” things planned for our new space and hopefully we will be in there for our Nov. session. After the builders get done with the office and such, then I will have my guys come in to put in our toys.
Expect to do many Farmers Walks as we have to carry over a ton of Kettlebells.
I haven’t video taped a lot this month but I did capture our last couple of workouts and 1 of our Kettlebell classes. We did a max strength day at boot camp using KBs. We did double KB squats, DL, double presses and pull ups, chest press from the ground and plank rows. We threw in some chops for function.
In our KB class, we did some stuff I got off of my Instructor’s forum on www.dragondoor.com. It consisted of 5 snatches then to a Get Up from the top, switch and repeat on the other side for a total of 15 mins. We also had some fun with Farmers Walks. We did them all different ways and then finished off with sets of swings. A fun time was had by all.
