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This kettlebell program got posted over at Irongarm:

In covering kettlebell workout methods, I now move from ladders to breathing ladders. The video above is just an intro. And i should have pulled my shoulders back more. But I'm not re-doing it. Haha.

I'm re-reading Tom Kurz' Science of Sports Training because I'm better able to understand the concepts after having gotten my NASM cert. If you haven't read the book and want something that is way more technical about setting up training programs than the average book but isn't quite a real textbook on the subject, then Kurz' book is exactly what you need. Don't look for a cookie-cutter program through. Kurz lays out the basics and gives you the tools to do it yourself. But this is waaaay beyond the average lifting/exercise book so be warned.

EDT is escalating density training. Pick one or two exericeses that you can do for about 4-5 reps each and then do as many short sets of them as you can in 20 minutes. The goal is to increase the volume you do in those 20 minutes. For a good longer article on it, go here.

Charles Staley came up with this and he has a whole bunch of stuff on the program but it's pretty simple to figure out.

Be the flow by Coach Scott Sonnon

Which workout program to choose? Which path to follow? We can talk about science this and that or quote famous authors on what we are supposed to do. But when it comes right down to it, I pick a path because I like how it makes me feel.

How you feel after a workout or how you feel the next day is an often over-looked and certainly under-rated measure of a workout. Now I'm not talking training athletes here nor am I myself an athlete. And yes, we need to train things that make us uncomfortable and work on our weaknesses. All of that is granted.

他是Steve Cotter. 真的很厲害. 他在做伏虎功,這個運動從神龍唐手道來的.神龍唐手道是很厲害的台灣功夫.是洪懿祥

At least they did with me and I didn't see them. Two problems recently solved by cheap, common-sensical solutions that I couldn't see for the life of me.

One: kettlebells come in 4kg increments and that's a hell of a jump sometimes. I was thinking of buying kettlebells in 2kg increments, something that would make my supplier extremely happy and me extremely poor. So what was the glaringly obvious solution? Wrist weights.

Silk reeling was mentioned on a message board and below are my thoughts on it.

These movements are helpful for taichi but there's another take on the jins -- chousijin. It means pulling silk instead of reeling silk. Yang style uses more pulling and Chen uses more reeling. The pulling silk doesn't use overt winding in expressing the powers so the moves look straighter. You usually start with either one of these and then advance to the other one. Just mentioning this because over the years i've seen Yang style get trashed as worthless because they aren't using obvious chousijin like Chen style in the clip.  

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