I took the BodyBugg off today, sometimes I start feeling it and it bothers me! So I don’t know what my calorie burn is today but it will be a low burn day. I spent all day writing. I wrote all of TWO PAGES. My writer friend Jen commiserates. You work and work and sometimes you …
Monthly Archive: January 2012
Kettlebell Swings Benefits from Technique
I was doing weights today and working rounds of kettlebell swings into my workout. I like to keep my heart rate up while lifting. I have cut back on the lower body weights exercises to avoid overtraining while doing the 10K Kettlebell Swings Challenge. I was thinking of the many benefits of the kettlebell swing! …
Best Laid Plans!
We had a near-blizzard in Chicago today. Most of the day the view from my windows here in the Steel Tower was Chicago’s famous horizontal snow. I did not go out of course but I did not do any treadmill walking or stair climbing. I got all absorbed in working again; I edited a three-chapter …
Monsters of Kettlebell!
In my last post I wrote about kettlebell scams and shams. Here are the true leaders in the world of kettlebell training and certification! Kettlebells originated in Russia as much as 350 years ago. Truly they are no flash in the pan fad!! Kettlebell lifting was declared the national sport in the Soviet Union in …
Half-Way to 10K!
Today will be a good high calorie burn day! Ended yesterday at 2244 and that included a weights workout! With 12000+ steps and 600 kettlebell swings today I am less than 100 calories away from yesterday’s total. Looking good! January 11 and I’m already half way to 10000 kettlebell swings! I can’t believe I’m this …
High Burn Day!
My total calorie burn for yesterday, calculated midnight to midnight, was 1766. I knew it would be a Low Burn Day as I did not make it out for a walk and I sat in a chair writing for HOURS. Today is destined to be a High Burn for sure! Did my usual weights workout …
Start the Week Off Right
First weekday with BodyBugg. It’s going to be a low burn day. A quarter till 10pm and I’m just over 1600 calories for the day. I had wanted to get out for a walk but I get busy with my book and the hours fly by! I got my sleep all screwed up by staying …
Kettlebell Hall of Sham
Since kettlebells started to become known, a lot of people have tried to make a buck by passing themselves off as experts with various workouts and products. Like the overwhelming majority of weight loss and fitness products that are mass-marketed, these will overpromise and underdeliver. They are generally little more than aerobics with handweights. They …
Two Pound Loss in this First Week
I am not generally working toward weight loss but it would appear I dropped two pounds this week. I weigh every Sunday morning. I was delightfully surprised! I did not change my usual diet at all which is decidedly quite health-supporting and I did my usual weights workouts. Put this in perspective. My weight has …
Weekend Swingin’!
The strain I’d felt in my wrist seems OK. I left out the 65lb-er today and did two-handed kettlebell swings with the 40lb-er. Alternating hand to hand with the quarter pounder of course. Got in a good weights workout this morning! I broke up the swings by doing 200 after the weights and 400 later …
