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I LIKE BIG BELLS 😈AND I CANNOT LIE. Today’s big bell shenanigans 💪🏽brought to you by 28kg (62lbs) and 40kg (88lbs). I love how I am swinging 28kg and 40kg regularly in my training sessions. This is a sign that I’m not just having a strong day, but that I am actually building strength that sticks. There is nothing more empowering than the feeling of being STRONG! On Fridays I do 20 rounds of @ericgahanatc signature 20/20 swing conditioning as a finisher and combine one hand swings and two hand swings. For almost one month now I’ve been incorporating 28kg for one hand swings and 40kg for two hand swings for some of the sets. Today I used these weights for all sets. I set my timer for 20 rounds of a 20 second work/ 20 second rest split and did as follows: Round 1️⃣: 5 R 5 L 28kg one hand swings. Round 2️⃣: 10 40kg two hand swings. Round 3️⃣: 5 R 5 L one hand swings. Round 4️⃣: 10 40kg two hand swings, etc., etc. Give it a try and let me know how it goes👇🏽. What’s one thing that you’ve noticed is stronger in your training? Please share below👇🏽I want to know! #fridayfitness #fitnessfriday #kettlebell #kettlebells #kettlebellworkout #kettlebellswings #kettlebellstrong
MY SWINGS ARE SANTA🎅🏼APPROVED👌🏽. _ Last September 2018 I started to work towards a long-term goal of @strongfirst Sinister. For women sinister is 10, 32kg (70lbs) 1 hand swings to chest level every 30sec for 5min, switching hands each time, total 100 swings, 50ea hand. 1min rest. Followed by 10min of alternating single get-ups w/ 24kg (53lbs) ea min on the min for a total of 10 get-ups, 5ea side. 24kg get-ups are easy work for me, but swinging 32kg w/ 1 hand for 100 reps, which is 62% of my bodyweight, scares me a little. A little less now since I’ve been slowly working towards it over the past year & 28kg (62lbs) 1 hand swings are getting to feel like “light weight”, but, it’s still a tad daunting. However, when I learned about the Iron Maiden Challenge over 8yrs ago, I felt the same way. At that time 24kg seemed like a massive weight for someone my size to pull-up, strict military press, & pistol squat. But I trained for it & completed it, so why not Sinister? After I finished my 12-wk Summer Shred v.1.0 program last summer 2018, heavy weights were feeling lighter than ever to swing, so I figured it was a great time to keep that momentum going & train for Sinister. Last fall I followed a Sinister specific program for about 8wks but then I transitioned to other training programs like my Summer Shred v.2.0 & my husband @ericgahanatc Circuit Shred, all the while keeping a side goal of building more strength for a heavy 1 hand swing. Strength from those programs carried over to my goal of Sinister & 32kg 1 hand swings. I have not needed to keep up w/ a Sinister specific program, but rather focus on building both upper & lower body unilateral symmetry & strength, which is a focus of Eric’s Circuit Shred program, & consistently practicing heavy 1 hand swings over the training week. In fact, I have not been doing get-ups at all but rather consistently training heavy floor presses & light, medium & heavy military presses & all variations of knee dominant single leg exercises. Don’t you love how strength carries over to a goal that you didn’t specifically train for? Plz share below👇🏽I want to know! Want to work w/ me? Link in bio to apply👆🏽. #strengthgains
NEVER SAY NEVER. I did it. I bought a pair of scrunch leggings🤦🏻‍♀️. I said I never would, but I decided to buy a pair and try them. I’ll admit I like them. However, when I first put them on, the scrunched fabric feels weird & honestly, I thought they might split right in half😳if I squatted or bent over too fast. The first time I wore them I went to a yoga🧘🏻‍♀️class & I had visions of them splitting right in half as I did a down dog. Fortunately, they survived without a mooning🌝🍑incident. @ericgahanatc even said to me, “I don’t know how you wear these things??”😆. _ I bought them because they’re fun, feminine, & “girly” & even though I like to lift, have big muscles💪🏽, & 3 rows of calluses on my hands from strength training, my lady parts are intact & I’m still a woman & I’m still feminine. I like all “girly” & lady like things like mani/pedis, shopping, make-up, spa services, all shades of the color purple, beads, glitter, leg warmers, looking cute in my workout clothes, getting dressed up to go out to dinner or an event, & have a love/hate relationship with washing my hair because I have to schedule that shit in as an event on my calendar💁🏻‍♀️. Here’s the thing. You can be both. You can be strong AND sexy. You can have muscles AND be feminine. You can have calluses AND still like to get mani/pedis. You can like to sweat AND still want to fix your hair for a selfie. You can love to lift AND still like cardio or to go to a fun group fitness class for a break. You can like to eat healthy and clean AND still love to treat yo’ self once in a while. You can like to have a daily exercise routine AND still want to take a vacation from it. You can have fat loss and physique goals AND still be body positive. You can do more pull-ups and lift more than the guy next to you at the commercial gym AND still want to check in the mirror to see how you’re rocking those scrunch leggings. Never let anyone tell you that you can’t be both & that you can’t have it all because you CAN. And never say never because you might just end up doing that thing you said you would never do. Do you feel me on this? Please share below👇🏽I want to know!
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This past weekend I had the honor of assisting at the first StrongFirst (SFG) Level II Kettlebell Certification in the United States.  Along with 3 brothers and 1 sister in strength, I attempted the Iron Maiden/Beast Tamer Challenge at this certification. None of us surpassed the challenge this time around, but we all trained long and hard for it and put forth a good effort.  The other four SFG’s who attempted the… Read More

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I LIKE BIG BELLS 😈AND I CANNOT LIE. Today’s big bell shenanigans 💪🏽brought to you by 28kg (62lbs) and 40kg (88lbs). I love how I am swinging 28kg and 40kg regularly in my training sessions. This is a sign that I’m not just having a strong day, but that I am actually building strength that sticks. There is nothing more empowering than the feeling of being STRONG! On Fridays I do 20 rounds of @ericgahanatc signature 20/20 swing conditioning as a finisher and combine one hand swings and two hand swings. For almost one month now I’ve been incorporating 28kg for one hand swings and 40kg for two hand swings for some of the sets. Today I used these weights for all sets. I set my timer for 20 rounds of a 20 second work/ 20 second rest split and did as follows: Round 1️⃣: 5 R 5 L 28kg one hand swings. Round 2️⃣: 10 40kg two hand swings. Round 3️⃣: 5 R 5 L one hand swings. Round 4️⃣: 10 40kg two hand swings, etc., etc. Give it a try and let me know how it goes👇🏽. What’s one thing that you’ve noticed is stronger in your training? Please share below👇🏽I want to know! #fridayfitness #fitnessfriday #kettlebell #kettlebells #kettlebellworkout #kettlebellswings #kettlebellstrong
MY SWINGS ARE SANTA🎅🏼APPROVED👌🏽. _ Last September 2018 I started to work towards a long-term goal of @strongfirst Sinister. For women sinister is 10, 32kg (70lbs) 1 hand swings to chest level every 30sec for 5min, switching hands each time, total 100 swings, 50ea hand. 1min rest. Followed by 10min of alternating single get-ups w/ 24kg (53lbs) ea min on the min for a total of 10 get-ups, 5ea side. 24kg get-ups are easy work for me, but swinging 32kg w/ 1 hand for 100 reps, which is 62% of my bodyweight, scares me a little. A little less now since I’ve been slowly working towards it over the past year & 28kg (62lbs) 1 hand swings are getting to feel like “light weight”, but, it’s still a tad daunting. However, when I learned about the Iron Maiden Challenge over 8yrs ago, I felt the same way. At that time 24kg seemed like a massive weight for someone my size to pull-up, strict military press, & pistol squat. But I trained for it & completed it, so why not Sinister? After I finished my 12-wk Summer Shred v.1.0 program last summer 2018, heavy weights were feeling lighter than ever to swing, so I figured it was a great time to keep that momentum going & train for Sinister. Last fall I followed a Sinister specific program for about 8wks but then I transitioned to other training programs like my Summer Shred v.2.0 & my husband @ericgahanatc Circuit Shred, all the while keeping a side goal of building more strength for a heavy 1 hand swing. Strength from those programs carried over to my goal of Sinister & 32kg 1 hand swings. I have not needed to keep up w/ a Sinister specific program, but rather focus on building both upper & lower body unilateral symmetry & strength, which is a focus of Eric’s Circuit Shred program, & consistently practicing heavy 1 hand swings over the training week. In fact, I have not been doing get-ups at all but rather consistently training heavy floor presses & light, medium & heavy military presses & all variations of knee dominant single leg exercises. Don’t you love how strength carries over to a goal that you didn’t specifically train for? Plz share below👇🏽I want to know! Want to work w/ me? Link in bio to apply👆🏽. #strengthgains
NEVER SAY NEVER. I did it. I bought a pair of scrunch leggings🤦🏻‍♀️. I said I never would, but I decided to buy a pair and try them. I’ll admit I like them. However, when I first put them on, the scrunched fabric feels weird & honestly, I thought they might split right in half😳if I squatted or bent over too fast. The first time I wore them I went to a yoga🧘🏻‍♀️class & I had visions of them splitting right in half as I did a down dog. Fortunately, they survived without a mooning🌝🍑incident. @ericgahanatc even said to me, “I don’t know how you wear these things??”😆. _ I bought them because they’re fun, feminine, & “girly” & even though I like to lift, have big muscles💪🏽, & 3 rows of calluses on my hands from strength training, my lady parts are intact & I’m still a woman & I’m still feminine. I like all “girly” & lady like things like mani/pedis, shopping, make-up, spa services, all shades of the color purple, beads, glitter, leg warmers, looking cute in my workout clothes, getting dressed up to go out to dinner or an event, & have a love/hate relationship with washing my hair because I have to schedule that shit in as an event on my calendar💁🏻‍♀️. Here’s the thing. You can be both. You can be strong AND sexy. You can have muscles AND be feminine. You can have calluses AND still like to get mani/pedis. You can like to sweat AND still want to fix your hair for a selfie. You can love to lift AND still like cardio or to go to a fun group fitness class for a break. You can like to eat healthy and clean AND still love to treat yo’ self once in a while. You can like to have a daily exercise routine AND still want to take a vacation from it. You can have fat loss and physique goals AND still be body positive. You can do more pull-ups and lift more than the guy next to you at the commercial gym AND still want to check in the mirror to see how you’re rocking those scrunch leggings. Never let anyone tell you that you can’t be both & that you can’t have it all because you CAN. And never say never because you might just end up doing that thing you said you would never do. Do you feel me on this? Please share below👇🏽I want to know!
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