Wednesday, July 19, 2006

More on sport/obsession (too long): Kettlebells, Strength, Fitness, Martial Arts

More on sport/obsession (too long): Kettlebells, Strength, Fitness, Martial Arts

A rant by Rif.

2 comments:

Tom Furman said...

Vivid reality. Lots of guys our age can barely walk, are out of shape, and look ten years older. These are the athletes. Hard seeing someone who teased me about being clean living and fit most of my life. They chose mass quantities of consumables, booze, and drugs. Payback is a bitch.

--Tom

Mark Reifkind said...

yeah but they never did what we did, or still can do. and they have to still inhabit their disgusting mainframes. I would rather have climbed the geights and seen what I have seen that never gotten off the floor and be perfectly safe/whole. We all gonna die anyway.

155 x 3 x 5, 160 x 3 x 5, 20 kg swings 5 x 8/8, floor pushups 40, 35

 Thought about going back to 5x5 for a hot second then my left shoulder  reminded me why I stopped doing them before. It doesn't seem to...