Saturday morning, Harley was supposed to teach a class at the gym. I ended up being his only student. He wanted to do a breathing ladder using kettlebell swings. It goes like this, you swing the KB once, stop, breath once, swing the KB two times, stop, breath two times, Etc.... (of course you can breath during the movement) I really was like this is a cool idea, want to see how it works as I have never done anything like that. Started swinging, no big, until I got around the 20+ish mark. No problem with my breathing, no problem with muscle fatigue, my hands though were having problems hanging onto the kettlebell. (15lb, should have used the 20lb to get my heart rate higher) I went to 29 as that is when Harley I guess got tired of watching me and said, OK that is enough. He had checked my heart rate during and it was only getting up to about 132, he said I was very fit, which of course made me beam from ear to ear. Any praise from him makes me feel on top of the world.
Now, no probs going through, but later that night my upper quads and hip flexors started aching. (Can you say 435 kettle bell swings!) By the following morning my whole back was CRAZY sore. So what seemed like nothing, really worked me over! Will be doing it again, this time by myself just to see how far I can go... :0)
Give this one a whirl for a change up on your cardio. I think you will like it as much as I did!
I've never done kb swings before...the breathing ladder sounds really interesting!
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