A Little of This…A Little of That

Posted on Jan 17, 2008 - 10:27pm by MarkFu in Training Log

My main objective tonight was to do a lot of kettlebell snatches and I got to it…eventually. Everything that led up to it was definitely worthwhile, cardio and bodyweight in nature. At first, it just seemed like an extended warm-up, but it became a long, yet varied interval workout . Here’s how it it looked:

Rope jumps: 6 x 100 jumps.
Jumping Squats, 45# bar: 15/15/15/20/20/20.
Pull-ups, band-assisted: 10/10/10/10.
Ring Dips: 10.
Push-ups: 40.
Sit-ups: 30/30/30.

Now, I was ready for the kettlebell snatches, done with a 16 kg bell: 8 x 20.

To finish off the evening workout, I did
25 air squats, followed by 3 x 15 goblet squats with the 16 kg kettlebell.

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