March 7th.
Today’s training:
1st bike ride of the season. Took MT bike as the roads are filled with sand and crap from the winter. The DPW will have some extra work as the winter has not been kind to roads. Anyway it was a great 18 mile ride keeping spin rate high.
Warn up Indian clubs……love them things
35 pullups ( haft ass kipping)
Long cycle: 20 kg for 2-5 min sets 6 reps per min.
Kettlebell press is not in the GS program except for some unofficial meets that have the chair press. I found out recently that the GS press was eliminated in 1973 in Europe which incidentally a year after the Olympic committee eliminated the standing press from the Olympic lifting 3 lift competition. I was there for the last OL competition in the USA 1972 that had the press, which was difficult to judge with the body wip and extreme hyperextension that resembles a “standing bench press” . No doupt the GS press had a similar problems of keeping the strictness of the press as a strength lift as opposed to a ballistic lift of the jerk.
When I first got into training with kettlebells, I noticed that the champs in the GS were not that muscular considering the lifting volume of the training. Then I remembered the body mass of the Olympic lifters before the press was eliminated and after. Lifters who used the press as part of their three lift were required to perform more absolute strength modalities, where it was changed to a 2 lift ballistic movement which reduces good old hypertrophy especially the upper body. More on this subject later.
2 comments:
Ken, can you name a few lifters during both the before and after periods, that we can google to take a look? Interesting commentary.
Very interesting. I was not aware that there was a press in GS before. What was the competition format for that?
Thanks for sharing this intersting info.
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