On Monday I continued the snatch practice and then followed it with the old standby trio of pull-ups, pushups and squats. I’m working toward ripping off 100 snatches with a 53# kettlebell in under five minutes. This is my second week in actually working toward that goal explicitly. This time around, I shaved a minute off of last week and added a rep per round. Read on for more. Workout:
A) 7-minute Countdown: 7 Kettlebell Snatches – Left 7 Kettlebell Snatches – Right
B) Five Rounds: 5 Pull-ups 20 Pushups 30 Squats
For the countdown, that means that when the seconds read double-zeros, I did seven snatches with the left hand then seven with the right. I did that for seven minutes. I rested about three minutes between part A and part B. Between rounds in part B, I rested about one minute. By the end, my heart was pounding pretty well, and the legs were pretty wobbly.
I was surprised that chasing the snatches with pull-ups was as “easy” as it was. They both require a lot of pulling, but the pull-ups felt pretty solid. It’ll be interesting to see how I feel tomorrow.
