Coming Soon!
As my interest in Kettlebell competition has grown, I’ve been training more timed sets. This series of articles is going to detail my journey into longer timed sets in the Snatch and the Two Handed Long-Cycle Jerk. One of the first things I feel I need to do is get a good baseline to measure my progress against. My criteria for the baseline is to basically do a “limit” timed set and see where I end up, This baseline set would have to be done with really good form though. A 10 minute set with 5 minutes of terrible form isn’t really what I’m after. Tomorrow, I’m going to do a timed set of Two Handed Long-Cycle Jerks and see where we end up. All my baseline sets are going to use my 16kg AKC Kettlebells. I have two 16s and one 24kg. I actually wish I had gotten a 20kg instead of a 24kg, but I’ll work with what I have. I might buy a 20kg or two but, ideally I’ll be able to get by with what I have and then add one more 24kg to have a pair.
One technique I’m already working with in the Snatch is to cycle my lifts between arms. Instead of doing a long set with only one hand change per set, I’m switching hands at each minute. While this isn’t DIRECTLY applicable to competition, it does serve one very important purpose: It lets me train the Snatch on both sides with perfect form. Because I’m not dealing with as much fatigue, I can get more perfect reps in while still training a long timed set and getting myself conditioned mentally for that training. This type of Snatch set is going to figure into my training at some level for sure. For training the Long-Cycle Jerks, I’m going to have to simply do shorter sets to keep my form tight and work the time and the reps up from there. Another option is to train the One Handed Long-Cycle Jerk as I explained above for Snatches as an alternative training method. For those who are curious, here are the AKC competition lifts and other details about AKC Competition. (You have to scroll past the Kettlebells and T-shirts to get the rules.) That’s it for now, ttys Adam
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