Swedish Winter
Feels like it is in it’s last throes, at least in stockholm. I don’t know how the guys upp in the north are doing, but down here it’s mostly mush and mud. Not very beautiful at all, no.
I am hardly awake so this post will not contain lame tries at wit or attempts to glorify the macho style of our training. Suffice it to say that last night me and the beardface (more bearded than ever) went out to my fathers house in the woods and went a bit viking. While I ignited the sauna felix got to work sledgehammering out our tire from layers of ice and snow, and once it was loose we realized that it was quite full of ice too. Being all kinds of awesome we got on to digging out our oil-drums and then combining the tire and drums for all kinds of brutal exercises, and it wasn’t long before we removed our heavy clothing and did our tiresome work in tanktops, the cold air refreshing our lungs.
Anyways, the workout went fine, and the sauna was awesome. But more importantly last night we realized how awesome this kind of exercise is all over again, and I for one want more; as I write this everything from my calves up, all the way to the small muscles in the back of my neck is aching. I feel as though I got into a fight with a tractor.. So, we’re back baby-eh!
Also, a pretty nice exercise we improvised at the gym, best done with three guys, follows:
- Occupy a squat rack, put a bar about halfway up from you knees to you hips.
- Get a kettlebell, you’ll have to figure out a reasonable weight for yourself (we used 30 kilos or something like that)
- Place yourself and another guy each on one side of the bar.
- Put one hand behind your back, squat a bit and grab the kettlebell with your free hand, lift it over to his side.
- Wait for him to do the same and then repeat with you other hand.
- When one of you gets tired, switch with the last guy and just keep going until you never want to see a kettlebell again.
- Get started with your regular gym-routine, you already spent like twenty minutes off-topic x)
Of course dumb-bells work too, but it don’t feel right. Also make sure you do squat sufficiently so as not to put all the strain on you bent back, and always try to maintain a straight and powered posture, don’t hunch, if you start failing too much just switch to the next guy and to some push-ups or jumps while waiting..
