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Single arm swings are an 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 part of KB training. They set you up for stronger “normal” swings by allowing you to knit both sides of your body together, in case one side isn’t pulling its weight enough.⁣
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Or, indeed, the kettlebell enough 😅⁣
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Our goal is to be able to do swings as strongly as possible, like, forever, so use this little nugget of info in your pursuit of your biggest and best swings.⁣
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Took me way too long to figure this out but…⁣

Took me way too long to figure this out but…⁣
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If you want to do hard things with your body you need way more food and rest than you thought.⁣
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Invented by a guy called Burpee (true story) they

Invented by a guy called Burpee (true story) they have a reputation of being gross and torturous.

And, in the wrong hands, can be a lazy way of an instructor making their people out of breath and feeling battered, which is a common outcome desired of instructors and trainees who don’t know fitness any better.

But if we consider what a burpee *actually* is, we see it is in fact a brilliant exercise that shows up and has carryover in life and fitness more generally.

1) moving between standing to floor gets your heart rate up FAST - very scalable cardio
2) the floor is a long way down, you need to get deep into your joints to reach it - this 👏 is 👏 mobility
3) it’s anti-old lady af. You can still do these at 80? Those hips don’t lie.

To be clear: I CAN and sometimes do make them vomit inducing.

However, anything between “vomit inducing” and “a yoga vinyasa” is a burpee by my definition and I will scale up and down depending on who’s in front of me and what response I want from their body.

Swipe through.

These are all “burpees”.

In fitness, as in life, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.

Even after 10 years practice, one year makes a dif

Even after 10 years practice, one year makes a difference.⁣
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We can think about a kettlebell swing as a great lift for <checks notes> ✨ literally everything ✨ ⁣
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Or we can think of it as a bone-deep, soul-deep body change that JUST GOES DEEPER the longer you practice. ⁣
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There is no finish line. ⁣
You never get “there”. ⁣
You’re never “in shape”. ⁣
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You’re just a piece of organic material that keeps transforming.

I’ve added the pictures because, as I wrote this

I’ve added the pictures because, as I wrote this blog post, I realised I was writing to the girl I was after the teenager you met a few posts ago. ⁣
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These are pictures of her.⁣
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I wish I could tell her that she always looked the same, no matter what she thought or did to herself. ⁣
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There’s a lot of research and science and reading recommendations in this post, but also way more honesty than I ever thought I’d tell you. ⁣
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You can find it linked on the bio or on my website. ⁣
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Never not subverting the idea that it’s ok for a

Never not subverting the idea that it’s ok for a woman to change shape.⁣
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Polarising opinions get attention.

Polarising opinions get attention.

I didn’t used to understand the phrase “the mo

I didn’t used to understand the phrase “the more you know, the more you realise you don’t know” (you know how to ball I know Aristotle)⁣
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Then I spent time and money on more certifications and I understood it.⁣
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Now though, I’m backing away slightly and am, on the whole, more wary of that phrase.⁣
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My learning looks like this graph – I don’t want to learn everything. Some of it is actually rubbish. ⁣
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I want to be protective and discerning about what and from whom I learn.⁣
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Through a few years of what I’ll call administrative perseverance, I’ve recently had the luck and enjoyment of learning from @philscarito @dv8fitness who’s background and independent thinking in our quite dogmatic world of kettlebell training I’ve long-admired.⁣
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Here’s 6 things I took from 3 days of DV8 Strength and Movement training:⁣
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1) physics, biomechanics, autonomy > dogma, novelty, ego⁣
2) testing pushes you to be your best when it reflect your ability to showcase technique, alongside your ability to endure resistance to it.⁣
3) the right people in the room asking the right questions turns what could be an “I talk and you listen” experience into a conversation, in which everyone is allowed to stress-test new ideas to meet them where they’re at in their education.⁣
4) our hinges all needed to be deeper – get cosy with the behind-the-heels start.⁣
5) music during testing makes it better (sorry not sorry to the non-swifties)⁣
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Keep an eye on @rkc_uk for an official collaboration debrief.

Science is important but so is interest in what yo

Science is important but so is interest in what you’re doing. Interest beats discipline 100 times.

Mate, I’ve been preaching anti-old lady training

Lower your barriers by not giving a shit what you’re wearing as long as it’s comfy (no glasses no bra I survived) ⁣

~𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁~⁣
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There’s are 2 links in my bio, one for The Training Sessions (which I get paid for so I can’t slack off) and one for this blog (which I don’t, so I can) so PLEASE keep me going with this blog by reading it and taking inspiration from it so I keep writing.

Let me explain myself ———⁣ ⁣ ⁣ The lon

Let me explain myself ———⁣
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The longer your non-eating window, the better IF is great at increasing stress hormone levels by up to 50%. Yum. ⁣
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Endocrine hormones are super, SUPER sensitive to low energy, and it can take a LONG TIME to get them back to normal by eating regularly again. ⁣
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Men respond metabolically pretty well to IF, they get most of the benefits you read about. In comparison, women’s metabolisms slow down and start storing energy. ⁣
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If you’re a magical being who is awake all night every night and thus need three meals a night as well as three meals a day, I can see why the idea of ‘giving your digestive system a rest’ might sound nice. ⁣
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Why not copy your circadian rhythmic friends and simply don’t eat after they’ve all gone to bed? ⁣
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You can then break your fast with a morning meal.⁣
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They call it breakfast. ⁣

Most people can’t use their glutes well to open

Most people can’t use their glutes well to open their hips and I can see that from where they place their bottom leg in a Get-Up. ⁣
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There’s nothing “correct” about the way I’m teaching you this. It’s more about knowing what you’re putting where and why, and then realising that you’re the one playing the instrument and the instrument is you. ⁣
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Biomechanics meets “feels good”.⁣
Find The Training Sessions on the website.

I hope you hear my voice asking you this next time

I hope you hear my voice asking you this next time you’re getting changed for your workout.

Enjoyment of your body is rebellious.⁣ ⁣ Socie

Enjoyment of your body is rebellious.⁣
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Society has taught us we’re not supposed to enjoy what we look like and how we feel when we touch our bodies (behave I don’t mean that way)⁣
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That’s why it’s so difficult.⁣
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There’s a leap of faith involved in this process of trusting that focusing on reinforcing, not reducing, your body makes you enjoy it. ⁣
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That leap of faith can be bridged however you need - for me, it was the lure of muscles “boost your metabolism and make you toned” but that was literally just a lure. ⁣
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I guess it did do that but it’s like luring you into planting an acorn by promising it’ll sprout into a seedling.⁣
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There’s an oak tree on the other side 🌳 ⁣
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In the meantime, <Arnie voice> touch my bicep and tell me I’m pretty. ⁣

Who ever said “man my glutes are too good, might

Who ever said “man my glutes are too good, might need to rein them in” ⁣
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Nobody. ⁣
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Nobody!⁣
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The Training Sessions are my weekly programme designed to give you everything, and every session looks after your bum strength as standard. ⁣
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(I feel like I’m advertising a car with the “as standard”⁣
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True though) ⁣

Both things can be true: ⁣ ⁣ sore muscles aren

Both things can be true: ⁣
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sore muscles aren’t a sign of immediate change to your body, or that you’ve done “enough”⁣
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the sensory feedback you get from sore muscles can feel deeply satisfying.

Never not mostly training for the playlist.⁣ ⁣

Never not mostly training for the playlist.⁣
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12 Swings ⁣
EMOM for 60 minutes ⁣
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I was thinking the other day, I feel good about my

I was thinking the other day, I feel good about my body shape and size most of the time.

Maybe 90% of the time. Which is a lot, considering I can, if I let myself, think of plenty of things about it that (generally speaking) aren’t what constitutes as “to feel good about” and considering that my relationship with my body has been, well, shaky, shall we say.
Whatever you might think about what you’ve seen of my body, I can observe plenty of things I should not feel good about, using the lens of 30+ years of beauty indoctrination.

The above is an excerpt from a blog I wrote a while ago called something like “how to be happy with your body” and re-reading it today makes me want to re-share it with you. Here’s some more, from towards the end:

Rather than looking for a result in body shape to make me happy (a curve, a measurement, a silhouette, a clothes size), I slowly associated feeling happy with my body with DOING the behaviours that I wanted to do, that I could control, to whatever degree of control I have over them, that make me feel good about my body.

I’ve taught myself to get my dopamine rush out of what I’m doing, NOT the result of what I’m doing.

I can’t control my body. It’s a wild animal. So my body isn’t the goal.

The things I DO are the goal in themselves, and I’ve taught myself to blur the lines between the two to the extent that they are one and the same:

“I like the way my body looks because I like the things I do with it”

You’re invited to do the same.

I’ll link the blog in my stories today or it’s on my website.

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