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Kettlebell Mile Challenge

Bear with me now.....nutter u said u messing with this stuff for obvious health benefits but also to make ur trudges thru the mud "easier" so I got to thinking about trudging thru mud for long distance and what muscles burning first and what is usually sore the next day and what I would do to exercise those muscles.....u still wearing tingly?me too so good comparison

I think the hardest part of walking thru the mud is keeping ur balance....u know what I mean? A stick down under the mud gives under ur weight while u in the middle of a step and ur whole center of mass shifts and u gotta use all the smaller muscles in the foot/ankle/calf to quick readjust ur footing or u gonna fall....obviously we working the big normal walking muscles but those smaller balancing muscles that are rarely ever used walking on stable terrain are what fatigue first when I trudging mud

Im not sure how to train for woods/mud walking without being out in that terrain honestly...if I was gonna train for an elk hunt in the mountains or something like that I think I'd go the nature hike with strap weights on the legs and wrists and weighted vest or heavy backpack

Grip/hand/wrist strength u could always start working in metal fab industry....hahaha
I don't know what the contraption called but it's pretty simple bar with a rope or cable that u suspend a weight from and then lift up and roll the bar to wind up the rope reeling in the weight

U need to start sticking ur arm thru the kettle grip and carry that weight off ur hip to train 4 carrying that baby
Probably a mix of balance and ankle/knee strength and flexibility. Probably worth incorporating some physical therapy exercises into this routine.

I don't know if anybody else gets shin splints but if I run (which I avoid) I have to be on grass or dirt; tarmac will tear up my shins. I recently discovered that even just walking a longer distance on cement or tile will twinge my shin splints. But a side benefit to doing this on a less-unnatural surface would be that your ankles and knees are responding to terrain instead of just staying dead flat.
 
I know this isn't a place to ask for expert advice on exercise or my health. Asking anyway. Understand it's my choice , no one else is liable .

I bought a fitbit to ditch my phone and still get data. Vastly prefer the other app for posting but the wrist thing is superior

Is it bad to do interval style from fat burn zone to cardio zone? My cool down ended up being another 30 minutes walk/ run to stay in/near cardio zone, followed by actually backing off and cooling down with stretches at the end. I'll admit I was milking that zone clock
 
I know this isn't a place to ask for expert advice on exercise or my health. Asking anyway. Understand it's my choice , no one else is liable .

I bought a fitbit to ditch my phone and still get data. Vastly prefer the other app for posting but the wrist thing is superior

Is it bad to do interval style from fat burn zone to cardio zone? My cool down ended up being another 30 minutes walk/ run to stay in/near cardio zone, followed by actually backing off and cooling down with stretches at the end. I'll admit I was milking that zone clock
ive never put much stock in the different zones for burning fat vs cardio exercise personally. exercise is exercise, and calories burned are calories burned. if you're trying to lose weight, more work done than calories eaten will result in weight loss, so the diet and the total energy expendature should be the focus, regardless of if the calories are burned more quickly with intense workouts, or slowly with less intense workouts. personally i think the zones stuff is a gimmick to sell electronics. yes it helps gauge the intensity of a workout, so you can pace yourself and finish the whole thing, but at the end of the day, the more you are able to exercise (or the higher intensity you can put into the same amount of time) the better (within reason, there's forms of exercise based anorexia etc where people go too far, but something tells me neither of us are anywhere near that level). i should add some caveats about ramping things up etc, no more than 10% increase over last week in terms of weight/ distance added, but that's more of a to avoid injury thing than a optimal fitness/ fat burning thing.
 
I know this isn't a place to ask for expert advice on exercise or my health. Asking anyway. Understand it's my choice , no one else is liable .

I bought a fitbit to ditch my phone and still get data. Vastly prefer the other app for posting but the wrist thing is superior

Is it bad to do interval style from fat burn zone to cardio zone? My cool down ended up being another 30 minutes walk/ run to stay in/near cardio zone, followed by actually backing off and cooling down with stretches at the end. I'll admit I was milking that zone clock

Not health advice, but I would be a little hesitant to trust wrist-based HRMs for an accurate reading while working out. I'm sure the technology in those is getting better every year, but I got myself a chest strap to pair with my running watch for accuracy reasons. I find the chest strap way more accurate and don't pay attention to the wrist HRM unless I am sitting completely still for a minute or two (and even then it's way off sometimes...or I am getting dangerously close to a heart attack in my late 20s)
 
Not health advice, but I would be a little hesitant to trust wrist-based HRMs for an accurate reading while working out. I'm sure the technology in those is getting better every year, but I got myself a chest strap to pair with my running watch for accuracy reasons. I find the chest strap way more accurate and don't pay attention to the wrist HRM unless I am sitting completely still for a minute or two (and even then it's way off sometimes...or I am getting dangerously close to a heart attack in my late 20s)
I only want the fitbit to be a convenient way to track and organize things. Distance and time seem fairly accurate, outside of that if it's consistent enough to be useful for comparison than it's good enough for what I need
 
@Horn ditch the hose to the garden. Carry 5 gallon buckets back and forth from the garden.
I did use a watering can the first 2 or 3 years before I expanded. I only had 3 or 4 spots spread around then. In '21 I bought and ran soaker hoses for everything. I'm hoping to start saving rainwater soon, I have some of the components already!
 
I know this isn't a place to ask for expert advice on exercise or my health. Asking anyway. Understand it's my choice , no one else is liable .

I bought a fitbit to ditch my phone and still get data. Vastly prefer the other app for posting but the wrist thing is superior

Is it bad to do interval style from fat burn zone to cardio zone? My cool down ended up being another 30 minutes walk/ run to stay in/near cardio zone, followed by actually backing off and cooling down with stretches at the end. I'll admit I was milking that zone clock
This is not advice but simply how I go about it. I do pay attention to heart rate on aerobic cardio days and try to stay right at the top of that zone. For anaerobic workouts I dont pay attention to it because it is always at or right near red lining. I've mentioned it before but my wife and call what we do crossfit'ish. We steal from those workouts based on available equipment and push the pace. Also seldom do the same workout twice in a month whether that is a weight or cardio workout.
 
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Got the pace figured out. 16kg weight. Did some on/off jogging on the back half and I think that's gonna be the key.

Skipped Wednesday and felt really good today. Forearms can handle 16kg fine. But 24kg...that still feels like a gosh-awful lot to carry for 15 minutes.
I've incorporated "the burden" at 25lbs in the back pack and a 30lb KB to hand carry, with alternateing pushups and split squats.
 
So I just set a 15 minute timer to see if I could isometric hold a 24kg weight for 15 minutes, swapping hands as needed.

I did the first 6 minutes swapping once per minute. Then I did 5 minutes swapping every 30 seconds. Then the last 4 swapping every 15 seconds.

I made it, but it was close. Aside from my forearms I could feel it good in my offside back muscles.

But in theory, I can do a 15 minute carry and hold the weight for 15 minutes. Just need to combine the 2.
 
Back problem waiting to happen. And when it does, it's not going to heal in a year. It'll be ongoing, off and on, for the rest of your life.
I'm a pretty strong guy for my size and age and my back has plagued me here and there since about 37. I'm ten years north of that now. Not because of athletics or sports, but because I wanted to test limits even when I knew it wasn't smart.
 
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35# pounds. Felt it my my traps/ neck area but that was tolerable. Grip held up much better than expected, I did you chalk though. I was worried about my forearms, they ok right now lol.

My claves are going to explode. I did a 1/4 mile warm up and I could tell my left one wasn't ready to rock. I did 4 miles interval style in about 52 minutes Saturday ( no weight).
 
Does that pace make sense to anyone? It was around 15:40 but I got a heart rate zone alert and you can't get rid of them if you keep looking at it. I think I can shut that off
 
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