Suddenly having access to a great outdoor training area has inspired me to step up my daily training and general activity level. Thankfully, by this age I’ve figured out that I can’t go "all in" all the time. Recently, there’s been a great series of articles by Dan John on DragonDoor.com and the first one (go read all five though) addresses the idea of consistency and continuity in training—and that most of our workouts should be on the medium-low level. This makes a lot of sense to me, especially now as I’m looking to add two days a week (hopefully schedule permits) of an 1.5 hour Systema class. When I took the trial class months ago (when I was considering moving to this area) I was impressed with the wonderful bodyweight and mobility warm-up, and the fact that the training did get significantly strenuous (I judged this by my extreme need for dinner afterwards). Given that class is tonight, I didn’t want to show up recovering from a crazy all out bashfest and not be able to keep up with my cool new friends.
I decided to use my RKC kettlebell Snatch Test weight for my weight class (women’s open class 121-135lbs = 14kg) (they update this from time to time, so be sure to check here if you’re preparing for an RKC Certification!)
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