I don’t really want to think of this as a new year, new me thread. But I guess it will be. Over the last few years my fitness has been rather hit and miss. Due to me my wife looking her very poorly mum. So I stopped going to the gym help out a bit more, but due to having Friday afternoons off I was still able to play my golf what fairly decent for a cardio as long as you walk. Plus use to get a lot of steps in at work. I also have some kettlebells that I use sporadically or during the really cold months when I didn’t want to play golf.
But this year my fitness fell off a cliff, it started off fairly well, golf on Friday afternoon and kettlebells when I could. Then as a family we had a double whammy of bad news, lost my mother in law and shortly after that my old role was made redundant at work. Luckily I didn’t have to work my notice and put on 6 weeks garden leave.
Durning my time off whilst looking for work and looking after my family of course. She went back to work quickly as she needed to focus on something, but has been drinking and I didn’t want her to drink alone so I joined in in the most evenings. So between interviews etc, I was playing golf twice a week what great as it was the summer.
Luckily enough I found a job fairly quick, don’t like it but, it’s paying the bills. But I lost those Friday afternoons off and now struggling to play the game I love. I fit 9 holes when can that’s been 4 times in the last 4 months. My new job more hours and less pay not great. So at the moment I am going to let my course membership run out and pay to play when I get the spare time in the future.
Anyway, due commitments and the time I do have free. I am planning on starting doing kettlebells 3 times a week in the morning before work. As I already have them and they great bang for your buck workouts. Going to start on Monday morning and so it’s not such a shock to the system when I go back to work on the 5th. But I have never really planned a structured kettle work out before. So if anyone else has some advice would be great. At the minute my plan looks like:
Day 1:
3x10 kettlebell deadlift
3x10 kettlebell clean and press
3x10 goblet squat.
Day 2
3 x 10 kettlebell swing
3 x 10 kettlebell snatch
Or I might do 1min on, 1
Min rest for these exercises.
Day 3 A flow that consists of:
Deadlift into a snatch
Snatch into goblet squat
Goblet squat into an overhead press. And do 3 x 10 of these. I have done this flow before I really enjoyed it.
But this year my fitness fell off a cliff, it started off fairly well, golf on Friday afternoon and kettlebells when I could. Then as a family we had a double whammy of bad news, lost my mother in law and shortly after that my old role was made redundant at work. Luckily I didn’t have to work my notice and put on 6 weeks garden leave.
Durning my time off whilst looking for work and looking after my family of course. She went back to work quickly as she needed to focus on something, but has been drinking and I didn’t want her to drink alone so I joined in in the most evenings. So between interviews etc, I was playing golf twice a week what great as it was the summer.
Luckily enough I found a job fairly quick, don’t like it but, it’s paying the bills. But I lost those Friday afternoons off and now struggling to play the game I love. I fit 9 holes when can that’s been 4 times in the last 4 months. My new job more hours and less pay not great. So at the moment I am going to let my course membership run out and pay to play when I get the spare time in the future.
Anyway, due commitments and the time I do have free. I am planning on starting doing kettlebells 3 times a week in the morning before work. As I already have them and they great bang for your buck workouts. Going to start on Monday morning and so it’s not such a shock to the system when I go back to work on the 5th. But I have never really planned a structured kettle work out before. So if anyone else has some advice would be great. At the minute my plan looks like:
Day 1:
3x10 kettlebell deadlift
3x10 kettlebell clean and press
3x10 goblet squat.
Day 2
3 x 10 kettlebell swing
3 x 10 kettlebell snatch
Or I might do 1min on, 1
Min rest for these exercises.
Day 3 A flow that consists of:
Deadlift into a snatch
Snatch into goblet squat
Goblet squat into an overhead press. And do 3 x 10 of these. I have done this flow before I really enjoyed it.
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