I am going to add some calisthenics to the kettlebell swing mix
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I am really loving my two-handed, heavy-kettlebell, swing routine but I also plan to add some simple Army-style calisthenics to the mix in addition to slow jogging, indoor cycling, and indoor rowing.
Chris Abraham as a Saint Louis JROTC Ranger
When I was a young lad, I was a member of Saint Louis School's elite JROTC Ranger Club and not only did we practice L ambushes, staggered coulumns, silent movement, and even tank identification based on profile, but we also worked our asses off doing side-straddle hops (AKA jumping jacks), loads and loads of pushups, sit-ups, and other Army PT-style calisthenics, including lots and lots of running and humping.
As you know, I am pretty obsessed with the two-handed kettlebell swing—and I plan to keep on keeping in with a relatively heavy-but-lazy routine with my 20kg, 24kg, 32kg, and 40kg cast iron kettlebells from Kettlebells USA—I really think I need to also add some unlazy exercises such as:
- 8-Count Body Builder
- Angel of Death
- Bend and Reach
- Bent Leg Body Twist
- Bottoms Up
- Burpee
- Extend and Flex
- Flutter Kick
- High Jumper
- Knee Bender
- Leg Circular
- Leg Tuck
- Leg Tuck And Twist
- Mountain Climber
- Overhead Arm Pull
- Power Jump
- Prone Row
- Pushups
- Rower
- Scissors
- Side-Straddle Hop
- Single Leg Over
- Single Leg Push Up
- Situps
- Squat Bender
- Squat Thrust
- Squats
- V-Up
- Verticals
- Windmill
That's a lot of calisthenics and I know I will be hit or miss with these daliances away from the daily bread swinging heavy as much as plausible every day. I will stick very hard and very tight with that, but I will add, to this base, the erg, the SkiErg, the slow jogs, and all the callisthenics. Especially with the pushups and the ab work: who doesn't need to be good at pushups and situps? And side-straddle hops!
