Just hold on

This is a workout we did about a year ago.  I remember it well.  I changed the rep scheme up a bit, thinking that there weren’t enough kettlebell swings in it.  Somehow I don’t think that was the case this time through.  The primary challenge, aside from remembering the rep scheme, was just to hold onto the bar or handle.  By the end that was usually too much to ask of fried hands and forearms.

I’ve been toying with the idea of not prescribing weights lately.  Most of us scale as needed anyway and a prescribed weight can stop someone from challenging themselves.  For example, Derek used the 70 pound kettlebell and Andrea used the 44.  Had there been a number up there, I imagine that they might have chosen to follow what was written rather than what they ended up doing.  Plus there is something disappointing about not being able to do something prescribed, and I don’t want people feeling disappointed with an otherwise good workout simply because they didn’t do it with the arbitrary number on the board.  A problem with this approach is that it weakens the criteria for the green box.  Perhaps we’ll start making notes next to notable performances, regardless of “prescribed” or not.

On another note, we are wrapping up the Clean Eating Challenge this week with the After pictures.  The object was to have all the photos taken by today.  However, after this weekend the camera battery was dead Monday and so we missed a few people.  I will extend the window for pictures until Friday at lunch.  We’ll choose our finalists this weekend and present them for a vote on Monday.