I got this article in my email recently from Dragon Door and thought you’d appreciate seeing it too.
It’s about Sandy Sommer’s experience of consulting with Marty Gallagher trying to improve his absolute strength with kettlebells. Both are very knowledgeable, experienced, and skilled RKC kettlebell instructors — and now you can be a fly on the wall in their world.
Sandy’s sustained strength is a feat — however he wanted to bump up his max weight for low rep exercises.
At the heart of this is what a powerlifter is looking for too. To be able to lift massive weight just a few times, or even just once. And that’s a completely different kind of strength from doing 10 or 20 or 50 or 100 snatches in a row. And it requires a different type of training as well.
One interesting thing I picked up was what you can do with smaller weights to increase your ability to lift bigger weights. And it’s as simple as speeding up. If — like we learned in high school physics — force equals mass times acceleration (F=m*a) then we can exert the same force as it would take to lift double the mass by doubling our acceleration. Training this way lets us train with smaller weights for lifting with bigger weights. Kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells, whatever.
Read the article for the rest of the story:
The Two Man March: Impromptu Absolute Strength Seminar by Marty Gallagher
And stay strong!
