Progress so far (2 mo).
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:58 pm
Just a brief hello and a couple of notes...
I've been doing the 14MAD for about two months now. Until recently, I've been using a 20lb kettlebell, but I just aquired a 12lb sledge (birthday present) and have started with that. Now, I do MWF with the hammer alternated with T/Th on the kb.
I've noticed that the kb workouts have prepped my legs and back pretty well for the sledge, but that the hammer workouts really work out my arms in a much more intense way. I've been doing intervals with the kb, and have for the last week or so been doing Tabata intervals. The kb provides much more of a cardio effect with more leg workout. The hammer gives me intensity in the upper body that I'd been missing because of the light-weight kb that I use.
A Tabata interval set consists of 20 seconds of maximum intensity followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated eight times for four minutes total workout time. It's not recommended to do this with weights, and I've avoided doing this with the hammer so far for fear of pulling a muscle. The Tabata intervals are supposed to be all-out, and if you do them properly, the supposed effect is the equivalent of 40-minutes of standard cardio. This remains to be seen.
For you Corvus Corax fans out there, you might look for Tartanic. They haven't made it quite so big, but are a similar genre. They mix bagpipe and middle-eastern music with a medieval bent.
Cheers!
-Frank
I've been doing the 14MAD for about two months now. Until recently, I've been using a 20lb kettlebell, but I just aquired a 12lb sledge (birthday present) and have started with that. Now, I do MWF with the hammer alternated with T/Th on the kb.
I've noticed that the kb workouts have prepped my legs and back pretty well for the sledge, but that the hammer workouts really work out my arms in a much more intense way. I've been doing intervals with the kb, and have for the last week or so been doing Tabata intervals. The kb provides much more of a cardio effect with more leg workout. The hammer gives me intensity in the upper body that I'd been missing because of the light-weight kb that I use.
A Tabata interval set consists of 20 seconds of maximum intensity followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated eight times for four minutes total workout time. It's not recommended to do this with weights, and I've avoided doing this with the hammer so far for fear of pulling a muscle. The Tabata intervals are supposed to be all-out, and if you do them properly, the supposed effect is the equivalent of 40-minutes of standard cardio. This remains to be seen.
For you Corvus Corax fans out there, you might look for Tartanic. They haven't made it quite so big, but are a similar genre. They mix bagpipe and middle-eastern music with a medieval bent.
Cheers!
-Frank