Beach Day 1
This might be and only day of this week I'll be able to post unless the local coffee shop has free WiFi. I'm at my mother's house right now visiting, she's 45 min. from where my and my woman's family is staying, and I'm able to get an internet connection and telework for a little bit.
So...
My second day on the beach was yesterday and I decided that this was my first day to workout. My brother came by and he really wanted to workout with me and the kettlebells. He's a personal trainer and loves working out. He just got into KB so I'm trying to show him some stuff. Only problem he is the smaller more cut up version of me and can't do some of the 52lbs. KB stuff.
So I went down to the local ACE hardware shop and bought 12 ft. of rope at about a .25 inch thick. We grabbed my two 52lbs. KB, the rope and headed to the beach. At this time it's about 1:00 pm and the sun is hot and the beach is full. With Sun block and hats, we got to work.
I figured that the best thing to do was KB drags on the beach. The soft sand that is at the top of the beach was brutal trying to walk through and the KB would sink in the sand and we would have extra resistance when dragging them. I had the rope cut into two 6 ft. long strips and I tied each one to a KB. We started out with dragging 1 arm rows for a little over 20 yds. We each had one KB and would alternate arms with each drag. This was KILLER. I didn't realize the sand was going to add so much weight.
Right after we did one I looked around and everybody was looking at us. They all had the look of, "What the hell are they doing?" Some girls were looking but I think they were looking at my bro because he is the smaller more cut up version of me, the guy seems like he is always at 7% BF or less.
Right after that we turned right around and did a regular drag back to the other side. We did that for 2 sets. Next, I grabbed both KB and did normal Drags and then handed them back to my Brother to do a set then I grabbed them right back and did reverse drags back and then he did the same. We did this for 2. The sand was very unforgiving and each KB seems to get heavier as it would dig itself deeper into the ground with every set. By this time we are both huffing it and the sun was getting very hot. We did one more drag movement where we did a front raise "type " drag. We faced the KBs grabbed the rope and would pull the KBs to us by doing a front raise movement people would do with DBs. We only did this for half the distance and back switching in-between for two times and then dragged them again for half the distance for two more times but tried to sprint. I was so drained after dragging 105lbs. +. It was a great start for a beach workout. The only thing I would have done differently is alternate between using 2 at the same time and 1 more often. Today I'm just going to ride a bike around and give my legs a rest. Tomorrow will be Cleans and snatches maybe with some jump rope.
See you later.
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