#2543 - MrBallen

“I do all my kettlebell work with 70-pound kettlebells. I don't have any problems. Windmills, cleans, presses, renegade rows, gorilla cleans, no problems. How much you cleaning? 50s. You just gorilla cleans? I do it for reps. Do you do barbell clean? No. No, I don't lift anything heavy. When I do gorilla cleans, I either do 50s or 70s. My whole kettlebell workout is either 50s or 70s.”

“My whole kettlebell workout is either 50s or 70s. And sometimes I work out with 35s just for the warm-up. Like I'll do like warm-up stuff. Like I'll do like rotation exercises with 35s. Things where I'm like big halos where I'm just really opening up my back and getting.”

“I have this big long driveway with a hill and I do these gorilla carries. It's like a 200-yard driveway. And I do these gorilla carries where you take, well, you know, with those farmers' carries with those gorilla kettlebells. 70s? Yeah, and I take them up the hill and down the hill.”

“10. And then I rest for like five. I do the Pavel Totsilin method. What's that? Pavel Totsalini is the guy who really brought kettlebells over to America. Okay. And he's a famous kettlebell coach for Strong First, which is his company. And he's this philosophy that strength is a skill.”

“Your form is always perfect. And you're still getting the same amount of work. So my workouts, like I have to allocate two hours if I'm doing a kettlebell workout. Fuck, dude. Yeah. I know, but it works. Dude, that's great. It works. And again, I'm fucking never injured.”

“I bet. Oh, so and so. And I was like, I'm not doing that anymore. And from that moment on, I got really into just doing kettlebells. And I'm stronger than I've ever been. I don't think you need to lift really, depending upon what you're trying to do. You know, and if you're trying to become a power lifter, sure, you need to lift heavy.”

“with doing cleans with a barbell, and maybe I'll do kettlebells, is I have a scar right here that I broke my collarbone when I was seven and my collarbone juts out because it healed slightly in the wrong direction.”

“Yeah. But it sounds like you do cleans and shit with kettlebells. With kettlebells. Yeah, that's probably something I need to consider. Yeah. And it's not easy to do. You know, like 70 pounds is when you're doing like 10 set 10 reps and I'm doing like three sets of 10 reps.”

“that have these very bizarre, similar narratives. And these similar narratives are like in the Book of Enoch. In the Book of Enoch, the Watchers come down, and they mate with the Daughters of Men. There's a lot of weird stuff like that.”

“fire. You try to hold on to these things. And, you know, I got a chalk ball in my pocket and I reach in there and powder my hands back up. And as soon as I get my hands back going, I do it again. And that has changed everything.”

“And for 60 hours, he sat in total darkness, half submerged in water, sipping a Coca-Cola, waiting for the pocket to implode. And then there's the video, there's a video of the recovery divers as they're going in to find bodies.”

“Wow. So it was, it was, I hated boot camp. And when I got out of boot camp, in boot camp, I was drinking their coffee and I was convinced it was caffeinated coffee. It wasn't. And I told myself it was. I'm a big coffee drinker.”

“No. Okay. So they were just making tough choices. Put on all your turtlenecks. And we'd like put on all our stupid, like, neoprene turtlenecks, like seven of them, because you have all this stupid clothing in your rack. And like, march around the compartment, the room you're in. And we would just like spend hours like marching around the compartment, sweating our ass off in our like turtlenecks.”

“When'd you get into doing kettlebell stuff? I've seen you post like the demon, the demon bell or the gorilla bell. The gorilla bell. Yeah, those are the 70s. Those are the shit. I really got into farmers' carries. That's what I'm using.”

“The other test is just the tread. That's all it's called, the tread. You spend five minutes in the pool with your twin 80 tanks on, which are neutral in the water. They're pretty heavy outside of the water, but they're cumbersome on your back. You got no fins, you got a weight belt on, hands up out of the water.”