Well I finished the challenge. As I missed the discussion about swings I never really took this part on board, but managed around 1000 each week and surprised myself. However I managed all the TGU, even if not quite in the manner I expected.
The last couple of days were tough. I went walking with friends on the 30th and then came home and completed 30 TGU using a range of weights and tried a 31st with one hand again to see if my wrist could cope (still needs rest for a while).Then 300 swings with 12kg. My body was so fatigued that I slept until 9am the next morning. We had plans to go out for a New Year drink later in the day and I had work to do. So I got up and went back to the TGU. At first I couldn’t get up using just body weight because my muscles were so fatigued. But the addition for 8kg actually helped. So I completed the 31 TGU using 8/12/16kg. The last one was a celebratory 16kg. Swings seemed a bad idea because my core was clearly fatigued so I left it at that.
Some of the group had an interesting discussion about the mental impact of repetition. Chuzzy taught me that the last rep should be a model rep, the best you can do, to leave your body with a positive memory of that move. So despite fatigue I really thought about each repetition and re-started on quite a few occasions when I did not come up with the correct form. Practise makes perfect is as true for kettlebell training as it is in any discipline and is part of the reason I enjoy training like this. Thirty one repetitions could be tedious or an oppportunity to improve the skill, depends on your attitude. I’m looking forward to continuing with TGU this year, I feel that I still have a lot to learn.
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