You get to have a preview of the monologue . I’m just here in my office rehearsing.
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
Kettlebells… ‘Kettlebells?!?’
I’m an old hand at ‘Worshiping at the Temple of Steel and Iron’.
I’ve pushed around large stacks of weights on a semi-regular basis over the years. My longest streak was a little over 24 months.
I looked like a ‘Troll’, folks thought I was an NFL Lineman, or a Professional Wrestler.
That’s also most likely how I destroyed my hips. The one sure way I could ‘show off’ in the gym, is moving massive stacks of plates with my legs.
I know that, a ‘lifting program’ can ‘stall’, you have a tendency to perform the same lifts and movements repetitively. Your body adapts and you quit getting bigger and stronger. So you need to have a repertoire of different exercises and movements to ‘punish’ your body when it gets ‘lazy’.
I no longer try to move the maximum amount of weight possible. I don’t need to get huge, or to impress anyone anymore. I’m more interested now in ‘compound’ exercises. Ones that not only involve multiple muscles, but also ...
