How heavy is 32kg? (and I am a sissy... )

Few years ago I wrote How heavy is 20 kg, last few months I have been trying to tackle a 32kg kettlebell and I can tell you this one is damn lot heavier.
There are many benefits of a heavy bell -
1. It teaches humility, hubris disappears faster than... Ice
❄ on equator
2. Auto corrects tendency to use shoulders while swinging.
3. Teaches Mindfulness, Makes you cautious
4. Goblet squats are far more challenging.
That apart, though I can clean & Jerk them, I still have to muster courage for Snatches & Get ups.

Currently I am following a Strongfirst routine called Lazy Endurance. 

It basically is -
5 Swings on top of the minute for times varying from 10 minutes to 50 minutes. 5 swings take about 10 seconds, balance 50 seconds are supposed to be active rest - I basically walk and shake the muscle groups which are tired.
Yesterday was 50 minutes /250 swings workout.
Did that comfortably - primarily because my technique & grip have improved a bit. Did use lifting chalk too.

Realised- am a sissy (am a show-off too but that is something I always knew)
Tore calluses of my palm and am handling things gingerly, also contemplating giving today's training a skip...

Aim for the moon..... Really? 10000

Aim for the moon...
Good quote, universal rule - absolutely not

On I decided to do 5000 kettlebell Swing challenge in 20 days, a fair aim I thought.
Started logging, food intake first, but before I could start swinging I read about Dan John's 10000 swing Challenge.

Decided to accept the bigger (harder) challenge. But before I could start I came across an article about Bud Jeffrey doing 10000 swings in 10 days without any overtraining or recovery related issues.
Aim for the moon.... thodi aur pyaas badhao....
1000 swings a day...
F... I didn't even start, the task was so daunting; found excuses to shy away from the kettlebell, in fact from exercise itself. Right now as I blog I have time for a short workout but instead of swinging I am typing.

Lesson learnt.
Better idea - Aim for where you want to go... correction - need to go
Keep the goals realistic,
Don't bite more than you can chew. Take small bites
Downgraded my challenge to 3000 even as I type, let us see where I end up.

How heavy is 20kg?

Quite a lot actually!

I finally gathered enough courage and forced myself to fool around with the 20kg Kettlebell gathering dust for the last one year. (My thoughts were far more eloquent when I was struggling with the k'bell)

F......the d..... thing was heavier than I thought it would be, it was far-2 heavier today than the last time I lifted it.

Ever the over-confident a..I decided to do the Deep 6 routine ie 5xComplex, where each complex is of following alternate hand exercises:-
5,5 swings,
5,5 snatches,
5, 5 squats
5,5 clean & presses,
Turkish get down- up to start a new complex.
(It is called deep 6 because it includes all primary k'bell exercises- swing, snatch, squat, clean, press
& TGU)

S...I should have started with a 8kg k'bell, the d.... thing didn't swing beyond my stomach, oh well I did push it up higher but it wasn't like last year when I could do Crossfit type swings with chutzpah. Snatches were even more f...ed up, f....you my stupid ego, I should have been doing free hand snatches....

I could clean (barely) but presses were a different animal altogether, a black demo. TGU(well TGD) - didn't have the guts to attempt these

Did not have the ....for round 2 leave alone completing the mandatory 5.

Guess what I did next- yes take it easy.  I decided to switch to RKC Bare minimum- a beginners program which consists of a 10 min warm-up with 10 counts each of wall squats, halos and mountain climbers. Followed by actual workout which is 20 swings followed by 1 minute of active rest (jumping jacks, mountain climbers etc) for a total of 12 minutes.

Sounds easy enough - I got the wind knocked out of me in the warm-up itself. Could do only 20 half swings, active rest what a joke - I could barely move.

Had to take a full days rest, God willing I will do the RKC Bare min today.