Our Mother, winter.

I began to track workouts in October, titling them after successive letters in the Alphabet such as 'Charlie don't surf' and 'Echo-4 Whiskey' for 'C' & 'E'. I took some time off the King Ghidorah S&C module, which looks like this.

Sunday: ROP medium ladders, and 36:36 mV02 snatching*.
Tuesday: Sumo Deadlifting, 3-5 x 3-5 method, ROP hard ladders.
Wednesday: Variety = Pull ups and deadlifting, foam roller and mobility squats.
Thursday: Light ROP ladders, snatching to roughly 75-80% of previous session.
*Climbing indicates more sets than previous week's high total.

The brief rest period of nearly two weeks initiated when each joint in my body sang, in unison, one fine morning, 'Slow your roll, Jarhead'. Two years ago I would have trained through it. This time I relaxed. I ate like a warrior and contracted strep throat. A week into the Antibiotics, and I am weight training again.

I cannot direct you to my source, however new data further supporting the Hard Style's approach to kettlebell training is out there, and someone saw fit to point me in that direction. I need no further proof that the Hard Man's path of crackerjack pull up performance [tactical chinning, and using ladders to build high rep-max set numbers], yet the text confirms what we already know. We know that Pavel's Pull Up Program design is unparalleled. No one on this rock is going to unlock anything new, with regard to the pull up mechanical or to it's implementation, that Chief has not already given us. Furthermore, 'laser like' focus on the eccentric portion of any weighted movement is something drilled home to me, distinctly, by Chief. That being said, I have not even fully digested my reading assignments, yet they are filling me with gusto previously only seen in mountain goats.

I spoke of wanting to saturate my life in new numbers and planning once I read this text, however, it does not beg for me to rearrange my training. Rather, it assures me that, though selected from three separate yet respected weight training texts, Ghidorah's weight training schedule is top gear. Fit to formalize a human body into armor clad war-dog status. In descending chrono, here are my three most 'recent' sessions.

Week One Tuesday 9 December 1900 hours
Max V02 36:36 protocol. 16 reps, 16kg.
20 sets complete, one minor clock deviation, remedied on-the-fly.
Alternated hands quite often, and never snatched more than two sets consecutive. It is late fall, and 'twas warm last night, but I wrapped the paws with some Bedazzled sock sleeves courtesy of a San Diego County RKC who, I am sure, does not even own a winter coat. Thanks I-V.

Vilification Thursday 27 November 1130 hours. Ladder = Set. Rung = Repetition, get it right.
Tactical Pull Up ladders, using only body weight, 1-2-3 rungs for 3 ladders.
Sumo Deadlift, a very unglamorous 4 sets of 3 reps with 210lbs. My Sumo is in it's infancy, for all you true meat monkey's out there. Spot me a conventional rep and I'll pull 445 in your mama's kitchen right now.

Under the cover of night Tuesday 18 November 1500 hours

Tactical Pull Up Ladder 1-2-3, rest 3:00.
Add a 4kg to my boot/drop it and get a rep: 1/1, 2/2, 3/3.
One straight set, +4kg, of 5 reps.

Alphabetical requirements complete in X,Y, and Zulu time.

This is Corporal Punishment, back to the War Zone.