Week One Wednesday Check-In

Planning

Firstly, welcome to the exclusive Pooding Club Blog, and thank you for your interest.

I'll be checking in very few days with updates, but first I'd like to give you an idea of the thought process and aims behind this four week project.

Foremost, it's a part of the return to our roots that I promised in the first blog on the revamped website. Whilst it's good to have the unique equipment that we have at Sparta, it's also good to know that you can achieve everything with one simple tool - which is exactly how I started Sparta Fitness and Conditioning (as we were then called) over 10 years ago.

The simple tool in question is a 24kg - or 1.5 pood - Kettlebell.

The programme that I'll make available to you for January is based on using just one bell, but a bell that you can comfortably do all of the movements with. That could be a 24kg bell. it could be an 8kg bell, it could be a 32kg bell - it's totally up to you.

Why just one bell?

Because this enables you to carry out all of your training with nothing more than one piece of equipment (which may be as inexpensive as £15) and a couple of square metres of space.

For this reason, and after much deliberation, I've omitted one of my favourite exercises, the pull-up. Yes, you could buy a pull up bar to use at home, but it's more expense, more hassle, and a potential excuse.

What I'm giving you as a low cost, zero, and most importantly, excuse free programme. If you want to follow this and succeed, you will.

Currently I've completed three days, two hard days and an active recovery day...because recovery is vital to this programme, and it's one of the things that will make it accessible and effective to you, no matter what your starting point.

I'll check in again at the end of the week with a frreport of how the first week has gone, and a bit more eleaboration on my aims and hopes for this programme.