Kettlebell for cardio good active recovery?

[Tobias Sundelin]

Hi!

 

I was thinking about doing kettlebell training, like snatches, for cardio and active recovery tues and thursday. Mon, wed, and friday I do F1/F2, H1 splits.

 

You think this is a good idea?

[Jon Douglas]

I do, as long as you keep it to active recovery level in your position I would rather do high-rep swings with a lighter bell but if you're quite conditioned to the bells then you can mix it up as appropriate.

[Tobias Sundelin]

That was my intention, something like this:

 

60s swings

20s rest

 

repeat 2-3 times. This way it simulates F1 in terms of time and rest, no idea if this is good, just a thought.

[Jon Douglas]

Seems reasonable. No reason you can't do more, depending on the weight and your conditioning you could swing for an hour while watching TV or do shorter medium-intensity circuits like that.

What sort of weight are you using, just out interest? I find 20kg the best balance for me between getting a workout and going too heavy; at an easy pace it seems to snatch itself

[Tobias Sundelin]

20kg here to. Ok, what would be considered moving beyond active recovery level?

[Connor Davies]

20kg here to. Ok, what would be considered moving beyond active recovery level?

Anything you don't feel recovered from after.  If your muscles hurt, or you get tired, you probably overdid it.

[Jon Douglas]

Anything you don't feel recovered from after.  If your muscles hurt, or you get tired, you probably overdid it.

Mm, pretty much. Just make sure you feel good afterwards. If you feel beat up, you're going too hard. I broadly aim to finish a rest day just a little restless by the end of the evening; it's a good thing to look forward to your real training sessions Obviously that point is going to be different for everyone depending on their conditioning and recovery.

 

You might for eg) take a modified leaf out of Pavel's book and see how many swings you can do in a 20-30 minute block 'to an easy stop' say 5070% of what you could do if you went all out.

 

Just get the blood flowing and loosen up.As a rule of thumb I would say you can't work too light, but you can work too hard. So don't be afraid of cutting it short or feeling like you could do more-- that'll go into your Foundation work.

 

I'm sure other people will chime in with more detail.

[Tobias Sundelin]

Would you guys think its better for recovery of F7 to do this kind of active recovery or just rest completely until next training session?