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I've been playing with stance. I notice some lifters take quite a wide stance for two-arm long cycle. Why is that? Personal preference? Various reasons?

It might be my imagination but it feels like I can maybe get my legs a bit straighter in the rack when my stance is wider.

I went to the dark side of the dark side and started wearing tight shorts for training and now I can barely imagine lifting in regular shorts. But I just got cheap Amazon ones and I am told they are inappropriate to wear around family, let alone in public on a platform... So what shorts are good for that? Under Armor? Nike? "Who cares wear whatever?" (I'm male btw)

What apps/methods do you use to record your sets and have a little stopwatch/countdown timer visible in the lower corner or thereabouts on the screen in the recording? I downloaded WeTime and it does that function OK, but the video quality is pretty poor (even though I set it to "high"). Any other options?

Does anyone have any good ones? I had two I was pondering today. Just for fun:

1. Adding RPMs is double-edged in terms of difficulty. Going from 7rpm to 8rpm is hard. But once you're at 11rpm, going to 12rpm is even harder because you're already pushing so hard at 11rpm.

Is it actually harder though? A 1rpm increase is a 14% increase going from 7 to 8 but just a 9% increase from 11 to 12.

Yes, this paradox is applicable to all activities in which you try to increase reps I suppose, haha.

2. The concept of "maintaining" is complicated in kettlebell sport because technique is so important.

If you, let's say, want to "maintain" the ability to do 80 reps in 10 min at a given weight, t

Sport lifters: Which GPP exercises (other than cardio) have actually made a positive impact on your comp lift?

For example: “I did X for a couple months, and it really helped with my (bump/lockout/fixation/clean/etc.).”

I do two-arm long cycle mostly. I have cycled through a variety of assistance exercises, but it's hard to say which, if any, have had an actual impact.

Right now I'm doing high rep transformer squats (kettlebells balanced on top of shoulders, handles forward) with my comp weight; they seem to be hitting my legs much more effectively than traditional front-racked kettlebell squats. But will they actually benefit my long cycling? Who knows….

Does anyone know what size/type the interior nut is that is used to hold the plates in place inside the adjustable competition kettlebell?

Hi. I've been training TALC for about a year. Training with 24s. Last few sessions I developed severe pain/pressure on top of forearm, just below my wrist, where the bell rests during the jerk.

It's not from the bell "slamming" into anything; it's simply caused by the pressure.

It's messing with my grip strength/endurance.

Anyone else dealt with this? Any remedies?

Does anyone else get these? It's like a big bump on the side of my wrist, on the same side of my wrist that my pinky is on. I have these bumps on both wrists. They are hard and not painful. They seem to be permanent. I've been training long cycle for about a year.

I would guess the bumps are a result of the bell handles hitting my wrists during the insertion part of the clean. I do not wear wrist gear b/c it seems to mess up my insertion, but maybe I should?

The bumps don't seem to be a problem, but they are weird and my wife thinks they're ugly.

Any other fans here? He had a rare sincerity. He was Catholic and died with last rites. The Pillar's Ed Condon wrote a nice tribute, but you have to scroll past a bunch of stuff to get to it: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-tsar-the-rule-of-law-and-the

Does anyone else get tingling fingers from GS long cycle training? When I do a tough training session, my ring and pinky finger on my left hand will get tingly/borderline numb that day and the next.

I think it's from the kettlebell handle pushing down on some nerve nerve sort of between my inner wrist and the heel of my hand during the jerk and fixation. Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking the hand insertion too far, though I'm not sure that's even possible.

I'm not particularly worried about it, but it is kind of a nuisance. Just wondering if anyone else has dealt with it and if it can be remedied or best just ignored.

Thank you!

This is Luke 9: 23. I am curious about this quotation. When Jesus predicts his death in other passages (such as prior verse in Luke 9), he doesn't say anything about a cross or crucifixion (or does he and I just have a bad memory?), He usually just says that he will "be killed," doesn't he?

That makes me wonder about this saying about "taking up his cross." Did Jesus bring this up strictly in reference to what he would face? Or was this a more common expression among that particular people living under Roman rule at that time?

Or does it work something like this: you silently ask the Blessed Virgin Mary for her intercession, and she doesn't hear but God does, and then he tells her that you asked for her intercession, and she goes ahead and asks for that intercession?

Or does a silent prayer to a saint include automatic consent to him/her to get into your mind enough to hear that prayer?

One of those near-death-experience (Catholic) people, Gloria Polo, described seeing prayers as small flames as she floated above the earth; prayers from living saints, however, were like powerful flares, shooting much higher and brighter than the rest.

Read this in the early 90s I think? Book was aimed at teens I believe. On the cover of the paperback I read, there was a boy waving from the island, and the artist made him green for some reason. It was revealed late in the story that he was a ghost.

The story was about a group of kids summer vacationing in a rural area somewhere. They swam out to this island in a lake or pond, and that's where they met the ghost kid. His name was something weird like "Trelwanie."

There was a very large snapping turtle in the lake that may or may not have been supernatural. The POV character had a nightmare about it.

It was overall a fairly dark read, not a bad ending or anything, but not particularly