Sunday 29.9: Hiking & kettlebell metcon

Sunday. Hiking for 1 hour. Metcon, 5 rounds of: 15 kb swings (32kg), 10 pull-ups, 20 lunges.

Spent the weekend in the country side and went hiking for one hour after breakfast with Pauliina, Kari and Maija. There's a hill nearby that we climbed up and down in autumn weather. Breathing went up and down as well. It was a good leg-opener since my legs were smashed from previous days' workouts. Once we got back to the house, we did a metcon with Kari.

Hiking. Hard to say what the altitude was between ground level and top of the hill. Anyway, the scenery as astonishing once we landed at the highest point of Tornimäki. It's a place where my in-laws take trips more frequently and where Pauliina used to hang out as a kiddo. This was my first trip up there. Once I've done a workout at the roots of the hill in August. That was a tough combo of uphill running and kettlebell swings.

Metcon. For completion

• 5 rounds of:
• 15 kettlebell swings, 32kg
• 10 pull-ups
• 20 lunges

Working through these movements and rounds with solid pace, not paying attention to the clock though. Worked together with Kari who did his own metcon at the same time. He was doing kb swings as well, combined with kb high-pulls and air squats, couple of lunges might have been there too. I'm proud he's doing his metcons consistently. Once we were at the hill, he was running back and forth as the rest of us were too slow for him =) He wanted to have his heart beat up from the beginning to the end. Plus he did rather long metcon when we came back to the house. That's a good work ethic!

I did the movements unbroken. Grip strength always seems to be the "thing" with kb swings for me. It starts to tingle the forearms a lot and I have to concentrate a lot to hold on the bell. On the pull-ups I was focusing on doing the reps without a kip. Also did probably 3 sets palms facing me, usually don't do them at all. Lunges were "rest".

Pull-up rack

Some evidence from Sunday's workout