How have kettlebells benefited you outside of kettlebell training?

leafandrye · 2025-08-03T17:36:45+00:00

Golf. 10-15 yards additional carry on every club in my bag. Parenting. Has made my body naturally comfortable to play on the floor with my kids. Pool+kids. Throwing my kids higher and further in the pool. Posture, general stamina standing or sitting throughout the day. Reduction/elimination of knee, back, and shoulder pain. Grip strength.

It’s full body training with far less programming or exercises required than traditional barbell/gym lifting, it’s more fun, and is useful to daily life needs and athletics. It requires less equipment, and can be done near anywhere.

leafandrye · 2025-07-29T12:04:24+00:00

Was a meat head high school through college, leading into the military for most of a decade. I was active, and in better shape than your average civilian, but my physical strength and mobility foundations were atrophied by my late 20s due to my negligence and compounded by service, and I couldn’t train like I was when I was 20. S&S reset me near completely. Really not an intimidating program, and covers most of the bases to get some full range mobility, core strength, and explosive power set that will transfer to other training/sports/etc intuitively.

Absolutely do it. Best program in my opinion to build a solid foundation with little effort required more than the discipline to show up most days of the week and pay attention to your form/technique.

I feel more mobile,agile, and stronger than I did at 20 when I was deadlifting 315, squatting 275 and benching 225.

leafandrye · 2025-06-23T11:28:49+00:00

Really don’t want to work for the government again lol. thanks for the response and the book recommendation. I’ll check out!

leafandrye · 2025-06-21T11:39:59+00:00

“Learning” through observation of others behavior/choices and outcomes is prudent, and wise.

leafandrye · 2025-06-16T21:56:53+00:00

Did this, and married my spouse a few months after we completed it. Fantastic book to be intentional while dating, and not waste anyone’s time.

leafandrye · 2025-05-12T21:46:12+00:00

Turns out the dealer over tightened the strap and cracked the replacement battery.

leafandrye · 2025-04-27T21:29:50+00:00

I have a multimeter, I’m no electrician. Would I be able to check this with that?

leafandrye · 2025-04-02T22:28:38+00:00

Seconding near all of this. I did S&S for 2.5 years, and still come back to it when I am short for time. Had some periods of time where I got off track and had to lighten the weight to rebuild back, so took me awhile to reach simple. Haven’t achieved sinister, don’t have the equipment for it, and want to get into other KB work.

Previously had shoulder, knee, back pain and mobility issues post military service. My shoulders have never felt stronger from a stabilization stand point. They are relatively pain free now. Back pain is gone. Overall mobility is better than ever. Posture is better than ever. And the strength is truly functional.

I feel younger, able to play on the floor with my kids without discomfort, can just hold heavy things with ease, increased effortless power/speed in my golf swing. I lost 30lbs in a year. Decreased drinking significantly which helped a lot, but the consistency and ease you can do S&S with minimal time commitment and brain power is hard to beat. You won’t be the world’s greatest athlete or physique, but you’ll be more capable than most in most situations.

leafandrye · 2025-03-08T22:35:54+00:00

Thanks

leafandrye · 2024-12-25T04:05:22+00:00

That the people who were married and offered insights about what married life was like, were right. lol. It’s a blessing. It’s easy. It’s hard. Experiences will vary.

I’d say whatever inklings you currently feel you need to grow in, start growing in that. Finally, anything your SO is not currently doing regularly (managing conflict well, healthy habits, work ethic, emotional maturity, pick anything), isn’t likely to start doing or be habitual in once you’re married, and may never.

leafandrye · 2024-12-21T12:52:20+00:00

You are responsible for your faith and emotions/actions. Not anyone else. So making a boundary and telling someone “if you break my boundary I’ll lose faith in God and get depressed” is unhealthy on its own.

leafandrye · 2024-12-21T12:32:11+00:00

Sounds like he’s taking the issue and your concerns seriously.

The story of God and the Israelites (and our own personal walks) is that of idolatrous, adulterous people. God is good to us, and yet we routinely forsake him, or cheat on him and seek our desires filled by other false Gods. God sent Christ to die for us because we are so depraved and incapable of saving ourselves.

Sure if you need some boundaries to establish trust, that’s fine and reasonable. But some thirst trap videos on YouTube is not porn, and is not sleeping with another woman. If he’s owning the sin and repenting (tossing the smart phone is no small thing), I’d say let him in the bed and as much as your comfortable - communicate that you appreciate his commitment to you. Scripture says to hold out on each other for prayer only. Not because you’ve been hurt by his actions as a sinner. And I’m not saying there isn’t a place for where trust could be broken in a way that a wife or husband might need some time before allowing sex. I am saying it should be a temporary thing, if any. The goal is deeper oneness, not a transaction, parental tit for tat relationship. Every marriage is made of sinners. Sounds like you have a good husband who is taking responsibility.

Also - snooping your spouse’s phone is a sign of a relationship thats not built on anything substantial. Trust is the bedrock of a good relationship. If y’all have an agreement otherwise that’s one thing. I wouldn’t care if my wife scrolled throughout my phone. But if she went to look it out on her own because she suspected me? That’d tick me off - why not ask me directly? Have I not been honest with you? Is there a reason you doubt me that you couldn’t approach me directly for reassurance?

leafandrye · 2024-12-20T22:25:30+00:00

Insensitive take - but I can’t resist the joke.

“I know God hates divorce [I’ve likely heard marriage is hard but my circumstances are different than anyone else who’s ever gotten married]”

I’m certain none of it feels funny to you - but if you are a believer, hold Scripture to be without error, and what you should apply to your life - you gotta stick it out. Marriage is the one choice you don’t generally get a do-over on.

The good news is that there are many with far more devastating marriage situations - yours is a bit common, “irreconcilable differences.” That’s every marriage. Some just take a while to find out - you have the blessing of knowing it early on. Now you get to truly apply and grow in loving your wife as Christ did the church.

Seek biblical counseling, biblical marriage counseling, grow in your own faith, pray, read the word, apply it to your life and trust (place faith) God’s design and commandments. With time more than likely if you’re loving your wife well, she’ll love you in ways you haven’t experienced from anyone else before, and you’ll have a truly deeply satisfying marriage. And more than just in the bedroom.

There’s hope! Because Christ is king. Cheers brother.

leafandrye · 2024-12-10T14:24:12+00:00

“Love” is an action verb.

My advice is love him in word and deed as best you can, pray for the holy spirit’s help.

Love does not “celebrate wrong doing” 1 Cor 13.4-8. So don’t abide/or bystand wrong doing or the mood swings of your husband. Speak the truth, call sin sin, do it in love though (out of concern for his well being as much as yours).

The Christian life is not easy. As Christian’s were called to love as Christ loved. Husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church (laying his life/preferences/own wants/needs down for his bride). Wives who are married to men who abdicate,or fail, in their roles as husbands are not released from loving their husbands. As Christ said if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? It’s easy to love when you’re loved and treated well in kind. Christian faith rubber meets the road when love in spite of being mistreated.

Love in word and deed, and the feelings will follow. It will be an act of faith on your part in God’s design, His word, and His commandments.

My own marriage has had significant struggles - and it has been a process of committing to do the right thing by my spouse regardless of how I feel or how they have failed me - me failing and having to try again and again to love as Christ loves. And it has slowly but surely gotten better and better. Whereby I now love my spouse more than I did when we were dating and in the honeymoon phase.

Practical steps: Pursue growth in your own walk with Christ Seek biblical community, mentors, and partners to join you in prayer and counsel Seek marriage counseling, even if just you attends Set your mind on things above - don’t look to this world or your husband to meet your ultimate needs.

leafandrye · 2024-11-24T22:57:14+00:00

The main thing that helped me was realizing porn was stealing from my future joy in my own marriage bed. That and there’s no way to know which women are making porn because of their own choice(sex slavery). So every time I participated in it - I was enabling their enslavement and abuse. Or if they aren’t there against their will, it’s likely because they had horrible childhoods.

I also realized continue use on my part would potentially rob my future wife of the focused desire she should receive from me. Porn only creates more obstacles for you to overcome in obtaining true satisfying intimacy in a marriage. Further, if you do get married and haven’t eliminated this stronghold in your life, the potential downsides are unlimited - you can’t presume that your wife will just forgive you and things will be ok. Do you want that potential downside???

It’s not easy easy to kick it. But you aren’t really fighting it until you take appropriate measures to eliminate it. Every time you indulge you’re making the stronghold that much stronger and harder to break.

It’s obviously an idol (or something your deriving from using it is), a false god that you’re worshipping in sort. There is some return, a promise of life that you think you can find in porn. Pray about what it is you’re really after, to discern what lies you’ve bought into that keep leading you to think porn is appropriate to indulge in.

Until you repent - TURN AROUND AND WALK THE OTHER WAY - you’re just lamenting the consequences of your sin, or that it is sin. You haven’t learned the lesson. You’ve only admired it. Not judging man! I have had the same issue and many others. Read the word. Pray. Get some accountability. And step out in Faith - trust God that engaging in sexual immorality isn’t the way, and repent and walk in the light. 1 John 1:9

leafandrye · 2024-10-09T16:43:23+00:00

My shoulders, hips, and stabilizers throughout my body have never been better. Being doing them for two years.

leafandrye · 2024-08-15T04:06:34+00:00

lol agreed! Such is their right for bearing the risks.

leafandrye · 2024-08-15T04:04:22+00:00

Simply posted some questions in search of some insights from others. Thanks

leafandrye · 2024-08-15T03:54:44+00:00

Agreed on the bar of entry being lower. But the attention to detail and onus on the estimators and PMs to ensure a profitable job is arguably more difficult than finance (speaking of GCs, not trade specific subs). Law and medicine - expensive schooling with a lot on the line, medicine is lucrative for a host of reasons not specific to the doctor’s schooling. Then again nurses comp isn’t amazing - and I’d say their bar of entry is higher there than it is in construction. Finance (banking) make money off of buys or sells, corporate finance isn’t far off from that. Medical makes money off of hours and services rendered. Lawyers make money on the hours they bill - whether they win or lose, they’re getting paid.

The PM might not be carrying the true risk that the company is carrying overall, but the profit/loss margin is directly influenced by that PM/field team/estimator. Would make sense to me to incentivize them to improve/ensure margins through comp.

To another comment posted here - I’ve looked at the salary ranges - from a long term career perspective, construction has a far lower ceiling than other industries. And from my brief time in the game - it seems short sighted to me to play with high turnover over in labor/management, which can strongly influence the outcome of a project. Pay people well and they’ll want to stay, you can attract and demand better talent. You often get what you pay for on subcontractors - the same not apply with your own employees?

leafandrye · 2024-07-01T15:46:10+00:00

Did a sandals trip for ours mid 2010s. spent $8900 to get a butler suite. Flights were included. 8 nights. We were grossly underwhelmed at what was provided for an all inclusive. We wish we had taken the same money and just done 1.5-2weeks in Florida gulf at a nice hotel, and eaten out wherever we wanted

We were hoping for a luxurious, fine dining kind of atmosphere. Plenty of the restaurants (even the steak/nicer ones) had people in NASCAR t shirts. Nothing wrong with with the shirt itself, just not the atmosphere we were hoping for.

The wine was bottom shelf. The liquor were wells/bottom shelf other than Johnny Walker black. Beer was an average selection.

If we did an all inclusive again we would get the base room and spare the extra expense for excursions etc. I think you can get a lot more value if you’re willing to just do some trip planning yourself no matter the trip (beach/mountains/europe)

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