Long Cycle Training

I was planning to try the long cycle until exhaustion sometime this past week, because I wanted to get an idea of how far I am from surviving the 10 minutes. But I've decided instead to take a step back.

The long cycle is really more about being efficient than it is about being strong. It's about using your whole body to move the bells. It's about learning how to move your body around the bells. Simply put, there's a science behind it. So if I'm going to take the long cycle seriously, I need to learn and apply that science.

So I bought a 3-DVD series called The Science of Kettlebell Sport. Denis Kanygin takes you through each of the GS (Girevoy Sport) lifts and breaks them down into their core components. He teaches you each component, how the components come together and some training exercises to help learn/master them. He also teaches how to breathe properly throughout the lifts, which is a key aspect of being efficient.

Using this series, I am going to try to learn the long cylce from the ground up. It will probably take some time, but I might as well do it right if I'm going to do it at all. I'm not sure if my workouts will be dedicated exclusively to GS training, but if they are, I'll still be working my entire body along with my cardio...that's the nature of GS