1000 kettlebell swing challenge

You know me, not really an endurance guy,  but since I have been playing around with performance breathing lately I decided to put it to a test. Preparation – Be Breathed twice a week to teach the body to sync the movement with my breathing and between 400 – 450 swings a session couple of times a week using 30s on and 30s off interval with a 16kg bell which is fairly comfortable. My aim was to do 1000 swings in a single session using the same intervals. I could have (should have) used more gradual increments in my training before the 1000 but I was quite confident that I could do the 1000 because I felt so comfortable doing the 400s, my only worry was the grip.

I did 1014 swings in 50 minutes.  It may be a different story with the heavier bells. My breathing was controlled and so was my heart rate i.e. I could have easily maintained conversation at the end of it without gasping for air. Let’s say (on the conservative side) that KB swings burn about 11 cal a minute (if you do KB circuits you are talking about up to 20 cal a minute ) so 550 calories burned there and then, nothing to sneeze at. The only thing that started bothering me (as I suspected this would happen) in the last 100 reps was the grip, other than that i could have carried on proving that ‘perpetual movement‘ is possible, hai !