Well, another week is in the books, and it has been a busy one!  I would’ve posted this sooner, but I’ve been working on accounting, paperwork and developing our systems at IFAST, so sorry I didn’t get to this sooner!

1 – There were two great articles at T-Nation this week featuring Alwyn Cosgrove.  Even if you’re not a trainer, I would highly recommend checking them out.  Great stuff there.

2 – I recently took a blood test to determine any food sensitivities that I might have, and needless to say, I DID NOT like the results!  Here’s a short list of the things I’m either moderately or highly sensitive to:

– Chicken
– Beef
– Yogurt
– Coffee
– Wheat

Basically, anything that I like or eat regularly, I’m sensitive to!  The diet they recommended would have me eating nothing but fish and pork for several weeks, and definitely no coffee either.  I can only imagine what I’d be like with no real meat or coffee in my diet for six weeks.  Maybe something like this?

3 – Two more weeks until the RKC certification, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ready to get this over and done with!  I’ve been working really hard to get my lifts up to par, and I feel like they’re coming along pretty well.  Nobody will confuse me with a master kettlebeller (or kettleballer, depending on who you’re talking to), but I definitely feel a lot more confident performing and coaching the lifts.  I’ve even concocted some pretty sweet conditioning circuits with them as well.  The real test will come tomorrow when I give the test a dry run.

4 – Today’s weapon is the jutte.  You can learn more about it here.

That’s it for today folks – have a great weekend!

Stay strong

MR