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Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles on 03 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Why I Put Butter On My Meatballs
Last week, I mentioned that I’d share a week of my food choices with my readers. Well I ate a lot of farm fresh eggs, plenty of grass fed red meat. Tons of leafy greens. Some raw nuts. Pastured pig. Some venison and salmon. Raw milk, cream and buttermilk. Some fried chicken. A helping of mashed potatoes…..etc...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles on 02 18th, 2010 | 5 Comments
Why Hardstyle School of Strength?
I try to be positive as much as I can be. My goal is to help as many folks hit their fitness goals as possible. I’ve found that the best way to do that is to make sure that people have a clear understanding of how what they eat has a huge impact on results and by focusing on a “less is more” philosophy...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles, Training Tips & Tricks on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Sandy Sommer Distance Coaching
As you may know, I’ve been leading a “Pilot Distance Coaching” program for the last six weeks. Over the last few years I’ve had a number of folks inquire about me coaching them but I had always resisted. Frankly, I wasn’t sure it was possible or if it would yield results....
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles on 02 10th, 2010 | 18 Comments
4 Reasons Why Your Workout Results Suck
I want to share some thoughts with you on why you aren’t getting the results you want from your workouts.
First of all your diet is terrible. I estimate that 80% of your body composition is based on how you fuel yourself. As Dave Whitley, Sr. RKC says, “you can’t outsnatch a donut.” I don’t...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles, Training Tips & Tricks on 02 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Preparing For The Tactical Strength Challenge
The Tactical Strength Challenge intrigued me the first time I read about it. That was last March and I knew that the April 2009 event wouldn’t be in the cards for me. So I looked to do it in September. I trained for it and did OK. I showed up did my Dead lift, my pull ups and finally my 5 minute snatch...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles on 02 3rd, 2010 | 12 Comments
My Thoughts On The ACE Kettlebell Study
As an certified Russian Kettlebell Challenge (RKC) instructor I was certainly glad to see another positive mention of kettlebells in the media. Especially when you consider that folks like Jillian Michaels, Ryan Shanahan and the good folks at Kettlenetics seem to get more than there fair share of media...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles on 01 20th, 2010 | 3 Comments
How Do you Feel Today?
So many of us go through our daily lives feeling pretty “blah.” Are you one of these folks?
I know how you feel. I was living day to day and accomplishing a fair amount but doing so without huge amounts of energy in reserve. My workouts, both kettlebell and otherwise were fairly solid but...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles, Training Tips & Tricks on 01 8th, 2010 | 8 Comments
Why I’m A Swinger
I quote from Pavel:
“The SWING is the foundation of of effective Russian kettlebell training. It requires hip thrust, compressed breathing, rooting, “wedging,” and in the summation of efforts, skills essential to many other kettlebell drills, as well military, martial and athletic...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles on 01 2nd, 2010 | 8 Comments
What’s In My Kitchen?
Many of you have expressed interest in my Primal eating habits so I wanted to pen a short article about that I keep on hand as a matter of course. I feel that a seasonal approach to vegetables and fruit is important for a variety of reasons. So check out this chart for some ideas about it.
My pantry:
Coconut...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Featured Articles, Training Tips & Tricks on 12 29th, 2009 | 12 Comments
Do You Really Need A Kettlebell Instructor?
I don’t know about you but I feel that we all need coaching in one arena or another. For myself, and as a former college football player, coaching has always been something I’ve desired. Why?
First of all, most of us just aren’t as honest in self assessment as a coach may be. It’s...
