Back to Badass. Hungarian Hundred Slide Show and Advanced Version

Edzés Tracy Reifkind-el és Juci RKC-val from Gabor Rode on Vimeo.

Finally I'm feeling like my old badass self! I don't often use that word, "badass", to describe how I feel about myself because I don't really feel like "a" badass, I just feel badass...there's a difference and everyone that trains kettlebells knows what I'm talking about....it just comes with the territory!

I've posted a couple of versions of my Hungarian Hundred swing workout based on the original....the hardest, the most boring long repetitve swing sets only for the truly badass! (do I really expect anyone to do this workout? No....but maybe that's a challenge....) I might of mentioned before that the original name of these routine was "1-2-3 to 1" because the theme is to progressively work up to a 3 to 1 work/rest ratio. This workout totals 1000 swings!

While in Hungary I had the honor of being invited by Judit Lantos to guest teach a couple of classes in her kb dungeon. The first class was more of a beginning/inter level and that was the first time I had made modifications, which I posted along with an intermediate version. But the second class was the advanced.....and I held back none of the boring stuff! Little did I know how long the entire workout would take so I did cut them (and me) a break in order to get in some snatch training (sorry I put you through it guys!) To me swings are like vegetables.....always eat your veggies first!


1-2-3 to 1 workout (Advanced Hungarian Hundred)

Equal work/rest

10 2 hd sw 15/15
20 2 hd sw 30/30
30 2 hd sw 45/45
40 2 hd sw 1.0/1.0

5.0 min 100 swings

1 to 1 + 2 to 1

10 tr 15/15
10 tr + 10 2 hd sw 30/15
20 tr 30/30
20 tr + 20 2 hd sw 1.0/30
30 tr 45/45
30 tr + 30 2 hd sw 1.5/45
40 tr 1.0
40 tr + 40 2 hd sw 2.0/1.0

12.5 min (19.5 total time)
300 swings (400 swings total)

1 to 1, + 2 to 1, + 3 to 1

5/5 x 1 15/15
5/5 x 1 + 10 tr 30/15
5/5 x 1 + 10 tr + 10 2 hd sw 45/15
5/5 x 2 30/30
5/5 x 2 + 20 tr 30/15
5/5 x 2 + 20 tr + 20 2 hd sw 1.5/30
5/5 x 3 45/45
5/5 x 3 + 30 tr 1.5/45
5/5 x 3 + 30 tr + 30 2 hd sw 2.25/45 (we got all the way to this point! well done guys!)
5/5 x 4 1.0/1.0
5/5 x 4 + 40 tr 2.0/1.0
5/5 x 4 + 40 tr + 40 2 hd sw 3.0/1.0

22.5 min (42.0)
600 swings (1000 swings)
Averages out to 42 sec work/18 sec rest

We stopped 240 swings and 9 minutes short of the entire workout, but still managed almost 800 swings in about 1/2 hour! I had planned on a full 60 minutes of ballistics but forgot about the first 15 min of joint mobility so there were a couple of people wanting to get on with some snatch practice...on with a 1-2-3 to 1 snatch workout.....and wait until you get my 1000 rep snatch workout!

Slideshow above: I was also lucky enough to have the whole workout video taped by Gabor Rode who did a fabulous job putting a slideshow together to some of my favorite training music. He also posted two 10 minute long videos on vimeo.com (just type in my name in search).