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So, two years ago I had a workout goal of doing 5 sets of 5 88# turkish getups, on each side. It was a near run thing, but I pulled it off by my 40th birthday, and then rarely did turkish getups again having kind of fucked my left shoulder.
From my 40th to my 41st I was mainly focusing on keeping up a baseline of fitness, and improving some of the numbers on my yearly physical with diet and sticking to an 8 hour or less eating window at least 5 days out of the week. Accomplished that mission.
I think by my 42nd birthday, I want to work up to doing 200 54# kettlebell snatches in a row. I can do 100 more or less on demand in about 5 minutes, which is a pretty good pace. But I want to see how far I can push it in a year of truly focusing on it. Wish me luck.
200 in a set is fucking monstrous. Good luck.
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