Lessons of the Day (LOTD) 12 August 2012

Lessons learned today:

1. Kettlebells are exhausting. This shit gets hard quickly, no wonder Russians love it. It's like juggling cannonballs.
2. Kettlebells are best done outside. You will drop one, watch your feet.
3. Kettlebells are portable, and since they need to be done outside, you can take them to the park. When you're done, go for a run :-)
4. Bumper plates will get dropped. Best to put a mat under the weight bench to save the floor. I dropped a plate within minutes of setting up the bench, it landed on the mat. See, I'm right about this one.
5. Cheap weight sets (I'm looking straight at you, Sports Authority) do not have barbells with between collar-widths that are wide enough to use with not quite the cheapest weight benches the same vendor sells (I'm looking straight at you again, Sports Authority). Then you get to buy a new barbell (again, Sports Authority) that is wide enough between the collars to use your cheap-ass weights with your not-quite cheap ass weight bench. Motherf**ker.
6. Just spend two or three times as much and buy an Olympic bar and Olympic bumper plates to begin with. The cheap ones are halfway there on price, without coming close on experience.