Ron:  How are you doing? All right. I have a serious blog today. One of my students, Mark, has got an elbow issue, right? It’s in, like on a tendon. They call it tennis elbow. It’s all a bunch of crap. Basically, he’s done such a good job in the last three or four months. He’s gotten in real good shape, lost a lot of weight, is getting stronger, but sometimes with that, you’ll find that joints don’t line up or the mechanics of your body aren’t used to doing things.

There’s a way to train around injuries to help them get better and also to strengthen your upper body. I’m going to show you this, so happy camera man, just follow this. That’s right, step back. [laughs]

Man:  Look out.

Ron:  Look out! That was Connie from; hi, that’s Connie. Yeah, OK. How you grab this kettle bell is important. Watch from the beginning here. You flip it back. You flip it up using your legs. From here, you’re just going to press. Now, what this does is it doesn’t cause any negative effects on tendons, shoulders, elbows, wrists. It’s all very natural and mechanical. Your body follows a nice, straight line. Sink a little bit, press up. Boom, works the inner chest, the front of the deltoids, the tricep, and protects that tendon.

Mark, go ahead and grab this. He’s going to flip it over, and he’s going to rest it on his chest. He’s going to watch his hips. He’s going to sink down, and then we’re actually going to keep it more like this. That’s real important. Sink down, press up. Go. Hold it, and then back down.

When you come back down, there you go. Good, and down. Not too much squat. Just a little bit. There you go. How does that feel on that elbow?

Mark:  Great.

Ron:  It feels great, he said. Not because he’s scared of repercussions after the camera goes off.

Man 2:  Or he was payed to say it. [laughter]

Ron:  Or that he was paid to say it, like I have any money whatsoever. In fact, I’ve got somebody going through his car right now. [laughter]

Mark:  Good luck with that.

Ron:  Yeah, good luck with that. Oops, wrong car. All right, good job. That felt OK, right? The serious note about this blog is there’s ways around everything. Everybody’s got an injury that they don’t want to; oh, I can’t work out today. I’ve got an injury. Oh, I can’t work out today. I haven’t been to bed. Oh, I can’t work out today. I was at Carbones drinking a bunch of Rush River beer. There’s all kinds of excuses. But you can work around them like my good friend Alex, my good friend Mark, and my good friend Bruce, and my extra good friend, Gary, who’s been doing all these blogs.

He’s back and we’re glad for me and the Saturday morning crew, stay tuned.