Swings, swings, swings, swings, swings...

Hard to believe that my last entry was really 2 months ago! A lot has happened since then:

• Gregg was interviewed by Zegee, the "World's Largest Health & Wellness Community."

• We taught stretching and kettlebell classes in Sacramento in September. Our next seminar in the Bay Area will be at Crossfit in Oakland on Dec 8.

• We took a vacation in the mountains in Colorado, where we did some personal training sessions and taught classes in stretching and kettlebells. At the KB class, Harvey and his son Dallas DeLaRosa (who both have perfect KB technique!) assisted with the class (see pix of Dallas below).

• Tammy DeLaRosa (Harvey's wife and Dallas' mom) completed the 10,000 swing challenge!!!! Way to go Tammy!!!! They showed me her tracking sheet - just regular steady progress of a few hundred swings/week resulted in 10,000 swings within 7 months.

• Lynette in Sacramento decided to take the 10,000 swing challenge and keep us apprised of her progress.

• Gregg and I took first and second degree Reiki classes, followed by 10 sessions each where we practiced on each other, friends, and family. We become certified Reiki therapists last weekend, and have added that component to our business... mind-body connection anyone... :)

• Thanks to such wonderful comments and feedback from previous students, we were featured on the Dragon Door Forum (actually, the ever-amazing Anne was highlighted).

• And, I went over 20,000 swings for the year (ahhh, my secret goal is to reach 25,000 by the end of the year...). Incidentally, in the latest issue of Hard Style magazine, Pavel was asked in an interview (p. 3) to pick his 5 essential KB exercises. Any guesses as to what he said? His answer was that swings are the only "essential" KB exercises, "everything else is just icing on the cake."
  

Dallas, assisting at our Denver KB class...

... demonstrating the KB swing...

... demonstrating the Military Press...


... demonstrating a proper, low squat...