Rough & Tumble Grinder: Thor's Twins by Mark Hatmaker

Oh, Brothers & Sisters if you gave a shot at Thor’s Hammer and survived that fun, I

offer you this variant.

Grab TWO War-Hammers [dumbbells or kettlebells will do.] As for weight, make them half of what you ran The Thor’s Hammer Challenge at.

For example, I ran Thor’s Hammer with a single 50#er, so for Thor’s Twins I used two 25#ers.

Sound slim? Hold your horses.

Hit 10 Overhead Walking Lunges

· That’s full lunge steps where the knee just kisses the pavement and…

Both DBs extended overhead.
At the bottom of each lunge—freeze AND hit one strict press with both DBs.
Once the weight is back overhead, take your next lunge step.
You got it? Weight overhead, lunge step-freeze-strict press—repeat for 10 steps and 10 presses.

Then anchor the feet and while holding BOTH weights aloft, hit 10 Sit-Ups.

• Again, this is weight extended overhead with arms-locked and not merely clutching them to your chest.

Hit this circuit of 10 & 10, 7 times for a total of 70 reps of each movement.

New Year’s resolutions start now RAW Rough & Tumblers!

We want hammers for punches, steel in our submissions, & for

ged suffering in our Rough & Tumble execution.

Hey, you in the RAW crew? Well, why not. In 2019…

· More Old School Boxing, lots of fine archology here-Dempsey’s Table-Side lesson to Max Bear and Chinning the Clinch alone are worth the price of admission.

· More Rough & Tumble—Did someone say Athabaskan kicking? Bowie knives? Tomahawks? Straight-Razors?

· More nit-picky micro-managed takedown, matwork, renegade wrestling than you can shake a wrecked shoulder at.

· And a lengthy unveiling of a re-vamped Bottom Control series, for example, we’ll spend more than a few hours on the “All One” Triangle.

[For more Rough &Tumble history see this blog, and for pragmatic applications of old schooltactics historically accurate and viciously verified see our RAW Subscription Service.]

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