Up until recently I've been fortunate not to have the calluses give way from cleans/snatches/etc. Saturday's workout with a competition-style bell ended that through a combination of moist skin, too little chalk and the very smooth finish on the painted horn.

Tonight's workout didn't help matters very much. I had a shorter warm up than is usual for a Monday as I got to the club late. I still managed about 45 minutes of spinning before heading into the kb workout.

Kb warm up was 40 2 handed swings, then 50 one handed swings, exchanging on every swing, then 50 one handed swings with 1 exchange swing in between.

Then on to the killer.

5 double cleans: 15 sec rest,
4 double overhead press: 15 second rest,
4 double push press: 15 second rest,
4 double jerk-push press: 15 second rest,
10 snatches.

repeat, add 2 snatches.
until we get to 20. (6 sets).

Learned a valuable tidbit when swinging 1 handed: if your low back starts to hurt (and mine was) you're dropping the bell too low. Concentrate on back instead of down. Thanks Viv!