Baby Got Back
November 25, 2009 by admin
How ironic that this song popped up on the Pandora shuffle this morning before I was about to film the Kettlebell Windmill series.
Although Kettlebell Windmills aren’t about side bends and sit ups, they are an excellent exercise for strengthening the obliques, and they require a sufficient amount of glute activation to return to the standing postion.
Below is the first video technique that will help improve you Kettlebell windmill.
As promised here’s a quick and effective kettlebell workout for you to add in today or this weekend.
10 One Arm Kettlebell Swings Left
10 Push Ups
10 One Arm Kettlebell Swings Right
10 Mountain Climbers
3-5 Rounds depending on your available time and fitness levels
Thanks Pam! Great info.
I’ve grown to like the windmill quite a bit. It’s extended my range of motion tremendously since I started incorporating this exercise into my workouts. Thanks for the demo with the wal incorporated for correct form. Peace and have a great holiday. I’ll also be up early to get a workout in at one of our local parks before the Thansgiving festivities commence. S/F
great tip Pam
thanks for the tip w/ using the wall! Will def be implementing that one.
Thanks Pam,
I use this with my athletes a lot. I have always called it an Oblique Raise-don’t ask me why. I just have always called it that before I learned that it was called a windmill. It is a great exercise!!
Glad to hear you all found it useful.
The windmill is one of my favorite exercises, loaded and unloaded. I would like to program it for myself a little than I do!
Jerry, interesting that you called it something else prior to, have you seen it somewhere called that. Funny thing is depending on where you learned something, one exercise can have 100 different names.
ps - I have some tips coming for you tomorrow.
Pam,
I actually saw an old picture of Alan Calvert performing this exercise with an old globe dumbbell. It did not have a name listed so I started doing them with dumbbells and barbells years ago and just called them oblique raises. I now typically do them strictly with kettlebells.