Beware of the Kettlebell Training Vice-Grip

Kettlebell Training is great for overall grip strength and endurance. The only issue is that most motions of daily living involve the same motions and same gripping actions to those of kettlebell training.

This could lead to over-use injuries of the hands, wrist and elbows. This little drill will help combat that.

Crybabies beware, 2 kettlebells snatches you should be doing

There are many variations of the kettlebell snatch. There are several traditional forms of this kettlebell exercise, then there are other variations that may be better options if you treat kettlebell training as a means to an end, not the end itself.

Below are 2 kettlebell snatch variations you should be doing if you want power.

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Do This before you kettlebell train

The other day while working with a client we were discussing the numerous lateral kettlebell exercises that we cover in our “Kettlebell Training for Fitness & Sport DVD” series and how important they are for total hip development and athletic movement.

As usual, our discussion turned into a regression/progression update as well as the best warm-up for those lateral kettlebell exercises that we were discussing.

Below is one our favorite Pre-Kettlebell Training session activation drills. You can perform this drill anytime to help wake up some sleepy glutes.

To check out those lateral kettlebell exercises in more detail I recommend this series: Kettlebells for Fitness & Sport.

 

Kettlebell Overhead Presses

By design the kettlebell allows for some unique exercise variations. Although these kettlebell exercises are all overhead presses, they all have a much different feel and do affect different areas of your grip, shoulder complex and core.

Try these out! let us know which variation was your strongest, which one was your weakest?

Why your kettlebell won’t swing…part #2

Another common issue that stops us from reaching full…powerful hip extension during our kettlebell training workouts and exercises are tight hip flexors.

Tight hip flexors are just a symptom of our modern lifestyle. Below is a simple hip flexor stretch that should be done prior to your kettlebell training session. There are many, more advanced hip flexor stretches that you can do, this drill is just skimming the surface.

Kettlebell Training in Men’s Health

I had the honor of being interviewed by Men’s Health Magazine last week at our facility in Philadelphia.

Of course the topic was kettlebell training and they wanted to see some of the most common exercises as well as some of the mistakes that people make when they start training with kettlebells.

We also talked about kettlebell training benefits and how to plug kettlebell training into your existing program.

Please check out the videos below:

P.S. If you’re ever in the Philadelphia area and want to get some kettlebell training in please visit us at our facility. Click here for info: Urban Athlete

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Kettlebell Training…Traveling Kettlebell Windmill

Pamela filmed this kettlebell Windmill a few years back and it recently came up in one of our kettlebell training conversations so we thought it would be a good time to re-film it.

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Here’s what we did in Kettlebell Class last night:

4 Rounds of:
5 Kettlebell Snatches
10 Cleans
15 Swings

4 Rounds of:
5 Kettlebell Front Squats
10 Push Presses

Then completely invert the order.

4 Rounds of:
15 Swings
10 Cleans
5 Snatches

4 Rounds of:
10 Push Preses
5 Front Squats

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