Saturday, January 09, 2010

kettlebells out of contexts

Jan 9th.
Today's training.
warmup with jump rope, Indian clubs and body weight exercises.

"Bear complex" with a 2" fat bar.: deadlift, upright row, powerclean, push press, for 6 reps for 4 sets. I like the fat bar for grip strength and racks well.


21,15,9 reps for time.
Dumbell trusters (off box)
Burpees (suck as always)
8:40min


5 sets of kettlebell push jerk with 24 and 28kg.

5 sets of kettlebell floor press with 32kg.



There is a ever increasing number of people using kettlebell in their fitness programs. Some however, try to do mostly all of their exercise using the kettlebells as a one-size-fits-all-tool. Now there is nothing wrong with that, but you can't in good conscience, promote the kettlebell or make grand promotional statements, that is will make you totally fit and free from excess body fat.

First, fitness as a concept has never really been defined so it is all things to all people as they perceive. So to say that all you have to do to be fit and burn fat, is to use kettelbells, with a few exercises is hard to validate. Even for GPP, you really need a number of exercises that the kettlebell is not suited for or can not be used. Therefore anyone using kettlebell for general fitness, sport development, tactical enhancement, has to use the kettlebell in the context it was really intended; predominately ballistic, strength endurance, in a timed sequence.

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