ACE has found that kettlebells can make you fit.....I am impressed

Feb 10th.

Look at this! you can  simulate climbing rope,by sitting on your butt like most of the machines in the Globo gyms. The gym owner could save a lot of money and maintenance by just hanging a ropes from the cealing and letting the members climb up and down.
I have to hand it to American inventiveness, they can design a fitness machine to perform any function in confort. However, gyms need more square footage to accomidate the machines for each function. Isn't the fitness industry great, always trying to come up with better ways to spend money and achieve marginal results.



Today’s training:



Staying home in my “box”………… snow storm you know. (If you see Al Gore, hand him a shovel)


Morning:


Warm-up: Indian Clubs for 10 min. ,


“Convict conditioning”: Jump rope(buddy lee style)


30,25,20,15,10,5, reps


GHD situps


GHD back ext.


Ring pullups


Bands pushups for added stress.


20:03: the hard part was the situps,


Dumbell squat cleans: 5 swings and 5 cleans


Aftermoon:


Kettlebell push press for speed: One arm 5x6


Dumbell ballistic rowing 5x6



ACE or American Counsel of Exercise, the training cert. organization, has come out this year with their study on benefits of Kettlebell training. My question is WHERE THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN ALL THIS TIME? Yes, they finally got their heads out of their lower posterior, for a national level fitness organization that is like sleeping at the starting blocks. Kettlebells have been around as a fitness tool in a formalized program by several organizations that have started up in the last ten years. So its not that new.

ACE did their study, but they did not state who they used as part of the test study. If they should have used GS or even Hard style athletics which are people who know what they are doing and use proper technique to achieve the desired results. Maybe they used the "biggest looser" athletics

Anyway ACE claims that you can expend 400 cal. In a 20 min workout. How can you make such a claim without understanding that the WATT output varies greatly with kettlebell weight, speed and duration. Are they using a GS format of timed sets or it just part of a group exercise, or worst case, isolation movements?

Well it sounds good for kettlebells usage, but they will have to go train with good instructors and coaches that use kettlebells as a primary training tool, or there is going to be a lot of disappointed converts to kettlebells. ACE will have to now encourge gym owners to get rid of some of the cardio machines and install lifting platforms like a real kettlebell  gym has.

Feb. 9th.

Today’s training:


3 mile walk/run…..2 mile hard run, 1 mile walk it off. On trail. Can’t wait to go trail running in the spring so I can dodge the snakes.