I’m dipping into the mailbag today to answer some questions about kettlebell training. These questions all come from Gregory H who emailed me a couple of days ago. Q: I notice after a kettlebell workout my lower back is sore/fatigued and "sensitive". Is that indicative of bad form? Is it my back getting stronger (I ...…
Happy New Year. I’m writing this at a hotel in Niagara Falls where I spent the beginning of the New Year with my family. It’s early in the morning on Sunday and it seems like the whole hotel is asleep. It’s a great time to reflect on what I learned in the past year and ...…
Here’s a video that I filmed at Washington Square in NYC to sum up Week 2 of my RKC prep…. And here’s a video of my #4 daughter (and my #3 joining in) in her delirious state after 10 hours of walking the streets of NYC……
I’ve been a trainer and fitness "expert" for over a decade now (13 years, in fact). And I’ve seen, programmed my clients and have done every possible type of workout imaginable. From bodypart split meathead workouts, to cardio, to functional training using balance boards and other toys, to high-intensity athletic training. Over those years it ...…
I was in the gym this past Friday and felt depressed. It was a beautiful day outside and the weather was spectacular. The temperature wasn’t too hot or too cold. It was perfect weather for being outside. But I was "stuck" in the gym doing heavy Bulgarian Split Squats. Nonetheless, I gritted through the workout ...…
Memorial Day Outdoor KB Circuit Perform the following workout as a circuit going from one exercise to the next. Only rest when necessary. Perform 3-5 total circuits after a thorough warm-up. 1) Burpee Push-ups x 10 2) KB Goblet Squats x 20 3) 1-Arm Row x 15 each arm 4) KB Tactical Lunges x 20 ...…
I’m about to head over to the gym to film a kettlebell and bodyweight demonstration for a nationally syndicated TV show up here in Canada (yes, we have TVs up here in our igloos . But before that, here’s a study that recently came out from Truman State University studying the cardiovascular "effects" of swinging a ...…
Craig Ballantyne here with a guest post for KettlebellWorkouts.com… I love training outside with kettlebells. In fact, I go almost all winter long without using kettlebells because I just don’t like using them inside. But this weekend it was about 50 degrees out on Saturday (about 10 degrees Celcius) and that was warm enough for ...…
I spent this past Saturday an hour east of the city coaching at my daughter’s volleyball tournament. My daughter and her team are all 11 year-olds in the 6th grade playing up a division (they play against kids that are a year older than they are) because they don’t have a division for her age. ...…
Today we’re going to cover a few different areas of the TT Kettlebell workout program that, if applied correctly, will lead to fewer setbacks and in turn, faster fat loss results. CHALLENGE WORKOUTS: So, let’s start out by talking a little bit about the challenge workouts in the TT Kettlebell workouts. At the end ...…
