STRESS Hormones – Killing Your Kettlebell Workouts? **********Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a welcome contribution from my good friend, Master RKC Geoff Neupert.************* Technology is a funny thing. I was trying to film a set of Squats during my workout the other day with my “smart” phone. But I couldn’t retrieve the video. The phone ...…
I touched a bit of a nerve with last week’s “Stop Working Out” post. Apparently there were a few people that didn’t like the fact that I was challenging what some have come to believe is a tried and true method to get in shape. So I thought I would give you a bit of ...…
In today’s issue of the Globe and Mail, I was asked to critique the workout of a gentleman training for the Tough Mudder race coming up in August in my home city of Toronto. You can check out that article HERE… “Flaming pits and shaking balance beams give this wrestler the fitness challenge he craves” ...…
Q: Setting the hormonal benefits aside, would you also say that progress toward a goal and proper execution (i.e., safety) are reasons to NOT train to failure? -Jonathan S A: Hi Jonathan, My answer to all my clients and the people that I give advice to is to NEVER TRAIN TO FAILURE. You can achieve most ...…
Something’s been bothering me for a little while that I feel the need to address right here, right now. And in my career as a fitness professional – mainly as a young, inexperienced trainer – I’ve probably been guilty of this myself. I guess being a little older and having more experience has served me ...…
One of the things it took a while for me to wrap my head around was figuring out how I was supposed to get stronger only using kettlebells if kettlebells only came in certain sizes. For years experts have been saying that you should always be “adding weight to the bar”. That you should always ...…
I’m writing this as I watch the Baltimore Ravens final drive to the end zone in the AFC conference championship game. I’m also stuffing a delicious cocoa-almond biscotti in my mouth. It’s football day and since we don’t have cable TV at home, we trekked out to the subburbs to take advantage of my mother-in-law’s ...…
About 13 years ago when I worked in a corporate fitness facility I used to wake up every morning at 5am, pour some egg whites (from a carton) into one of those plastic egg-cooker-thingies, microwave my egg whites and then put them in a pita with some tomatoes and wrap them up for breakfast. I ...…
I recently came accross this study… J Strength Cond Res. 2011 Dec 28. MECHANICAL DEMANDS OF KETTLEBELL SWING EXERCISE. Lake JP, Lauder MA. Researchers compared the mechanical demands of the Kettlebell Swing with both the back squat and the jump squat. Subjects performed 2 sets of 10 swings with a 16, 24 & 32kg kettlbell, ...…
Happy New Year and greetings from Jamaica! I’m here in the lobby of my hotel in Montego Bay where my wife and I are attending the wedding of good friends of ours “sans enfants”!!! (That’s French for “without kids”). This is the first time in 10 years that we’ve been away without children for an ...…
