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Category: Kettlebell Workouts

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  • 5 Best Core Exercises

    5 Best Core Exercises


    5 Killer Abdominal Exercises For Your Kettlebell Workout

    Want to trim down and shape your core? Try the 5 best kettlebell core exercises in your next work. They’re some of my goto exercises that speed up your routine to get you out of the gym in record time, and get you those 6 pack abs you have been looking for.

    Want to spend less time in the gym but still get a flat stomach and 6 pack abs? Give these 5 kettlebell exercises a try, though not all in one workout.

    Kettlebells have been around for well before the barbell or even the dumbbell, and have been a valuable tool for those looking to lose weight, build muscle and transform their body. After hundreds of years and thousands after thousands of people putting the workouts to the test, kettlebell training has proven itself to be effective at building strength, and stripping body fat. Try a few of these abdominal exercises and you will soon find (more…)

  • 3 Beginner Kettlebell Exercises

    3 Kettlebell Exercises For The Beginner

     

    What’s old is new again.

    Kettlebell exercises are back in favour. They’ve been in Russia for a long time, well over 350 years.  Soviet strength and conditioning programs used them to train athletes and their soliders. Kettlebells have been so much a part of Russian life that it became their national sport in 1948.

    It wasn’t too long after that they were seen in the US. Though it wasn’t until 2001 that Dragon Door and Pavel Tsatsouline developed the first instructor certification program in the USA.

    Now you can see kettlebell gyms popping up everywhere.  Even many regular comercial gyms include them as standard equipment. As much as I dislike CrossFit I feel as though they’ve created awareness and helped make kettlebell training become more main stream and accesible.

    Kettlebell training is fun and effective, I’m a barbell, and dumbbell guy. With that said, there are a few kettlebell exercises I love and happily include in my training routines.

    For those thinking of including KB’s in their workouts there are (more…)