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…)