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Kettlebell exercise: Basic drills

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Here’s a great circuit designed to burn the fat off, get the heart rate up, get you lean and mean for the green. Previous articles I’ve written discussed the benefits of integrating kettlebell training into your current exercise regime. Kettlebells are now being used regularly by two of the fittest PGA pro’s on tour Tiger Woods, and Camilo Villegas. The kettlebell is a cannonball looking chuck of cast iron with a thick suitcase handle on it that Russian society has known as long as vodka. The kettlebell, although it has the look and feel of a weightlifting exercise, think of those enormous Olympic athletes in clean and jerk competitions as a visual, is more about repetition and touted as delivering all-around fitness. Attempting a few sets of clean and jerks will certainly be proof of this.

This is probably the reason why they are experiencing a revival, and of course being tweaked and tailored to a golf swing. Check out the following routine. This routine can be performed 2 to 3 times a week for 4 weeks. We’re using three different exercises here, the swing, the get-up and band side rotations. Every 30 seconds you will change hands after 60 seconds you will change exercises.

So for example perform one arm swings left hand for 30 seconds than one arm swings right hand for 30 seconds, than get-ups with your left hand for 30 seconds and so on for total of 15 minutes. This means continuous work with little or no rest. If your conditioning is not up to par yet, take a break in between exercises than continue, the goal is keep moving and keep the rest to a minimum.

To perform the one arm swing

1. Feet should be shoulder width apart

2. Squat down and grab the handle with one hand, opposite hand may rest on your thigh

3. As you reach down remember to hinge at the hips keeping your shins relatively vertical, you should feel a mild stretch in the hamstrings

4. Swing the kettlebell between your legs forcefully like your going to hike a football

5. Explosively snap your hips forward straightening your legs

To perform the get-up

1. Lie on the floor, in a supine position (i.e. face up), next to an appropriate size kettlebell

2. Use both hands to press the kettlebell vertical – directly above your shoulder. Once in position, keep your elbow locked, wrist straight, and your eyes on the kettlebell

3. Post your foot close to your buttocks (same side as your working arm.)

4. Allow the weight to drift slightly forward, then push off your posted foot and sit up. It is acceptable to allow your free arm to assist slightly in sitting up

5. From sitting, slowly move to the kneeling position. This can be done a number of ways. The main thing is to move slowly, keeping your working arm perpendicular to the ground and to finish in well supported, 3-pointkneeling position

6. Slowly straighten your torso, than stand straight up

7. Now that the fist half of the KGU is over, simply reverse the steps until you have reached your starting point

To perform band side rotations

1. Take a shoulder width stance grasp the band interlacing your fingers, it should be held at shoulder height

2. Tighten your abs and glutes and rotate from side to side

3. Be sure to have some good tension on the band

What size kettlebell is right for you?

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The creator of the TT Kettlebell Revolution program, Chriz Lopez, has helped thousands of people around the world attain the body physique that they want and more importantly, get rid of all the unwanted fats on their body. He has combined efforts to work with Craig Ballantyne, the owner of the Turbulence Training system.

His fitness programs are very popular and successful and have been featured in magazines such as Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Prevention and many others.

1. Who Can Use TT Kettlebell Revolution to Train their Physique?

Chris describes his program as being able to work for experienced as well as people who are new to bodybuilding. Regardless of their experience level in bodybuilding, they will still need to start from the basics when they first pick up the skill of kettlebell training. In fact, Chris feels that kettlebell training is easier to teach to beginners since they will not have any wrong ideas about lifting weights in the first place.

2. What Types of Exercises Can You Learn with the TT Kettlebell Revolution System?

There are a wide variety of exercises that can be done using kettlebells that are very effective for strength training and fat loss. These include lifting kettlebells over your head, squatting with kettlebells, lifting them off the ground and many others. These are the muscles that people need to carry out everyday tasks and can all be targeted by the kettlebell revolution system. Besides making your body stronger and less injury prone, you will also automatically get a better looking and leaner physique.

3. Mastering the Basics of Muscle Training First Before You the TT Kettlebell Revolution Program?

Once you get this training program, you should master its basics first as well as the right form to execute your exercises to reduce injury risks when you do the kettlebell exercises.

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Those who play team sports accept muscular Injuries as the norm but I totally disagree with this acceptance. In my experience, unless a freak accident/fall or in cases of inadequate warm up, people will avoid injuries if they remain flexible. This ensures good posture and loose flexible limbs. It is important to keep all areas of the body flexible but in particular the shoulders, rotator cuff and in particularly the hips and hamstrings when referring to the lower body.

Remember that most injuries will arise from a muscle being overstretched. Therefore if you think about it logically if a muscle is very flexible have you decreased your risk of injury?

Muscle is just like an elastic band – it can be stretched but still has a breaking point. However when discussing muscles you have total control over where this breaking point is. The key to flexible muscles is:

• Adequately warming up the muscles before strenuous use. Muscle has to be warm to stretch so waste of time stretching it cold

• When doing resistance exercise make sure to ALWAYS use full Range Of Movement. This is one of the main causes of inflexibility particularly in males.

• Make flexibility training a core part of your training regime not just something to do if you have a few minutes.

• Get a massage every month to loosen up the deep parts of the muscles

When stretching you must:

• Go to the point of most discomfort and hold that position.

• Hold each stretch for 60 seconds minimum and stretch further every 15 seconds.

• Do stretch 2/3 times on each limb. Importantly finish all the sets of a particular stretch on that limb before moving to the opposite

Make flexibility a key part of your routine and say goodbye to frequent injuries.

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