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Kettlebells in the Wall Street Journal

On a hat tip from Scott at straighttothebar.com:

The Wall Street Journal in the March 18th edition written by Laura Johannes, ran an article, “Getting A Handle On Weight Training”.

This is a very short article, meant to introduce their readers to the kettlebell phenomenon and includes a quote about safety and form from Pavel Tsatsouline.

Here is another link to go to if you want to increase your push-ups, mil-style, from Stew Smith. This one comes by way of leanandhungryfitness.com. This is a minimum 10 day plan I am going to give a go.

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March 18th, 2008 Posted by MarkFu | Weblogs | no comments

Kettlebell Basics-The Swing

A number of people at my gym have been buying kettlebells lately and have asked me how to do some basic movements to get started. I suggest buying some training from an RKC instructor like Steve Belanger, as I did or get some video training or buy Pavel’s “Enter the Kettlebell” book and/or dvd.
The starting point should be the two-handed swing, seen here.

Once you get good at that, here are some other things you can add to your kettlebell routines.

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February 24th, 2008 Posted by MarkFu | Video | no comments

Getting the Most Out of Your Kettlebells

On their fine website, Elite FTS posted Part 1 of an article by Josh Henkins, titled “Filling the Holes” in which Henkins outlines the benefits and ways to supplement the heavy bilateral barbell lifts with other tools like kettlebells, sleds and sandbags to improve the quality and volume of your training. Some techniques by Pavel Tsatsouline are also shared. Josh also describes and illustrates what he considers to be the five best kettlebell movements to prevent injury. For me, this could be the best reason to read and follow his advice.