Kettlebells in the Wall Street Journal

Posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 11:11pm by MarkFu in Weblogs

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.

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