What a hard kettlebell session actually costs you in sweat, how to measure your own sweat rate, when electrolytes are justified, and when plain water is enough.
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Do you need kettlebell flows, complexes and combos, or are the basics enough? When a focused kettlebell program works best, and when mixing it up does.
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The Mjölnir kettlebell complex is a double kettlebell complex for strength endurance and cardio, and it moves fast. I named it after Thor’s hammer back in 2020. A few rounds in and you’ll know why. It’s a selection of kettlebell exercises that keeps two kettlebells in your hands from the first rep to the last,
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Perspire TV, TrueCoach, Everfit, Trainerize and Lenus compared for independent fitness creators and coaches, plus a kettlebell-specific alternative.
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Strength training seems to wreck your posture? Four ordinary explanations, what the trials actually show, and how to restart kettlebell training without the loop.
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Severe aortic stenosis from a bicuspid valve ended my kettlebell training at 53. What a fit man’s heart failure looks like from the inside.
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Dead lift was two words for 400 years before it was one. The 1550s origin, what the compression cost, and why the word only ever described the weight.
From Dead Lift to Deadlift: How Two Words Became One Exercise Read More »
A headache after kettlebell training has three likely causes. How to tell dehydration, migraine, and exercise headache apart, and when to see a doctor.
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Search for the kettlebell Turkish get-up and you will find it filed under beginner content, usually with a starting weight attached. One popular retailer suggests men begin with a 16 kg kettlebell and women with 8 kg. Other guides tell you to practise it early in your kettlebell training. The exercise gets described as a
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Should you keep your cervical spine neutral during the kettlebell swing, or should you keep your eyes forward as you hinge? I have been promoting keeping the whole spine neutral, including the cervical spine. I obtained SFG Level I and II, but this is not something I took from StrongFirst. In fact, StrongFirst has traditionally
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Your leg muscles are a second pump for blood. Kettlebell swings drive it hard; a vibration plate gives a brief local lift. Here’s when to use each.
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Kettlebell Kings didn’t shut down — it was sold twice in under a year, the founders sued both buyers, and the company that ended up owning it walked into a financial crisis of its own.
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The exercises, technique standards, and how strength is built are the same for everyone. Five things genuinely change for women over 40, and one widely repeated claim about hips and stance turns out not to be true at all.
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I have watched the same thing happen for close to twenty years of coaching. Someone picks up a kettlebell, trains hard for six or eight weeks, sees real change, then somewhere around the third month the progress thins out and the bell starts living in a corner. The story they tell themselves is usually about
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There is a phrase that has become a kind of modern religion: follow the science. Say it and the conversation stops. Debate ends. Whoever invokes it holds the moral high ground, and anyone who questions them risks being labelled a crank, a contrarian, or worse. Trust the experts. Trust the institutions. Trust the consensus. I have
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Your fifth toe controls ankle stability, knee alignment, and balance during kettlebell training. Research shows why barefoot training fixes the problem shoes created.
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To be the most efficient, we let the weight drop from as high as possible, as the higher the height that the weight drops from, the higher the bounce we get on the way up, meaning, we can get the lift halfway up so that we only have to lift half a rep each time.
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If you are over 50 and have never touched a kettlebell, this article is for you. Not because you are fragile. Because you are not — and the science says you have far more capacity than anyone has told you. In this article: The Lie You Have Been Sold Somewhere along the way, the fitness
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An exercise is a fundamental movement pattern with a clear purpose, core mechanics, and identifiable outcome. It is defined by what the body is doing, not by every small detail of how it is performed. An exercise variation, on the other hand, is a modification of that same movement pattern that preserves the core intent
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There are two main grips used in kettlebell training. There are many more than that, but these two are the most common ones that we all use for racking and the overhead position. Each of these two has its benefits. In other words, there are clear reasons to use one of the other and vice
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