Kettlebell Hardstyle vs Soft Style (HS vs GS)
Why is there a corner with Hardstyle lovers and in the opposite the GS lovers? What’s the drawback and benefit of each style?
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Why Do Some People Lift The Foot Doing Snatches?
If you’ve seen kettlebell lifters doing high-volume snatches in kettlebell sport then you might have wondered why some lift the foot, or rather lift the heel off the ground, and more importantly, whether this is correct. If you’re doing Hardstyle snatches, where the focus is on power, i.e. strength and speed which involves heavy weight …
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Heart of Gold-Legacy of a Kettlebell Sport Athlete
If life is a proverbial boxing match, “the Captain” was the guy that cleaned up your wounds between the rounds and with his words had the ability to inspire enough determination from within that you would beg to face another round against a formidable opponent. It’s not often in life that one has the unique …
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Sergey Rudnev—Kettlebell Sport
My sporting life began at age 8 (1975) and the first 4 years I was engaged in sports gymnastics. It was a great opportunity to develop my coordination skills, flexibility, strength, and speed. All these skills and physical qualities were needed in my future sports career. My next sport was wrestling from 12 to 21 …
The Girevik and the Kettlebell Sport Ultramarathon to Destination Unknown
The journey of a girevik is at times fraught with peril as I can attest to tasting the bitterness of failure on more than one occasion. But, it is in those dark moments of suffering that we find something within ourselves and break through the barriers of our perceived mental and physical capacities—something transformative about …
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The Kettlebell Sport Belt Master—3 time US record holder
This months nominee represents integrity and how kettlebell sport builds people up. There is a whole lot that can be said to introduce this months Caveman Athlete but Dave Buchanan has said it in such a way that there is no need to repeat. “Yesterday I had the pleasure of being welcomed into the home …
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Kettlebell Sport—The Martial Art for Survivors, Pacifists, and Peacemakers
The first time I lifted two arm long cycle with the 32 kg kettlebells for ten minutes, a friend and fellow kettlebell sport athlete had to help carry me off the platform after my set. That set was the hardest thing that I had ever done in my life.
Irish, Ambitious, Stubborn Kettlebell Wonder Woman
There are people who live their life the easy way, just cruising along, doing as little as possible to make waves, and then there are those who fight their asses off to be the best they can be. Always evaluating, always improving, always taking that one step forward and not letting anyone push them back. …
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From Fat And Obese To The Irish Berserker Who Achieved World’s First
This month's Caveman Athlete of the Month is someone who truly turned their life around and is achieving amazing feats, feats most of us can only dream of. To you and me 10 minutes of lifting two kettlebells is already an amazing feat (hell), to this man 10 minutes is nothing, to this man 30 …
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Kettlebells, a Lone Wolf, a Jerk-Berry, and Insane Feats
My training room is my sanctuary. Stress and worries stay outside. When in a training session, I normally try to empty my mind and focus on what needs to be done.
My Kettlebell Story (and some other $h!t like heart attacks, knee ops, herniated disc etc.)
A 57-year old wrinkly guy with a slightly messy past private wise. But in the past few years finally coming to terms with life and is now living more in harmony with no stress and more love. Both for life itself and kettlebell sport. “I have met so many great people and gained so many …
How to enter kettlebell sport?
Quick intro to getting started with kettlebell sport. How to work your way up to Kettlebell Sport? What to do with my kettlebell? I need a goal to work towards. So you want to get more out of your kettlebell—you want to get serious!? You want to participate in a sport that’s awesome, you …
50+ Woman Breaks Two World Records—Never give up!
I’m just an old lady that loves to lift. I also raise rabbits and work full time as an accountant, so I keep pretty busy. “She was a working overweight mom who wanted to loose weight and get in shape. Liberty has been her mentor while I have been her trainer.” —Jerry Gray My kettlebell …
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GS Kettlebell Snatch
How to go heavier, and get more reps out with the 10 minute kettlebell sport snatch where only 1 hand change is allowed. The king of kettlebell exercises, the snatch, is my favourite kettlebell exercise. The snatch is a dynamic and flowing exercise, and although at times it may seem like an easy exercise, …
Kettlebell Sport—All the Questions You’ve Been Afraid to Ask
I love kettlebell sport, I love watching it, I know the people that compete are absolute beasts, they lift those heavy bells hundreds of times within a period of 10 minutes, and even more impressive is that they don’t put the weights down during that time! Kettlebell sport is almost like the CrossFit Games, I …
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The Kettlebell Viking Princess From Team USA
I am so happy that I took the opportunity to blast through that self-limiting story and achieve what I was meant to achieve.
Kettlebell Sport in Spain
Following is an interview I held with Kike Quesada Sanchez the president of K.S.E. (Kettlebell Sport España), discussing kettlebell sport in Spain. How new is Kettlebell Sport in Spain? Our Organisation started in December 2016; we did the presentation in January 2017, even though we have 1 year experience in the dissemination and development of …
Double Arm Kettlebell Sportstyle Swing
The Kettlebell Sportstyle Swing is always done with one arm, never with two arms like you see used with the swing that most people are used to, the conventional kettlebell swing. There is a very valid reason why Sport Athletes don’t do the sportstyle swing with two arms, and that reason is; it doesn’t transfer to anything in the sport, i.e. Snatch, Clean or Jerk. Every kettlebell exercise used in competition is performed with one arm, hence there is no reason to do the sportstyle swing with two arms.
Kettlebell sport swing is a squat!? Squat vs Hip Hinge
Are people squatting when performing the GS version of the kettlebell swing? Let’s answer that question by defining the squat and the hip hinge as a movement on its own outside of kettlebell sport. Squat vs Hip Hinge Does the hip hinge put more emphasis on the posterior chain muscles? Yes. If your answer is no, …
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When Were Women Allowed in Kettlebell Sport? And History of the Kettlebell
There is kettlebell training, which is for the everyday gym goer, the athletes, and those who are serious about their training. And there is kettlebell sport, which is kettlebells on a whole new level, and not known to everyone who trains with kettlebells. Kettlebell sport athletes have amazing endurance combined with mental toughness. They do …
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