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Kettlebells Provide Powerful Workout in Short Amount of Time 2/18/10
The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America’s leading authority on fitness and one of the largest fitness certification, education and training organizations in the world, recently announced key findings from an exclusive study on the benefits of kettlebell workouts conducted with the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, through its exercise and health program. Results concluded …
Rethinking the Kettlebell this Summer 7/21/09
Okay, it’s been a couple months since I’ve posted anything on the blog (if I got paid for doing this, I’d be fired); but the time has been beneficial for resting and recharging the mental batteries. Plus, time spent with my wife who has the summer off from teaching, and chasing our grandchildren around.
At …
Kettlebell Crazy: Girevoy Sport–Don’t Let This Revolution Start Without You! 5/6/09
I like to keep things simple-including my workouts. So when I discovered that it was possible to get strong and fit with only three lifts, it further revolutionized my way of looking at what I’d been doing with the kettlebell.
Exit Pavel and the RKC. Enter Valery Fedorenko and the WKC-the World Kettlebell Club, that is; …
“I Don’t Want to Do Kettlebells!” 4/13/09
Krystina is the Office Manager and self-proclaimed Fitness Protocol Lab Rat for the American Kettlebell Club. This is her story:
[By way of explanation: the AKC trains with competition style bells. These are made of steel and come in identical sizes, but are filled with varying densities of iron or lead and color-coded according to weight: red for 32kg; …
One Size Fits All 3/17/09
Can’t decide what size kettlebell you want? Trading up from a lighter weight to a heavier one, but it’s either too big a jump, or the dimensions of the …
Kettlebell Crazy: Kettlebells on “The Biggest Loser?” 2/19/09
It’s a rare sighting: but amid all the exercise machinery on NBC”s “Biggest Loser” there may be seen a kettlebell making a cameo appearance, if only for a second or two. It’s hard to tell how much usage the KB actually gets in the course of a day’s workout, that may never make the final …
Kettlebell Crazy: How Stan Pike Got His Six-Pack 1/11/09
Stan Pike is the very model of an English blacksmith. Tall, bearded, brawny; accustomed to working hard–and playing hard: by day, turning out delicate, custom, wrought-iron furniture at his 17th-century era forge; and by night, “bashing out” reps with weights of his own design–with six-inch diameter bars–in his homemade gym.
One day a customer asked Stan …
“20/20: More than Just a Vision Thing” 12/22/08
Earlier this month I underwent emergency surgery to re-attach the retina in my left eye. Opthalmic surgeons had to laser the small tears that had formed in the back of my eye and inject a gas bubble into the eye to hold the retina in place. Post-operative therapy involved my spending 45-55 minutes out of …
“just right”–the goldilocks bell 12/3/08
Since my conversion to kettlebells, via deadlifting, I’ve been a rabid advocate of lifting heavy, for both men and women–especially women. The GoFit kettlebells run in sizes as small as 10 pounds; but Sarah Lurie, who is the face and voice for the GoFit line of KBs, and an RKC-certified instructor, would no doubt get …
How to Lose 100 Pounds Without Drugs, Surgery, of the Dishonor of Aerobics 11/21/08
At her heaviest, Tracy Reifkind weighed 250 pounds.
In the past, she’d sloughed off the weight with a combination of reduced calories, long walks, and bodybuilding-style workouts with free weights–which she’d always considered to be time-consuming and b-o-r-i-n-g!
But now, it was time for something completely different. She was gonna lose that weight, and she was gonna …
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