A workout that is so efficient and effective that you
need only a half hour, 2-3 days per week?
What if I told you kettlebells were more effective
and functional than just about any other workout?
Kettlebells are all that you need to increase muscular endurance,
lose fat, and build strength. Perfect for people who don't have time to devote hours on end to traditional weight
lifting routines that won't help them as much from a practical stand point anyway. "KB's"
are perfect for men and women, martial artists and non-martial artists alike!
Kettlebell training is a form of training that
will not only improve the appearance of your physique, but it will give you strength and mental toughness that you didn’t
know was even possible. Your body will burn fat and your muscular endurance will go through the roof.
What
Is A Kettlebell?
A kettlebell looks like a cannonball with a suitcase handle welded
to the top. It's a hunk of iron with a long, rich history that is virtually unknown in America. Kettlebells
have been used for centuries in Eastern Europe and are beloved for the strength they impart.
Why so effective?
The reason is Core Training. Through the early nineties American
weight training focused on targeting the individual muscle group with pure isolation. By the mid-nineties that philosophy
gave way to functional training. Functional training promotes the concept that muscles should be worked in unison, creating
a healthy, functional strength that better prepares the body for everyday activities including lifting up a suitcase to picking
someone up and throwing them! For hundreds of years, kettlebell use has focused on muscle integration rather than
isolation. Nearly every drill recruits multiple muscle groups to work in unison. The body is trained as a whole
and particular emphasis is focused on the core and back muscles. Kettlebells represent functional training in its purest
sense. Our kettlebell class curriculum was designed by the famed Steve Maxwell. "Kb's" have
proven themselves time and time again as the ultimate workout to increase muscle endurance, cardio, fat burning and metabolism.
Our certified instructor will direct you through each exercise during the class and knows how to push each person to their
individual limit. On any given day, you will see housewives, engineers, students and deskbound executives performing the
most advanced kettlebell routines with perfect form. The methods clearly work for everyone. Through careful program
design, weight selection, and inspiration, our instructor simultaneously takes both beginners and professional athletes
beyond their known limits with kettlebells.
Three good reasons why you should do this!
1.
The kettlebell gives you significant results in less training time
2. The
kettlebell strengthens every muscle in your body from head-to-toe while burning fat
3. The kettlebell improves the cardiovascular system.
1.
Significant results in less training time Most people gravitate towards long, slow, cardio-endurance
training on treadmills and aerobic type activities. They operate from the mistaken notion that this is the best way to burn
off excess body fat. Nothing could be further from the truth! Empirical evidence and the latest scientific findings show over
and over again that short-duration, high-intensity exercise is best for stoking the metabolic furnace.
The idea
that you can walk or jog off fat with long, slow exercise, simply doesn't work. The moment you stop jogging is the moment
you stop burning calories, but with high-intensity training the caloric after-burn leaves the metabolic furnace revved-up
long after the exercise session is over, ultimately expending far more calories.
Because of the intensive nature of kettlebells, the workout duration must be kept short.
You can perform either a lot of easy, less-intense
work, or a smaller volume of very hard work. But the body cannot perform a large volume of hard work. A large volume neither improves fitness parameters,
nor is it efficient. The kettlebell, by its very nature, is extremely efficient.
2. Strengthen every
muscle in your body from head-to-toe while burning fat
Most people weight train more as an after-thought than a primary element in their workout and if weight
training is added at all, it consists of light dumbbells and isolation exercises, producing little in the way of worthwhile
results. The major fear is getting big. We know that this is impossible without a hormonal profile conducive to building mass.
Kettlebell training consists of whole-body movement exercises requiring athleticism and coordination. It's well-known
that compound movements are superior to isolation exercises for improving muscle tone, strength and body composition. (That's
not to say isolation movements don't have their place, but compound movements are the winning ticket for our purposes
here.)
The type of physique kettlebell exercises build is a slim, wiry and lean look.
Another advantage of the kettlebell over machines
or light dumbbells is the importune muscle-loading and ballistic nature of the bell. This counteracts one of the leading problems
with aging: decreasing bone-density.
Kettlebells further strengthen the connective tissue, tendons and ligaments,
making the joints tougher and less-susceptible to injury.
3. Lifting kettlebells improves the cardiovascular
system
Most people who have kids and work simply don't
have the time to work out let alone maintain a program for strength and cardiovascular conditioning. With the kettlebell,
you get both in the same package! Not only that, but the heart-strengthening effect of performing high-repetition kettlebell
exercises has proven to provide superior heart and lung conditioning than you'd ever get on a treadmill. I've already
discussed the importance of high-intensity training for fat-burning, but here I'd like to stress that improved heart-lung
conditioning doesn't come from long, slow, cardio workouts. With steady-state cardio, any improvements in fitness parameters
happen within the first couple of months...only to subside. With kettlebell training, because of its intense nature, you get
continual fitness improvements, and it's much easier to gauge these same improvements because as soon as the current load
becomes sub-maximal, you jump up to the next weight!
A key point to kettlebell training is the simultaneous
loading of both the upper and lower extremities.
Most cardio machines involve primarily the lower body (with the exception
of rowing and certain elliptical machines.) Even when the machines DO add an upper-body endurance component, it's generally
through a pitiful range of motion. The kettlebell puts the arms and shoulder girdle through a very wide range of movement
possibilities, much of it being vertical, placing tremendous stress on the cardio system, thus offering considerable benefit.
This saves busy people a huge amount of time in their day, because all of the health and aesthetic concerns are wrapped up
into a single, kick-ass-and-take-names workout done 2-3 times per week. What more could you ask for?
