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Postby baldy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:13 am

Seems to have been a little bit of a kettlebell revolution lately, with lots of kettlebell stuff in training logs.
Please post your favourite kettlebell exercises.

My favourite kettlebell exercise that I just discovered is the KB uppercut.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby soniczip » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:23 am

this thread is an excellent idea. thanks.

[quote="baldy"]My favourite kettlebell exercise that I just discovered is the KB uppercut.

isn't this called "figure 8" as well? or is it different, somehow?


one of my favourite sources for kb exercises is catalyst athletics. every exercise has its short video and explanation. anton pointed it out!
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby baldy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:29 am

[quote="soniczip"]
[quote="baldy"]My favourite kettlebell exercise that I just discovered is the KB uppercut.

isn't this called "figure 8" as well? or is it different, somehow?

Dunno, part of the reason I started this thread was so that I could learn the proper names. I think its little different from a figure of 8, because you swing it up and do an uppercut*.

* commonly known as a curl


[quote="soniczip"]
one of my favourite sources for kb exercises is catalyst athletics. every exercise has its short video and explanation. anton pointed it out!

^^^ website looks great
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby rattus » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:45 am

I love the simpleness of "Swings".

And who doesn't enjoy a "Snatch"?

Halos and ribbons are good core styrengthners.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby ninearms » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:36 am

Goblet squat
Swing
Press
Row
Suitcase carry

All you need, and if you swing properly you can ditch the rows. Add in some pushups and you can ditch the press.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby baldy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:40 am

[quote="ninearms"]
All you need, and if you swing properly you can ditch the rows. Add in some pushups and you can ditch the press.

Your utilitarian approach does not seem to take into account what exercises are the most fun. I find swings totally boring.
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Postby ninearms » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:49 am

[quote="baldy"]I find swings totally boring.


You are DEAD INSIDE.

This afternoon I will go outside and do 250 swings in memory of your lost humanity.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby rattus » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:05 am

[quote="baldy"]. I find swings totally boring.


Swings are great, man.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby hoffmeister » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:26 pm

[quote="ninearms"][quote="baldy"]I find swings totally boring.


You are DEAD INSIDE.


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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby baldy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:38 pm

[quote="hoffmeister"][quote="ninearms"][quote="baldy"]I find swings totally boring.


You are DEAD INSIDE.


+1

Clearly you guys are just too weak to be able to do enough to get bored.

Honestly though imagine your in a park and someone is just doing kettlebell swings, its not very sexy. The person juggling and pressing a kettlebell, they are going to look like the kettlebell master. Plus if they have been doing KB uppercuts they will have pumped biceps. Mr kettlebell swinger might as well keep his t-shirt on.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby ninearms » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:14 pm

[quote="baldy"]Honestly though imagine your in a park and someone is just doing kettlebell swings, its not very sexy. The person juggling and pressing a kettlebell, they are going to look like the kettlebell master. Plus if they have been doing KB uppercuts they will have pumped biceps. Mr kettlebell swinger might as well keep his t-shirt on.


Mr Kettlebell Swinger is going to look jacked without taking his shirt off, thanks to his beefy lats and hamstrings, and the fact he's using a bell twice the weight of Mr Juggler.

Juggling is for hippies and clowns.
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Postby Catt Queen » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:10 pm

Always known it as Figure of 8 to a hold... one of my faves :mrgreen:
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby soniczip » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:22 pm

baldy, if you want your swings to be less boring, mix them with burpees like i did today

of the last i learned, i found these quite interesting:
- one-leg romanian deadlift
- sidebend
- halo
- topside halfmoon
- cross chop

the first because of the difficulty
the others because they don't involve legs as much as many other drills
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby ninearms » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:47 pm

[quote="ninearms"][quote="baldy"]I find swings totally boring.


You are DEAD INSIDE.

This afternoon I will go outside and do 250 swings in memory of your lost humanity.


Only managed 175 with the 24 before Luka demanded I come and play in the sandpit. Did them shirtless though, which is probably worth the other 75.
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Re: The Kettlebell Thread.

Postby baldy » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:20 pm

[quote="ninearms"][quote="ninearms"][quote="baldy"]I find swings totally boring.


You are DEAD INSIDE.

This afternoon I will go outside and do 250 swings in memory of your lost humanity.


Only managed 175 with the 24 before Luka demanded I come and play in the sandpit. Did them shirtless though, which is probably worth the other 75.

Couldn't have been that hard as it didn't make it onto your training log. I guess you are working in sets of 25?

Was thinking I might do some swings tonight as its sunny. Good excuse to take a video, then everyone can tell me I need to keep my back straight and bend me knees less.
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