Oct

the right tool for the job

By admin

You know people are constantly saying don’t limit your training. And yeah I am inclined to agree with them. Why would you want to place limits on yourself? You wouldn’t.

So people often wonder why I pretty much only train with kettlebells if I don’t believe in placing limits on myself. Well the fact of the matter is I have tried out a lot of different styles and methodology of training and I always come back to the kettlebell.

Why? Because most of the things I do are done BEST with a kettlebell. For example, overhead pressing can be done with both a kettlebell and a dumbbell. Yeah you can get a pretty significant range of motion with a dumbbell until you start putting a lot of poundage on there. With a kettlebell though if fits nicely in the rack position to give your shoulder the best possible range of motion. You want to challenge your grip and stability try a bottoms up or even worse a bottoms out press. Those are the devil . With tgu it can be done with anything but with the kettlebells unique structure you can set it so that the handle rests in that meaty part of the heel of your hand which can reinforce the lat muscle (that goes with the overhead presses too). Swings and snatches just aren’t the same if you are using anything but a kettlebell because of the virtual forces done by their offset center of mass. Front squats are much more comfortable on the wrists with kettlebells. And yeah circuits and complexes (awesome for fat loss training) are much smoother too. Check out the vid. I got those big 5 from Turbulence Training’s author Craig Ballantyne. Great manual and you can use kettlebells with it even though it was intended to be done with dumbbells…but hey anything you can do with a dumbbell you could probably do with a kettlebell.