Kettlebell Articles
Kettlebell articles covering many aspects of kettlebell training from Dragondoor.com. For a longer list, visit Dragondoor's articles page.
The first Virginia KB competition was held on May 3, 2003. It was nothing short of a miracle that the competition was so successful. Although I'm fortunate to be able to now call Garm Olafson a friend, prior to this meet we had met only once...
The following article will show you how I have integrated Pavel’s training methods into my boxers’ training. This exercise program fits boxers well because the exercises are easy to learn, they require simple equipment, and there is a low risk of injury with kettlebell for boxers...
I began using RKC about three months ago. I started by following Pavel's recommendations for high-rep ballistic exercises using dumbbells, liked the results, and immediately ordered a 16 kg kettlebell – which I found really heavy – and the RKC book. After a few weeks...
Some years ago a new type of kettlebell sport competition got started in Russia. It’s a relay-race, a team competition. Usually a team consists of seven people, in each team there is one athlete of every weight class, but sometimes there are two. The important thing is that...
Has life become much busier than you would prefer it to be? Are you currently going through a hectic season in life and tempted to skip workouts because there is not enough time? Let me encourage you that rapid strength gains are possible even in times of high stress/low sleep...
At 152 lbs. and 5’7”, I'm not exactly a big guy. As a middle aged desk jockey with a bad back who likes to run, swim, and bicycle, I'm not your ideal candidate for military pressing a 70 lb. kettlebell over my head with one arm - but I did it, and not by acquiring big muscles, either...
Sunday, August 18, 02, the Rancho Buena Vista High School football team traveled to Camp Pendleton, California, the home of the United States Marine Corps, 1st Division, to partake in 2 days of strenuous boot camp atmosphere and comrade. As a former Marine Captain...
I want to talk about two competition lifts in the girevoy sport or kettlebell lifting: the Jerk and the Snatch. I will analyze two different styles of two World Champions in the kettlebell sport...
In elite athletic circles the word is spreading as in-the-know Americans are purchasing ancient Russian fitness equipment, resurrecting old exercise philosophies and obtaining significant gains in cardio conditioning, muscle tone and strength as a result...
I know what you’re thinking, how can it be both structured and flexible at the same time? Well, read on and find out, comrade. If one was to design a well-balanced workout it should include a lower body exercise, an upper body press, an upper body pull and a full body ballistic exercise...
I research a lot of training programs and when I come across something that looks promising, I use myself as a guinea pig to make sure that it is worth doing before sharing it with my clients and readers. Recently, I hit some plateaus in my own training and decided to try...
Kettlebells are like special operations -there are constantly new challenges to overcome. Recently we conducted a hostage rescue operation that required our team to break out a window in order to establish communications with the suspect inside the house...
The Party knows that learning to generate max tension is paramount for strength. I'd like to address the other side of the coin: eliminating wasted effort and taking the brakes off your lifts...
If you are a healthy (ask your doctor) adult male and have $200, buy one 16 kg kettlebell, the Russian Kettlebell Challenge video and the book of the same name. The kettlebell will be challenging at first but you will adapt over the first two weeks or so...
I picked up my first KB in February of 02 and started doing swings, cleans, and snatches. The cleans and snatches punished my forearms for a couple of weeks, and then it just clicked. The unnecessary pain I induced on my forearm stopped...
For any combat martial artist, including boxers, stamina and strength are, of course, necessities. However, the sport of kettlebell lifting can be as beneficial, if not more, than traditional weight training in improving overall strength...
Looking to shift your anaerobic conditioning into high gear? Fry your legs and sear your lungs in the process? Well Comrade, then step up to the split snatch!...
Pavel Tsatsouline and Steve Maxwell have produced a marvelous set of exercises for strength, fitness, weight loss, and grappling sports. However, leave it to me and my sons to invent some more. Some of these were designed to push my adult students...
This article is intended to help advanced beginners and intermediates continue in the wonderful ways of Girevoy sport. In academic courses, there is almost always an introductory course for freshmen (the ‘101’ course) followed by the second semester course...
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