Kettlebell Training Tutorial Video
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Song used in this Kettlebell Training Tutorial video: Rocky IV - Training Montage - Rock Remix by Rick and Lee Graham
If you are new to fitness, find a local fitness instructor to advise you about the best workout routines and training equipment for your situation. Kettlebell training can be dangerous if you are new to fitness and do not learn how to use proper form. For females a 16 pound kettlebell is recommended to start with. For males, a 30 or 35 pound kettlebell is recommended.
The kettlebell is an incredibly useful piece of equipment, especially for martial artists. Because of the full body nature of a good kettlebell workout, it accelerates fat loss, packs on lean muscle, and builds explosiveness. The functional training as well as the ballistic and grinding exercises it provides help drill qualities needed for martial arts. This includes helping with power, speed, muscle endurance, stance training, mental toughness, efficiency in movement, and strengthening your core. Also, the ballistic nature of exercises like swings, cleans, and snatches emulate the explosive whole body integration used in performing strikes, kicks, and throws. Overall, the kettlebell is great for training cardio, strength, and flexibility. Strength and stamina in the lower back, legs, shoulders, and grip get quite a lot of benefit from kettlebell training.
Kettlebell workouts include 3 types of exercises. Ballistic exercises are fast, and teach you to generate power in a dynamic fashion. Ballistics normally have a wide range of motion and use a large number of muscles. Ballistics train the muscles as well as the heart and lungs. Grinds are slow and keep tension on the muscle while performing the exercise. Grinds include controlled pressing, pulling, and squatting. These exercises will help you locate anything lacking in your structure and alignment. Hybrids are, of course, hybrids of ballistics and grinds, and as such combine the best of both. Hybrids train you to move between speed and strength, or contraction and expansion.
In this kettlebell workout video I demonstrate some of the staple exercises, from which you can design a good kettlebell workout. I included some unilateral exercises, as well as compound and dynamic core rotation exercises. Unilateral exercises are those done on one side only. These exercises improve strength imbalances in the body, as well as train aspects that are often neglected, such as balance. When doing unilateral exercises, you would perform a set with one side, then perform a set with the other side.
Compound exercises drill movements that depend upon on coordinating multiple muscle groups in order to move two or more joints through the range of motion of the exercise. By using compound exercises, you can get a whole body workout that quickly builds muscle, general fitness, and overall body strength.
Sources:
Improve weaknesses with unilateral exercises
Kettlebell at wikipedia
Kettlebells: The Martial Artist's Strength Tool Of Choice!
Compound Exercises
Understanding Grinds and Hybrids
Also check this out:
Article about core stability exercises
Exercises performed in this kettlebell training video:
1) Figure 8 - grind; grip training. At first try performing this for upwards of a minute.
2) One leg deadlift - grind; compound exercise; unilateral.
3) Sumo squat upright row - grind; compound exercise; uses pulling movement.
4) Bridge pullover - great for wrestlers and grapplers; works the core.
5) V crunch with kettlebell rotation - dynamic core rotation. Try to perform this for a minute at first.
6) Clean / Squat / Press combo. Unilateral. The clean is a ballistic exercise that develops explosive power, tendon strength, and the posterior chain. The squat is a grind and compound exercise that uses multiple muscle groups. The press is a grind that works multiple muscle groups.
7) Goblet Squat - grind.
8) Overhead Lunge - hybrid. Perform a set of lunges with the kettlebell in one hand, and then switch hands.
9) Wood Chops - dynamic core rotation. Perform on both sides.
10) Swing - ballistic pull
11) Snatch - ballistic / hybrid pull
Check out our example Kettlebell Training Routine - free online pdf book (one page)
If you'd like to purchase your own kettlebells, please view our Kettlebell Store
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This Kettlebell Training Tutorial article is included in Martial Arts Thoughts and Articles - free online PDF book. The book serves as a supplement to Johnston Karate's student karate guide, Understanding Karate-do, which is also available as a professionally bound and printed trade paperback book, and a Kindle e-book. Please visit our Understanding Karate-do store on Amazon.com if you would like to order your own copy :)
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Also visit - Full list of Johnston Karate's Free Fitness Videos
Kettlebell Training Routine - free online pdf book (one page)
Kettlebell Store
Song used in this Kettlebell Training Tutorial video: Rocky IV - Training Montage - Rock Remix by Rick and Lee Graham
If you are new to fitness, find a local fitness instructor to advise you about the best workout routines and training equipment for your situation. Kettlebell training can be dangerous if you are new to fitness and do not learn how to use proper form. For females a 16 pound kettlebell is recommended to start with. For males, a 30 or 35 pound kettlebell is recommended.
The kettlebell is an incredibly useful piece of equipment, especially for martial artists. Because of the full body nature of a good kettlebell workout, it accelerates fat loss, packs on lean muscle, and builds explosiveness. The functional training as well as the ballistic and grinding exercises it provides help drill qualities needed for martial arts. This includes helping with power, speed, muscle endurance, stance training, mental toughness, efficiency in movement, and strengthening your core. Also, the ballistic nature of exercises like swings, cleans, and snatches emulate the explosive whole body integration used in performing strikes, kicks, and throws. Overall, the kettlebell is great for training cardio, strength, and flexibility. Strength and stamina in the lower back, legs, shoulders, and grip get quite a lot of benefit from kettlebell training.
Kettlebell workouts include 3 types of exercises. Ballistic exercises are fast, and teach you to generate power in a dynamic fashion. Ballistics normally have a wide range of motion and use a large number of muscles. Ballistics train the muscles as well as the heart and lungs. Grinds are slow and keep tension on the muscle while performing the exercise. Grinds include controlled pressing, pulling, and squatting. These exercises will help you locate anything lacking in your structure and alignment. Hybrids are, of course, hybrids of ballistics and grinds, and as such combine the best of both. Hybrids train you to move between speed and strength, or contraction and expansion.
In this kettlebell workout video I demonstrate some of the staple exercises, from which you can design a good kettlebell workout. I included some unilateral exercises, as well as compound and dynamic core rotation exercises. Unilateral exercises are those done on one side only. These exercises improve strength imbalances in the body, as well as train aspects that are often neglected, such as balance. When doing unilateral exercises, you would perform a set with one side, then perform a set with the other side.
Compound exercises drill movements that depend upon on coordinating multiple muscle groups in order to move two or more joints through the range of motion of the exercise. By using compound exercises, you can get a whole body workout that quickly builds muscle, general fitness, and overall body strength.
Sources:
Improve weaknesses with unilateral exercises
Kettlebell at wikipedia
Kettlebells: The Martial Artist's Strength Tool Of Choice!
Compound Exercises
Understanding Grinds and Hybrids
Also check this out:
Article about core stability exercises
Exercises performed in this kettlebell training video:
1) Figure 8 - grind; grip training. At first try performing this for upwards of a minute.
2) One leg deadlift - grind; compound exercise; unilateral.
3) Sumo squat upright row - grind; compound exercise; uses pulling movement.
4) Bridge pullover - great for wrestlers and grapplers; works the core.
5) V crunch with kettlebell rotation - dynamic core rotation. Try to perform this for a minute at first.
6) Clean / Squat / Press combo. Unilateral. The clean is a ballistic exercise that develops explosive power, tendon strength, and the posterior chain. The squat is a grind and compound exercise that uses multiple muscle groups. The press is a grind that works multiple muscle groups.
7) Goblet Squat - grind.
8) Overhead Lunge - hybrid. Perform a set of lunges with the kettlebell in one hand, and then switch hands.
9) Wood Chops - dynamic core rotation. Perform on both sides.
10) Swing - ballistic pull
11) Snatch - ballistic / hybrid pull
Check out our example Kettlebell Training Routine - free online pdf book (one page)
If you'd like to purchase your own kettlebells, please view our Kettlebell Store
Also visit - Back to Johnston Karate Fitness Videos - Full List
Printer friendly version of this Kettlebell Training Tutorial -
Kettle Bell Training Tutorial --------------------
This Kettlebell Training Tutorial article is included in Martial Arts Thoughts and Articles - free online PDF book. The book serves as a supplement to Johnston Karate's student karate guide, Understanding Karate-do, which is also available as a professionally bound and printed trade paperback book, and a Kindle e-book. Please visit our Understanding Karate-do store on Amazon.com if you would like to order your own copy :)
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