How To Squat

Nov 27,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

Squatting is very difficult for many people simply because they lack the necessary range of motion to move down into their hips. If you have an anterior pelvic tilt, your tight quads and hip flexors will likely overpower your under active glutes and hamstrings and cause your hips to shift back, not down. This will be accompanied by forward lean of the torso and turn the movement into a bend. Bending is fine when done properly, but there are some circumstances where a squat is the safest and most efficient movement. Find out why the squat is so important and how to perfect the movement in this video.

Endurance Workouts

Hells Bells

Nov 21,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

When you first start learning kettlebells the versatility of them becomes clear, this quickly turns into the creation of some cool combination drills that you couldn’t do with a dumbbell or barbell.

During one of my experiments I came up with a drill that seemed to flow better than any others and hit every muscle just right. It was such a complicated series that I couldn’t give it a name based on the moves involved and just called it hells bells. Moving forward a decade, this combination has stood the test of time and now I’m bringing it to you.

Lessons Training as We Get Older

Training as You Get Older Part II

Nov 6,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

Postural deviations aren’t unique to older people, and just because you are advancing in years doesn’t mean you have bad posture. However, what is commonly the case is that any postural deviations that are apparent become more problematic and pronounced. I also think that as you get older, things like fixing your posture rank higher in your goals than when you are younger and trying to take on the world.

Strength Workouts

Push with Pull Progression Kettlebell Training

Nov 2,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

This workout is a classic method for training, using a pulling exercise with a pushing exercise as a super-set. Pulling works your back, and in todays examples, your glutes and hamstrings too, we’re hitting the entire posterior chain. As we progress through various pulling exercises, we will add a set of push ups between every set, including in between switching hands. The push ups will work entirely different muscles, mostly your anterior chain, both will use your abs and deep core muscles. The pulling exercises are going to challenge your grip and the push ups will give you a quick chance to let your grip recover, something to consider every time you put together a workout. Pull ups on the same day as heavy deadlifting will rarely allow you to challenge the big muscles because you won’t be able to hold on!

Lessons Training as We Get Older

Power Technique Training Part II

Oct 23,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

When it comes to achieving the results you want, you will need to use the right weight in your kettlebell training. For most people, the biggest limiting factor here is their nervous system getting accustomed to the weight and movement. It usually takes a few sets of a given move before your body is able to recruit all of the available muscle to do the job and relax the muscles that don’t need to be tense.

Articles

6 Reasons You Should Be Using Kettlebells

Oct 12,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

Kettlebells provide you with options that no other single piece of equipment can give you in your training.

If you take all of the equipment in most gyms and add them up, they rarely combine to provide what a kettlebell can. With that said, I don’t know of any serious kettlebell practitioner that doesn’t use other pieces of equipment too. It is my aim to keep the authentic teaching of kettlebell training and strongman alive, and help it grow and evolve to help people see their goals in the modern day.

One of the most common objections I hear to kettlebells is people who think they are too old or injured to train with a kettlebell. There is an assumption that kettlebell training is only for athletes, possibly because many average people have been coaxed into using them that way inappropriately. Other people assume that as they age machine based training is the safer way to train for strength but nothing could be further from the truth.

Clean&Jerk Kettlebell Challenge

Clean and Jerk Challenge

Oct 4,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

The Idea behind this challenge is to use a heavy bell to keep the pace slow but still finish in under ten minues. The bell I used was 40% of my bodyweight and I didn’t finish in time! I didn’t have a clock in front of me as I was filming and I think it took me almost twelve minutes.

Kettlebell Challenge

100 Kettlebell Swings and 100 Push Presses in 10 Minutes

Sep 19,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / 1 Comment

Today we are doing a workout that uses pushing and pulling muscles, one of my favorite combinations. Kettlebell swings work great with pushing exercises of all descriptions and today we are combining it with presses. While swings will work your grip and pulling muscles, the pressing will let your grip rest and work new muscles all while keeping the heart rate up. Today’s challenge is all about strength endurance using this wonderful combination of moves without putting the bell down once. I am using a rep count of ten swings and ten presses for ten rounds, the swings are alternating swings and the presses switch hands with every round. This should help to cut down on excessive muscle fatigue, as each arm can rest between press sets and the alternating swing will conserve your grip strength.

Strength Workouts

Advanced Kettlebell Juggling Challenge

Sep 10,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

The techniques in this workout aren’t about showing off, there is a great benefit to using these progressions of the various kettlebell exercises. The variations of the exercises we are going through today will demand more from your grip and also concentration than the normal versions of the lift. Your need to stay as efficient as possible is much greater, as you won’t have the margin for error you have when gripping the handle of the bell. They are also a great way to add some variety to your kettlebell training, you’ll see this workout is more challenging than most on many levels. Make sure you have all of your kettlebell basics covered before you try this workout and I recommend trying it on either sand or grass. Rubber gym floors might make the bell bounce in unpredictable ways if dropped, stay focused and do this one outside and you have nothing to worry about. Make sure you aren’t competing for space when you train with kettlebells, this workout is no exception.

Kettlebell Abs&Core

Full Body and Core Workout

Aug 28,2015 / By Peter Hirsh / No Comment

Thank you for joining us here on Kettlebell Movement for a workout in the sun and sand on the beach in Carlsbad, Ca. Today, I am taking our up and coming kettlebeller, Casey through a quick workout using long ranges of motion for some full body and core strengthening. The exercises today are slightly more complicated than your basic moves, so watch the video to see how the moves are done. There are lots of little moves that you will need to coordinate to stay on track with us today but feel free to work at your own pace, pause, rewind but whatever you do, don’t fast forward!

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