Do You Want To Get in The Shape of Your Life?
Gain Strength! Lose Weight! Increase Stamina!
Checkout The Most Effective Strength and Conditioning Tool.
If you would like to trim up, improve your stamina, and gain wiry strength without bulk, you must do Kettlebells.
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“Jon Engum is a tough and competent instructor.
He will take your strength, conditioning and flexibility to the next level.”
-Pavel Tsatsouline, Chief RKC Instructor and Bestselling Author. Santa Monica, CA
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Do You Want To Get in The Shape of Your Life?
Gain Strength! Lose Weight! Increase Stamina!
Checkout The Most Effective Strength and Conditioning Tool.
The Russian Kettlebell!!
The
Russian Kettlebell is an old time strength and conditioning tool that
is being rediscovered in America for its effectiveness and dramatic
results.
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The Hard Men and Women of the Special Forces and Elite SWAT and Police Units are using Kettlebells and now you can too!
If you would like to trim up, improve your stamina, and gain wiry strength without bulk, you must do Kettlebells.
To Learn More About Russian Kettlebells Keep Reading...
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At an Extreme Training Workshop you will learn how to use the Kettlebell safely and effectively to achieve flexible strength.
You will learn the art of strength training by using physiological and neurological techniques along with the Martial Art techniques of focus and power breathing.
Many past attendees have reported up to a 20% strength gain during the course of the Workshop. Become Functionally Fit. Learn to train smarter not harder.
To Learn how to Host a Workshop Call
218-828-7063 or email Info@ExtremeTraining.Net
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“Russian Special Forces Strength & Conditioning Secret is out!”
What is a ‘kettlebell’?
A ‘kettlebell’ or girya (Russ.) is a traditional Russian cast iron weight that looks like a cannonball with a handle. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook
put it, “It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the
history of our people than kettlebell lifting.” So popular were
kettlebells in Tsarist Russia that any strongman or weightlifter was
referred to as a girevik, or ‘a kettlebell man.’ “Not a single
sport develops our muscular strength and bodies as well as kettlebell
athletics,” wrote Ludvig Chaplinskiy in Russian magazine Hercules in 1913. In
the Soviet times weightlifting legends such as Vlasov, Zhabotinskiy,
and Alexeyev, started their Olympic careers with kettlebells. Yuri
Vlasov who defeated mighty Paul Anderson once interrupted an interview
he was giving to a Western journalist and proceeded to press a pair of
kettlebells. “A wonderful exercise,” commented the world champion
lifter. “. . . It is hard to find an exercise better suited for
developing strength and flexibility simultaneously.” The
Russian Special Forces personnel owe much of their wiry strength,
lethal agility, and never-quitting stamina to kettlebells. Soldier, Be Strong!, the official Soviet armed forces strength training manual pronounced kettlebell drills to be “one of the most effective means of strength development” representing “a new era in the development of human strength-potential.”
Who uses kettlebells in the United States?
The extreme kettlebell workout would have remained the exclusive domain of Russian spec ops, had former Spetsnaz instructor Pavel not immigrated to the U.S. The elite of the U.S.
military and law enforcement instantly recognized the power of the
Russian kettlebell, ruggedly simple and deadly effective as an AK-47.
You can find Pavel’s certified kettlebell instructors in outfits such as
the Force Recon Marines, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and the Secret Service CAssault Tounter eam. Once
the Russian kettlebell became a hit among those whose life depends on
their strength and conditioning, it took off among hard people from all
walks of life: martial artists, athletes, and regular tough guys. There
is no stopping the Russian kettlebell invasion. Men’s Journal called it ‘a workout with balls.’ Rolling Stone pronounced Pavel ‘The Hot Trainer of the Year’ and his Russian kettlebell ‘The Hot Weight of the Year.’ “Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”
Kettlebells deliver xtreme all around fitness
Voropayev
(1983) observed two groups of subjects over a period of a few years and
tested them with a standard battery of armed forces PT tests: pullups, a
standing broad jump, a 100m sprint, and a 1k run. The control group
followed a typical university physical education program that emphasized
the above. The experimental group just lifted kettlebells. In spite of the lack of practice on the tested exercises, the kettlebell group showed better scores in every one of them! Researchers
at the Lesgaft Physical Culture Institute in Leningrad (Vinogradov
& Lukyanov, 1986) found a very high correlation between the results
posted in a kettlebell lifting competition and a great range of
dissimilar tests: strength, measured with the three powerlifts and grip
strength; strength endurance, measured with pullups and parallel bar
dips; general endurance, determined by a 1000 meter run; and work
capacity and balance, measured with special tests! Shevtsova (1993) discovered that kettlebell training lowers the heart rate and the blood pressure. Gomonov
(1998) concluded that “Exercises with kettlebells enable one to quickly
build strength, endurance, achieve a balanced development of all muscle
groups, fix particular deficiencies of build, and they also promote
health.” Most methods that claim ‘all around fitness’ deliver no more
than compromises. Accept no compromises – choose the Russian kettlebell!
Get your kettlebell HERE .
Power to you!
The kettlebell body
Russian
kettlebells are not for Kens and Barbies who want to look like ‘a
collection of body parts.’ K-bells forge doers’ physiques along the
lines of antique statues: broad shoulders with just a hint of pecs, back
muscles standing out in bold relief, wiry arms, rugged forearms, a cut
midsection, and strong legs without a hint of squat-induced chafing.
Kettlebells melt fat without the dishonor of dieting or aerobics; losing
1% of bodyfat a week for weeks is not uncommon. If you are overweight,
you will lean out. If you are skinny, you will get built up. According
to Voropayev (1997) who studied top Russian gireviks, 21.2% increased
their bodyweight since taking up kettlebelling and 21.2% (the exact same
percentage, not a typo), mostly heavyweights, decreased it. The Russian kettlebell is a powerful tool for fixing your body comp, whichever way it needs fixing.
Read Russian kettlebell testimonials and talk to kettlebell lifters HERE.
Are kettlebells dangerous? Am I too young or too old?
Only
8.8% of top Russian gireviks, members of the Russian National Team and
regional teams, reported injuries in training or competition (Voropayev,
1997). A remarkably low number, isn’t it? Note that these were not
regular guys but elite athletes who push their bodies to the edge. Which
does not give you an excuse to lift kettlebells flippantly; any type of strength training can be dangerous if you use bad judgment. As for the age, at the 1995 Russian Championship the youngest contestant was 16, the oldest 53! And we are talking elite competition here; the range is even wider if you are training for yourself rather than for the gold.
What kettlebell size is right for me?
We offer many types and size of kettlebells, click HERE for Kettlebells. Kettlebells were designed to give you a super workout with just one or two fixed weights. An
average man should start with a 35-pounder. It does not sound like a
lot but believe it; it feels a lot heavier than it should! Most men will
eventually progress to a 53-pounder, the standard issue size in the
Russian military. Although available in most units, 70-pounders are used
only by few advanced guys and in elite competitions. 88-pounders are
for mutants. An average woman should start with an 18-pounder. A strong
woman can go for a 26-pounder. A few hard women will go beyond.
Where can I buy a kettlebell and how do I learn how to use it?
Click here to Buy Kettlebells. Learn the drills from Pavel’s Russian Kettlebell Challenge: Xtreme Fitness for Hard Living Comrades book and video. Women will prefer his other kettlebell program, From Russia with Tough Love: Pavel’s Kettlebell Workout for a Femme Fatale.
Contact your local certified kettlebell instructor for workshops and personal training:
Jon Engum, Senior RKC Strength & Conditioning Coach, 218-828-7063 info@extremetraining.net. Power to you!
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