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RKC Team Spirit, Chicago 2014 2014 was a banner year for Dragon Door’s resurgent RKC, with 26 3-day and 28 1-day certification workshops in almost as many cities worldwide. And we already have 31 RKC … Read more

Aaron Pierson performs a double kettlebell push press. The double kettlebell push press may easily be one of the most under-used skills when it comes to training clients. In many circles it’s become k… Read more

So many kettlebell exercises go overhead. Some move quickly like the Snatch (top left picture) and Jerk. Some move slowly like the Press (top right picture) and Bent Press. And some are simply just he… Read more

It’s spring, the weather is warming up, the flowers are blooming and the sun is shining. If you’ve been hibernating all winter and your workouts have gotten dull, now is the time to breathe new life i… Read more

THE BEAST: Russian Kettlebell – 48kg (106 lbs.) Life is hard and most of us are facing the very real prospect that what we’d like to do is limited by what we can actually achieve. For those of us who … Read more

The next movement in our Dirty Dozen Line-up is #9, The Get Up. The Get Up is often referred to as the Turkish (TGU) or Low Sweep Get Up. Just the mention of the movement conjures up fear, apprehensio… Read more

In this fourth and final installment dedicated to better utilization of the hips, I show some crawling progressions to emphasize that we can sometimes skip mobility drills and just move instead. But … Read more

Part three of this series on the hips continues the focus on dynamic hip action demonstrated in the second installment by implementing explosive hip drive into the Hanging Leg Raise sequence. After r… Read more

In part one of this four-part series, I talked about how hip stiffness is usually part of a larger complex of stiff tissues and joints throughout the body. I then offered a very basic mobilization se… Read more

I typically have a different view on kettlebell training than most. Very few times (on an occasion) did I have clients coming to me with the specific goal of learning kettlebells. Rather, I saw kettle… Read more