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How to Replace Expensive Equipment With Kettlebells Part 2

Category_Kettlebell Training Laurel Blackburn Aug 16, 2017

In How to Replace Expensive Equipment With Kettlebells Part 1, I showed you how to make your own sleds with just a tow strap, belt and kettlebells. I also included a bunch of different exercises and w… Read more

How to Replace Expensive Equipment with Kettlebells

Category_Fitness Business Laurel Blackburn Jun 21, 2017

I started my boot camp business in 2005 on a little patch of grass in front of a gymnastics gym. I didn’t have much money and spent what little I had on a few bands. Our workouts were mostly bodyweigh… Read more

Get out of Your Kettlebell Rut with These Partner and Group Exercises

Category_Kettlebell Training Laurel Blackburn Jan 25, 2017

I started my fitness business, Boot Camp Fitness and Training in 2005, and I started Tallahassee Kettlebells shortly after my RKC 1 in 2009. In that time, I have amassed many individual, partner, and … Read more

So, You Want to Train Athletes...

Category_Coaching Laurel Blackburn Dec 09, 2015

Recently, I had the pleasure of assisting Master RKC, Keira Newton at the Tallahassee RKC. We spent a lot of time talking about and practicing drills, modifications and regressions for training the av… Read more

It’s All About the Data

Category_Coaching Laurel Blackburn Apr 28, 2015

I am a data freak. I love tracking my fitness, my nutrition, my accomplishments and my goals. I do this both for my clients and myself. Back in the day when I first started bodybuilding, I just used a… Read more

Stumped on Warm-ups?

bootcamp Laurel Blackburn Apr 16, 2014

I remember being a newly minted RKC back in 2009. I couldn’t wait to get back and start training clients. I had a head full of knowledge and a heart full of pride and excitement. One of the things tha… Read more

Learning About Eating Disorders

bootcamp Laurel Blackburn Nov 06, 2013

I wrote my last blog just over a month ago. I was scared, no terrified of the responses I might get. My biggest fear was that people would not see me as being trainer material, much less an RKC Team L… Read more

What Real Users of The IsoMax Have to Say

“Having been a Strength and Conditioning Coach for 40 years (33 years at the college level, 7 years at the high school level), I have seen a LOT of devices come and go. The IsoMax impresses me so much that I would definitely incorporate it into my program if I were starting all over again in my career. It'll defin… Read More

Rod Cole

Stephenville, TX

“Been working out since 1975. The Isomax has taken center stage. The combination of convenient, very effective isometrics and seeing the amount of force generated on each rep is phenomenal. Dragon Door's innovations are a godsend. I'm 70 and the strongest I have ever been.”

Bob Lorenz

Vernon, NY

“I have been able to gain more muscle mass and increased strength with the Isomax than with any free weights or weight machine. I am in my mid 40s and have been lifting weights since my late teenage years, but nothing I have tried compares to the Isomax!”

Mike Little

Lansing, NC

Excellent Isometric Trainer. Additional training technique to weights. Exercises your muscles differently than normal weights. For those people like me who have never trained isometrically they stimulate your muscles without risk of injury. Isometrics strengthens muscle strength / endurance in different ways to w… Read More

Tommy Cusack

London, England

I love my IsoMax. I am 55, I had the normal aches and pains you would expect for someone my age. Back, knee and tricep tendonitis. I have been using the IsoMax for 4 months, my aches and pains have faded to nothing. My blood pressure has also improved and i have effortlessly gained muscle. And i am only using it … Read More

Stu W.

Long Island, NY

What I needed

This is what I needed to get back on track with kettlebell training.

Clear video

Clear video, but nothing new compared to the texbook

The Sequel is as good as the original!

This is a great book for getting and keeping yourself srong!This is my 'bible' for calisthenics training. Thanks Coach!

excellent

It was a good live review of the pushup chapter from the book

It was a good live review of the pushup chapter from the book. But it unintentionally (I think,) accented the importance of using a slow with the exercise. Gong down on a two second pace, pausing one second at the bottom, and then rising on a two count, ads tremendous value to the exercise. When I did the book course originally, I topped out before getting to the one handed push up. I suspect that, given recent gains, that should be able the master the one armed push up this time around while using this cadence.