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How to Most Effectively Use Kettlebells to Meet Your New Year Goals

cardio training William Sturgeon Jan 03, 2023

It’s that time of year again when most people are wanting to focus on getting back on track with their health and fitness goals. This includes people starting up new gym memberships and starting a wor… Read more

Stop Using Machines and Start Using Kettlebells

Category_Kettlebell Training William Sturgeon Feb 18, 2021

I am going to ruffle a few feathers with this post, but I want to challenge the way you’re currently thinking about your training. Training with machines isn’t bad, but it isn’t the best way. Machines… Read more

When You Want to Up Your Strength Game, Who Best to Choose?

Category_Coaching Andrea Du Cane Feb 14, 2020

We were recently asked a very good question: I’m opening a small gym and it will be a strength and conditioning facility that will cater to rock climbers, mace and kettlebell enthusiasts. Here is the … Read more

Three Ways to Reinforce Tension

Category_Coaching William Sturgeon Oct 24, 2018

We commonly coach our clients to create tension with cues such as “brace the core”, “tighten the glutes”, “crush the handle”, etc. These phrases can help get clients to create tension in their lifts.… Read more

Is a “Fun Workout” an Oxymoron?

balanced fitness Mike Davidov Jan 31, 2018

Is there actually such a thing as a “fun workout”? This might be one of the fitness industry’s most perpetuated myths. What’s behind the sales pitch? The two terms—fun and workout—are individually ope… Read more

Be More Human

Category_Coaching Josh Henkin Jan 06, 2016

I’m in a great position nowadays. I get to counsel many younger coaches and hopefully teach them the lessons I wish I’d known when I was first starting in fitness. Even so, I keep hearing the same que… Read more

10 Reasons to Hire an RKC to Learn to Use Kettlebells

Category_Coaching Lori Crock Oct 15, 2014

Photo: Leenabee Photography An online fitness magazine caught my attention recently when the headline read, “The Problem with Kettlebells is …” The article explained that the problem is there are not … 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.