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Is Your Training Making You Better?

Category_Kettlebell Training Paul Britt, DC
Why are you training? What is your goal? Is your goal to lose weight? Be stronger? Play better? Is your training working? If not, then you must re-evaluate your training and see what is keeping you fr… Read more

Is Your Training Making You Better?

Category_Kettlebell Training Paul Britt, DC
Why are you training? What is your goal? Is your goal to lose weight? Be stronger? Play better? Is your training working? If not, then you must re-evaluate your training and see what is keeping you fr… Read more

Try This Solo Version of a Classic Kettlebell Corrective Partner Drill

Category_Coaching Shari Wagner
I was working with a personal training client who was having trouble packing his shoulder in the one-arm kettlebell swing, particularly in the hike pass position. He had no problems with this in his t… Read more

Kettlebell Ballistics Analyzed

ballistic exercises Florian Kiendl
Like many worthwhile exercises, ballistic movements can be taught in a few hours, but need to be practiced for years on end. To stay sharp with the Hardstyle techniques we use in the RKC system, we al… Read more

Where and How To Grab The Kettlebell Handle

Andrea Du Cane Andrea Du Cane
As I travel around the country, I find there is a lot of confusion about where to grab the kettlebell handle—in the middle or in the corner? It is understandable that people are confused. After all, k… Read more

The Get-Up—The Ultimate Triplanar Exercise

Ashoka McCormick Ashoka McCormick
When we think of Bruce Lee throwing a kick, Muhammad Ali dodging a punch, or a great wrestler like Dan Gable swiftly shooting in for a double-leg takedown and dumping his opponent on the mat, we can e… Read more

My “Body” of Work: Part 1

Category_Kettlebell Training Phil Ross
Having recently hit my 54th birthday, I can’t help but reflect on what I’ve put my body through and how lucky I was to find the RKC‘s incredible strength and mobility training. The system is truly rem… Read more

Olympic Lifting’s Best Companion

Category_Kettlebell Training Maciej Bielski
Almost everyone knows that kettlebell training will help your progress with barbell exercises. Unfortunately it doesn’t really work the other way around, until you’ve built up monstrous levels of stre… Read more

Programming the TGU

Category_Kettlebell Training Jason Kapnick
“What sets and reps should I use to make progress on my TGU?” This is one of the most common questions about programming kettlebell training. Finding the right scheme of sets and reps is especially ch… Read more

Do You Even Stretch, Bro?

Category_Mobility and Flexibility Paul Britt, DC
We all tend to have a set routine that we use as a warmup for our training. There are articles galore on the RKC Blog about those, even some that I have written. What do you do after you are through w… Read more

CrossFit, Kettlebell Training, Kale Salad and Donuts

Category_Kettlebell Training Nick Lynch
First off, I’d like to admit that I love donuts. It may or may not have been the years of skipping Sunday Boy Scouts to watch The Simpsons with my dad that programmed my subconscious to love donuts bu… Read more

How to Smooth Out the Kettlebell Snatch

Category_Kettlebell Training Ryan Jankowitz
At first, the kettlebell snatch exercise can be daunting to learn. However, if you have a solid one-arm swing and are able to keep a kettlebell locked out overhead from a press or a get-up, then the s… Read more

The Triple Extension Swing

advanced kettlebell swing Felix Sempf
For power sport athletes, jump and sprint performance are key factors for enhancing sports performance on the field. The ability to generate power has a significant effect on the athlete’s ability to … Read more

The Barbell Strength RKC Prep Program

barbell lifting Jason Kapnick
The instructor cadre from last year’s RKC at Catalyst SPORT. Much has been written about the synergy of kettlebells and barbells. They complement each other’s “blind spots” extremely well. Training pr… Read more

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