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How To Trick Your Body Into Doing More Reps

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. ~ Nido Qubein For this project you’ll need four things: A kettlebell of a challenging weight. A brain. The ability to count to ten. The ability to do #3 and swing a kettlebell with either hand (ok, or…

Making New Kettlebell Friends…

“Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.” ~ Pearl Bailey ETK Training Log Update Monday – Joint mobility work followed by 10 minute warm-up.  Keeping up with the goblet squats. 12 minutes of 35-rep sets of hand-2-hand swings/5 rounds.  (40 reps on…

Kettlebells – #1 Rust Inhibitor

If you rest, you rust. ~ Helen Hayes Regular Exercise Beats Back Depression According to the National Institute of Mental Illness, more people suffer from depression than AIDS, cancer, and coronary heart disease. And this time of the year doesn’t help matters much.  Days and days of grey skies and snow and rain, less daylight,…

Enter The Kettlebell-Raising The Intensity

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.~Winston Churchill We’re in week 3 of the Program Minimum phase of Enter The Kettlebell.  If you’ve been following along, you know that we’ve been using the Art of Strength, Enter The Kettlebell workbook.  You probably also know that we’ve…

5 Things Everyone Should Know Before Swinging

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals~Jim Rohn When swinging with a a friend, spouse or group, decide beforehand who will be counting reps. Make sure everyone knows if you’ll be counting up to the required number or down from the required number. Be sure to tell everyone if you’ll be counting out loud….

Don’t Think About It, Just Do It…

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.~Steven Kaggwa TGU’s on Saturday afternoon.  It wasn’t our usual workout time, but our Friday evening was full and fitting practice time in was out of the question then. Our usual time to exercise has always been the late afternoon and early evening, so 2:00 o’clock on a…

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