Pavel taught us the finer points of the Goblet Squat, the Turkish Get-up and the Kettlebell Swing. And through our Team Leaders, we learned the exacting standards that Dragondoor requires in order to be able to teach these moves under the HKC/Dragondoor name.
This past September I discovered a fellow kettlebell blogger who issued a challenge to complete 5000 kettlebell snatches in a month. The bad thing was I discovered it two weeks into the challenge. I wanted to participate, but I was already two weeks behind. At first glance it seemed like I had a lot of ground to make up.
Today I practiced snatches by using Pavel’s Grease The Groove principal. Using my 16 kg kettlebell, I did sets of 40 kettlebell snatches throughout the day. Anywhere from every 30 minutes, to every 15 minutes. I even did a couple sets of 100 and waited an hour between sets. Overall I completed 500 snatches for the…
I’m going to go out on a limb and probably make some enemies among the kettlebell elites, but I have to ask: “Is it really that difficult?” I’ve been training with weights for 26 years. In that time, Ive tried bodybuilding programs, powerlifting programs, circuit training, intervals, body weight training, cables/bands, running cycling, and for the…
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