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Kettlebells are the most versatile way of training for a range of fitness goals at any fitness level, and the gains to be made (both cardiovascular and strength/resistance).

Improper use and misunderstanding of techniques can easily lead to injury therefore professional supervision is vital to ensure safe exercise! It is important to be taught correct movement patterns and even be made aware of weaknesses and consequences if not strengthened!

All fitness goals start with the importance of the body’s ability to function in balance and perform effectively and efficiently as a whole.
Over time our gluteal [bottom] muscles become lazy, especially if you sit down all day, every day, and that is why a lot of us can suffer from lower back pain and tight hamstrings, Kettlebells are great for working your posterior chain (basically from your head down your spine to your toes) and re-engaging your gluts [gluteal] muscles as all the action and force comes from contracting and using your bottom as your dominant muscle.

Kettlebell training improves cardiovascular fitness, strength and flexibility at the same time, and taxes all of our energy systems, to create the most metabolic workouts that you will ever experience.

A kettlebell is a fantastic tool due to the handle being outside of the mass of the bell. This creates an extra axis for movements like the swing and the snatch, meaning the body has to develop as well as absorb momentum. Our bodies are designed to move in multiple planes of movement, yet so many exercise tools promote restricted linear movement. Linear movement is unnatural for the human body and takes away from natural functional movement - both joint stability and muscular strength.

The shape of the kettlebell allows for safe freedom of movement in all dimensions, unseen in any other fitness tool. There is nothing else as versatile towards any fitness goal and kettlebells have often been described as the "hand held gym!"


Fat burn / Weight loss

“According to The American Council on Exercise (ACE) a kettlebell workout will burn approximately 20 calories per minute. In terms of calorie burning, this is the equivalent to running at a six-minute mile pace, or cross-country skiing uphill at a fast pace. “

There are many ways of training cardio for fat burn and weight loss, just as there are ways of achieving the same goals with weight training. Most training methods are either cardio, or resistance-weight based.

However, training with kettlebells gives you the best of both worlds. It is the most metabolic method of training, becoming a simultaneous cardio and resistance workout! 

Not only you will burn off the unwanted fat, you will save/gain the lean muscle mass that keeps that fat off and tones your entire body, at the same time!

 Kettlebell workouts are so demanding that they will leave your body incinerating fat for up to 48-72 hours after your session.

(Adequate rest/recovery and nutrition is vitally important of course!)

Toning

Kettlebell workouts raise neuro-muscular activity (the signals sent from your brain to your muscles). As a result, this will raise your metabolism and keep it raised long after your workout! No matter what your physique, the workouts will leave your muscles fired up and active for days.
Kettlebells require you to focus on whole-body conditioning. That means that no muscle is ever used on it`s own.


Strength & Flexibility

Every single person will immediately benefit from a good balance of strength and flexibility! Once again, only kettlebell workouts produce simultaneous results in both categories, where other workouts are biased towards one category or the other. 

It increases our ability to use our strength in a greater ranges of moment throughout the body, recovering and reusing the energy we generate and/or spend in an efficient manner. 

The gains in strength and flexibility can be immediately transferred to many other workouts and activities including:

                - Golf, Yoga and Pilates, 

               - running and cycling, 

               - weight lifting, 

               - sports, athletics, marshal arts and much more... 

You will definitely feel the difference in everyday life.

These workouts can be so intense that it will leave muscles over active (tight) for a couple of days, and stretching to maintain your flexibility will be a very important part of it.

Also, There are noticeable improvements to be made in co-ordination, stability and balance while training with kettlebells.

Lifters & Body Builders

The Greater your overall functional strength (Full Body Strength), the better your divided muscle groups can perform, in both compound exercises and in isolation.

We often train to develop strength and size in specific parts of our body in order to raise our overall strength, but progression soon becomes hindered as soon as our strengths are out of balance. This may be from poor form, technique, or even just neglecting a few muscles that we don't enjoy training. Sometimes we don't even realize we've neglected them. 

Exercising with kettlebells encourages the nervous system to practice sending signals to all muscles required for any given movement, recruiting muscles that are otherwise left redundant in isolated movements.

Kettlebell workouts are ballistic in nature, and by choosing the appropriate weight you will be exerting forces that are far greater than you are used to and the gains can be phenomenal! Once you get a kettlebell moving, it multiplies in weight X 3-4 and much more! Your body will be working that much harder perform each workout effectively and demand more strength from your strength reserves.

Stimulating more muscle recruitment = more strength, heavier lifting, more muscle growth

The human body has masses of strength in genetic reserve for the rare occasion that you need it! However, that strength remains redundant and completely useless if you are unable to train it, and that applies to every single muscle across your body.

You will be recruiting more strength from “Fast Twitch” muscle fibers and greater stamina of “Slow Twitch” muscle fibers. Kettlebell workouts allow you to tap into and exercise muscle fibers that are rarely used in traditional workouts, more frequently.

Increasing your functional body strength and having a strong posterior chain will increase your muscular stability and ability to lift heavier, and for more reps. This directly increases your potential to gain strength or size in your own workouts.