Do you want to burn fat, build muscle, and increase your strength and stamina?
Are you ready to turn your body into a lean, strong, and machine?
How would you like to attain unsurpassed muscular endurance and mental toughness?
Kettle bells are one of our favorite fitness tools at Code Green Fitness. They are portable, extremely versatile, and deliver tremendous results. If you are looking for a firm body, with amazing abs and unmatched strength and stamina, then you have come to the right place.
Once you start training with kettle bells, you will be infected with the power that kettle bell training produces. The best thing about the kettle bell is that there is no need to purchase a gym membership or spend $1000s on expensive equipment. One or two kettle bells are all that you’ll need lose fat, increase your strength, build size and improve your muscular endurance. They also do not take up very much space so you can take them and anywhere: in your home, apartment, backyard, garage, or on vacation in your hotel room. Kettle bell training will give you strength and mental toughness beyond what you have ever experienced, not to mention a great physique.
Are you ready to take the kettle bell challenge?
We are currently offering small group kettle bell training classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 and 8 am. If those times do not workout for you and you have the desire to learn how to train with the kettle bell, we offer private lessons or you can form your own group of 2 or more.
If you are interested, please contact us at 949-436-7348 or email codegreenfitness@gmail.com.
What is a kettle bell?
When you think of a kettle bell, imagine a bowling ball with a suitcase handle on it. I also like to refer to it or think of it as a cannon ball with a handle. Basically, it’s a forged mound of iron or steel that comes in several different sizes and/or weights. You can do standard weight training exercises with kettle bells such as: presses, curls, squats, lunges and rows. However, the best use of kettle bells comes from more ballistic (fast exercise) movements such as: snatches, swings, cleans, and jerks. However, ballistic movements are not the only exercises that you can benefit from. Kettle bell training includes more complex movement exercises such as: the Turkish get-up, Bent Press, and Windmill, which will develop a rock-hard midsection and core, as well as increase your shoulder flexibility and stability.
If you’re a man and want to put on some size and increase your strength, then try doing some kettle bell exercises like the Double Clean and Press, Double Front Squat, Renegade Row, Double Swing, and the Double Clean. If you’re a woman looking to lose some weight and tighten up your legs, glutes, abs, and arms, try some ballistic kettle bell work coupled with some low rep kettle bell training strength training and you will drop that excess body fat.
Now you could do all of the above exercises with dumbbells, however, anyone that has used kettle bells will tell you that they are much harder to handle. First of all, kettle bell handles are much thicker than dumbbells and will increase your grip strength in no time. Also, the off centered weight of a kettle bell will force you to use more core and stabilizer muscles. Thus your workload will target these muscles through a longer range of motion. If you’re an athlete, martial artist, or someone that loves hard core training, then kettle bell training is definitely for you. Lastly, the ballistic use of kettle bells teaches you how to absorb shock efficiently. This gets your functioning as a strong, solid unit, which is critical for combat sports such as: boxing,wrestling, MMA, football, and Hockey.
Q: Is kettle bell training effective for fat loss?
A: Absolutely! Kettle bell training, especially the ballistic exercise and doing circuits and combinations will help you get a major calorie burn. However, proper nutrition is the essential key to fat loss. Fat loss is 75% diet and 25% training. Kettle bell training can be a very effective way to boost your metabolism, but fat loss only occurs when you combine proper nutrition with proper training.
Q: Is Kettlebell training effective for building muscle?
A: Of Course! Just like barbells and dumbbells, kettle bells are a form of weight training. Since barbells and dumbbells are effective for building muscle, kettle bells are effective as well. If you’ve been training for a while with barbells and dumbbells and want a new stimulus, then kettle bell training is for you. Kettle bells are also great for building massive strength in your shoulders, hamstrings, and arms.
Q: If I want to get stronger without getting bigger, is kettle bell training for me?
A: Yes, this is one of the major benefits of kettle bell training. For example, women love kettle bell training because it helps them tone up and lose fat without over developing muscles. Truthfully, building muscle is just not that easy. It’s difficult for men and especially difficult for women, so getting huge should be the least of your worries. Worrying about getting too big and bulky is like worrying that you are making too much money. Therefore, kettle bell training is for anyone that wants functional strength that carries over to real world.
Q: Do women use kettle bells?
A: Yes, of course women train with kettle bells. They use them all the time, because it gets their heart rate up and tones their body. Women love doing exercises like swings, one-legged dead lifts, and windmills, because they are great for tightening up your glutes, hamstrings, abs and core.
Q: If you are say that kettle bells are so great, then why aren’t they in most gyms and health clubs?
A: Since I have worked for a couple major fitness club chains in the past, I can tell you first hand that the main goal of a fitness club is to make money and keep liability costs low. The trend in most clubs is to have more machines and less free weights, because this decreases the potential for members to get injured. While machines are not nearly as effective as free weights, they are much easier to use and require minimal instruction. Thus, the fitness clubs also have less of a need for highly skilled trainers. If a gym adds kettle bells to their facilities, then they have to pay for their trainers to get certified in proper kettle bell instruction. Health clubs and gyms would much rather spend their money on their sales staff, because most of the money that is made is through membership sale. Most clubs think that the potential client that has not signed up yet is far more important than the client that has already joined. Therefore, many gyms spend the majority of their income on marketing to attract new members, not by getting results or providing exceptional service for their existing members. I don’t believe there is anything wrong with making money as that is an important goal for every business, but few fitness clubs and gyms realize that they could make more money by providing great services to their clients. The truth is that the clients the gyms prefer are the ones that sign up and never show up. The ones that actually use the gym regularly are costly. The last thing a gym or fitness club wants you to know is that you can get in great shape at home or on the road with just a few kettle bells. Anyone can afford one or two kettle bells and has room to store them in their closet, under the bed, or corner of your room or garage.
Are you ready to take the kettlebell challenge?