This kettlebell workout really taxes and challenges your entire body burning major calories and powerfully working your entire core musculature.
I’m Mark Mellohusky- an often barefoot eternal student of health and physical culture who will not go quietly into the sunset since I have learned how to age gracefully by adopting sane eating strategies, staying strong and lean, moving well and pain-free and conquering nasty fat. All without spending hours haunting gyms doing hours of sappy low value media endorsed exercises.
I share only my best fitness methods that truly work and stand the test of time as they relate to getting fit in a sustainable and productive manner without wasting your precious time!
Check out this quick demo to give your fitness a kick in the ass!
This kettlebell workout was pretty challenging as I did this on an unstable, live surface like sand with a 40mph wind which really dialed me in to using every stabilizer muscle to stay rooted and stable.
READ The Awesome Benefits Of Kettlebell Training to decide if you are up to training with these superior fitness tools.
How To Perform These Kettlebell Swings:
5 kettlebell swings with left arm
5 kettlebell swings with right arm
5 kettlebell swings both arms
Set the clock for 10 minutes and see how many quality rounds you can complete with good form and posture.
Tips And Techniques
Kick off the shoes and train barefoot if the conditions are favorable or use minimum footwear such as Converse Chuck Taylors like me for maximum fitness benefit.
Related: Seven Super Reasons To Train Barefoot
This is a great stand alone exercise or can be worked into a circuit or paired with sprints or jumping rope. The sky’s the limit as long as you know how to safely and productively design a training session. Check out my site archives for tons of ideas!
As you get better, experiment with your repetitions. For example, I will often do more swings during the two-handed phase of this workout as the load is easier to swing – 5 left handed, 5 right handed and 10 two handed. There are many variations to try within this concept I have shown you, but I like to keep the rep ranges relatively low and let those multiple rounds add up to work their fitness magic!
The weight of the kettlebell to use will be limited by how much you can handle with a single arm safely with good technique.
Start with a one minute rest between rounds, but adjust up or down depending on your fitness level.
Always do a proper warm up to prepare for intense exercise activity such as the across the body kettlebell swing workout.
Related: Do A Meaningful Warmup For Fitness Success to dial you in to why warm ups are so important.
I choose to perform these types of exercises as they allow me to stay strong and lean, move well and pain-free, keep fat off and live a high quality healthy life without boring the hell out of me or wasting my precious time.
Give this awesome workout a try to really fire up your fitness motivation and accelerate you to your worthy fitness goals!
Stay Well! Take Action! Be Consistent! Train and Eat Smart! Get Rid of the Drains and Pains in Your Life! Value your loved ones and friends and get out and have some active, safe fun!
Your pal in fitness,
Mark Mellohusky (Mellow Husky) mellow as in laid back and husky like the dog!
I enjoy sharing my fitness training and health philosophies I practice that I have either adopted or tweaked from some of the fitness greats in history or designed myself. Most of my adult life has been spent testing out and experimenting countless fitness methodologies filtering out and keeping the most productive methods that pay the most fitness dividends for my precious time invested and dumping those methods with the least value.
There’s a sparkle in my eyes and iron in my thighs!
I eat T-Bone steaks and lift kettlebell weights!
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