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While everyone wants to snatch, not everyone wants to learn how to snatch. Fewer people want to learn how to swing. Brett Jones Master RKC stated "There is a big difference between swinging a kettlebell, and performing a kettlebell swing." Perfectly put. Everyone is more than happy to swing kettlebells around, but not quite as quick to do all the drills necessary to learn how to perform a kettlebell swing.
In my workshops I work with personal trainers who want to add some kettlebell skills to their repertoire. Most often this works out fine and the trainers learn how to effectively perform the six core lifts of hard-style kettlebell training. On occasion I run into trainers who are unable to swallow their pride, and deal with the fact that most of what they know simply does not apply to kettlebell training. In fact, often trainers pretty much need to go back to square one and start the learning process all over again. Some cannot cope with this and don't use kettlebells themselves. This is unfortunate as often the trainer will also be unable to swallow his pride when it comes to regressing a client.
There is a reason that the RKC program minimum is composed of the Turkish Get Up and the Swing. These two movements are the roots from which all other movements sprout. Swings, cleans, high pulls, snatches, all look pretty much the same from the hips down. If someone is unable to properly perform a swing, how are they going to perform a snatch, which is basically a more advanced swing? If I watch someone snatching and their hips lack any real snap, I know that if I watch their swings, the swings will be faulty as well. If they are 'stiff arming' the snatch, I know their high pull is broken.
Via Balance Board Blog : virtual skating on the Wii's Balance Board. Looks great.
Via Recreate Fitness : hanging around. Not to mention a sizeable collection of dumbbells.
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Like most of the good folks around Straight to the Bar, when it comes to fitness, Kat tends to be conspicuous on the gym floor or in the backyard, doing odd-looking exercises and making strange guttural noises that leave her throat sore.
Kat began training in 1990. She earned personal training certification with the National Academy of Sports Medicine in 2001, worked as a trainer at a Gold's Gym, and as head trainer/manger at a Bally Total Fitness.
Kat holds a master's degree in professional writing. Her training articles have appeared in many top muscle magazines. Infatuated with the liberation of self-publishing over the Internet, she maintains a few blogs, including one which reviews fitness equipment and books.
Kat is an explorer by nature and finds great joy in her fitness evolution. She has competed with various bodybuilding organizations, and judged for OCB. These days, her passion is strength training, with big chunks of Olympic lifting and heavybag beating.
She strives to promote a lifestyle geared toward overall health, well-being, safety, strength, power, sanity, lasting results and peace of mind.
