Tips
Ten More Tips for Getting Started on Kettlebells
10. Watch Pavel's Video.
9. Perform a few vertical jumps in place, remembering to keep your shins vertical and snapping the hips through. Contract your glutes super tight as your hips lock out. This is the basic movement for the swing, clean and snatch.
8. When you have the basics down, try and go for max reps. As you begin to fatigue, try and figure out ways to continue more efficiently. Many of your best insights will come to you during these high-rep sets. Stop when you have at least 2-4 perfect reps left in the bank. Never train to failure!
7. To save your forearms, try to get your wrist under the bell before it reaches its highest point. As your comfort increases, time the point of impact with the "floating point" at the apex of the bell's trajectory. The weight has no momentum at this time, so there will be no pounding on your wrist and no wasted effort.
6. The power comes from the hips. Or as Moses68 says, "Man's strength and powers shall spring from his loins.!"
Tyler holding the KB in preparation for a pistol.
Robb Wolf performing the two-arm swing.
