Basic Kettlebell Exercises

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Kettlebell workouts are one of the more effective ways of increasing strength and conditioning the body. In short kettlebells can be used to get you in great physical condition in a shorter amount of time than conventional workouts.

However using kettlebells effectively is not as simple as using other equipment and designing a kettlebell program that suits your training goals can be tricky for a beginner even though the rewards from such a program could far outweigh the results from other exercises.

Basic Kettlebell Exercises

The three most common basic kettlebell exercises that should be first for you to learn are the Swing, the Turkish Get Up and the Goblet Squat. One of the most frequently made mistakes people make when they get into kettlebell workouts is jumping straight into the advanced exercises when they haven’t properly mastered the basics. Doing it this way will ensure that your workouts are less effective and that your chances of injuring yourself are much increased.

A Beginner Kettlebell Workout

Now that you know what exercises you should be performing to start with lets run down how you could put them all together into a proper kettlebell workout.

First we need a warm up. Pick a couple of sound bodyweight exercises and put them together in a circuit doing 10 reps of each. So your workout would be:

10 Bodyweight Squats

10 Sit ups

10 Push ups

Repeat this sequence twice

Then start the Kettlebell exercises:

Perform 3-4 sets of 15 reps of the Goblet Squat, Take a 30 second rest.

Perform 4 sets of 20 Kettlebell Swings, Take a 30 second rest.

Perform 5 Turkish Get-Ups on each side switching sides with each rep.

So that’s it. Now you may think this workout looks simple but remember kettlebell workouts are highly effective and once you have mastered these you can start some advanced kettlebell workouts.

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