Category: Blog
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 3
In this blog, I will share my experience developing strength endurance from my perspective and reflect on how my athletes have responded. I have tried a wide range of methods, often using myself as a bit of an experiment before trying them on people I train. The most significant take-home message: The most important thing…
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 2
As mentioned in Part 1, kettlebell sport is associated with strength or power endurance. Part 1 documented some approaches to building strength or power endurance in elite world champions. In part two, I will briefly examine what the science says about developing these qualities and highlight an effective and efficient way to develop this type…
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 1
Kettlebell sport is a power endurance sport. As such developing your strength endurance or local muscular endurance should in turn improve your kettlebell sport performance. Traditionally, this has been done with various approaches, typically all involving higher reps. In this blog, we will look at traditional approaches. In part two we will look at whether…
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Off-season training ideas, part 2 – time efficient training
Building on my previous post about off-season training sometimes people still want to scratch the training itch but don’t have enough time. Maybe you’re extra busy or on holiday. Or even your kids are on holiday and you’re still working, so your usual training time has been drastically reduced. Kettlebell training particularly kettlebell sport training…
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Off-season training ideas, part 1 – time efficient training
Building on my previous post about off-season training sometimes people still want to scratch the training itch but don’t have enough time. Maybe you’re extra busy or on holiday. Or even your kids are on holiday and you’re still working, so your usual training time has been drastically reduced. Kettlebell training particularly kettlebell sport training…
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Balance, Breathing and Intention: A new framework for kettlebell sport technique.
Outside of the athletes lifting posture, coaches often rely on their intuition and experience when providing client feedback for other nuanced components of their technique. This blog aims to explore a different framework and offer contextual factors around feedback other than just the position/posture. Feedback will vary depending on the goal. For example, an athlete…
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Running and Kettlebell Sport, part 2
There are many different ways to set up an endurance program. Whether you’re looking to complete a race or improve your performance in a race we can select the program that best suits your needs. Many successful runners run at a lower intensity and increase their intensity towards the time of competition, while others focus…
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Running and Kettlebell Sport
This blog will outline some ways to combine running and kettlebell sports. We will look at it from both a running focus and a kettlebell sport focus and create a program that should have synergy or transfer between the two sports. Again, switching focus for both of these sports can be a way to work…
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Kettlebell Sport Programming Beginner vs Experienced
Is it the time that hurts, or is it the pace? As you gain greater experience with kettlebell sport the optimal program for you may change. As a coach, I’ve noticed that beginners may have multiple small differences that can add up to have a large effect on their training compared to more experienced lifters.…
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Combining Powerlifting and Kettlebell Sport Triathlon
Primer Do you ever get bored just training three lifts? The key to success for many lifting sports is consistency. In Australia, I’ve seen many promising kettlebell sport lifters reach rank 1 level and then move on to other sports, due to burning out. Again consistency is essential. However, that doesn’t mean that you always…