Kettlebell Training: The Benefits
Training with kettlebells brings full body benefits.
- Full body Strength
Kettlebells recruite multiple muscle groups from head to toe and help build serious strength and muscle mass. - Low impact cardio
The ballistic nature of many kettlebell exercises make them perfect for low impact cardiovascular training. Kettlebell flows and circuits are executed in submaximal loads and puts a lot of positive demands on your cardio system. In less time you boost your endurance and this amplifies your strength and power output. - Coordination and mobility
Even if you don’t have good coordination and mobility, with kettlebell training you can start working on them with exercises like Getups, Windmills, Swings, Goblet Squats and Deadlifts. Gradually you build up to more complex movements and your mobility and coordination will be extremely developed. - Training Versatility
Kettlebells are portable and you can train anywhere and also utilize a variety of different movement patterns. - Fight imbalancies and asymmetry
Most kettlebell exercises have a unilateral nature. This means that muscle imbalancies and asymmetries cannot be hidden since the sides of the body work independently. - Power development
Lifting heavy weights takes a lot of mental discipline but moving a heavy weight fast takes a lot of mental toughness. - Grip strength
Kettlebell training develops tremendous grip strength and powerfull forearms as you move the kettlebell through different planes of motion for a longer periods of time. - Sports performance
Your body learns how to manage a constantly changing center of gravity. The kettlebells center of gravity is 6-8 inches outside of your grip. This copies the forces we meet in sports and everyday life. This attribute helps to improve this aspect of sports performance. - Less overall training time
This happens because training with kettlebells recruite many muscle groups silmoutaneously. - Fat-burning tool
Kettlebells offer a huge calorie-burning potential. ACE did a study which showed that doing kettlebell swings for 20 minutes burns 400 calories. If you tried to achieve this by running, you’d need to be running at a 6-minute per mile pace.