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Top 5 Kettlebell Exercises for Various Sports.
This is by all means not all encompassing, but a good general guide to exercises you should look into or have taught to you by a professional kettlebell teacher for various sports. I will continue to add to this list as various sports com to mind.
FOOTBALL (American) Lineman Focus.
- Double Kettlebell Swings from inside and outside of legs.
- Double Cleans
- Renegade Row
- Dead Snatch
- Alternating Jerk
Speed Players
- Alternating Kettlebell Swings
- Reverse Lunge with Overhead Press
- Swing Squats
- Swing-Thrus
- Single Arm Heavy Jerk
Baseball and Golf
- Renegade Row
- One Arm Snatch (especially for pitchers to train the posterior chain)
- Turkish Getup
- Lateral Kettlebell Swing or Kneeling Lateral Snatch
- Rotational Cleans
Sprinters
- Two Handed Squat Style Kettlebell Swing
- Renegade Row
- One Arm Jerk
- Dead Weight Clean
- Alternating Double Bell Cleans
Soccer
- Renegade Rows
- One Handed Kettlebell Swing
- Lateral Goblet Lunges
- Rack Squats on Bosu Ball
- Pistols (One legged Squat)
Hockey
- Goblet Cossack Lunges
- Leg Adducting One Arm Kettlebell Swings
- Turkish Getups
- Deep Squats on Bosu Ball
- Single Leg Deadlift
Volleyball
- Two handed Swing Squats
- Snatch
- Push Press
- Jumping Jack Kettlebell Swings
- Plyometric High Pulls
Power Transfer For Athletes?
Can you see where this exercise beneficial for a lineman taking off foreward from the line versus just squat training?? Think about the transfer of power from the feet to the arms…..
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Tagged athletes, lineman, linemen, nfl, power, transfer
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Armaid Trigger Point Tool For Kettlebells and Forearm Pain Relief
Remember to let them know at www.armaid.com the Joe Daniels sent you. This product is incredible for elbow forearm and wrist pain.
How Swing This Kettlebells Came To Be…..
Heres a quick informative tour of how Swing This Kettlebells came to be.
- 2003. I wanted more from my life of partying, playing music and generally being a self absorbed person Im sure all my ex gf’s will say the same thing. oh well you live and learn right?? So i went to a gym. Body Dynamics in Alexandria Ky.
- Cardio’d my frustrations and fat away. I was so lean and went at it so hard people thought I was gonna kill myself. Earphones and my favorite sad music propelled me. I was still smoking at the time. That soon stopped. Some habits are hard to break.
- Started lifting weights again and remembered how much i enjoyed the feeling from football training in high school 5 years prior.
- 2005 Competed in first bodybuilding show. People at gym asked me to help them with training and eating better.
- I always trained so differently compared to the other people in the gym. I figured if you want to look different you have to do different things.
- 2005 Certified by National Strength and Conditioning Association.
- 2006 Certified by National Academy of Sports Medicine.
- Became very interested in functional training and how it could be inplemented in bodybuilding and for the general public
- Began training people at Jeremiah Forsters gym
- Met Joel Hensley whom many of you know has now traded bodybuilding for a kettlebell and a forest of a beard……
- Competed many more times.
- 2007 Started training people on my own full time.
- Daniels Fitness Training was born and continued to train at Gyms such as Body Shape in Independence Ky along with Anytime Fitness in Wilder Ky.
- 2009 won my class at the Beverly Northern KY Bodybuilding Show and the overall that the 2009 Cincinnati NPC championship, then went to Jr Nationals. Didnt fare so well there. Oh well. Life isnt just about winning bodybuilding shows for me. Its about bettering myself and the people around me.
- As soon as that show run was over , I fell in love with kettlebell training. I pretty much stayed away from all machine training and focused solely on barbell and functional training .Ropes, med balls, stability training , plyometrics and kettlebells.
- 2010 Certified Kettlebell Teacher by Steve Cotters International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation
- 2010 voted Cincinnati Citybeat Best Personal Trainer. (please vote For Swing This Kettlebells for best training center this year and if youd like , JOe Daniels for Personal Trainer )
- A client and I had the idea to call a kettlebell studio “Swing This.” Started as a goof, but so many people kept calling it that it became the unofficial name for Daniels Fitness Training LLc Studio. Everyone i talked to asked me if I really thought a kettlebell only studio would be a good idea. What do you think now??
- 2011 opened a larger Studio in Latonia KY . Moving into all types of training tools such as sandbags and bulgarian bags. People really enjoy training at At Swing. We Have a wonderful community of people from all over the tristate and are continually expanding into the health and fitness community near Cincinnati and Northern Ky.
Were here to stay and appreciate your support. If there is anything we can help you with or answer please feel free to ask at our facebook page Swing This.
JOE DANIELS
TESTIMONIAL Craig L.
This post proves just how different we all are and that what we do at SwingThis accomodates virtually everyone— JOE DANIELS
“This is my first official post on “Facebook” ever. Why? Well, because for years I have told myself I would not circum to virtual dialogue. I am still not willing to post mundane things like, “I am standing in line at Kroger”. And I am definitely not willing to post pictures of myself in front of my bathroom mirror taken with my phone. “I HATE THAT!” However, due to some recent changes in my life, I find it pertinent to share some of the transformations that have occurred since joining “Swing this Kettlebells” and training under Joe Daniels.
In fear of writing a magazine article, I have decided to write a number of posts dealing with my personal metamorphosis, challenges, and some of the individual catalyst evoking the changes.
POST 1: “Looks Can Be Deceiving”
I will not be able to post pictures of myself extremely overweight, because I am not. I never have been. Although at 38, I am not nearly as sculpted as I was at 18, I still, at least on the outside, look average. As a matter of fact, the most asked question I have received from my friends and family is “Why are you working out”? Followed by “You are not fat.” My response to them has been “Just because I am not FAT, does not mean I am healthy”. Unless eating like crap, smoking a pack a day, having no energy, difficulty sleeping and no real personal health goals is healthy.
Reality, I AM /WAS a mess!
After my first workout with Joe, I proved to myself that I was a mess. I could barely get through the first workout and was vomiting during and after the next couple. Not to mention the inability to walk up stairs or move my arms very well because I was so sore. Oh, and did I mention how much smoking helps when you are trying to train with Joe. How do I type an out of breath wheezing sound? So my point to anyone reading this that is considering training at “Swing This”, is………”Regardless of if you are “fat” or “skinny” there is much to be gained at “Swing This”. My outlook on life has changed so much since I started training at Swing this. I have been forced to confront many issues both physical and mental. TOUGH STUFF! Probably the toughest thing I have ever done, and I love it! -Craig L.
thanks man its great to see the changes youre making in your life. looking forward to the next part! for more testimonials see here …..
Shoulder update 1/19/12
actually relieved that Jim Nobbe was able to pinpoint the problem in my shoulder. and now i have so much relief. i was actually getting a bit depressed from the issue and how it affected my day to day life. it produced a lot of anxiety. Its true what they say sometime we do hold the weight of the world on our shoulders. if you exercise or do hard labor, you must remember to take care of your soft tissues. Massage therapy can make an athlete. id try for at least one a month at MINIMUM. With Jim , Onalda Martinez and the The Garage Massage Therapy and Bodywork along with Wanda Sucher at Lifepath Rolfing, i am able to continue to show and teach people my passion of functional fitness. Get your tune ups people.
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Tagged body work, garage bodywork, jim nobbe, massage, onalda martinez, rolfing, soft tissue, wand sucher
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Flexibility and mobility circuit 1/7/12
do 3-5 rounds of 10 reps each on off training days or 1-2 rounds as a full bodywarmup before training.
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How To Take Away Gamey Taste From Venison
Venison is a great meat. Period. Theyre not fed junk like American Feedlot Beef.
They eat naturally from the Wild. My Father bowhunts deer in Ky annually, which is one of the closest ways to nature to get meat. I have a freezer of the stuff and eat it weekly sometimes daily. Wonderful flavor, high in protein and low in fat, and im sure full of omega 3′s from all the vegetation deer eat. Theyre not fattened with corn or inflammatory soybeans!!!!
There are many people who dont like the gamey flavor of venison. I say too bad. Grass fed beef has a gamey flavor as well because the eat GRASS!!! Almost all the deer taste different as they eat DIFFERENT things from different areas. Same as grass fed beef. Theres all sorts of grass right??? Remember we are what we eat and most importanly we are what our FOOD EATS .
Aside from Fattening cattle up with GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN AND SOYBEANS these foods fed to the animals keep the flavor of the meat THE SAME across every state. When you go to walmart and get meat from cargill, every beef will taste the same. Through in a grass fed steak in between grocery trips and you will not even think its beef. But it is . Its the beef your great grandparents and country folk knew. And How long did they live??? 80, 90, 100+ ??? I digress.
Back to the point Joe,
Well For the people who dont like the gamey flavor of venison I will be finding and posting ways you can make it more palatable so we can get back to nature and STOP fueling the factory farming wheel . (if you love beef, and I do, try to source your meat from local independent farms such as The Cox Family Farms of Bracken Co KY)
- One of my favorite ways is to use organic butter if the medium temp skillet,
- cube the venison or cut to thin strips,
- add chopped garlic , sautee
- throw venison in and brown or cook too your liking . Remember its lean so it can burn fat, hence why i cook it slow
- use a couple tablespoons of this Chipotle salsa. Its not chunky just saucelike and adds a very smoky flavor coupled with the garlic gives a bite to the venison and makes it taste much closer to a sirloin steak.
- add sea salt to your liking.
- Boom. Done. Cook a lot and save it .
- Ive paired it with some Brown Rice or a nice cooling salad. a Cold Quinoa salad is good as a side as well.
- dont forget your veggies…..
Bufalo Chopotle sauce ROCKS.
