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Kettlebell training is a very functional type of strength and cardio training. You are practicing movements that your body can use in everyday life.

Here are the major benefits kettlebells can offer athletes:


The classic Olympic lifts become more accessible using kettlebells. They are less technically demanding than using a barbell, but still provide the benefits of ballistic training. Ballistic drills teach the body how to generate and transfer power from the legs to the arms. An essential and valuable skill for any athlete.

The kettlebells’ displaced centre of gravity and cumbersomeness uniquely challenges the body’s stabilizer muscles and forces the entire body to participate in the movement, recruiting more muscles and joints, providing a much more realistic and functional approach to conditioning.

The kettlebell’s centre of gravity is always changing. Coordination, timing, awareness and agility are required to properly execute the drills.

You can train muscles and joints from many angles with numerous challenging drills that target the entire body, while generating and controlling forces from the ground up.

Since most kettlebell drills involve multiple joints, you learn to absorb force over a great range of motion using many joints. These shock absorbing qualities conditions players to the demands of full contact sports.

Kettlebell training builds strength, flexibility and helps injury prevention. Due to the displaced center of gravity, muscles are often loaded and stretched through a greater range of motion than with classical training, closely simulating in the training room what happens on the field.

The posterior chain gets trained explosively through a full range of motion with kettlebell throws and swings.

Kettlebell training involves many unilateral drills, exposing weaknesses and imbalances throughout the entire body. Also, standing unilateral training mimics the athletic demands of most sports, and fully engage the core muscles in every drills.

Kettlebells teach the body to absorb force and redirect it, and to accelerate and decelerate weights . It is a skill athletes use when they change directions while running for example.

Read the rest of the article here http://kettlebell-fitness.dk/index.php/articles/general/16-benefits-for-athletes

Thierry Sanchez

http://kettlebell-fitness.dk
International Union of Kettlebell Lifting( IUKL) coach and representative


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