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Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For You

Here are some honest kettlebell DVD reviews for you.

(DISCLAIMER: These reviews are all based on my personal knowledge of each DVD plus my personal relationships with the DVD’s creators – all of whom I have known for years and all of whom have the deep desire to help people excel physically.)

The kettlebell DVD – every trainer seems to have their own these days. Sometimes even two or three. But is their kettlebell DVD right for you?

Here’s how to know for sure.

You need to know what your goal is so you can match your goal to the right kettlebell DVD.
Do you want to lose fat? Just generally get in shape? Learn how to use kettlebells? Build muscle? Have someone lead you through a workout that you can do while watching?

Be as specific as you can with your goals because there are a ton of kettlebell DVDs on the market, each one of them as specific as your goals.

Also, make sure that the authors of the kettlebell DVDs you are interested in have a good reputation. Make sure they’re not just somebody ripping off another person’s ideas. For me personally, when I want to learn something of importance, I go straight to the source. Sure, sometimes I might pay a little more, but that’s OK because I know I’m getting great, high quality reliable information that will get me to my goals at a faster pace than the “el-cheapo” version.

The next important thing to know is which category of kettlebell training you fall into.

Are you a beginner, intermediate, or advanced kettlebell user?

And please don’t kid yourself about which one you fall into. If you do, you are really doing yourself a disservice. In fact, you could end up injuring yourself and ending your kettlebell training days permanently.

Let’s take a closer look…

 

1. Beginner.

The beginner is someone who has been using kettlebells for less than one year. You, my friend, will see marvelous results just focusing on the basics.

Beginner Kettlebell DVD Reviews

Here are several kettlebell DVDs for beginners.

etk Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouEnter the Kettlebell. This is the ultimate primer for kettlebell training. It takes you from beginner status all the way up to advanced status. It can literally be used for that long.

It’s chocked full of the basic kettlebell exercises, common mistakes, and corrections for those mistakes.

Pavel demonstrates the correct technique for the kettlebell swing, the Turkish Get Up, the kettlebell clean, the kettlebell press, and the kettlebell snatch.

If I were forced to choose only one kettlebell DVD, this would be it.

Kettlebell DVD rating: 5 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of Enter the Kettlebell.

 

tgu Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouKettlebells From The Ground Up. This is a kettlebell DVD about the Turkesh Get Up. How can you make a kettlebell DVD about just one exercise? Isn’t that boring? Far from it. In this DVD, Brett Jones, Master Kettlebell Instructor, and Gray Cook, PT, World Renowned Physical Therapist, show you how to field-strip the Get Up to literally turn back your body’s clock helping you feel young again through this simple movement.

If you’ve ever been injured in a sport or while working out, this kettlebell DVD is right up your alley. I have used the information inside it and I arguably feel ten years younger (I’m a high mileage strength aficionado). It literally shows you how to take this one exercise, the Turkish Get Up, and rehabilitate and strengthen all your dinged up parts – shoulders, hips, knees, low back – everything.

Kettlebell DVD rating: 5 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of Kettlebells From The Ground Up.

 

resilient Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouResilient. This kettlebell DVD is one of Pavel’s best. In a similar vein as Kettlebells From The Ground Up, Resilient is a series of kettlebell and bodyweight exercises designed to take the high-mileage athlete and tune him or her back up again. The exercises Pavel demonstrates in this kettlebell DVD address all the areas that athletes and couch potatoes alike pick up chronic aches and dings – lower back, shoulders, hips, knees.

Each exercise in this DVD is designed to address one or two of those areas, like the RKC arm bar. This exercise shows you how to use a light kettlebell (Yes, Bubba, there actually are uses for a light kettlebell – who knew?)

It’s well worth owning and if you follow it as outlined, you’ll see noticeable improvements for sure.

Kettlebell DVD rating: 4 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of Resilient.

 

2. Intermediate.

The intermediate kettlebell user is someone who has been training with kettlebells for between one and three years.

Intermediate Kettlebell DVD Reviews

Here are several ketttlebell DVDs for intermediate kettlebell users.

tgu Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouKettlebells From The Ground Up. Interestingly enough, even though I reviewed this in the beginner section, it is also a stellar product for the intermediate kettlebell user looking to refine his or her kettlebell skills.

This literally takes the Turkish Get Up to a whole new level of difficulty. It helps you assess, identify, and correct any major (but not operable) weaknesses you may have or may have and didn’t know about.

It must be experienced to be believed. But in my estimation, this product is well worth the money and time invested in it.

Kettlebell DVD rating: Still 5 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of Kettlebells From The Ground Up.

 

more Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouMore Russian Kettlebell Challenges. This is Pavel’s third kettlebell DVD I believe and it was filmed before Enter The Kettlebell. It is our first introduction to the staple kettlebell exercise, the Turkish Get Up. In it he includes 25 different kettlebell exercises, each of which, except maybe the Spit Press (youch!) has a place in every kettlebell nut’s regimen.

It is also our first real introduction to the powerful double kettlebell exercises like the Double Kettlebell Front Squat and the Double Kettlebell Clean (and Press).

It is a masterful blend of single kettlebell, double kettlebell, and kettlebell flexibility exercises.
Pick up this kettlebell DVD once you have finished the ETK Rite of Passage.

Kettlebell DVD rating: 4 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of More Russian Kettlebell Challenges.

 

goddess Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouThe Kettlebell Goddess Workout. This is a full on work-along DVD by Master Kettlebell Instructor, Andrea Du Cane. Its target audience is women. So it caters to the needs and desires of women. Therefore, as a man, I have absolutely no use for it. (Just kidding – had to see if you were paying attention.)

Andrea takes you through a thorough warm up before each workout (yes, more than one workout to choose from – six in fact – which makes this a “must-have” DVD for women working out with kettlebells) and Nicole and Kristann demonstrate the exercises from different views. You can also pick from upper body, lower body, core, or cardio for whatever area you want to workout on any particular day.

This is an excellent work along kettlebell DVD for women (and even men, as long as you don’t want to become a goddess…).

And you can’t beat the price for all that you get.

These kettlebell workouts for women are really fantastic. If you’re a woman, you’re going to love these workouts. (And guys, pick up a copy for your wife or girlfriend – she’ll thank you for it and you’ll like her better because of it.)

Kettlebell DVD rating: 4 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of The Kettlebell Goddess Workout.

 

3. Advanced.

The advanced kettlebell user is someone who has over three years of kettlebell training and is not only familiar, but relatively proficient with all the kettlebell exercises, including the double kettlebell ones.

Advanced Kettlebell DVD Reviews

Here is a great kettlebell DVD for the advanced kettlebell user.

rtk Kettlebell DVD Reviews – How To Find The Best Kettlebell DVD For YouReturn of the Kettlebell. This is Pavel’s newest kettlebell DVD. (Of course there’s also a book that goes along with this and you should, no wait, you must have it if you are an advanced kettlebell lifter.) In it, Pavel, and Master Kettlebell Instructor, Kenneth Jay, show you much more in depth than in More Russian Kettlebell Challenges how to perform the double kettlebell exercise, including the Clean, Front Squat, Press, Clean and Jerk, and Snatch (that’s right, the Double Snatch!) He also reveals some novelty snatches that can be done with light kettlebells that will make your shoulders swell up like grapefruits.

The focus of this whole program is how to build a powerfully strong and muscular body with the double kettlebell exercises. And Pavel doesn’t fail to deliver a program that yields maximum results.

Don’t worry if you can’t do some of the exercises, Pavel shows you corrections for each one and they’ll have you up and running in no time.

Return of the Kettlebell is focused solely at those individuals wanting to pack on mass, so it’s primarily for men, but women can benefit from it to. And it does a phenomenal job of doing so. Pavel lays out two distinctly different but effective mechanisms for packing on mass quickly. Both are challenging and fun. But beware! You’ll have to eat a lot with these kettlebell workouts!

If you pick up this DVD, you’ll absolutely want to get the companion book that goes along with it that actually details the RTK program.

Kettlebell DVD rating: 4 out of 5.

Click here to get your copy of Return of the Kettlebell.

 

There are of course many more kettlebell DVDs on the market today than just these. However, I personally feel that these are some of the best. And as such, I wanted my kettlebell DVD reviews to be based only on the programs I am familiar with.

Hopefully you’ve found these kettlebell DVD reviews more than helpful and already know which one or two you need to start with to start seeing the results you really want!

 

Is Kettlebell Training Right For You? (Maybe Not…)

With all the hype and media attention that kettlebell training is getting these days, you may be wondering if it’s right for you.

Honestly?

Probably not.

If you’re interested in learning why it’s not really in your best interest to get started with what’s got to be some of the most effective exercise ever designed, keep reading.

Kettlebell Training – Easy To Learn, Hard To Do?

Yeah I know – that sounds really weird. But the fact is that kettlebell exercises aren’t really that hard to learn, especially from a qualified kettlebell instructor. But kettlebell workouts can be really hard. And most people want easy.

Unfortunately, in most cases “easy” equals “zero” – as in “zero results.”

You see, kettlebell training is hard because it makes your entire body work. And that requires energy. And that makes you breathe hard, get all sweaty, and burn calories (in many cases stored as your body’s fat). And who wants to do that? Not many people.

That’s right – not many people will do just one of the things necessary to achieve their goals. It’s easier to sit around and do nothing but complain about why you’re not where you want to be than to actually do anything about it. Kettlebell workouts leave you winded, tired, and with less body fat. That’s just one of the reasons kettlebell training might not be right for you.

Kettlebell Training – Doesn’t Take Much Time, So Can’t Possibly Work – Can it?

There seems to be a correlation in many people’s minds that exercise must be long and boringly torturous in order to get any sort of results. But kettlebell training is usually the opposite. Kettlebell workouts are short. Many are shorter than 30 minutes. That’s because the kettlebell exercises are so efficient. You literally have the ability to work all your muscles at the same time – forcing your body to use lots and lots of energy (stored calories). So these types of workouts don’t have to be that long.

If you mistakenly believe that long, boring workouts must be better for getting results, then kettlebell training probably isn’t for you.

Kettlebell Training – Too Cost Effective To Be Of Any Value?

Imagine having one piece of exercise equipment that costs about $100 and not having to ever buy another piece of exercise equipment. That’s a kettlebell. Not only that, imagine working out in the comfort of your own home without having to go down to your local health club, gym, or meat market and not only waste money on gas sitting in traffic, but on your club membership too. If that sort of money-wasting experience appeals to you, than kettlebell training from the comfort of your own home probably won’t appeal to you.

And if you insist on having a basement full of expensive cardio equipment or the latest in home “all-in-one” piece of gym equipment, than kettlebell training is probably not for you. Especially since you can take your kettlebell out into your backyard and work out in the sunshine and fresh air.

But, if you are the kind of person who doesn’t mind a little hard work about three times per week, is into saving time, and is tired of wasting money on gym memberships you don’t use and on home gym equipment that’s just taking up space while holding your clothes, then kettlebell training will be a good fit for you.

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The Kettlebell Swing – The Simplest Kettlebell Exercise For Fat Burning

Whether one hand or two, the kettlebell swing is the simplest exercise to learn to start burning fat immediately.

Why The Kettlebell Swing Is Phenomenal For Fat Loss

The kettlebell swing burns fat so well because it is what’s known as a compound exercise – an exercise that uses many muscles spanning more than one joint in your body. The kettlebell swing uses many joints in the body and therefore a lot of muscles.

It uses the feet, the ankles, the knees, hips, spine, and shoulders, and all the muscles crossing those joints, including the calves, hamstrings, quads, glutes, lower back, upper back, shoulders, arms, and hands.

This is an important concept to understand because muscles are your “fat-burning machinery.” Therefore, the more muscles you use in a specific exercise, the more fat you can potentially burn. And, when using an exercise that uses almost every muscle in your body, your body will burn lots of calories, and therefore lots of fat.

Cool deal, huh?

So instead of wasting your valuable time doing lots of different traditional exercises like biceps curls, triceps extensions, leg extensions and leg curls, you can do just one exercise – the kettlebell swing – and literally burn fat by only performing three 20 minute workouts a week!

Even cooler, huh?

I think so too.

Here’s how you get started with the kettlebell swing.

kettlebell swing3 The Kettlebell Swing The Simplest Kettlebell Exercise For Fat Burning

The Kettlebell Swing - The Simplest Kettlebell Fat Loss Exercise

1. Grab your kettlebell.

2. Stand with the kettlebell between your feet.

3. Take one step back, so your kettlebell is approximately 12 to 18 inches in front of you.

4. Keeping your back flat, fold at your hips so your hips push back and you feel a stretch in the back of your legs. Your feet should be flat on the floor. Your head and eyes are looking straight ahead.

5. Grab your kettlebell by the handle and swing it underneath your body between your legs. This is called the “backswing.”

6. When the kettlebell goes as far as it can underneath your body, imagine jumping and stand up straight as fast as you can. Think about Exploding! Your feet should remain flat on the floor, heels down.

7. The kettlebell will shoot out from beneath your body and will form an extension of your hands and arms. It should be parallel with the ground.

8. Allow the kettlebell to swing back underneath your body and between your legs and stand up again.

9. Repeat the “folding” and “exploding” for the desired number of reps.

10. Perform as many reps and sets as you feel like, as long as you can maintain your technique. Every rep should feel the same.

Advanced Fat-Burning Tips For Faster Results With The Kettlebell Swing

Here are some advanced technique tips that allow you to burn even more bodyfat with your kettlebell swing workouts. Practice these during your workouts and you’ll burn fat at a rate faster than you thought possible.

1. Inhale and hold your breath on the backswing. This will help stabilize your spine and protect your lower back. Plus it’ll make your abs work harder. (And then of course, look better.)

2. Imagine pushing your feet through the floor during each rep. This will help you stay “grounded” or attached to the floor and will help you generate more force. More force production equals more work. And more work equals more calories burned. And guess what your body burns as calories? That’s right – stored body fat.

3. Imagine pulling your kneecaps up into your groin. This will allow you to generate more force as well.

4. Squeeze your glutes at the top of each rep. This will ensure you protect your lower back and make your body work even harder, burning more calories during each and every kettlebell training session.

5. Tighten your stomach, at the top of the kettlebell swing, like someone was about to punch you. This will also help to protect your lower back from injury, especially when combined with tip #3.

6. Breathe from behind your abs and forcefully exhale at the top of the Swing. This will make your abs contract even harder than just tightening them alone.

Don’t worry about trying to get all six of the advanced kettlebell swing tips down in one shot. Just play around with one of them at a time on each set. Then slowly incorporate them into your kettlebell swing workouts.

3 More Cool Reasons To Use The Kettlebell Swing For Fat-Burning

1. You can perform the kettlebell swing from the comfort of your own home – saving you time since you no longer have to go to the local health club or gym.

2. The kettlebell swing makes exercise convenient since you can now do it from the comfort of your own home. Not only that, it saves you money too – you no longer have to shell out a monthly fee to the health club you joined but never go to.

3. Because the kettlebell is so convenient and you can use it from the comfort of your own home, it makes being compliant and routinely exercising so much easier. And compliance is the fastest way to get the results you’re looking for. Let’s face it, if you don’t workout, you can’t burn off that excess body fat.

Imagine how much weight you could lose and how good you could look in the next 30 days if you started using the kettlebell swing your main fat burning exercise…

Ciick here to get rapid fat burning workouts that include the kettlebell swing!

Why Your Kettlebell DVD Sucks

With the popularity of TV’s, “The Biggest Loser,” it seems that every personal trainer on the planet is putting out their own kettlebell DVD.

But here’s the reality – most, if not all, kettlebell DVDs suck. They suck bad. Big, hairy… well, you know.

Now why is that? Why do all these DVDs suck so bad?

Is it the music?

Is it the setting or surroundings?

Or is it the “talent?”

The answer is -

(Drum roll pleas maestro…)

The Talent. It’s the talent. Or lack thereof.

See, most people don’t even know how to use kettlebells. And they’re taught by personal trainers who don’t know how to use kettlebells. Well, ok, they saw that TV Trainer on a late night informercial and borrowed a copy from a friend.

jillianswing Why Your Kettlebell DVD SucksBut those TV Trainers don’t know their backs from their backsides. They’re just on TV cause they look good and sound motivating. They don’t actually know very much at all. And they especially don’t know proper technique for all, let alone any of the kettlebell exercises. Exercises such as the kettlebell swing, where one female TV Trainer actually showed people how to blow out their lower backs on the swing.

So, what are you, the consumer supposed to do?

Research, amigo, research.

There’s one name and one name only that is associated with kettlebell excellence – Pavel.

powerbypavel1 Why Your Kettlebell DVD SucksYes, the “Evil Russian” – the guy who reintroduced kettlebells to America back in 2001.

So any kettlebell DVD by Pavel receives two thumbs up.

His kettlebell exercise technique is stellar. His kettlebell workout designs are amazing. And his physical prowess leaves many guys in awe – including guys in the military and martial arts – both of which Pavel was a part of.

Here are some of Pavel’s kettlebell DVDs that will treat you right -

Enter the Kettlebell! – great beginner and intermediate kettlebell workouts along with troubleshooting techniques on kettlebell exercises.

The Russian Kettlebell Challenge – great introductory workout to kettlebell training; includes a variety of kettlebell exercises.

More Russian Kettlebell Challenges – 25 new and different kettlebell and flexibility exercises designed to challenge you and make you stronger.

From Russia With Tough Love – a kettlebell dvd for women including new and unique (at the time) kettlebell exercises designed especially to target women’s trouble spots.

Return of the Kettlebell! – a monster of a kettlebell dvd aimed primarily at men who want to pack on a lot of muscle fast using double kettlebell exercises. Also includes corrections for commonly misperformed kettlebell exercises.

But you don’t just have to buy Pavel’s kettlebell DVDs…

You can and should by kettlebell DVDs by those he directly trained – RKC Kettlebell Instructors. This means Pavel passed down his kettlebell training and kettlebell exercise techniques directly to this elite group of kettlebell instructors.

You can find a bunch of kettlebell DVDs by RKCs at www.dragondoor.com.

So stop putting up with sucky kettlebell DVDs – I just gave you the solution you’re looking for – Pavel, the RKC, and Dragon Door – #1 in kettlebell DVDs.

Click here to get Pavel’s kettlebell DVDs.

Double Kettlebell Exercises To Pack On Muscle?

“Can you use the double kettlebell exercises to pack on muscle?”

That’s a question I often get.

In a word – Yes.

Here’s the deal – double kettlebell exercises like the clean and press and the clean and jerk are very powerful exercises for packing on slabs of beef. This is primarily because of the amount of tension produced in the working muscles while performing these lifts.

Tension creates muscle damage or protein turnover, however you want to look at it. And that protein turnover is what lays the groundwork for new muscle growth.

Before we cover any more on muscle growth, let’s do a quick recap on exactly which double kettlebell exercises we want to cover.

“Isn’t the barbell better?”

That’s a another question I often get and it usually follows the first one.

My answer – “It depends.”

Weight is weight and load is load. Your body requires load and it doesn’t know the difference between a barbell, a kettlebell or a giant rock. All it know is if something is heavy or not. And heavy is what you need to pack on muscle.

So you can use a pair of heavy double kettlebells or whatever you want to build muscle.

“Aren’t there more options available with a barbell?”

Yes, and no.

You can do the same exercises with a barbell as you can with a pair of kettlebells. But one thing that is not only hard to do, but downright dangerous to do with a barbell is high repetition Olympic lifts like the Clean and Jerk. These are great for packing on muscle and are much easier and safer (but certainly not less effective) to perform with a pair of heavy kettlebells.

What Are The Double Kettlebell Exericses?

Front Squat – Hold two kettlebells in the rack position and squat down. A really brutal kettlebell exercise for punishing your abs and legs.

Clean – Lift or “clean” to kettlebells to your shoulders, finishing in the rack position and do this repeatedly. Builds massive upper back and thick arms. Also makes the heart and lungs work overtime.

Press – Clean a pair of kettlebells and press them over your head. Do this often enough for enough volume and you’ll have shoulders the size of cannonballs.

Jerk – Clean a pair of kettlebells to the rack. Using your legs, explosively drive them up and over your head dropping underneath them to lock them out. Lower them back down to the rack position.

Clean and Press – Alternate between the clean and the press without putting the kettlebells on the floor. Massive upper body builder to get thick shoulders and a broad upper back. Not too mention the arms too.

Clean and Jerk – Allow you to use an even heavier pair of kettlebells. Do it for more reps – higher reps than the Clean and Press and you’ll pack on slabs of beef all over your body and add very little fat due to the high energy demands.

Of course there are more double kettlebell exercises than the ones listed above but these are some of the best for packing on muscle quickly.

Double Kettlebell Exercises, Anabolic Hormones, And You

Two of the major anabolic (muscle-building) hormones are testosterone and growth hormone.

Your body releases testosterone under heavier loads, like, say, a pair of heavy kettlebells. And you’re body releases growth hormone while sleeping and in the presence of lactic acid.

Using double kettlebell exercises for sets of 5 to 10 reps with as little rest as necessary between sets is the best strategy to get your body to release both testosterone and growth hormone.

But don’t forget to get plenty of rest. Heavy lifting for muscle-building requires a lot of energy. Performing them too frequently will actually have the opposite effect – your testosterone levels will drop, which is not only bad for trying to build muscle and therefore counterproductive, but exactly the opposite of what you’re trying to accomplish.

So, limit your double kettlebell training to 3 days per week and get plenty of food and rest – up to 9 hours of sleep a night.

Sample Double Kettlebell Exercises Workout Plan

Perform the following plan for 6 weeks and then switch to another kettlebell workout program.

Day 1:

A1. Front Squat
A2. Clean and Press

- Alternate between sets of A1 and A2.
- As many sets of 5 reps as possible of each exercise in 25 minutes total.
- Rest as necessary between sets.
- Try to perform more sets each week.

Day 2:

A. Clean
B. Press

- As many sets of 5 reps as possible in 20 minutes total.
- Rest as necessary between sets.
- Try to perform more sets each week.

Day 3:

A. Clean and Jerk

- As many sets of 5-10 reps as possible in 30 minutes total.
- Try to perform more reps each set each week.
- Try to perform more sets each week.

And don’t forget to eat a lot of food on this plan. Four meals a day is great. Get lots of protein and carbohydrates to help your body recover between workouts.

There you have it – a simple workout plan using just a few of the double kettlebell exercises that will help you pack on slabs of beef faster than you thought possible!

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