How kettlebells can fix your clients
Now that kettlebells are well and truly a part of the fitness industry, it's important to recognise them for the sheer range of benefits they can offer.
Many people may see kettlebells as a tool great for fat burning, aerobic fitness or improving strength but used well, they can do so much more. With the unique movements possible with kettlebells, your clients can not only enjoy the fitness related benefits but the peace of mind that their posture is in safe hands.
To explain this point in the most simple terms, kettlebells perform 2 major functions that many other exercises don't:
Many people may see kettlebells as a tool great for fat burning, aerobic fitness or improving strength but used well, they can do so much more. With the unique movements possible with kettlebells, your clients can not only enjoy the fitness related benefits but the peace of mind that their posture is in safe hands.
To explain this point in the most simple terms, kettlebells perform 2 major functions that many other exercises don't:
- Demand a firing response from muscles
- Continually take joints and body parts through full range of movement
The second point seems to be straight forward but why is getting a firing response important? Well, let's face it, we do abuse our bodies in terms of environment. If we were meant to sit at chairs for hours then the hips would probably lock out at this angle and we'd have been born with seats attached. The implications of day to day modern lifestyles leave most of us with faulty muscles that don't do what they're designed to do when they're designed to do it. This leaves often smaller muscles overworking resulting in soreness, stiffness and ultimately injury at some level.
By improving the firing responses of muscles, we're kind of jump-starting the musculature of the body and taking movement closer to how it should be in it's natural state.
Furthermore, getting a full flexibility work out embedded within a training programme is something that kettlebells put on the table. It's all very well performing the token stretches at the end of a training session but any dancer, gymnast or athlete of precision such as a synchronised swimmer would laugh at this token gesture. To really maintain and improve flexibility, stretching should be it's own session...and done properly, it does hurt and it is uncomfortable. However, as trainers, we all know that keeping clients engaged and not bored is difficult enough without getting them to sit down for long periods. This is where kettlebells provide that superb compromise between wants and needs.
The top two exercises for fixing your clients:
Jen taking you through the kettlebell swing
The crush grip military press
Two very straight forward exercises but hugely beneficial to give your client what they want as well as what they need.
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