Staying safe is ALWAYS priority number one, no matter what the course instructs. If you feel like you are going to injure yourself, STOP. It means that you need to adjust, regress, or recover from whatever you are doing. When in doubt, contact us. You might need to take a step back and focus on […]
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Practice activities are a way to get familiar with the exercise or movement. The activity will specify what to look out for, what to do, but it will usually not specify for how long. One should practice the given activity for as long as needed until everything is as expected. A practice activity is performing
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When you need to film yourself for assessment, whether for submission, practice activities, or certification, the process is the same. Before you submit or do anything, you first want to work on getting the angle, distance, and light right and you always want to make sure that the whole of you is and remains in
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A good session has a warm-up, prep work, workout, and a cooldown. Most of our online kettlebell workout sessions have a follow-along prep work video. For the people that do not follow our workouts, here is an explanation of what prep work is and how to design your own prep work for a kettlebell workout.
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Your workout scoring for each of our workouts can be recorded with our online tracker. This allows you to set goals and keep track of your progress. You can record your scoring from each workout, either at the task or workout level. If the task is marked as scored it will have a link in
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When you work with double kettlebells, you always want to make sure that you employ the flat hand or racking safety grip to protect the fingers from getting caught between the handles. The first grip is the flat hand grip, the hand remains straight/flat. The second grip is the racking safety grip, the fingers are
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A compound exercise is an exercise that involves more than one muscle group at the same time to action a movement. It’s the opposite of an isolation exercise where the target is one muscle or muscle group. Compound exercises are multi-joint exercises and isolation exercises are single-joint. A good example of a compound movement is
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What is a full-body kettlebell workout, or any full-body workout for that matter? First, we have to define what we’re measuring, is it the feeling of having worked the full body or having specifically targeted all parts of the body with movements that recruit the muscles as prime movers? There is a difference, and usually,
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A time cap on a workout or task of a workout means that you need to complete the work within that given time cap. If you do not complete the work within the given time cap then you have failed the workout. Not making it within the time cap can mean that you did not
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It should be noted that there is a difference between intensity of weight and the perceived intensity from physical activity. The latter is about defining the intensity of aerobic activity and its affects on heart rate and breathing, and part recovery (how fast). The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion uses the following scale: The ratings
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