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Preventing Wrist and Forearm Injuries During Kettlebell Workouts

One of the more frequent questions we are asked is how to keep your wrists and forearms safe while exercising with kettlebells. Kettlebell Kings frequently collaborates with professionals and medalists to answer all of your questions. Brittany Van Schravendijik reviews this, and more, in the video posted below. The three most important ideas to pay attention to are: Hook Grip Small Arch Gravity and Timing Hook Grip The method you choose to grip the kettlebell with is critical, no matter what style kettlebell you select. Brittany demonstrates the proper grip on her competition kettlebell in the video. A common error people make is to hold the kettlebell with a death grip. It is unnecessary to wrap your hands around the bell's handle for fear of dropping it. A better form is the "hook grip." Rest the handle on your middle finger bones (shown 1:11) and tighten your thumb over the handle. The hook grip allows your wrist to remain in alignment while stay...

How do you Do Deadlifts Progression with Kettlebells?

There are two major factions in the kettlebell world: sport-type and hardstyle. Hardstyle is the type of kettlebell exercise that more people are familiar with. Kettlebell Kings has many posts on sport-type workouts, but we want to make sure we also provide adequate training on our foundational training style. We welcome Doug Fioranelli, the owner of Rise Above Performance Training, to give us insight on hardstyle training. Doug will take us through an example of progression and variations in deadlifts. Watch Doug explain changes and sequences in the video below.  Doug Fioranelli Writes When you decide to start training with kettlebells, you'll eventually need to choose what method of exercises you want to pursue. Sport-type and hardstyle training types are both great but have different goals. You've likely seen examples of sport-type on social media, where athletes wearing pained expressions lug colored kettlebells around over their heads for ten minutes....