Hey Comrades,
We've been crossing the country with Steve Cotter doing kettlebell workshops. We're currently in Canberra after a successful workshop last night. The boys in Canberra were keen and in excellent shape. They've definitely set the bench mark for the rest of the country.
The feedback has been good so far. Many have struggled with the unique training style - it's all about work capacity rather than doing low repetition set. As Steve keeps saying, "It's not about the heaviest weight you can lift one time - it's about finding a weight you can sustain for a given period of time".
The 10 and 6 minute sets have certainly sorted a few people out, but hopefully given them an insight into traditional kettlebell training and maximising work capacity.
To give you a idea of work capacity, our Tasmanian friend and leading Girevoy sport proponent, Paul Tucker, this week jerked a 24kg kettlebell for one hour. He managed to nut out over 1007 jerks - changing arms each minute. Now that's an impressive work capacity and gives you something to aim for.
If you've been to the course we'd like to hear your feedback. Let us know what you liked and didn't like. We're keen to spread the word about kettlebells and give you the best training advice. But we need your help, and the best help is to hear your feedback so we can improve and make things better.
We'll be posting video and more info to the blog soon. Keep your eyes peeled.
Must fly - about to catch a flight to Sydney.
Over and out,
Rick
Rick is a beast - the bent press king of Australia.
it helped me identify areas i wasnt in correct positions with the bell movements. Showed me a better way to train with volume over time.
the key was with now having a better understanding of how and why of each exercise and being able to do it in the correct position MORE muscles got worked
Put you through that type of training along with steve doing it aswell ( poor guy thats like 5 days ina row? )
i highly reccomend you go next time hecomes to australia, for me it was really invaluable and somethingi had waited a long time to have the opportunity for.
I also found mis mobility warmup to be excellent and the best ive ever done. Im suffering back issues still from a previous bad injury that left me close to not being able to function at all and his warmup really helped free me up and i believe helped me get through the session without hurting myself. I also learned how to correct my upper thorasic leaning so far forward when doing the body weight squat and after chatting to him after teh day was over reccomended a daily rep amount to do to correct it.
So yeah the seminar was GOLD
it was also great to meet rick, who for some reason i thought was a muscled beast but when i met him looks like us normal folk and not a ripped greek god ( sorry rick im sure there some girls out there though who do think your a greek god )