kettlebells

Max Shank Interview Part 2 – Strength Training, Showing Off, Lunges For People With Only One Leg, and Knowing Who To Listen To

Read Part one of the Max Shank interview. Josh: Max, you mentioned doing feats of strength for “shock value.” How do you know if you are inspiring your clients, or intimidating them? Do you even think about it? I know some guitar teachers who basically only take students so they have someone to play complicated [...]

March 3, 2011 READ MORE →

Getting Bored With Kettlebell Swings? Try this.

I have to confess, much of what I do in my life, both here on World’s Strongest Librarian, and out in the real world, is motivated by the terror of boredom. Of stagnation and sameness. And recently I hit a wall with one of my most beloved pursuits: kettlebell workouts. In particular, the kettlebell swing. [...]

November 17, 2010 READ MORE →

What I Know About Russian Kettlebells So Far

This is my long kettlebell manifesto, kind of a compliment to the weight training history piece I wrote recently. Again, feel free to skip it if you aren’t into KB fitness. Variety I’ve tried a lot of different kettlebell brands and styles. The selection wasn’t always this generous. Most of the people throwing these iron [...]

July 12, 2010 READ MORE →

Kim Jong Il Needs A Kettlebell, Or: I Refuse To Write For The Search Engines

Seo Experiment! My original title for this article was going to be “How Megan Fox topless photos and make money online and cheap viagra and cheap cialis helped the Boston Celtics defeat Tiger Woods in a SUPER HARDCORE cereal contest of eating TriXXX.” But that would have been silly and the story would have defied [...]

June 15, 2010 READ MORE →

2010 Goals Update: How’s Everyone Doing?

What is a man to do when he has a cold and there is rain and lightning outside? Easy: go out back for some kettlebell pressing. This is a bottoms up press with a 40kg (88lbs) kettlebell. I had planned on banging this out around mid-April. It’s not the smoothest press I’ve ever done, but [...]

February 16, 2010 READ MORE →

Life Is Like Kettlebell Training

This is a guest post from my friend Oscar Del Ben from Freestylemind. Oscar isn’t quite as crazy about kettlebells as I am, but I am working hard to change that. Enjoy! By Oscar Del Ben I started playing with kettlebells less than one year ago. I saw them used by many athletes and Crossfitters, [...]

December 20, 2009 READ MORE →

Are You Resting Enough To Get Stronger?

When I arrived in Denver on Sunday, I had planned to get in several workouts this week.  Instead, for different reasons, I decided to take the entire week off and get extra sleep and calories.  I’ve been looking for insomnia relief for a long time. Maybe the trip would be the answer. I haven’t touched [...]

November 27, 2009 READ MORE →

Learn. Teach. Grow.

I spent a year working at a Special Needs school here in Salt Lake City. Early on in our training, we (the Teacher’s Assistants) were given an assignment. Write a document for someone who has never worn shoes. Now, explain to them, in as few, simple, sentences as possible, how to tie their shoes.

November 22, 2009 READ MORE →

How To Juggle Kettlebells – Guest Post By Logan Christopher

Few things are as fun for me as having my heroes write guest posts for me.  Logan Christopher is a strongman who specializes in something pretty freaking cool: kettlebell juggling.  Not bowling pins, not chainsaws, not kittens…heavy kettlebells.  These videos are a new genre of poetry: Modernist Badassedness.  Enjoy! By Logan Christopher Few things can [...]

November 4, 2009 READ MORE →

13 Days of Darkness Part 9 – Life, Death, And Kettlebells In Monterey

Monterey is beautiful, but like the little towns in David Lynch’s films, there are dark, sinister forces roiling beneath the idyllic surface.  The faint scent of savagery, menace, and insanity blow hither and thither on the salty sea air. I was minding my own business on Monday afternoon, standing in a sunbeam in the field [...]

October 29, 2009 READ MORE →