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Kettlebells for MMA Athletes
28 Feb 2010 04:12
Last week I had a company called Creating Chaos come in to the gym to do a workshop on kettlebells. It was a good session lasting about 90 minutes and we went through all the major kettlebell movements including the swing, clean, snatch, get-up and various others.
We had about 15 coaches down to the workshop from both sport specific and strength and conditioning backgrounds and it was well received all round I think.
Firstly, i have to say that I experienced severe DOMS in my hamstrings after the workshop...which is all good! And I was surprised that all the movements were taught and coached from a straight leg (very slight kneebend) position. I have performed swings and snatches with slightly more knee bend previously.
So....on to the workshop!
One of the major positives that people claim from using kettlebells is the metabolic effects and I would agree that this is an benefit of the training sessions you can do with the kettlebells. When performing swings and cleans within com...
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