Here’s a picture of me using one of my favorite kettlebell weights – the 12kg. Yeah, I can swing the 48kg for reps but that doesn’t mean I don’t use the lighter weights. In fact, the kettlebells I use the most outside the gym are the 12 and 16kg. I know many people are confused by this because I constantly tell people to use heavier kettlebells. The reason is most people are still not lifting barbells so they aren’t getting any heavy lifting in their training. But I am using barbells so I often switch to lighter kettlebell work for recovery workouts, cardio training, and conditioning.
Today I did the Kettlebell Quest DVD Basic workout #4. It looked like this:
10 swings left, 10 right
10 sumo pull
10 goblet squats
10 rows left, 10 right
10 marching planks (I hate regular planks, way too easy!)
This also shows the usefulness of a beginner workout. Now I can do harder workouts, after all, I filmed the advanced double kettlebell workouts for the DVD, right? But that doesn’t mean the other workouts stop being useful. Even for someone more advanced like myself, I can use the beginner workouts productively. I don’t always want to “kill it” in every workout.