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The Russian Kettlebell Challenge
Xtreme Fitness for Hard Living Comrades
with
Pavel Tsatsouline,
Master of Sports
Item# V103
$39.95
Video Running Time:32 minutes
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If you are looking for a supreme
edge in your chosen sport—seek no more!
Both the Soviet Special Forces and numerous
world-champion Soviet Olympic athletes used the ancient Russian Kettlebell as their secret
weapon for xtreme fitness. Thanks to the kettlebells’s astonishing ability to
turbocharge physical performance, these Soviet supermen creamed their opponents
time-and-time-again, with inhuman displays of raw power and explosive strength.
Now, former Spetznaz trainer, international
fitness author and nationally ranked kettlebell lifter, Pavel Tsatsouline, delivers this
secret Soviet weapon into your own hands.
You NEVER have to be second best again! Here is the first-ever complete kettlebell
training program—for Western shock-attack athletes who refuse to be denied—and
who’d rather be dead than number two.
Get really, really nasty—with a
commando’s wiry strength, the explosive agility of a tiger and the stamina of a
world-class ironman.
Own the single best conditioning
tool for killer sports like kickboxing, wrestling, and football.
Watch in amazement as high-rep
kettlebells let you hack the fat off your meat—without the dishonor of aerobics and
dieting
Kick your fighting system into warp
speed—with high-rep snatches and clean-and-jerks
Develop steel tendons and
ligaments—and a whiplash power to match
Effortlessly absorb ballistic
shocks—and laugh as you shrug off the hardest hits your opponent can muster
Go ape on your enemies—with
gorilla shoulders and tree-swinging traps
More Information on the
Russian Kettlebell
The kettlebell is a cast iron weight, which
resembles a basketball with a handle. An ancient Russian exercise device, the kettlebell
has long been a favorite in that country for those seeking a special edge in strength and
endurance.
It was the key in forging the mighty power
of dinosaurs like Ivan ‘the Champion of Champions’ Poddubny. Poddubny, one of
the strongest men of his time, trained with kettlebells in preparation for his undefeated
wrestling career and six world champion belts.
Peter Krylov was nicknamed ‘the King of
Kettlebells’ after his favorite tool of strength development. He was known for his
stunt of jerking overhead two beefy soldiers who sat inside two hollow spheres on the ends
of Krylov’s specially made barbell.
Many famous Soviet weightlifters, such as
Vorobyev, Vlasov, Alexeyev, and Stogov, started their Olympic careers with old-fashioned
kettlebells.
Although Russians have known kettlebells for
as long as they have known vodka, the first official kettlebell competition took place
only in 1948 and the first USSR championship did not happen until the fall of 1985.
Kettlebells come in ‘poods’. A
pood is an old Russian measure of weight, which equals 16kg, or 36 pounds. There are one,
one and a half, and two pood K-bells, 16, 24, and 32kg respectively. They no longer come
in heavier weights because the sport has evolved into a strength endurance event. Standard
weights are lifted for repetitions: 32kg for men, 24kg for lower ranked athletes, and 16kg
for kids and birds.
To earn his national ranking, Pavel
Tsatsouline had to power snatch a 32kg kettlebell forty times with one arm, and forty with
the other back to back —over 40,000 foot/pounds of work—and power clean and jerk
two such bells forty-five times.
In the twentieth century Soviet science
discovered that repetition kettlebell lifting is one of the best tools for all around
physical development. (Voropayev, 1983) observed two groups of college students over a
period of a few years. A standard battery of the armed forces PT tests was used: pullups,
a standing broad jump, a 100m sprint, and a 1k run. The control group followed the typical
university physical training program which was military oriented and emphasized the above
exercises. The experimental group just lifted kettlebells. In spite of the lack of
practice on the tested drills, the KB group showed better scores in every one of them.
There was more. Surprised researchers at the
famous Lesgaft Physical Culture Institute in Leningrad (Vinogradov & Lukyanov, 1986)
found a very high correlation between the KBL total and a great range of dissimilar tests:
strength, measured with the three powerlifts and grip strength; strength endurance,
measured with pullups and parallel bar dips; general endurance, determined by a 1000 meter
run; work capacity and balance, measured with special tests!
The Red Army, too pragmatic to waste their
troopers’ time on pushups and situps, quickly caught on. Every Russian military
unit’s gym was equipped with K-bells.
Spetznaz, Soviet Special Operations,
personnel owe much of their wiry strength, explosive agility, and never quitting stamina
to kettlebells. High rep C&Js and snatches with K-bells kick the fighting man’s
system into warp drive.
In addition to their many mentioned
benefits, the official kettlebell lifts also develop the ability to absorb ballistic
shocks. If you want to develop your ability to take impact try the official K-bell lifts.
The repetitive ballistic shock builds extremely strong tendons and ligaments.
The ballistic blasts of kettlebell lifting
become an excellent conditioning tool for athletes from rough sports like kickboxing,
wrestling, and football. And the extreme metabolic cost of high rep KB workouts will put
your unwanted fat on a fire sale.
There is a great variety of kettlebell lifts
and exercises. Russians even compete in kettlebell throwing. See Pavel Tsatsouline’s
book and video for the full range of drills.
Item# V103
$39.95
Video Running Time:32 minutes |
