Kettlebell

“But Samarillo. What are you playing with? Sick as my lips. Sickest crossover in comedy. Ari blew out his knee doing the kettlebells, right? Yeah. I'm doing them wrong. Oh, damn. Kettlebells? Well, just trying a little too hard with a frail anatomy.”

“get this 128-pound kettlebell overhead because when somebody in my gym was doing it, and man, that thing was heavy. And I get it to about here. And, you know, you're trying to stabilize lateral, rotational, everything at once, and it's just inefficient.”

“That's cool. Yeah, what I did was I set the squat rack up. I stacked up 45s about this high, took the, the, our belt with chain, and then loaded the big Bertha kettlebell on her, let her use the, the, the, the, um, barbell, and I had it on the reverse side so she could kind of lean back and do, and then literally do almost like a belt squat dropping it with that.”

“And this is where we can get into things like personal preference, equipment availability. You have kettlebells or dumbbells, or you only have bands, or you have none of that. These are all smaller details, but that's an important component. The last one I really want to get into is picking the appropriate target and you run some testing and figure out where your biggest limitations are.”

“or I only have a kettlebell or a dumbbell. How am I going to stimulate hypertrophy? Your only option is really doing more reps. Well, eventually that train runs pretty shallow. Okay, here's the thing you can play with.”

“So, dumbbell, great. Kettlebell, fine. Barbell, awesome. Band, doesn't matter. Body weight, none of these things are as important because all you're trying to do is create a certain insult in the tissue, and the implement is just whichever one you feel best doing it.”

“squat hold. So you're going to hold a weight in front of your chest, whether a kettlebell is great here, a dumbbell is fine here. And you want to hold about half of your body weight, go all the way to the bottom position and try to hold that for about 45 seconds.”

“No. You should probably do a light kettlebell routine. I don't know. Nothing. You could do a kettlebell, but maybe some rubber bands or something. Kettlebells are not hard, man. You don't have to be. I've seen video of you doing it. It looked like it would break me in half. Yeah, but you don't have to do that weight.”

“movement and I want my tissue to loosen up. I'll do a whole routine with a 35-pound kettlebell. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I should do more. It would be great for your golf, though. There's a lot of things you do, like rotational twists things that would be really good for just generating force with your drive and just control of your body, just overall body control.”

“Well, these, the kettle, this might be a different time you saw me, but I don't think there's any video of me doing that. But these kettlebells, they're each 70 pounds. So I have one in each hand. And so it's 140 pounds total. And I'm walking up this hill and then I'm walking down the hill. And I do it every other day.”

“I do all my kettlebell work with 70-pound kettlebells. I don't have any problems. Windmills, cleans, presses, renegade rows, gorilla cleans, no problems. How much you cleaning? 50s. You just gorilla cleans? I do it for reps. Do you do barbell clean? No. No, I don't lift anything heavy. When I do gorilla cleans, I either do 50s or 70s. My whole kettlebell workout is either 50s or 70s.”

“My whole kettlebell workout is either 50s or 70s. And sometimes I work out with 35s just for the warm-up. Like I'll do like warm-up stuff. Like I'll do like rotation exercises with 35s. Things where I'm like big halos where I'm just really opening up my back and getting.”

“I have this big long driveway with a hill and I do these gorilla carries. It's like a 200-yard driveway. And I do these gorilla carries where you take, well, you know, with those farmers' carries with those gorilla kettlebells. 70s? Yeah, and I take them up the hill and down the hill.”

“10. And then I rest for like five. I do the Pavel Totsilin method. What's that? Pavel Totsalini is the guy who really brought kettlebells over to America. Okay. And he's a famous kettlebell coach for Strong First, which is his company. And he's this philosophy that strength is a skill.”

“Your form is always perfect. And you're still getting the same amount of work. So my workouts, like I have to allocate two hours if I'm doing a kettlebell workout. Fuck, dude. Yeah. I know, but it works. Dude, that's great. It works. And again, I'm fucking never injured.”

“I bet. Oh, so and so. And I was like, I'm not doing that anymore. And from that moment on, I got really into just doing kettlebells. And I'm stronger than I've ever been. I don't think you need to lift really, depending upon what you're trying to do. You know, and if you're trying to become a power lifter, sure, you need to lift heavy.”

“with doing cleans with a barbell, and maybe I'll do kettlebells, is I have a scar right here that I broke my collarbone when I was seven and my collarbone juts out because it healed slightly in the wrong direction.”

“Yeah. But it sounds like you do cleans and shit with kettlebells. With kettlebells. Yeah, that's probably something I need to consider. Yeah. And it's not easy to do. You know, like 70 pounds is when you're doing like 10 set 10 reps and I'm doing like three sets of 10 reps.”

“Especially once you start actually lifting weights. Pavel Tatsulin, who's the guy who really brought kettlebells to popularity in America. It's Russian cat. And great system of training.”

“And then, you know, obviously I do different kinds of workouts, like the workout I did today. It's all exhaustion stuff. It's all sprinting. It's not like the kettlebell stuff. This is all high altitude, and it's all like maximum intensity on the air dyne bike, maximum intensity on the sled, maximum intensity on the kettlebell cleans.”

“I'm very rarely injured from working out. Very rare. From just kettlebell stuff? Like, very rarely. Right. All right. All right. You're inspiring me to hop back in and start doing it again. I got to, I've really. You just got to get somebody to help you.”

“That kind of stuff completely resets me. Yeah. Hard kettlebell workouts, like I'll do like a hard series where minimal amount of rest in between, so I'm really pushing it. Once I relax, I'm back. It's like whatever it is where your body just needs to like shake it up and like get all of it out of your system.”

“into the right conversation. And, you know, they sell kettlebells at target now, you know, and if you just had a kettlebell at home and did some swings, you know, in your kitchen for 10 or 15 minutes, plus went to dance class, plus through a Frisbee, you're going to start to approximate some pretty good, well-balanced fitness.”