Kettlebell Resolutions

Craig Hubert,RMT,CKC

This being the time of year when we all decide to make drastic and, more often than not, unrealistic life changes, I thought I’d start the New Year with a bit of an experiment.
Over the course of the last few years I’ve spent a lot of time building my business to the point where I now make a good living at it. Unfortunately it came at the expense of my own training. Ironically, my niche is time management training. I create programs that are done in a maximum of 30 minutes per day no more than five days a week. My clients are taught how to integrate exercise into their already hectic everyday lives by recognizing their own specific behavioral patterns that consistently derail their attempts to find time to exercise.
Since I have become a carbon copy of most of my clients, I thought I would be the subject for the following experiment: Starting January 2nd of the New Year I’ll embark on a five day a week program for six weeks. I’ll be using 18, 36, and 55lb kettlebells and doing a total of 3 exercises per workout and allotting 5-10minute for joint mobility/flexibility. No workout will exceed 30 minutes and must be performed Monday through Friday with weekends off. The purpose is 2 fold:
1. Since image seems to matter to most people when selecting a strength coach, I’ll get myself back in shape and hopefully drum up some more business.
2. This is actually the most important reason so please pay attention. Simply, I want to demonstrate that doing a few basic exercises consistently with very basic equipment (Kettlebells) is all you need to improve your health and performance. We’ve become a society so hell bent on progress through technology that in our quest to better our bodies, we think using the latest new equipment will bring us to our goals. Remember it’s the method not the tool.

In the next issue I’ll give a detailed report for both my workouts and nutrition guidelines, I’ll even include some before and after pics (don’t worry, no Speedos) just to show what kind of changes can be made on a simple format.
And with that I leave you with this bit of resolution wisdom: To see and feel a difference from your workouts you need frequency, consistency and intensity, skip on any of those and you’ll be sure to end up no further ahead in building a better body than you were in 2005.

Craig Hubert, R.M.T., CKC www.homebodies.ca