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Covering stuff from kettlebells, fat loss, cutting edge health and wellness science, video tutorials and bad jokes, bookmark the blog feed, sit back , enjoy and read,

Movement training gets popular

I've long been a champion of training movement as part of a fitness programme. It's something almost everyone can, should and needs to do. With our ever increasingly sedentary lifestyles this is proving harder and our quality of movement is going down.

Here's an interesting article on how simple movement can prove more effective than medication in managing pain.

Well worth a read and some thought about how pain could actually be prevented with some remedial movement training

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020346230457713679073590452...

Interesting article on Intermittent Fasting

Now I'm the last person to see about diet and nutrition. I go for simple advice - cut the doughnuts, booze and snacks. Come on, you all know what they are!

So I love well written, interesting articles from the big guns in the dietary world.

Dr John Berardi is definitely one of the big guns and here's a great article detailing his experiments with intermittent fasting.

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/john_berardis_gr...

Even better if you have time to read his eBook - http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting

Knee Switch Hip Mobility

The Knee Switch is a fantastic lower body mobility drill. It teaches you to open up your hips and ankles with more advanced variants training movement from the ground to standing - an essential for martial arts and even more important for people advancing in years

The key points of the drill are:

Keep the upper body neutral and upright.
Initiate the movement from the waist
Don't hold your breath; allow your breathing tempo to be governed by your movement

Have fun with this - will demo advanced variants after I've burnt off the mince pies!

Kettlebell Sport Training

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Here's a quick blog post introducing kettlebell sport training.

Basically timed sets (usually 10 minutes but can be longer) of continual reps in either the snatch or clean and jerk with no putting the kettlebell down.

It's a lot tougher than it sounds :)

Whilst snatching the rest position is with the kettlebell overhead. Once you try this, you'll soon realise that rest is a relative term. For the jerk, the rest position is in the rack.

A fascinating and powerful TED talk on cancer treatments of the future

If you haven't seen this, take the twelve minutes or so to learn how medicine is changing and evolving to battle cancer, not with patents and secrecy, but with open source research and collaboration to take on this disease.

Really powerful concept that should reignite faith in humanity and the shared spirit of caring, the ability to help and further improve society.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_research.html

Badass Women...Or Want To Look Like This? Then Lift Weights!

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This is why women NEED to weight train!

Unless you want to look soft, flabby and generally bleugh.

Kettlebell Exercises - One Handed Swing

The One Handed Swing is the progression on from the foundation Two Handed Kettlebell Swing exercise.

Twice as tough, with more than twice the results, this exercise will teach you to resist force and develop anti rotational strength.

Key points from the two handed swing are equally valid and for the one handed swing also...

focus on keeping the kettlebell swinging down the centreline
focus on keeping shoulders level - don't allow the swinging side to be pulled round

Kettlebell Exercises - Snatch

The Snatch is a truly wonderful, but highly advanced, exercise. I don't usually teach this to my general public clients as you get 80% of the benefits of the snatch from swinging.

However, athletes, military personnel and other tough people need that extra edge and they learn to snatch.

Won't go into too much detail - this really is an exercise that *has* to be learnt in person. Enjoy :)

Kettlebell Exercises - Clean & Press

The Kettlebell Clean is a great exercise in its own right but is mainly used to get a kettlebell from the ground to the racked position for further fun and games.

The key points are to control the arc of the kettlebell - the move should like smooth and fluid. The usual error is to try too hard, use too much power, which leads the kettlebell to be flung about wildly.

Kettlebell Exercises - Two Handed Swing

The Kettlebell Swing is the basic foundation of all the ballistic drills for kettlebell training.

It's an explosive exercise using almost every muscle and joint in the body, from the ankles, knees, hips, back and shoulders.

It's also a great fat burner; compound exercises will almost always trump isolation stuff and it will increase general athleticism, speed and power.

So get going :)