20 Common Kettlebell Questions Answered

20 Common Kettlebell Questions Answered - (#6 WILL SURPRISE YOU!)

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@hitenmistry9376 11 ай бұрын

I love your passion for kettlebells, and I absolutely love working out with them as a dancer and performer. Such versatile and dynamic equipment! Thank you for your wonderful insight content... x

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Glad to be of service!

@ianbrett3276 11 ай бұрын

Gregory is most definitely the King of the Kettlebells 👊

@IgorTerentyev 11 ай бұрын

King of Kettlebell only one - Peter Krylov 💪

@AnugBagga-l6c 11 ай бұрын

You have a very engaging and positive attitude. You speak freely and have a nice and clear way of phrasing things. Appreciate your videos !

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Appreciate your feedback!

@ralphnevill6171 11 ай бұрын

Gregory the thing I like most about your videos is your passion and the emphasis on having fun! There are way too many videos out there of the booty butt blast death march until you can't get up off the floor genre. Depending on your fitness lever 2 x 5 minute workouts may be sufficient for you is very good advice. 👍

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Appreciat it, Ralph!

@cultofhercules 11 ай бұрын

The nice thing about clubs is that you got a similar time-under-tension endurance workout while pushing upper body muscles close to failure. Kettlebell workouts are mostly a heart exercise after you pass the beginner stage. Lots of people like to have a good amount of muscle. Clubs are technically too difficult for most to casually get into though.

@richardayala4356 10 ай бұрын

I like your humor in explaining things. Regarding diet: if your students want to burn fat, they must change their diet and greatly reduce their carbohydrate intake and increase their animal protein and fat. People get fat by what they eat, not because of lack of exercise. Focus on eating Protein of at least 1 gram per pound of desired body weight per day. When you see a heavy person, I can tell you that they are Insulin Resistant, meaning they are unable to burn body fat because of an overload of their hormone, Insulin in their blood due to eating carbohydrates (breads, pastries, candies, sodas, beer, etc.). They may even be pre-diabetic. They must clear the insulin from their system, first and that could take weeks because they’d have to switch their metabolism from burning sugar to burning fat. That requires eating a high fat moderate protein diet with very little carbohydrates (vegetables, small fruits). In effect, the fat burning produces a residue called Ketones which feeds the brain and cells for fuel. Now you will burn body fat and your clients will gain muscle through muscle growth and weight reduction in body fat. Exercising without a major change in diet will not help a person in body fat reduction. Yes, they will get stronger and gain weight, which is muscle, but the body fat will remain.

@dangernoodle2868 11 ай бұрын

Hey Gregory, I'm a bodybuilder who is exploring KB training towards functional bodybuilding and there is some feedback I'd like to give on your explanation of KBs and building muscle: 1. You often say "you won't look like a bodybuilder" but I don't know what you think a bodybuilder looks like, how much you're accounting for steroid use and in what ways using a KB will give me a different physique. Keep in mind as well that how much muscle you build with KBs has to do with a) how you are using it and b) what other things you include in your training. Finally, keep in mind that most of us aren't advanced and so we'll even develop muscle from swings in our traps/glutes/forearms for instance. (You give advice for the normal person but suddenly talk to us as if we were advanced when talking about muscle) My main understanding is that if you stick to the RKC six then you'll struggle with chest and bicep development and develop a thicker mid-section but it's great for building shoulders/back/abs/forearms/quads/glutes. But you can still build these muscles by using the kettlebell in biceps curls/overhead triceps extensions/floor presses or using other tools such as a banded pushup/dips to fill those gaps and account for the thicker mid section through diet which is 60% of bodybuilding anyway. 2. You refer to the barbell being king for strength but as someone who cares about hypertrophy brute strength is not important to me. We're not powerlifters and indeed I can build a great physique without even touching the barbell using cables/dumbells/machienes/calisthenics/resistance bands. By deferring to the barbell youre contributing to its over-glorification while simultaneaously not giving the KB enough credit, in my opinion. Be confident. The key is that people think they need a massive amounts of resistance to build muscle, but bodybuidlers know how to take even light weights to make them feel heavy and train close to failure, you need less resistance than you think! 3. If you look into how people like Joe Daniels (KB only muscle gain, I'd love to see him on your podcast!) uses KBs to build muscle then he mentions double bell work after nailing your fundamentals so that you get enough volume for your lower body while efficiently working out your upper body. I wouldn't just mention the grinds, but also mention the importance of double bell work. This is a lot of info so I hope you can melt it down to something more digestable, I hope that you can shift your understanding of hypertrophy training and be less shy and more confident about the benefits that the KB can give you depending on how you use it!

@jacob-shaffer 11 ай бұрын

I think Gregory includes these statements to appease folks who constantly like to say that kettlebells don't build muscle or strength by agreeing with them, with caveat. Also, Gregory, you totally need to get Joe Daniels (swingthiskettlebell), Adriell Mayes (everygotdamndre) and Steve Koontz (rhinostrength) on the podcast! The caveat which you probably already know and agree with: Kettlebells build enough muscle for the vast majority of folks but people that are seeking even more hypertrophy might find it more optimal to use the usual tool-set that you mention. Just like how you can build some pretty damn good strength through heavy double work but there's a limit there that doesn't exist with barbells (it would seem). That little loss you have with KBs not being optimal is an alright trade off for all the other things KBs develop alongside strength and hypertrophy. Gregory talks about it more in the many podcast. KBs aren't optimal for max hypertrophy or max strength but they do get you like 70-80% of the way there and that's probably good enough for anyone not competing at the upper echelons of competition. If you are competing at the elite level then you're going to have to use the optimal tool. Girevoy sport guys, for example, do a shitton of long runs to build better endurance for their competitions versus just doing super long KB sessions. Anyway, I think he would essentially agree with you.

@dangernoodle2868 11 ай бұрын

@@jacob-shaffer I also have the suspicion that Gregory is simply appeasing or avoiding a protacted conversation against people who are set in their ways, but that also doesn't really sound like the kind of guy he is. I would also say that you're doing the same thing. Rather than saying "you can get 80% of the way to your max potential", which is a meaningless and untested statement anyway, you can say "if you use the KB to train according to hypertrophy principles then you can make lots of progress for a long time", which is true and doesn't undersell the implement. It's marketing 101, don't tell me what the KB can't do. Tell me what it can do. Don't tell me I won't look like a bodybuilder, tell me what I can build and what I might use to plug the gaps. There's no reason to give an inch here and as a bodybuilder the barbell is simply not the only tool or even the best one! It's how we get spider-mode physiques with lacking arms. Rather, the reason for the bias towards the barbell is that strength athletes in the form of powerlifters are chained to it, and we should let them see another way.

@HkFinn83 11 ай бұрын

I don’t think it’s about being confident or not, it’s just reality. I train with kettlebells but I’m under no illusion I could get much stronger training powerlifting style or much more muscular training bodybuilding style. There is a question about semantics and defining ‘strength’. So if you want to say the squat, deadlift etc aren’t true tests or displays of strength, fine. I’d agree that if you’re doing judo or wrestling kettlebells are superior to barbells. They build all the strength you need and more in terms of explosiveness and mobility and muscular endurance. The thing, when people say strength they do generally mean raw, grinding, powerlifting like movements. Now with bodybuilding, yes kettlebells will add muscle especially if you’re a novice. In the first 6-8 weeks your growth won’t be dissimilar to training bodybuilding style, but it will slow down and there’s no way to really effectively progressively overload for hypertrophy, if that’s what you want. You CAN progressively overload basically infinitely with just one kettlebell. Your endurance, cardio and muscular endurance keep improving, your form can keep improving, your speed and dynamic strength. But it’s very difficult to doing the kind of thing you need to do to stimulate continuing hypertrophy. This is irrelevant for me because I’m already looking like I want to and I have no interest in deadlifting 800lbs🤷🏼‍♂️ The way out of this btw is to simply stop consuming bodybuilding content and stop debating bodybuilders. They’re simply talking about a different topic (even if they themselves often don’t seem to realise it), and i don’t have the energy (nor would it benefit anybody) to relitigate definitions of strength and have semantic debates about what ‘growth’ is and so on. The bottom line is kettlebells are an all around better, healthier way of training for me, and they do make me look better and make me stronger.

@dangernoodle2868 11 ай бұрын

@@HkFinn83 How do you know that your judgement about the KB's protential for muscle growth when you don't even train that way? How do you know that your assumptions hold for everyone? For instance, how do you know that people won't buy heavier bells when they need them and eventually progress to doubles to keep things rolling? Or that they won't use cheap and available solutions such as resitance bands to fill in some gaps? Your assumptions make your estimation of what's possible WAY too pessimstic to the point of being black-pilled on the possibilities.

@HkFinn83 11 ай бұрын

@@dangernoodle2868 sounds like you’re making a few assumptions yourself. I have a range of kettlebells up to 48kg. That is already a weight that is impractical for most people. And you can’t use it to progressively overload squats or deadlifts in the same way you can a barbell. Tbh it sounds like you want to be a bodybuilder but like kettlebells as tools without actually being interested in kettlebell training.

@annaburns5382 11 ай бұрын

Good info. I just recently started training with kettle bells. Doing Hannah Edens beginners routine. Deadlift, squat, hinge, swing, clean, & press. I am enjoying it and feeling the benefits. On the squat, I strained my back from incorrect form. Form is the most important part of kettlebell exercise. Take time and learn the form!

@Vapourgirl78 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. Being relatively new to kettlebells, I'm so thankful for your efforts and encouragement to ensure good technique! ❤

@cochomotion 11 ай бұрын

The royalty in the kettlebell world for me is. As the king Gregory. the queen Angie. Surely your humble character is not going to accept this opinion. but no one but you. Haven’t spend So much time and work spreading this passion . has been taken to create practically public content that impacts so many people. Without your KZbin channel I would still only running . After November 12, 2021, I discovered this channel. I changed my addiction and my knees appreciate it. At the same time, my figure looks much more athletic in comparison. also thanks to it. I have been able to transmit this passion to my family and friends and there are already several of us who admire your work. You make honor to your sensei Steve Cotter very well. the GOAT of kettlebells. I think he would be proud of you . Ip man (Steve ) Bruce lee (you)

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Appreciate this, brother and truly honored by your feedback! I'm currently reading my second book on Bruce Lee. I can't even express how much my philosophies go in line with what he shared. Powerful stuff!

@cochomotion 11 ай бұрын

@@lebe-stark Bruce Lee is our hero. . He is our hero, the children born in the 80's. You are doing and sharing wonderful work. If Bruce were alive he would lift kettlebells. May the universe reward you.

@marksteven6116 11 ай бұрын

Yes most people use to lighter bell and arm wing with no hip thrust

@marcelloantoniodreier4795 11 ай бұрын

this was refreshing. Nice good vibes and great infos short packed and straight to the point! DankeschöN! greetings from austria! =)

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Liebe Grüsse zurück aus der Schweiz!

@sweetvuvuzela4634 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video keep it up 👍🏽 ❤❤

@Patreas1971 11 ай бұрын

This i really love in your videos Gregory (except the workouts and tips of course) is your english. I' m not so familiar with the english language, but i can understand EVERYTHING you say in your videos, especially when you use greek terms such as ... kyphotic position 😃

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 💪

@fdominikzsindely2203 11 ай бұрын

Thanks this was great!

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@user-fStark 6 ай бұрын

Super Video!!!

@thejuansshow6410 11 ай бұрын

Kettlebell strength will come from heavier bells over time although you will at some point hit a limit but I believe most people never get to fully heavy kettlebells that will really challenge them like weights from 32kg to 48kg most people never touch this area and this is where good strength comes from in my opinion.

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

Good point! Yet and still, barbells are the best increment to build strength with the proof being, that Weightlifters are the strongest athletes in the world.

@thejuansshow6410 11 ай бұрын

@@lebe-stark I hear you but this would apply to someone who is committed to kettlebell only training like myself. Could you expand on weightlifters and strongman in a future video if you could ✌️✌️

@lebe-stark 11 ай бұрын

I only understand the essentials when it comes to Weightlifting and Strongman. There are other channels who do a way better job than I ever could.@@thejuansshow6410

@thejuansshow6410 11 ай бұрын

@@lebe-stark thanks my man always providing great value 🙌