Hi all, anybody doing the bellsmade program by ericdoeskettle ?

My dad is overweight and untrained but wants to do something about it, I've given him some advice regarding food and keeping daily walking up but was wondering about best practices for getting him doing some kind of resistance training as well, he likes to cycle but I think he probably over eats after an easy ride thinking he has a lot of fuel to replace.

Was thinking of lending him my 12kg bell and getting him to warm up with press ups, body weight squats and perform a couple sets of planks and side planks and then get him to maybe do some kind of easy 15-20 min emom of goblet squats to and overhead press for a small amount of reps like 5 per minute maybe? Anyone think that'll be easy and simple enough to stick to with low skill needed and low risk?

Don't have any experience trying to help someone older and with no lifting experience for the past few decades so just trying to keep it as easy as possible for him at least starting out anyway

Hello, I would like to know your opinion on the best way to progress.

My goal would be to do the complex with 2x40 kg kettlebells doing a typical EMOM. The complex would be: Left row, right row, clean 2x40 kg, and push press.

My intention is to be able to do long sessions with this complex because I believe it works the entire body, and doing it EMOM I think maximizes having quality repetitions and cardiovascular exercise.

My problem is that I currently cannot achieve the push press with 2x40. I also work with two 2x32 kg KBs and can do press (3 reps) and push press with them. (I don't have intermediate weights between 32 and 40 kg)

What do you think is the best method to achieve the goal?

Doing only the complex with 2x32 but increasing the volume a lot?

Doing a hybrid of rows and clean with 2x40 and then clean & push press with 2x32?

Is it worth doing press with 2x32 or should I just do push press to improve the technique and movement?

Would introducing unilateral work help?

Best regards and thank you.

A friend is interested and came to me to pointers, I'm not sure what we should focus on first though. Of course before any of this will be learning to swing, press, etc. - but my friend is interested in GS and wants to eventually learn these movements.

So which do you think is easier to teach and/or to learn? The snatch or the long cycle?

Bonus Question: Which is more useful for a beginner?

I've been working at learning cleans for an entire month now and am entirely garbage at them still. I keep watching videos and practicing and then recording myself and my reaction every time so far is dear God that's not even close don't even ask for form check just try again.

Obviously everyone is different, and it would definitely be more helpful if I had live in person instruction, but that's not possible right now. I'm not giving up, but I'm curious if kettlebell cleans are something that is generally not easy to learn.

Anybody having experience with GF‘s Kettlebell Burn and Burn 2.0 yet ? I saw it’s on „sale“ combined

Either 3 days a week about 45 minutes a session or 6 days a week 15-30 minutes a session

Currently I enjoy doing 2 full body strength sessions and 2 kettlebell conditioning sessions per week but I’m interested in opinions and experiences about the program(s) 👊🏻

When I first starting following this subreddit I started making a list of the kettlebell programs often mentioned.

I was trying to figure out mainly: What exercises are in this program? And can I try it out or at least see what it involves without committing to a purchase?

It was for my own reference but I'm posting it here in case anyone else has similar confusion. These are basically in order of how often I see them mentioned.

Please feel free to add or correct anything you see here -- I understand that I know very little!

One thing I learned quickly is that programs are strongly associated with a particular guru/influencer and it's not possible to understand the space without starting from these personal brands.

Long Chain and Armor Building Complex are technically complexes and not programs. I include them in this list because as a beginner I needed the same clarification for them.

Geoff Neupert

Dry Fighting Weight DFW (free?)

• cleans, presses, squats

King-Sized Killer ($40)

• snatches

The Giant ($20)

• clean and press

Kettlebell STRONG ($100)

• clean and press, double swing, squat, high pull, snatch

The Wolf (free)

• squats, cleans, presses, double snatches

Muscle-Building Master Plan (free)

• press, squat, swing

Dan John

Armor Building Complex (free)

• EMOM:
  • Double Clean x 2 reps
  • Double Strict Press x 1 rep
  • Double Front Squat x 3 reps

Double Kettlebell Easy Strength ($15, part of Easy Strength book?)

• Hinge: 10x Deadlift or 100x Swings Squat: 10x Squat Press: 10x Press Pull: 10x Batwing Loaded Carry: 100m Farmer

Pavel Tsatsouline

Rite of Passage

• clean and press, swings or snatches, pullups
• included in Enter the Kettlebell

Simple and Sinister S&S ($10-23)

• Turkish get-ups, swings

Quick and the Dead

• pushups, swings

Long Cycle LC

• clean + jerk. Repeat for 10min

Joe Daniels

Kettlebell Only Muscle Gain ($125)

• presses, squats, long cycle, snatches, + variety of other exercises

Keith Weber

Extreme kettlebell cardio ($20)

• swings, cleans, presses, squats, lunges, Turkish getups

Just wanted to update those who care that I haven’t stopped! I see a slight difference in my arms already and also a difference in my posture. This has been really fun and i am glad i got into kettlebells. My goals are to strengthen my core and also my glutes. I know my core is weak because of my balance being terrible. I tried to windmill and almost fell into my mirror LMAO.

Will sticking to just swings for a bit increase my core strength? I plan on adding 100 more swings every week but I’m wondering is that even proper progressive overload?

I tried looking it up to see if it's been asked before, it probably has but I couldn't find it.

I really want to be able to do pushups. Regular from the ground pushups. Right now I'm still elevating them, but I've been working on them for months and finally getting some very very modest progress.

I was doing a superset dumbbell workout that was 4 supersets, 2 moves per. I replaced some dumbbell stuff with kettlebell stuff and I'm starting to feel like maybe it's just too much. It's 1.5 hrs of work 3x a week and I'm not even adding in a plain cardio day anymore. My appetite is up and I'm achy the day after, which I don't know if that's like doms but it hasn't gone away after a couple weeks so I don't know if that means it's too much or what. But due to a recent med change I'm not sleeping well so that could be the problem also.

So I'm considering just doing the DFW remix, but I want to keep working on pushups. So I'm trying to decide which day they make more sense to add to. Do I do them on the C&P/squat days or the swing/row days? I normally do pushups and rows as a superset, but if I'm doing this every day I don't know if that works still or if I should add them to the days I'm already doing OH press.

Or do I just quit for a month and do the remix as is?

I'm still learning the clean so I'm only doing them with a 20lb bell, but I do keep trying to do at least 1 per side with my 35lb bell to see how things feel. I can jerk that bell up but I can't press it.

Serious question. Some of the lighter kettlebells I got when I was starting are in kilos. But I discovered a fitness store near me that sells bells in pounds of 1.5$ per pound. Does it really matter if my bells are in Kg or in Lbs? For example 40kg = 88lbs so I would just get a 90lb bell. Let me know what u guys think. I don’t want to be unorthodox