Thursday, April 29, 2010

Training Guidelines

  • Train 2-7 times a week
  • Complete workout in 45 minutes or less
  • Vary workout length
  • Do as many exercises as desired
  • Don't work equally hard of every one
  • Perform exercises in a circuit
  • Rest at least a few minutes between sets
  • Don't rush when training for strength
  • Compress rest periods for muscular and cardiovascular endurance training
  • Start session with the most technically demanding exercises
  • Order of drills is flexible
  • Alternate harder and easier exercises and/or sets
  • Don't do endurance activities before kettlebell practice
  • Total number of sets is flexible
  • 3 to as many as 20 sets per exercise is okay
  • Vary number of sets
  • Never go to muscle failure
  • Vary difficulty of sets
  • Periodically speed up or slow down movement
Get ups, Presses, and Sidebends
  • Do no more than 5 reps per set
  • Increase difficulty by using heavier kettlebell
  • Or by compressing rest periods
  • Or by doing more sets of 5
  • Or by pausing and/or moving slowly

Swings, Cleans, Jerks and Snatches
  • Do for any amount of reps from 1-100
  • Leave all sets of more than 10 for the end of the session

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