Okay, so I'm feeling a lot happier now that I just went to kettlebell class. My fears about stinky thuggish guys were totally unfounded: there were only three of us in the class and while the other two were male, they were unintimidating, normal Swedish dudes. And Fredrik is a pretty good teacher. His class wasn't nearly as hard as a typical Keira Newton class, but she's a psycho, and he just opened his gym on Tuesday. In any case, he payed close attention to form, which is important. And we did a retarded amount of snatches, which is also important, since I need to get up to speed in order to pass the RKC test in May. Today, I did 140 snatches in 10 minutes, using a 12 kg bell. By May, I need to be able to do 70 snatches in 5 minutes using a 16 kg bell. My cardio and strength need to ramp up in order to compress the intensity into that short period of time.I wish Fredrik had opened his gym a few months ago! But I'm happy that it exists now. I was going to post a video of the snatch, so everyone would know what I'm talking about, but the YouTube videos I saw either featured the aforementioned big-sweaty-type dudes, or else people with really bad form. So instead I decided to leave you with a funny photo of a 1940s Russian military guy swinging a kettlebell. Maybe Keira will post a video and show us how it's done.
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I want a kettlebell! I love the Dynamic Fitness website. She totally had me at "The kettlebell is a cast-iron Russian,". I didn't really need to read anything past the comma. All I want to know is, where do I sign up?!
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