Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Olympic Weightlifting, Kettlebells and Sports Performance

It's summer and everyone is outside climbing, running, cycling and triathaloning. As it should be. Everyone should be outside enjoying their sports, but you should also be engaging in some sort of strength training to address the imbalances in strength, flexibility and mobility that focused sports practice can create.

Cyclists lose lean muscle mass and even bone mass over the course of a season for example because cycling is a non-weight bearing sport. Runners notoriously have tight backs and hamstrings.

But did you know that with as little as 20 minutes twice a week of concentrated kettlebell training you can improve your sports performance, make your body more durable and resilient and address those sports specific imbalances?

Make the commitment to up the quality of your sports participation. Strength training won't bulk you up or make you slower. In fact, it will make you faster and more efficient. A stronger runner, or climber or cyclist moves the body with greater ease than weaker athletes. Every top athlete weight trains, even in season.

For the next few months, I will be offering a discount on our monthly membership. $50 buck a month. That's 20 classes a month to choose from from. If you are new to kettlebells and olympic barbell training you will need to take two private lessons to get up to speed, but I'm offering deep discounts on this also.

Monday thru Friday 2 - 4 PM.

2 comments:

  1. Randy, I wish we lived in the same state!

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  2. I totally agree! I'm looking to go in a kettlebell course so I can teach a class

    Soph

    barrettsfitness.blogspot.com

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