re: Do kettlebell swings do anything besides cardio?

they can be great for working explosive hinge, adding volume without beating yourself up etc

can also be a waste of time and only cardio

can be done correctly and are 100% safe if done so but can frick you up if done incorrectly


there i think I about covered it. but yea swings are great for posterior chain work and explosive hips, especially if using heavy weights and especially if doing dead stop with heavy weight.

It's a total body conditioning. Mostly cardio, but obviously, it builds all those muscles, head to toe, particularly if you are progressive with the weight.

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Turkish GU are a pain in the arse. Which means we should do more of them.



I consider the Turkish Getup to be the most perfect full body exercise ever invented.

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This the same dude who quit his job because his coworkers didn’t want to hang out with him outside of work

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This the same dude who quit his job because his coworkers didn’t want to hang out with him outside of work

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I mean dont get me wrong, portions of the TGU are good for shoulder health and they are good in a warm up but you need a lot of room to do them, they take a long time, they are not good for building strength, they are not good for building power, they are not good for building muscle nor are they some exceptional exercise that is going to start burning a lot of calories.

its one of those things I never got the appeal of

just like when it comes to sports performance...i never understood the appeal of cleans. They are fun, but once you put a velocity meter on them you step back and say WTF......then realize you have to load them light as frick to get the speeds needed to get any form of training RFD. You realize real quick loaded jumps are much better

at least cleans are fun though, TGU are dumb imo.

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For sports performance, I’m not disagreeing with you. But Olympic lifting is a “sport” in and of itself and the clean is a much more standardized movement for comparison of strength and power than a loaded jump so I get the point of doing them.

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yea for sure, Olympic lifters should absolutely do them. and hell i like them as I think they are fun. I was talking strictly from a sports performance side of things

bunch of coaches are coming to that conclusion now too now that VBT is so cheap and accessible. and now that the jump lasers came out that make measuring jumps much easier and much more accurate than the old jump mats, especially loaded jumps, a lot more coaches are going that away. Much much more conjugate westside style performance training happening now.

No, they’re horrible

Whoever downvoted is an idiot

You practice your sport to build the attributes to that sport, the strength and conditioning work is to build the general aspect needed such as strength, agility, cardio, etc.

I dont need that shite at my age. Im not running routes on sunday