If you have never heard of kettlebells, you aren't alone. Although this piece of strength training equipment has been around for decades, only recently has it caught the attention of mainstream America.
The kettlebell is a traditional Russian cast iron weight that looks like a cannonball with a handle. They range from two pounds to over a hundred pounds.
Kettlebell use focuses on muscle integration rather than isolation. Nearly every drill recruits multiple muscle groups to work in unison.
Whether your goal is to have the fat melt off your body, to improve your general fitness, or to excel further in the sport of your choice, you will find that the kettlebell is the ultimate tool for extreme all-around fitness.
Training with kettlebells can be both grueling and at the same time extremely fun. Kettlebell training is addictive and it is an addiction that will bring about great results.
WHAT IS RKC (Russian Kettlebell Certified instructor)
As the demand for kettlebells and kettlebell training grows, many unqualified trainers have begun to advertise their services as kettlebell instructors.But beware, kettlebell instruction requires an extensive background and training to be truly safe and effective. Don't risk injury or waste time with sub-par instruction when you can train with the best, highly qualified RKC certified kettlebell instructors.RKC kettlebell instructors have undergone the world's most rigorous of kettlebell instructor certification courses and are fully qualified to help you meet and surpass your goals, be they fat loss, strength and power development or athletic success.When you invest in the services of a CK-FMS you can expect to take your athletic performance to a whole new level, as the CK-FMS helps you spot and correct hidden dysfunctions in your body—that have been holding you back from realizing your full athletic potential.
WHAT IS CK-FMS? (Certified Kettlebell Functional Movement Specialist)
CK-FMS stands for Certified Kettlebell Functional Movement Screen Specialist. The CK-FMS is an intensive course reserved for RKC Certified Kettlebell Instructors. The CK-FMS course teaches how to perform the Functional Movement Screen, further break out screens of the seven screens, corrective exercise progressions and how to integrate Kettlebell techniques into the Functional Movement Screen continuum of corrective exercise progressions. The Functional Movement Screen acts like a GPS telling the CK-FMS specialist exactly what exercise progressions are needed to restore authentic movement patterns so that your training experience is efficient and injury free. The result is TRULY PERSONALIZED FITNESS.
The CK-FMS trainer has a proven system of identifying WHICH EXERCISES ARE SAFE FOR YOU to perform as well as which exercises are necessary to re-train your body to move better, and easier. Intense training with faulty movement or pain is the equivalent of racing a car with a bent frame, poor alignment and one foot on the gas... if you simply put in a bigger and stronger engine, then drive even faster, BAD things ARE going to happen. We all know runners with bad knees, lifters with bad shoulders, hard-laborers with bad backs. The CK-FMS trainer will provide the right exercises so that you can remove the brakes, move safer, move easier and then move stronger and faster. The result of moving better, moving easier and then moving stronger is improved fitness AND improved performance. You will feel better, move better, and look better.
WHO NEEDS THE FMS? Any individual whose routine involves intense exercise or athletics will benefit from the FMS. Without the FMS system the exercise routines of many individuals are not improving their movement, instead they may be improving their chance of injury. For example: if you are habitually repeating an incorrect squatting pattern and loading it with weight training or high impact exercise you are essentially getting really good at performing bad movement that loads your joints and tendons improperly. This is like getting really good at driving a race car that's out of alignment or has a flat tire. At some point a high speed catastrophic accident is inevitable.