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OVERLOAD PRESSES
The long push press The backup press The floor press The loaded clean + the get-up
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When the kettlebell is clearing your head, let go with your backup hand if you feel up to it. Make the transition seamless. Lock out with the pressing arm. The kettlebell was moving out and up until now. Now it is moving in, completing the arc. In the finished position, your biceps is almost touching your ear, and the kettlebell is in the press-behind-the neck position. The backup press is a great teacher of the proper press groove, a tight arc around the head. To lower the kettlebell, pull your elbow toward the centerline and help with your backup palm. A note to Comrades who apply the Grease the Groove program from my book The Naked Warrior to the kettlebell military press: lowering the lions share of your pressessay three-quarters of all the repstwo-handed will enable you to handle a greater volume without fatigue.
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HIGH-TENSION PRESSES
The one-legged press The bottom-up clean and press
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The purpose is not balance training because balance is highly specific to every activity. For instance, learning to balance on one foot when pressing a kettlebell is not going to improve your balance for, say, walking a tightrope or throwing high kicks. No, the reason behind the one-legged press madness is developing greater tightness throughout your body, from your toes to your armpits. As you press, stay balanced by staying tight, not by fidgeting like a circus seal. Any powerlifter will tell you that getting tight is the same as getting strong. Remember this feeling when you do your regular presses.
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Once you have got the bottom-up clean dialed in, try pressing the kettlebell. To do so, you will have to learn to keep your forearm vertical and use your latterrific advanced strength skills that will transfer to your regular presses.
Ive been doing a lot of bottoms up cleans and presses, on separate training days, writes Mark Reifkind, RKC, a former coach for the U.S. Womens National Powerlifting Team, on our forum. One of the things I've noticed is the incredible similarity between the muscles involved, the body positions required, and their firing sequence in the BU press and the bench press.
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First, the forearm HAS to be perpendicular to the floor in the BU press to even stabilize the weight. Same as the bench. Second, the grip has to be very tight and the weight on the heel of the hand. Ditto for the bench. Third, and perhaps most important and similar, is that the lat has to be heavily involved in the bottom stabilization position in both exercises. The triceps has to be literally lying on it. Forth, the lat HAS to fire first to initiate the pressing for both moves. And fifth, the shoulders have to stay in their sockets for any kind of strength to be available. Same for the bench. The lat also has to stay involved throughout the whole press, or the elbow swings out and the press and the bench are lost. AND, more importantly, the shoulder is severely destabilized. This is when rotator cuff injuries occur when pressing. I had stopped regular kettlebell presses as I couldnt stabilize with my lat well on my weird right side. I subbed the BU press for the lat stabilization effect and wow, what a difference! I trained my powerlifting partner on the BU press today and he really got the connection to his bench. The lats are the thing. Plus, you have to stay totally tight throughout the entire movement or it falls apart in a second. Good stuff. FYI, George Halbert and Donnie Thompson do bottom-up kettlebell pressesthe 106pounder is no big dealto up their enormous benches. A cool bottom-up press variation is the bottom-up floor press by Senior RKC Steve Cotter. If you have done regular BUPs and FPs, you will have no problem with the technique. One warning: keep your free hand up over your face, ready to push the kettlebell away from your mug should you lose the press.
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Overload and High-Tension Presses
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The swing shaves his head, gets a white cat, and joins S.M.E.R.S.H.
Special pulls, like the special presses, are for Comrades who want to get there faster. One obvious way to make your swings special is by using a heavy kettlebell. Two to three sets of 20 (10 left + 10 right) will do the job. You are not trying to get a workout; you are subduing a heavier kettlebell. If your snatches are perfect, you may also do a few heavy snatches. If not, do heavy high pulls. A more insidious thing to do is to do one-arm swings with your usual kettlebell with your hand soaped up . . . Soap up your hand liberally and enjoy the pain! Even if you are a serious grip training freak, you will be humbled by the rip-your-fingers-out-of-the-joints stress of the soap swing. And your forearms will respond with Popeye growth in days. An important technique point. Subconsciously you will try to slow down the swing at certain points, make the transitions smoother, and do a few slick grip-saving techniques kettlebell sport pros use. Dont! Drive your hips as hard as you can, aggressively hike-pass the kettlebell, go all out. If the kettlebell shoots out of your hand after the second rep, so be it. You are not doing this drill for numbers but for a great grip. Do you want to get stronger or do more reps? I am not going to tell you how many sets and reps to do; use your judgment. A total of 10 reps per arm in as many sets as necessary (5 sets of 2?) is enough your first time out. Overdo it and you will not be able to do most mundane taskspouring vodka, signing a check, that sort of thing. (RKC certified instructors, remember to make your victims pay in advance!) It goes without saying, do soap swings only where you can safely release the kettlebell in any direction. And dont forget to reapply soap and water as soon as your hand starts drying up. Another grip-intensive swing variation Russian gireviks use is the mitten swing. Wear a mitten or a work glove. Unlike the sissy workout glove favored by metrosexuals in fancy health spas, the mitten will make the exercise harder. You will find the handle hard to grip because of the mittens thickness. The effect is similar to that of Iron Minds Rolling Thunder device.
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Senior RKC Steve Maxwell uses an oven mitt. Thanks to its padding and a slick surface, it is even more evil than the work glove. Comrades with large hands will have to cut the webbing to spare their thumbs. And when he was training Ukrainian judoka Anatoly Kennis, a former European champion who decided to give elite competition another go in the United States, Steve wrapped a hand towel around the kettlebells handle to make it extra thick and smoke the Ukrainians grip . . . in addition to making him throw up. Pain and gain at their best.
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Jim Smith of the Diesel Crew simply does the regular towel swing one-handed. Just feed a towel through the handle as I taught you in Enter the Kettlebell! earlier and swing awayone-handed. Another one of Smittys inventions is wrapping the kettlebells handle with duct tape. No Russian could have thought that one up, that is for sure. Treat the mitten and wrapped towel swings the same way you do the soap swingwith respect.
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RUSSIAN KETTLEBELLS
kettlebells are a unique conditioning tool and a powerful one as well that you should add to your arsenal of strength... my experience with them has been part of whats led me to a modification in my thoughts on strength and bodyweight exercises Im having a blast training with them and I think you will as well.
Bud Jeffries, the author of How to Squat 900lbs. without Drugs, Powersuits, or Kneewraps
I felt rejuvenated and ready to conquer the world. I was sold on the kettlebells, as the exercises were fun and challenging, and demanded coordination, explosion, balance, and power I am now on my way to being a better, fitter, and more explosive grappler, and doing things I havent done in years!
Kid Peligro, Grappling magazine
I cant think of a more practical way of special operations training I was extremely skeptical about kettlebell training and now wish that I had known about it fifteen years ago
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Am I kettlebell material?
Kettlebell training is extreme but not elitist. At the 1995 Russian Championship the youngest contestant was 16, the oldest 53! And we are talking elite competition here; the range is even wider if you are training for yourself rather than for the gold. Dr. Krayevskiy, the father of the kettlebell sport, took up training at the age of forty-one and twenty years later he was said to look fresher and healthier than at forty. Only 8.8% of top Russian gireviks, members of the Russian National Team and regional teams, reported injuries in training or competition (Voropayev, 1997). A remarkably low number, especially if you consider that these are elite athletes who push their bodies over the edge. Many hard men with high mileage have overcome debilitating injuries with kettlebell training (get your doctors approval). Acrobat Valentin Dikul fell and broke his back at seventeen. Today, in his mid-sixties, he juggles 180-pound balls and breaks powerlifting records!
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