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The 16kg Kettlebell Snatch 1000 Rep Challenge

David Whitley, RKC

Dec 15, 2004 12:51 PM

I am not exactly sure how it got started, but I blame Steve Cotter. In the late fall of 2003, talk arose on the Dragon Door Forum about doing high repetition snatches wit [...]

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The Side Road to the One-Arm Pullup

Justin Qualler, RKC

Dec 14, 2004 08:09 PM

After years of dreaming - my eighth grade gym teacher said he?d pay 100 bucks to anyone who could do a one-arm pullup - and relatively little doing, I stumbled upon, quit [...]

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The Life-Threatening Secret Behind Our Government’s Cholesterol “Goals”

Al Sears, MD

Dec 03, 2004 04:02 PM

The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) sounds like a good thing. They want your LDL cholesterol at 100 or lower ? or they want you on drugs. But wait until you [...]

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“The Secret Workout”

Dan John

Nov 23, 2004 04:20 PM

One of my ?secrets? to training athletes is so simple that you may ignore how good it is until you try it. Really, I think improving performance comes down to two things: [...]

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The Party Protocol for Triathletes

Brad Nelson, RKC

Nov 23, 2004 03:46 PM

The Western world is gradually listening, receiving and applying simple, primitive, and more effective training methods from the archives of the Eastern bloc. Kettlebell [...]

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How Kettlebells Have Made Me a Better Royal Canadian Mountie

Jerome O’Charchin, RKC

Nov 23, 2004 03:37 PM

I attended the RKC certification workshop in April 2004 and it benefited me in numerous ways. First of all, kettlebell training has improved my work life. I am a police [...]

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The Longevity Secrets of Qigong

Using Qigong to Protect and Enhance Our Life Systems as We Age

John Du Cane, qigong author and teacher

Oct 26, 2004 04:33 PM

After thirty years of personal experience and research, I have yet to find a practice that more completely offers me a way to protect and enhance my life systems, than [...]

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Get a Grip When You Hit the Road

Developing Grip Strength with Bodyweight Exercises

Brad Johnson

Oct 21, 2004 05:13 PM

No, this is not an article on how to control road rage although it might be a good idea to pull off the road and do a couple of them if you feel intensely angry. Better [...]

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Mix it Up and Succeed!

Brett Jones CSCS, RKC, Sr.

Oct 21, 2004 02:27 PM

Conventional wisdom indicates that you must train for one goal at a time. Do not mix strength with endurance. Do not mix your strength micro-cycle with your hypertro [...]

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One-Arm Kettlebell Presses –Strict vs. ‘Tempo’

Andrey Kuzmin

Oct 21, 2004 01:10 PM

The one-arm press used to be an event in Girevoy Sport competitions. In the beginning the competitors pressed strictly. But coaches were looking how to improve the techn [...]

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