Improve your grip with kettlebells

May 13, 2010

Kettlebells are a great tool for your grip because they can develop the grip in a number of different ways. They can be used to improve your grip strength, grip endurance and/or grip power.
Kettlebell snatches are a great exercise for grip power or grip endurance.
 At heavier loads, the snatch generates a huge amount of power and [...]

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Pro Grade vs Classic Kettlebells

May 11, 2010

We get this question all the time at Australian Kettlebells: what’s the difference between the Pro Grade and Classic kettlebells?
The Number One Difference
The most noticable, and arguably the most important, difference between the Pro-Grade and Classic kettlebells is the standardisation of the Pro Grade bells versus the variation in size and shape of the Classic [...]

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The Power Station for Rugby

May 6, 2010

The Power Station offers the rugby team, or individual rugby player, many benefits.  Strength and power are essential for rugby, with vertical exercises such as squats, power cleans and deadlifts being staples for most rugby players.  However, horizontal exercises like scrum machine drills and sled runs are also used a lot.  This is where the [...]

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Hamstring prehab with swings

May 3, 2010

Hamstring injuries commonly occur with ballistic muscles actions. The sprinting and kicking involved in AFL often leads to hamstring injuries.
The swing is a great exercise to prehab hamstrings against injuries. It does this by:
Improving muscle balance: It is common to have stronger quads than hamstrings. This increases the chance of injury because the hamstrings have [...]

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Rest Periods

April 29, 2010

Lots of people in the gym don’t pay enough attention to rest periods,  they just do the next set when they feel up to it.  Advanced lifters who know their bodies really well can get away with this, but for most people they might have a good or bad day at the gym and have [...]

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Kettlebell Training Tips – Jerks

April 22, 2010

Kettlebell training is taking off in a big way in Australia – faster than good kettlebell training information can be disseminated.  This is a bit of a worry because kettlebells are quite different to use than barbells or dumbbells (due to their displaced centre of mass) so the large body of information on these better [...]

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Weightlifting Shoes in Australia

April 19, 2010

Weightlifting shoes have been very hard to come by in Australia over the last few years.  We’ve been inundated with calls and emails asking if we stock them.  Unfortunately we too were out of stock for quite a while.  Good news is: we’ve just got a heap of Do-Win weightlifting shoes in.
So why use weightlifting [...]

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Australian Kettlebells at Health & Fitness Expo 2010

April 15, 2010

The Health & Fitness Expo will be held at the Sydney Convention Centre from the 30th April to 2nd May 2010.
For FREE TICKETS to the Expo email info@kettlebells.com.au or call 1300 85 40 50.  We have 30 free tickets for personal trainers and 20 tickets at 25% off.  First in best dressed!
Australian Kettlebells will of [...]

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CrossFit in Mumbai, India

April 14, 2010

CrossFit has finally made its way to India.  Dheepesh Bhatt, who had run a successful CrossFit in St Kilda for several years has taken all he learnt running his studio in Melbourne and has set one up in Mumbai.
CrossFit has been taking off in the last few years and revolutionising the fitness industry.  It has [...]

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Bench Press on the Power Station

April 13, 2010

Make your bench press training more comfortable, safe and more effective with the Power Station.  The Power Station has several great features that will help you improve your bench press.  Here’s a quick run down:

Sliding J Hooks
Small things can make a big difference, like the unique Sliding J Hooks on the Power Station.

The Sliding J [...]

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