Bought this for my youngest to develop basic form for single hand kettlebell work. kzfaq.infoUgkxtaDAl93XF8wxJhssTtjIFjzid82wglva It has a nice grip on it, just a little rough so it isn't slippery. I was doing a few rotator cuff exercises to test and worked well for those movements I'd been doing with a regular dumbbell. Cool thing you can do is hold it in your hand for door-knob turns to work the forearm and grip. Note: it's small, almost all handle, but that's what I expected given the weight. Smallest I've worked with before is 15lbs, so it was kind of funny to see the difference 10lbs makes.

I started last summer with a 20 lb. kb and moved to a 35 lb. kb about 2 months later. I am now using a 50 lb. kb and doing 100 swings per arm per day in a hard style. I do 10, 10 swing sets per arm with a switch at the top of my swing when switching arms. I vary clean and squats, clean and presses, clean and snatch with my swings each day. I use the high switch on these when changing arms without putting the kb down. I still use the 20 lb'er for my Turkish Get ups. lol. I can't bring myself to put the 35 lb'er over my head and try to get up off of the floor with it. I am approaching 66 yo in July and have the core strength of a 40 yo. I referee basketball and umpire baseball. My hips, knees, ankles, and joints in general, no longer ache when I lay down at night. I have the stamina to backpack and hike wherever I choose. Kettlebells are da bomb and I owe my training to you, Wildman!

This has blown my mind It’s never ending … the amount of stuff one can do with a simple kettle bell 👀

I’m in my sitting room right now swinging a kettlebell 💪🏼😂

Glad to see this went up today. I look forward to a daily dose of Mark Wildman.

Good demo. Killing it .

Thank you for the demonstration.

Coach. You never let me down. Constantly! putting out great content. Still waiting for that Mark Wildman Kettlebell T-Shirt. :))

I glad I saw this, ut explained a lot of issues that I was wondering about. Thx again.

Thank you, I was waiting for it :)

Super helpful breakdown, thank you! Appreciate the way you describe and show the differences starting from hard style.

Awesome info. Thank you.

Super helpful! Thank you!

Been waiting for the double dip instruction vid , this is great ! Mark hand to hand would be dope

Thanks for this.

Superb explanation.

How's the app coming along? Didn't get any updates. Great content btw! Keep it up!

When’s the app going up, and what you calling it on the App Store?

Hey Mark, I'm approaching 24kg-20-10 emoms hard style two handed swings by mid June the way I'm going. I'm at 16 sets now. I don't want to get a 28 yet and will be ordering a 20kg soon. Should I just switch to single hard style swings and work my way up to 20 again or do 20 sets of 20 in emom? Also, will the app provide this kind of progression guidance? I figure I'll outgrow 16,20,24 kg by July 2022 the way I'm going. Bless you man! Without question the best channel on KZfaq. Can't wait to give you my money. 🙏🏼

I have a little bit of elbow issues, and find the full 180° rotation from thumb pointing back to pointing up, under tension, slightly painful (after many reps). So, I adjust to thumb pointing to the side at the bottom, and just do 90° rotation, and it helps.

Great video as always! Quick question: when I do (Hardstyle) one handed swings I turn my hand with each rep such that I have thumb down at the bottom and thumb up at the top. The reason being that my shoulder and posture feels better that way. Should I not do that and work on getting comfortable with the thumb down at the top?

i have been taught when using kettlebells to have a loose grip on the bell instead of a "death grip". Also for a single arm swings to have my arm bent slightly at the elbow to reduce injury.

Very interesting. What would be the effects of doing single arm swings with the handle perpendicular to the arm? I imagine it puts more demand on having strong wrists, but I'm not sure.

I started doing the MW kettlebell program without experience with kettlebells or weight training, so I am never sure if I am making the right conclusions, but I was surprised that the arms are only present as connectors, not force generators. It seems to me that in swings you are sending the kettlebell out and up with the hip snap, the arms come along for the ride. It is just sort of weird that if you execute the hip movement correctly the kettlebell almost seems weightless.

How about shoulder impingement problems with downwards thumb rotation? Prestretching is there but if you don't rotate the humerus out at the top you spend hell of a lot of time internally rotated. What are your risk concerns on this?

Is there a moment in training where one would switch from a two-handed swing to a one-handed swing? I've been working my way up using EMOM with a two-handed swing and am at 160 swings in 10 minutes. Was thinking when I hit 200, I'd jump up in weight. Would it be better to keep the same weight and just go to a one-handed swing? Or should I be mixing them in or alternating?

In Return of the Kettlebell, the guy working with Pavel talks about orienting the bells with the thumbs pointed back as a way to pre-stretch the external rotators in the shoulder. He said he’d use it for swimmers who do a lot of internal rotation. So in addition to being safer for elbow, it seems there are other benefits to it. It also makes me think of the version you demonstrate of the hand-to-hand swing, where the bell rotates 180 degrees at the top. In both cases, I wonder if spinning the bell helps stabilize it like a gyroscope.

Regarding hardstyle with lighter weights, I find if I swing the shit out of it with enough force for a snatch but hit the breaks when my arm is parallel to the ground, I get a little more bang for my buck in my shoulders and the little muscles in my mid back. Not sure if this is something people do intentionally but I like it.

It does not look like the type of kettlebell effects the different technique styles of swing , is that the case with all kettlebell moves or are some moves specific to competition vrs. soft style kettlbells ? thx for the great content as always

What's a hybrid style look like? Is it a pointless swing

Hey Mark, in the soft style versions I usually see people alternating lifting slightly one of their feet during the low and high positions of the swing, but never mention the actual reasoning behind it.

Mark do recommend a routine where I'm doing both single and double handed swings?

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Is hard style better for strengthening and soft style better for endurance?

Naru hodo! Benkyo narimashita! This means in Japanese OK I got it! I understand what you’re saying! Peace and blessings from Fukuoka!

I always look at hardstyle and have concerns for his knees.....that is a fair snap going on.

Would you consider SSST a soft style?

I know hardstyle so well softstyle seems so weird

So Mr Mark hardstyle is heavy weight and soft is light?

Which style of swing would be better for an obese person? (talking 400+ lbs)

I do not think your representation of a "soft style" swing is quite accurate. Look at the arms in the two-handed swing: why are they bent in elbows - does it add anything to the efficiency? You arms will get tired all for nothing, that's all! And then the same about legs: it looks like you squat twice per cycle. What is that for? Why do you feel you need to straighten you legs when the kettlebell moves back? The actual "competition style" starts with positioning your feet comfortably - on a diagonal and then moving your body weight from one leg to another, back and forth, to assist the swing. There is no squatting in swings or snatches, none at all! Try doing it 20-50 reps (depending on the weight) nonstop, just switching between hands and you will get to the most efficient movement pattern pretty quickly: that will be the "soft style"! "Soft style" is about making as many snatches or double-hand jerks (or racking and jerking in a long cycle) in 10 minutes as you can - no extra score awarded or removed for "style" or "correct breathing".

Basically: Soft - slavic approach to kettlebells. Hard - overthinked, mercantilised & bull$$hitised (CrossFit fanatics) approach.

The wandering camera man is making me sea sick. Can’t watch..