The 3×3 kettlebell programs are focused routines maximizing weight use. The repetitions are low, but because the weights are heavier, the benefits of the programs are very specific. In a 3×3 program, you do three sets of three repetitions, with the intensity changing each set. This program is ideal for strength goals as it allows the opportunity to use the heavier loads. The 3×3 program can also be a precursor to the 5×5 program. There are many benefits to using 3×3 kettlebell programs. They include the following.
The taste of his regurgitated meal hinted the inevitable if he continued. Was it too late to back-out? How he wished common sense had guided his decision instead of the bravado that made him select a weight heavier than suggested.
I knew exactly what I getting into as soon as I finished writing my post. I knew it would test the thickness of my skin and my ability to keep a cool demeanor. It is the price for exposing politically incorrect or taboo topics. I touched a nerve in a subject where we – health professionals – are supposed to be huggy-touchy and dare not say what is boiling inside us.
Even if you did not read it, chances are you saw it being wildly distributed. I don’t know about you but I almost puked after reading this overreaching diatribe and mourned the mutilation of the original piece.
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Sometimes the solution is so stupefying simple, it turns us into skeptics. How can it keep escaping our eyes? We are so focused on finding intricacies where none exist that the obvious goes right over our heads. Are we afraid to yield to simplicity and look uneducated or dumb? Or is it that the overly segmented view we have of our world blocks us from grasping the simplicity of the whole?
Those who know me personally, know the backstage aspect of my profession. Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of helping folks overcome painful conditions, return to activity, and get stronger and fitter. What more could a strength coach ask for? It is Nirvana!
Whenever I do presentations on the topics of exercise, fitness, and strength training, I always run into the same inquiry:
I want to tell you about one of the best hidden and innocent- looking sources of injury and pain, call it a hidden threat if you will. Funny thing is we do not even realize it and we do it because we see it as fun and fulfilling, and it happens more often around this time of the year, every year without fail.
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