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January 30, 2006
The skill of strength trumps the program design
Last few years we ran a challenge at our booth at a top bodybuilding expo. A one-arm military press with an 88-pound kettlebell. The rules are simple: the fist must be lower then the chin at the start of the press and the knees must remain locked. You don’t even have to clean the bell because I do not want any of the ‘this is all technique’ whining. We’ll hand it to you if you insist.
Let us face it, pressing eighty-eight pounds overhead is not a feat of strength. Definitely not for a two hundred-fifty pound man. Yet the overwhelming majority of the big sissies just can’t do it. They just don’t have the key strength skills of rooting, power breathing, engaging the lat, and other subtleties we teach at the RKC kettlebell instructor course. “At the RKC we emphasize the technical performance over routines, exercises, workouts,” stressed Rob Lawrence, Senior RKC instructor. “They are marginal until the technique is perfect.” It makes little difference whether you are doing 5x5 or 3x10 and how hard you are trying if your technique is worthless. A 160, 5’11” Rob easily presses the ‘bulldog’ to back up his point.
Russian kettlebell power to you!
Posted by james at January 30, 2006 6:30 AM
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