Reviews

As an MD, after 3 years of an orthopedic surgical residency, I quickly appreciated the implications of Mandla's training form a professional point of view. When I met Mandla, I could hardly stand up straight from doing continuous surgeries and spending hours at the computer. Persistent tingling in my hands and feet prevented sleep and even threatened my career as a surgeon. After 4 weeks of Kettlebell and Joint Mobility training with Mandla, my symptoms were completely gone. After one year of training with Mandla, I am now in the best shape of my life and don't even waste one thought on back problems anymore!
Training with Mandla is having your own personal trainer even in a group. Mandla is attentive to personal ability and maximizes your potential. He is extremely knowledgable, enthusiastic and motivating. Mandla employs physiology and kinesiology into his instruction and training. His classes are a blast! Regardless of your goals, eliminating chronic pain, losing weight and/or maximizing
your atheltic ability, Mandla is your Man! He will get you into the best shape ever. If you want to, he will help you, if you don't, he will make you!

I am a 25 year old glassblowing teacher, who loves to dance, play Ultimate Frisbee, ride a skateboard, snowboard, etc. In the last few years I have had ACL and PCL replacement on the left knee, and ACL replacement and Meniscus repair on the right knee. I found Boston Kettle Bell by chance about 6 months after the first knee surgery, at the time I was having difficulty walking down the block. Three months ago I had the second knee operated on. With excellent coaching and serious commitment to getting back to play, I have made an amazingly rapid recovery.

I am beyond overjoyed to say that on any given day I am back to 90% of my pre-injury capacity for activity. I have been coming to classes for almost two years. I am absolutely thrilled with my progress, training hard to get back to running, and I am in general currently in the best shape of my life!

I find the classes to provide a refreshingly practical combination of strength, coordination, and agility work. Focusing predominately on fundamental body weight exercises, kettle bell lifts, joint mobility drills, and other athletic skill sets with a precise attention to detail. In a small group environment every student receives individual attention and we are all appropriately challenged by the workout.

Mandla Nkosi is an amazingly talented and dedicated instructor, consistently striving to help his students achieve and maintain healthy active lives. Mandlas experience and expertise in a wide range of athletic activities is very evident and, I feel extremely privileged to train with him.

I am a 25 year old glassblowing teacher, who loves to dance, play Ultimate Frisbee, ride a skateboard, snowboard, etc. In the last few years I have had ACL and PCL replacement on the left knee, and ACL replacement and Meniscus repair on the right knee. I found Boston Kettle Bell by chance about 6 months after the first knee surgery, at the time I was having difficulty walking down the block. Three months ago I had the second knee operated on. With excellent coaching and serious commitment to getting back to play, I have made an amazingly rapid recovery.

I am beyond overjoyed to say that on any given day I am back to 90% of my pre-injury capacity for activity. I have been coming to classes for almost two years. I am absolutely thrilled with my progress, training hard to get back to running, and I am currently in the best shape of my life!

I find the classes to provide a refreshingly practical combination of strength, coordination, and agility work. Focusing predominately on fundamental body weight exercises, kettle bell lifts, joint mobility drills, and other athletic skill sets with a precise attention to detail. In a small group environment every student receives individual attention and we are all appropriately challenged by the workout.

Mandla Nkosi is an amazingly talented and dedicated instructor, consistently striving to help his students achieve and maintain healthy active lives. Mandla's experience and expertise in a wide range of athletic activities is very evident and, I feel extremely privileged to train with him.

Kettlebell training is the most beneficial form of strength conditioning, cardio conditioning and weight loss that I have found! I love it's simplcity. I love the fact that I can train at home and that I don't have to put in long training sessions to reap the benefits.

Funny how life sometimes gets sneaky and, at least for me, I get over-entangled in some of life's "absolutely must do's."(Like my 2008 taxes!) And then what suffers is my training time! So, after a couple of weeks of doing everything else but training, I get ready to jump back in the saddle of discipline and training consistency, and then I suffer a minor set back with some shoulder pain caused by thoracic outlet syndrome and a locked up lower back (too much computer work!)...and then, by the grace of God, I find something amazing...it's called Z-health! I know that most of the RKC's are Z-health certified, so I took Brad Nelson's advice and went to see an RKC, Z-Health practitioner in Boston, Mandla Nkosi.

Well, let me just say that I was so impressed with Mandla and the Z-health system that I immediately registered for the Boston certification coming this summer! Joint mobilization = freedom! How nice to see my body move 90% better with one session! And as I continue to train and utilize what I've learned so far, I know my body will be totally freed up so I can begin training for my RKC Certification! I can't wait to share what I've learned and be able to help lot's of folks regain lost physical mobility!

So now I begin to train, slowly, listening to my body, making sure my form is perfect and not worrying about heavy weight or how many reps. My training for now consists of, Joint Mobility drills, and SWINGS! No presses, no squats, no snatches til Mandla says "go!" He's an excellent, and knowledgeable instructor!

Yes, it's great to be back in the SWING of things again and I'm feeling great!

Even though I do not live in Boston- I train on-line with Mandla and when we can face-to face! I believe that the amount of support, dedication and expert input I get supercedes the input of any other trainer I have worked with over the last 15 years. His holistic view of the body (mechanics, nutrition etc) means that every individual and training session is unique. I love it and I think he should be first choice for everyone who are committed and wants superior training at affordable prices.

His patience, knowledge and focus makes him truly world-class! I cannot recommend him more strongly!

I have attended Mandla's kettlebell and mobility classes for some time. He is so great with everyone. He finds a way to give all of us personal attention--that is just in time and always what each of us needs.

As a result of my work with Mandla, my body has gotten stronger and stronger. My overall stamina has dramatically increased. My ability to go through airports and pick up my bags has totally changed. Plus, my Argentine Tango dancing has dramatically improved as my hips and legs and balance are even better. I am very stable when I dance on one leg.

I highly recommend Mandla's classes and individual coaching. Mandla is fabulous. He has and still is working with me on my flexibility and mobility. I feel very fortunate to study with him.

Claudyne Wilder
author of Point, Click & Wow! Techniques and Habits of Successful Presenters

I've been doing martial arts (Karate, Kung Fu, Capoeira) and strength training for 15 years, but I've never come across a trainer with Mandla's deep knowledge and understanding of the human body and the way we move. This combined with his patience makes Mandla a world class trainer.

My initial plan was to attend Mandla's classes purely from a strength gain point of view. But time and place made it difficult. I focused on my martial arts training instead but got injured during class and ended up with a herniated disk in my lower back. I was looking at 6 months of PT and maybe surgery if that did not help (surgery from which a 100% recovery is no guarantee). 4 months of PT gave no results, and fed up with not being able to work out I started taking Mandla's classes - Success! Mandla's combined knowledge of Z-Health and Kettlebell Training yielded results within 2 weeks, and 2 months later the back pain was gone!

Now, combining joint mobility and kettlebell training, I'm on my way to a power and fitness level I would not have thought possible a couple of years ago.

I am a certified athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA) and have been working in the physical education/health field for 25 years. There is so much misinformation, hype, and glam in the fitness industry, it was with great relief that I met Mandla and was introduced to kettlebells. He has a thorough and solid understanding of the human body, how it works, and how to make it stronger and healthier. I was impressed with his expertise, enthusiasm, and attention to detail.

My girlfriend wisely bought me an introductory session with Mandla for a Christmas present. I had been dabbling with the Kettlebell for a year and felt that taking the time to learn the proper way of doing lifts, swings,and presses would be a good idea. On my first session Mandla took the time to analyze my form, structure, and movements, and he pointed out a few areas that might hold me back from reaching where I wanted to go with my kettlebell. His knowledge and delivery of the little things having to do with physiology and kinetics are sound, and his delivery is patient, and done with good cheer. It is obvious that he wants to help you succeed and that he loves doing what he does. The studio is clean, peaceful, well lit, and easy to get to. I highly endorse Mandla as The Instructor to call on in New England. He is worth the trip.

I recently completed the RKC instructor certification workshop. I got help from Mandla and am here to tell you that I simply could not have done it without his preparation. His keen analysis, exacting standards and fist-hand experience set me up for success in a situation in which there was no room for error. Mandla gave me the confidence and skill to prevail in the most important test of my life. I've watched him work with less experienced clients as well and seen him get the best from people at any level. I urge even my own personal training clients to attend his workshops!

Mandla possesses the technical expertise, anatomical knowledge, and communication skills expected of every RKC, in abundance. Working with him has helped me safely and painlessly achieve a range of motion in my knees that two physicians and a clinic full of physical therapists said would be physically impossible.

Even more important than his expertise as an RKC is his dedication to his students and to healthy movement in general. I've had plenty of other highly qualified trainers support me through one lousy rep after another; Mandla was the first (and only) to persevere in encouraging me to move well, rather than "good enough." He's that rare individual who can tell his students what they need to hear rather than what we may want to hear.

If you want to not only get stronger, but radically transform the way you think about movement, feel about movement, and actually move, then stop reading this and call him.

Mandla is endless in his generousity of knowledge. You will come away from training with him understanding more then you ever imagined and having accomplished things you never dreamed. I attribute all my good habits to having been trained by him...be ready to work, be ready to reallly work!!