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The “Best” Hip Hinge Exercise
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Two weeks ago Steve Belanger started a thread on the StrongFirst forum asking the readers to pick their favorite barbell, bodyweight, and kettlebell exercises. For all...
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Kettlebells and Deadlifts Go Together Like Vodka and Pickles
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Speaks 1,000-pound deadlifter Andy Bolton: “The [Kettlebell] Swing is a great developer of the posterior chain and will teach you how to develop some awesome SNAP in your...
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Change Beckoned; Strength Answered.
By Laura Nepodal, SFG I think I knew I wanted to be strong when I threw a boy for distance for the first time. It was June of 1997, in a little basement of a little farmhouse in a little farming town,...
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Kettlebells + Deadlifts, Part II
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Several months ago I wrote how a girevik should go about converting the posterior chain strength he or she has built with swings and snatches into a respectable barbell...
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Gray Cook on Simple & Sinister
Simple and Sinister, Pavel Tsatsouline’s new book, is eloquent in its simplicity. People try to overcomplicate a position by adding more where it’s unnecessary, but the true artist sculpts, whittles...
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Everything IS a Nail
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman At a recent SFG kettlebell cert Dan John and I were waxing poetic about the sheer perfection of a program of swings, goblet squats, and get-ups for anyone, from the...
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Thumbs Up in Kettlebell Pulls?
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Recently we have seen a number of students coming to SFG certs clean and swing with their thumbs up. I am here to put an end to this fashion. Other kettlebell systems...
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heads up!
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman A few years ago, a strange idea emerged from the clinical world: the insect head. White coats started telling lifters to lock their heads onto their torsos during...
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Kettlebells and Powerlifting: A Match Made in Heaven?
By ‘The King of The Deadlift’ Andy Bolton Kettlebells are a waste of time! Or so I thought, until I became friends with Pavel. Like many Powerlifters, I dismissed kettlebells outright, because…...
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the swing sandwich
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman For years, kettlebell instructor Missy Beaver has been placing a set of swings between sets of everything else. She has had great success with her students who range...
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Optimizing Back Health With The Kettlebell Swing
by Scott Iardella, SFG II SFL We all know the kettlebell swing has many benefits. Would you put “back health” at the top of the list? I would. What exactly is back health? Back health means having a...
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StrongFirst for Golf
by Chris Hook, TPI-FP3, SFG2, SFL Tiger Woods in 2014 You may not be a golfer or a fan of golf, but I am sure you have heard of Tiger Woods. He has been ranked the number one golfer in the world many...
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Military Deployment Prep: A Program for Hardening the Soldier
by Al Ciampa, MS, SFG, FMS, ACSM, USAW When Pavel asked me to make a contribution for an article, I was honored. His request was made in a forum post discussing the preparation of a combat unit for the...
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Simple & Sinister: Getting from Two- to One-Hand Swings
By Steve Freides, Senior SFG Adding one-hand kettlebell swings to your Simple & Sinister training can be daunting for some people. Some of the symptoms include: Grip – you feel like the bell is...
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Simple & Sinister Training for Kettlebell Sport Athletes
By S. H. Mathews If perfection is found when there is nothing more to take away, then Simple and Sinister is much closer to it than the program minimum from Enter the Kettlebell. Swings and getups....
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Posture: An Easy Way to Up Your Performance
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman What do the above photos of top performers in three totally different sports have in common? Posture What would happen to the sprinter if she were slouched over? A waste...
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The Perfect Kettlebell Swing: Is There Such a Thing?
By Brett Jones, Chief SFG Of the great unsettled debates to plague humanity over the ages, the question of whether a perfect kettlebell swing form/technique exists would certainly be among them....
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Simple & Sinister Progression Tactic
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Today we will discuss some nuances of your Kettlebell Simple & Sinister progression, inspired by lively discussions on the StrongFirst forum. In a nutshell, the...
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Understanding the Center of Mass in Kettlebell Training
by Brett Jones, Chief SFG Mastering the dance of center of mass. Who wouldn’t sign up for a class about that? With a thick handle and off-set center of mass, the design of the kettlebell is unique and...
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Simple & Sinister + Heart Rate Training
By Al Ciampa, SFG and Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman In the Simple & Sinister Progression Tactics blog, you learned how to accelerate your Kettlebell Simple & Sinister progress by optimizing your...
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