Author: James Ross
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How to get more out of your interval training
The purpose of this blog is to provide context for why some people respond differently to intervals and longer sets. We will also provide an insight into why interval training can be useful for predicting longer set performance for some people but not for others. Kettlebell sport is often referred to as a sport of…
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Heating up!
I’m currently writing this as I reflect on how things went at the world championships in Italy. One of the main things that stood out to me was how the heat and humidity affected people’s performance. With this in mind, this blog will briefly examine heat acclimation. I will discuss what I did to acclimatise…
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 3
In this blog, I will share my experience developing strength endurance from my perspective and reflect on how my athletes have responded. I have tried a wide range of methods, often using myself as a bit of an experiment before trying them on people I train. The most significant take-home message: The most important thing…
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 2
As mentioned in Part 1, kettlebell sport is associated with strength or power endurance. Part 1 documented some approaches to building strength or power endurance in elite world champions. In part two, I will briefly examine what the science says about developing these qualities and highlight an effective and efficient way to develop this type…
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Strength Endurance for Kettlebell Sport, Part 1
Kettlebell sport is a power endurance sport. As such developing your strength endurance or local muscular endurance should in turn improve your kettlebell sport performance. Traditionally, this has been done with various approaches, typically all involving higher reps. In this blog, we will look at traditional approaches. In part two we will look at whether…
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Anti-Glycolytic Musings Part 1
Up front, there isn’t any direct science on kettlebells with this sort of protocol so hopefully, we can see some more research in the future to elucidate best practice. This blog should point you in the right direction for some useful research around this area and help you think critically about some of the claims…
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Off-season training ideas, part 2 – time efficient training
Building on my previous post about off-season training sometimes people still want to scratch the training itch but don’t have enough time. Maybe you’re extra busy or on holiday. Or even your kids are on holiday and you’re still working, so your usual training time has been drastically reduced. Kettlebell training particularly kettlebell sport training…
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Off-season training ideas, part 1 – time efficient training
Building on my previous post about off-season training sometimes people still want to scratch the training itch but don’t have enough time. Maybe you’re extra busy or on holiday. Or even your kids are on holiday and you’re still working, so your usual training time has been drastically reduced. Kettlebell training particularly kettlebell sport training…
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Balance, Breathing and Intention: A new framework for kettlebell sport technique.
Outside of the athletes lifting posture, coaches often rely on their intuition and experience when providing client feedback for other nuanced components of their technique. This blog aims to explore a different framework and offer contextual factors around feedback other than just the position/posture. Feedback will vary depending on the goal. For example, an athlete…
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Running and Kettlebell Sport, part 2
There are many different ways to set up an endurance program. Whether you’re looking to complete a race or improve your performance in a race we can select the program that best suits your needs. Many successful runners run at a lower intensity and increase their intensity towards the time of competition, while others focus…