Comments on: My Rep Sheet – Home Kettlebell Workout and Tabata!

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:09:17 +0000

In reply to Minnie.

Haha! Must’ve been tough! Glad you like it though.

Thanks for that tip btw. I knew that was why, but I just wasn’t paying enough attention to it. Did some conventional DLs today, and was really focusing on keeping the bar close and extending the knees then the hips and keeping the back in a strong position – MUCH better, and managed 1 rep (with excellent form) at 100kg 😀 Andrew was in the gym at the same time as me and I asked him to watch my form and give me feedback – so I am well pleased. Didn’t feel it in my back at all today, hammies and glutes got a hounding though.

Thanks again Minnie!

By: Minnie

Minnie — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:23:15 +0000

Hi Marianne,
Just finished this workout. Wow !!! I was calling for my mama and thought I was gonna puke.
Great feeling as weird as it sounds. My heaviest kettlebell is a 12 kg so I had to make modifications.
For the two handed swings I held a 12kg in each hand. For the renegade row I did a two KB rear press.
Loved it! I have to check my workout journal and see how I did the first time I did this.
Anyway thanks again.
Minnie
Ps- I forgot to tell you that the reason for keeping the bar close
to your shins when deadlifting is because the farther away the heavier
It is.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:53:45 +0000

In reply to Atheist. Thanks James, Sounds like you have a lot to gain from varying your training, and I wish you all the best with it. Feel free to keep us all posted in the "my diary" section in the forum. Means you can also keep track of your progress. It will be great to see your journey unfold, thanks :)

By: Atheist

Atheist — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:22:12 +0000

Hi Marianne,

I’ve come across your blog today while I was searching for high-intensity resistance exercise videos on youtube. I’m really impressed by what I’ve seen. Your blog contains the sort of exercising programs that I was looking for and planning to start from TOMORROW (well, it is now almost 2 minutes before mid-night!!).

In the last couple of years I was concentrating more on the conventional iron-bumping exercises while largely ignoring exercises that target my core muscles. The end result was: a big guy with massive packed muscles but with weak imbalanced core muscles that caused lower back pain, joints problems and scattered stubborn fat pockets.

I’me now planning to change my exercising routine and programs completely. I’ve viewed many of your videos (they are great specially on how to perform them in a correct form). I’m now working out the new exercising regime.

If you like, I can keep you informed with the progress and the key results as it happen (think of me a kind-off a guinea pig!!!).

Cheers

James
Manchester

P.S. I’m not native English speaker so forgive my linguistics mistakes

By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:45:05 +0000

In reply to Thomas Bell.

Thanks Thomas 🙂

Yes you can use DBs instead of KBs in most of the exercises, as long as it feels right. Sometimes DBs are a little more awkward. Happy days that your instructor likes my workouts – Nice to know!

Cheers

By: Thomas Bell

Thomas Bell — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:44:39 +0000

Sending positive vibes to you from across the pond in Canada
Can you substitute dumbbells in lieu of kbells?
P.S. My kettlebell instructor loves your website btw…he combines his stuff with some of yours for an extra workout (I mean torture 😉

By: Karl MacPhee

Karl MacPhee — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:37:33 +0000

I just found your site today and wanted to say thank you for all the time you have put into sharing with the world. I am looking forward to playing with the workouts, it’s always great to try something different and I am looking forward to learn more about the KB.
Also, the irish stew looks wonderful, can’t wait to try it.

Karl

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:39:01 +0000

In reply to Karl MacPhee.

Hi Karl, thanks for the comment, glad to have you visit my site. I hope that you can get something from it and I am glad to hear that you are open to “new” things 😀 Gotta love variety!

Hope you enjoy the stew! It’s yummy 😛

By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:24:42 +0000

In reply to gryer.

OOPS – I hope you’re ok! It’s scary having near misses like that!

Glad you like this one – I did too 🙂

By: gryer

gryer — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:08:37 +0000

I loved this workout! It was a change to focus on reps and not on time, and this workout still left me panting for air. It was also easier to judge what weights to use when I had an idea of the number of reps I would be doing. The final closing Tabata finished it off wonderfully.

I fell off my bells once on each side on the renegade rows, but I am new to using bells for this rather than dumbells. At least I didn’t damage the floor (or me!) Oh, and those lunges directly after the swings were hard!

This just hit the spot! Thank you Marianne!

~ Gillian