Thanks Sheri, well done! Oh I remember this one! Another Killer 😉

Hey Lisa, this workout killed my shoulders, especially those pushups lol. Glad you liked it 🙂

Thanks for taking the time to respond! I really can’t do too much with the 16kg bell besides swings, I did the overheads with it but in the last round I could feel it slipping and had to switch it up! No need to take that to the head. I started running when my youngest was 2 and that was 4 years ago. I started really slow and gradually added more time. But my knees don’t like it if I go over 45 minutes. The Cardio Coach stuff is really sprints or hill climbs intervals just like a spinning class but with no instructor! I have been doing heavy weights with running, step and kickboxing for the past year and I am getting where I want to be but not. Then I found kettlebells and working in intervals and I really like it but I still throw runs in there too as it’s my thinking time away from kids etc.
So today I went for a 30 min run before doing the workout and I am wondering if I am doing too much and working against myself? When I was doing the heavy weights I would do that (Cathe Friedrich’s STS series) and then do some other form of cardio and some days that would be 1.5 to 2 hours of working out and that was way too much with very little results. Okay I have rambled on too long.
Thanks again for the info and the workouts!

Hi GrapeWine, The power jacks are major monsters on the quads, but I love them at the same time.

As for bulking up, no I don’t think they do. You would need to be lifting very heavy KBs and performing low reps to gain mass like that. Plus if you are eating a lot, this may make you look more “bulky” as you will build more muscle. But as most of my KB workouts have moderate-high reps, low-moderate weights and plenty of cardio, it would be difficult to bulk up. You should become very toned and lean, IF you’re diet is also good 🙂

Marianne

Hi Heather, those push-up were a real killer, don’t know what I was thinking LOL But I’m suffering today. Plus last night I went to the Kettlebell Class my other half takes in our local community centre – it was so busy I had no choice but to use a 16 kg, which nearly finished me off lol. Although for my next workout I’ll be trying the 16kg again. As inspired by you 😉

Recently I have been doing a little running, but it really hurts my knees after a while, so I don’t know if I’ll keep it up. I go to Andrew’s KB Classes when I’m off work, but other than that, I do very little additional cardio. Maybe the odd spin class once in a blue moon to catch up with friends who go to them – sometimes these things are the only catch-up time us ladies get to have a gossip.

What other training do you do?

Marianne

Thanks for your job, keep it up.

By the way, do you think kettlebells can bulk up?

I tried this one this morning and it was a killer. I did switch a couple things…I changed the roll back to an overhead KB swing as the rolling back really kills my back for some reason and after the first round of close push-ups with one leg my arms couldn’t do it and I ended up doing knee in’s on a suspended between the arms of my treadmill.

Thanks for the great workout! The Tabata at the end was very hard but energizing! Do you do other cardio as well or just these workouts?

Thanks for the info
Heather

Hey, Just do the push-ups from two feet. Set yourself a number of reps that will challenge you. Maybe in the push-up Crawl and the Superman you could just use a stopwatch and perform the exercise for 45 seconds. These exercises are hard to count reps. Hope you enjoy the workout.