maxwellsc/blog.cfm?blogID=80 - Dear Steve Maxwell and all your followers, after reading this article at first I felt just let it go man.... However, after seeing some videos of you on youtube, I think it would be irresponsible of me, not to say anything. So here we go... The idea that practicing sport kettlebell lifts will improve non-GS-related physical activities goes against the principles of specifity of exercise and ye, physics itself. - There seems to be a major misunderstanding of both exercise science and physics. Surely, any form of training has carry over to different sports as long as they somehow increase performance (like endurance, strength, mobility, power etc). I believe you have misunderstood the principles of specifitiy so I will go on and explain them to you since you are a world famous kettlebell and fitness instructor I thought you might want to know. When training a skill it needs to be very specific and certain aspects of physiology needs to be trained also specifically, however not when training general physical properties/abilities of the human body. Training a skill is to a certain degree training your brain, offcourse it needs to be specific. However, if you have strong legs you will not loose your strength when you put skiis on? If you have flexible shoulders they will not become stiff when you get in a pool? The importance of specificity must be respected so you dont waste your training volume on the wrong exercises, however to say that a sport that increases so many different physical abilities has no carry over is just stupid. The most trainable variable of endurance is once stroke volume. Your hearts ability to pump blood (how much blood pr beat). There are big genetic differences in individuals, however your stroke volume can be increased by about 40% through training. Your heart is stupid, it doesnt know wether you are running, swimming or lifting kettlebells. It will become better and more efficient no matter what, as long as it is challenged and forced to adapt to new demands. And this will have a huge carryover to any sport where a strong heart and good endurance is beneficial (many sports!) Another factor to consider is your muscles ability to consume the oxygen out of the blood. This must be trained specifically, so if you are using your quads they become more efficient in utilizing the amount of oxygen available in the blood (specificity). The muscles ability to increase oxygen uptake must be train specifically and can be increased by about 5-6%. So it is apparent that the physical endurance attributes of the muscles are not as trainable as the heart and lungs. And that you must train using the same muscles that you will be using during a competition. This is so that you can reap the benefits of all the oxygen flowing through your arteries, because its not going to do you any good if it doesnt get to the muscles. Hope this clarifies a little, let me know if you want a more elaborate discussion on the topic. Sincerely Nils Martin Lundgren, exercise scientist, personal trainer and master of sport in kettlebell sport So ask yourself is this a better way to train? https://youtube/watch?v=7X_Uo6LrwAo or this? youtube/watch?v=n2IJDyh4uMM&feature=youtu.be Also please consider risk to benefit ratio from a technical point of view also. Aleksander is snatching 32kg and you 16kg, which looks safer?
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:05:12 +0000
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