Welcome world
So on my quest to get fitter this year I've been searching through pinterest for inspiration and one thing that keeps cropping up is Kettlebell workouts. Having read what felt like hundreds of articles on kettlebells, the benefits of them, how easy they are to use and their magical calorie burning power I've decided to put together my own kettlebell workout combining the most popular moves and seeing how much difference swinging a kettlebell will make to my waistline.
I'm going to try this workout for 2 weeks going through the 20 minute circuit every other day. To get an idea of how well its working, if it works at all, I'm going to take my measurements on day 1 and then again on day 15. I'm going to weigh myself on these days too but I am far more interested in measurements than the number on the scales.
I've designed the workout in the style of Kayle Itsine's 28 Day Bikini Body Guide workouts in the sense that it's broken down into 2 mini circuits, do the first 4 exercises for 1 minute each then take a 30 second break before starting on the second circuit. Do each circuit twice with a 30 second rest between rounds. My plan is to do 2 rounds of these exercises for the first week and increase to 3 rounds for week 2. A 20 minute kettlebell workout supposedly burns 400kcal so I have pretty high hopes for this challenge.
King of Kettlebells Challenge
Circuit one:
- Bent over Row
- Sumo Squat and curl
- Russian twists
- Kettlebell Snatch
Circuit two:
- Windmills
- Swing through Lunges
- Kettlebell single leg dead lifts (12 per side)
- Kettlebell Swings
- Halo
I'm going to accompany these circuits with a 10 minute hula hoop session on either end to warm up and cool down as well as 5 minutes of stretching.
Lets see how this goes
Until next time
Ellie x
