Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Review - Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course Newcastle 1st - 2nd Augsut
Last Friday I took a drive back up to my home town, Newcastle. I had a 2 day Extreme Kettlebell Course to run up there on the Saturday and Sunday. After an easy drive up there and passing the Angel of the North, I was full of energy and ready for a good course. 
Saturday morning came round and I turned up to the gym to see everyone waiting at 8.20am! After the initial surprise of the group being there early we got the gym opened and started with the course. Although a small group I knew instantly that it was going to be a good course as the banta was flowing early doors! After getting the KBs into the studio we did a few introductions and then cracked on with the theory. We discussed a few interesting points about the posterior chain vs anterior chain, we looked at the kinetic chain and spent some time on range of movement. With all the theory done it was time for the practical. First exercise, the 2 arm swing, we spent about 2 hours on this, looking at the movement and how to improve it. I could tell from quite early on that we were going to get through a lot over the weekend, most of the group had used KBs at some point before so I was able to really push them and they picked things up very quickly.
After Lunch we went into the snatches, cleans, squats and military press by which point the guys were just starting to slow down a bit. Not surprising really, as they were all absolutely going for it, they wouldn't stop exercising! So, time for the windmills and Turkish getups, after spending an hour working on those we rapped the day up and I went off for a BBQ!
Sunday morning and feeling fresh, drove to the gym and did a little demo for the group before they took the assessment. They all breezed through the assessment with no trouble. So we quickly moved onto the theory part of day 2 and after a bit of rambling and ranting from me, we moved onto the KB training sessions. We did 3 full workouts and then took the KBs outside to do some juggling.
And after all of that it was time to get rid of a few EKI t-shirts and say good bye!
Saturday morning came round and I turned up to the gym to see everyone waiting at 8.20am! After the initial surprise of the group being there early we got the gym opened and started with the course. Although a small group I knew instantly that it was going to be a good course as the banta was flowing early doors! After getting the KBs into the studio we did a few introductions and then cracked on with the theory. We discussed a few interesting points about the posterior chain vs anterior chain, we looked at the kinetic chain and spent some time on range of movement. With all the theory done it was time for the practical. First exercise, the 2 arm swing, we spent about 2 hours on this, looking at the movement and how to improve it. I could tell from quite early on that we were going to get through a lot over the weekend, most of the group had used KBs at some point before so I was able to really push them and they picked things up very quickly.
After Lunch we went into the snatches, cleans, squats and military press by which point the guys were just starting to slow down a bit. Not surprising really, as they were all absolutely going for it, they wouldn't stop exercising! So, time for the windmills and Turkish getups, after spending an hour working on those we rapped the day up and I went off for a BBQ!
Sunday morning and feeling fresh, drove to the gym and did a little demo for the group before they took the assessment. They all breezed through the assessment with no trouble. So we quickly moved onto the theory part of day 2 and after a bit of rambling and ranting from me, we moved onto the KB training sessions. We did 3 full workouts and then took the KBs outside to do some juggling.
And after all of that it was time to get rid of a few EKI t-shirts and say good bye!
Thanks to all the guys who came on the course for making it such a good 2 days and working hard from start to finish.
Well done to you all and congratulations!
Now get lifting and we'll see you on the advanced course!!
posted by Tommy Matthews @ 12:52
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