Kettlebell Workouts with Master Geoff Neupert

👉 If you need to burn off some fat, and aren’t time-starved, here’s where you can find Kettlebell Burn 2.0, the program Jeff was asking me about. https://go.chasingstrength.com/burn-sa3/ 👉 And if you think short, 15-minute training sessions work better for you, check out Kettlebell W.O.D. which Jeff is currently using here. https://salutis.kartra.com/page/Iyq450 👉 And, if you need a program but aren’t sure which one is right for you, here’s a list of my programs. https://go.chasingstrength.com/training-programs-workouts/ Back “in the day,” when I was in my late teens and early 20s, my workouts were long. Like 2 to 2.5 hours long. After all, more is better right? ;-] And then, somehow, on the backside of college, I got ahold of Leo Costa’s “SERIOUS GROWTH” newsletter. Leo, a bodybuilder / entrepreneur, who’d teamed up with The Golden Eagle, Tom Platz And supposedly had gotten himself invited to Bulgaria to see how the World Champion Bulgarian Olympic Weightlifting team trains. Appare...

For a limited time only, you can now get Kettlebell Burn 2.0 at a 42% discount. 👉 https://go.chasingstrength.com/burn-sa3/ The #1 killer of men is heart disease. And one of the #1 signs / symptoms is visceral fat. Fat that builds up in your stomach area. Worse: It’s also responsible for Type 2 Diabetes. Even Worse: Research has shown that stomach fat decreases Testosterone - the “male” hormone that’s responsible for building muscle, burning fat, and getting stronger. In other words, making a man, a Man. In fact, research has also shown that the more stomach fat you have, the more stomach fat you’ll keep getting through what I call the “AROMATASE CYCLE.” Here’s how it works: Excess fat, especially stomach fat, blocks the release of testosterone (T), the male anabolic / muscle-building hormone. Fat cells produce an enzyme called aromatase. And aromatase takes your T and converts it into estrogen. (Yes, “Man Bewbs.”) This results in the down regulation of GLUT4 - the insulin-responding ...

Grab your copy and start seeing the results you deserve from your KB workouts. 👉 https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e/ I used to indulge myself by watching Shorts or Reels or Whatever-They’re-Called on the ‘Gram or IG or whatever you call it of #kettlebellworkouts. I always saw some interesting stuff. I really “enjoyed” the “choreographed” “flows” (WOW. LOTS of quotation marks there.) Some man-bunned shirtless or tanked up dude moving through a flow (a.k.a. A Chain) next to a well made up, well-coiffed woman in painted-on spandex to some kind of “techno-thumping” music… Or a pair of dudes - shirtless of course - doing the same thing. (Nothing wrong with training shirtless. I do it in my garage. Lately, in my backyard, barefoot. Great for “grounding,” catching some rays, and getting my Vitamin D in.) In fact, this seemed to be the norm for IG. But how well do these workouts work? And do these dudes / dudettes even regularly use their own workouts? Methinks not. Why? Fr...

Got this email from Frank the other day that I thought you might find helpful: “Hey Geoff, I'm 5'5, 130 lbs. After two years of training, I can double clean and press 24kg 4-5 times max. I want to be strong enough to protect my family and friends, say, carrying a loved one, or stopping an assault.. 5x32kg seems impossible, what am I doing wrong? By the way, I’m 38 y/o.”   Here was part of my initial response: “I'd say that's pretty good work right there - 81.5% of your bodyweight for reps. To get stronger, it's just going to take practice and volume. The old saying is true: "To press a lot, you must press a lot." The "practice" part is making sure your technique is dialed in. The "volume" part is going to be just lifting more.” But after thinking about it, we can elaborate even more. [1]  81.5% of your bodyweight on a Clean + Press for 4-5 reps is actually darn good for the average man. In fact, it’s well above average, because the aver...

You can see how you can do it to build “practical muscle” - muscle you can use, instead of bloated bodybuilder muscle - with this training plan. 👉 https://salutis.kartra.com/page/alw494 When the kettlebell movement kicked off, it was on the back of Pavel’s book, Power to the People, a tome about getting stronger without bulking up by harnessing the power of your Central Nervous System. The book was excellent and very much “Anti-Bodybuilding Culture” and that made its way (at least in my opinion) into the kettlebell culture. (𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄: Yes, I know, it was The Russian Kettlebell Challenge, Xtreme Fitness For Hard Living Comrades, that truly kicked off the “Kettlebell Renaissance.” And yes, Pavel did discuss how to “get huge” in there. My point is that the PTTP philosophy was “baked in” to the RKC community and culture and building muscle wasn’t the focus.) Any muscle you grew from your kettlebell workouts, which were touted as building “wiry strength” was incidental. And I think that’s...

If you want to build muscle with complexes, but don’t want to figure out how to set them up on your own, I’ll leave a link for some hard core programs in the description below. 👉 Kettlebell STRONG! - https://cart.chasingstrength.com/strong3 👉 Kettlebell HARD! - https://cart.chasingstrength.com/hard3b In our last video, we discussed a message I got from Mike who wanted to know the answer to the question: “Can you build muscle with swings?” I gave a “qualified” answer. Make sure you go back and watch that video to learn the answer, if you haven’t already. Today, I want to show you a simple, yet challenging way to actually use Swings to build some muscle. It’s called a Complex. You may or may not have heard of a complex before. Complex: A series of compound exercises performed sequentially with the same weight (kettlebell) and without rest. All the reps for one exercise are completed before moving on to the next exercise in the sequence. Here’s an example Swing x 5 Clean x 5 Press x 5 ...

👉 If you want a muscle-building program using the Double Clean + Press and Front Squat, guys are loving this one. https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e/ 👉 And if you want to “just” use the Swings for fat loss and conditioning, here are 10 of them. https://salutis.kartra.com/page/SWING-HARD-2 👉 And if you have bad knees and only want to use the Clean + Press, I recommend this program. https://salutis.kartra.com/page/oWP219 Mike messaged me asking: “Can you build muscle with swings?” Great question. Let’s take a deeper dive because it’s an important topic. First off, muscle is built by exercising against resistance. Are Swings “resistance?” Yes. But not all “resistance” is the same. If Mike is really asking, “Can you build muscle and look like a bodybuilder from using Swings?” The answer is a resounding “NO.” Or “Heck No.” Or “NO WAY.” Or “NO WAY IN HECK.” Or however you want to say it. But(t) you can build muscle. And that muscle will primarily be in your posterior ch...

If you want to get leaner (lose some fat) you could use: 👉 [1] Kettlebell Burn - which is a single KB program https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-burn/ 👉 [2] Kettlebell Burn EXTREME! - which is a RAPID fat loss double KB program https://salutis.kartra.com/page/D9h108 And if you wanted to become an overall BadA$$, I’d recommend: 👉 Kettlebell MAXIMORUM https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e/ Hope this helps. Variety, they say, is the spice of life. I agree - to an extent. In all honesty, I like variety in my own training. And I recently stated so in one of my videos. As a result, I was asked why I liked variety if many of my programs are only one or two exercises. To be fair, that’s not exactly true. There’s ‘THE GIANT’ - which is 2 exercises - the Clean + the Press. And you can “add in” a few exercises if you feel like you need to. There’s ‘The King Sized Killer’ - which is 1 exercise - the Snatch. There’s the “Strong!” program - also 2 exercises - the Clean + t...

If you need a program to help you do that, use this one. 👉 https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e/ This is a question I’ve been mulling over… rolling around in my head since I saw it posed on social media last month. What exactly is “strong enough?” I believe it’s simply “strong enough” to tackle anything life throws at you so you can throw back. It’s “strong enough” to chop a cord of wood without being overly sore the next day… … To grapple without getting [too] gassed… … To pack out your house at a moment's notice… And probably even run faster, further, than your friend when being chased by a p*ssed off Momma Grizzly Bear, who’s cubs you just scared while traipsing through the woods. ;-] S͟o͟,͟ a͟f͟t͟e͟r͟ 2͟0+͟ y͟e͟a͟r͟s͟ o͟f͟ e͟x͟p͟e͟r͟i͟e͟n͟c͟e͟,͟ h͟e͟r͟e͟’͟s͟ w͟h͟a͟t͟ “S͟t͟r͟o͟n͟g͟ E͟n͟o͟u͟g͟h͟”͟ l͟o͟o͟k͟s͟ l͟i͟k͟e͟ t͟o͟ m͟e͟: [1] 10 sets of 5 reps Double Clean + Press with 2x32kg in 20 minutes or less [2] 10 sets of 5 reps Double Front Squat with 2x32kg in 20 ...