Kettlebell workouts are all-encompassing, combining full-body movements with cardio exercise, strength training, and metabolic conditioning. This simple exercise regimen, coupled with top-notch instruction from the staff at SOL Performance Oakland and SOL Santa Cruz, offers clients a fun, high-intensity way to achieve both health and performance goals.
Just ask Ginny Patton.
When Ginny first set foot in SOL Performance, she was overweight and was suffering from an arthritic hip. She said participating in SOL’s kettlebell training workouts was just what she needed to enjoy an active, healthful lifestyle.
“Working with kettlebells enables me to do just about everything else,” she said. “I’ve combined the kettlebell workouts with diet management and have lost 50-plus pounds over the past six months. This, combined with cycling with my bike club on weekends and a weekly TRX Suspension Training workout, has enabled me to feel like a million bucks.”
Kettlebell Training Works For All Levels
Kettlebell training is for people of all levels of physical fitness, not just for those seeking to lose weight. Workouts are intense but fun, using bodyweight resistance and a single tool, the kettlebell, to engage nearly all of your body’s muscles into a single exercise that flows with the way your body’s designed to move.
For Kathy Toon, this combination of building strength, burning fat, and improving endurance makes for a perfect regimen for maintaining optimal health. A nationally recognized sports psychology consultant, speaker, blogger, author, and coach, Toon doesn’t mince words: she “loves training with kettlebells” at SOL Performance.
“I’m pleasantly surprised each session,” said Toon, once named National Coach of the Year in tennis while with the University of California at Berkeley. “It’s such a great overall workout in a short period of time!”
She’s right. A single kettlebell workout can burn up to 1,200 calories per hour – the equivalent of running at a 6-minute mile pace.
“I get all in one: strength, power, endurance and fun,” Toon added. “Kettlebells challenge me each time I use them. It’s never routine or boring.”
And there’s a kettlebell workout for all levels. SOL Performance Training and SOL Santa Cruz offer beginner, intermediate, and advanced kettlebell classes. The key, says Patton, is to start light – you’ll see progress in a short time.
“You start with a 9-pound weight, and pretty soon you’re working with an 8 kg (17.6 lb) bell,” she said. “Then soon, it’s 12 kg, and without realizing it, you’re swinging a 20 kg (44 lb) bell.
It’s easy to feel successful with this kind of progression. That’s why I like working with kettlebells.”
For more information about our kettlebell programs or to join a class, please contact SOL Performance Training Oakland and SOL Santa Cruz directly.
SOL Performance Training – 3900 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, CA – (510) 594-1594
SOL Santa Cruz – 1510 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz, CA – (831) 425-3588
