Kettlebells

Baby Boomers & Latino Kettlebells Audiocast

Go to liftkettlebells. com to listen to Audiocast: Boomer & Latino Kettlebells with Julio Anta

Anta a former competitive bodybuilder, personal trainer and martial arts instructor discusses kettlebell training for people over 40 and shares some plans for Latin America in this 15 minute exclusive audio interview. In this interview Anta who is 51 years old talks about his views on training for the  Baby Boomers generation and his training with kettlebells. Anta is also interviewed on his plans for KB training for Latin America. 

The interview runs about 15 minutes and topics include:

- The evolution of kettlebell training in South Florida
- Difference between bodybuilding and functional training
- Why light weights and baby boomers shouldn't mix
- The delayed adoption of kettlebells in Latin America
- Info on kettlebell training classes in South Florida

Kettlebell Informercial

Congratulations to Michelle Khai, Kettlebell Concepts instructor trainer for hosting the first and only kettlebell informercial. Michelle created Kettlenetics Slim and Tone. Michelle also conducted the first kettlebell instructor training course at Anta's Fitness and Self Defense in 2004 for Kettlebell Concepts.

Kettlebells are currently being used by Hollywood celebrities, athletes and MMA fighters. Yet, the average American has not heard of Kbells. This informercial will take kettlebells to main stream America and introduce it to women just like Tae Bo popularized Fitness Kickboxing.

For more information an Kbell training call us at 305 599-3649 or e-mail us at fitdef@aol.com.

Anta's Kettlebell for Martial Arts in ExpertVillage.com

Log on to ExpertVillage.com to watch kettlebell and fitness instructor Julio Anta video's Kettlebells for Martial Arts. Anta was certified in Kbell in 2004. The first Kettlebell instructor training in Florida which was conducted by Kettlebell Concepts was at Anta's Fitness and Self Defense in Miami Dade County in Doral. Anta then started the first kettlebell group class in Miami and the first kettlebell web site MiamiKettlebell.com.

For information on anta's group and private Kbell class e-mail us at fitdef@aol.com or call 305 599-3649.

Arnold Sports Festival Kettlebell Booth

I had a great time at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio on Saturday, March 1, 2008. As one of the first Kettlebell trainers in Miami Florida and training with Kettlebells for 4 years I was trilled to find the American Kettlebell booth at the Arnold Classic Trade Show. After seeing a few fit people struggling with a 24 kg (52.8 lb) kettlebell I had to pump a few snatches up with it. I surely need to lift some KB's after all the weight I was gaining eating from the best restaurants in Columbus.

It was fun and great to meet some of the American Kettlebell instructors. Their booth was always full of people discovering the benefits of Kettlebells. 

Revolution Kettlebell Workshop in Doral

On Saturday, August 11, 2007 from 10:45 AM to 4:45 PM Anta's Fitness and Self Defense, 10721 NW 58 St Miami (Doral) will be hosting a Kettlebell Workshop. Presenting the workshop will be the highly acclaimed certified Kettlebell instructors Franz and Yoana Snideman. The Snideman's will be traveling from California to share their kettlebell and fitness knowledge. They co-wrote the Revolution Kettlebell Fat Loss Program and they have two DVD's that will be on sale on the day of the workshop. Register today at Anta's Fitness and Self Defense 305 599-3649 or by logging on to  http://www.revolutionlajolla.com/PDF/Revo_Seminar_Miami_August.pdf. Early registration before July 1, is only $147. Register today since the space is limited.

Mike Mahler Miami Kettlebell Workshop

We are proud to host Mike Mahler's Miami Aggressive Strength Kettlebell Workshop for our second year here at Anta's Fitness and Self Defense, 10721 NW 58 St in Miami, Florida. The workshop will be on December 9, from 9 to 5 PM. Mike is one of seven senior RKC kettlebell instructors certified by Pavel Tsatsouline. Pavel reintroduced kettlebell training in America. Mike is an incredible Kettlebell instructor. He has the ability to break down kettlebell moves in a way that is easily understood until you are able to perform the move correctly. To read more about this workshop and to register log on to http://Mikael.com/Miami.HTML. Go to last year's event on this blog to read about what some of the attendee's had to say about this workshop. There is only space for 25 people register today. Register before August 31, and save $150. For more information on this seminar you can call me at 305 599-3649.

Best Prices in Kettlebells

Are you tired of paying high prices for kettlebells? If you are looking for the best prices in quality kettlebells of all sizes go to the Kettlebell Concepts link on our home page. This link will take you directly to the page that you will be able to order your kettlebells. Outside of carrying quality KB's they also certify kettlebell instructors. The first kettlebell certification in the state of Florida was done at my studio in 2004 by Kettlebell Concepts. You can also listen to an interview that I had with Kettlebell Concepts CEO Dave Ganulin on the Home page.

Ron Melnik Kettlebell Testimony

As a successful personal fitness trainer in Pompano Beach, FL (Ft. Lauderdale area), a former collegiate football coach (Iona College, NY) and athlete (NC State football player, Atlantic Coast Conference honors recognition), Ron Melnik expects his clients to possesses passion and intensity when it comes to maintaining a fit body. " We as individuals should always strive to find effective methods to improve health, strength and body composition. Having discovered Kettlebells and trained with his mentor Julio Anta (Anta's Fitness and Self Defense, Doral,FL) Ron has become a Kettlebell enthusiast due to the incredible results he and his clients have achieved using the Kettlebells. "Never before have I used training methods as good as Kettlebells to improve strength, speed and flexibility all at the same time. Most of the Kettlebell movements require the person to use their whole body at the same time making Kettlebells the ultimate total body workout. It is a high impact workout that achieves incredible results. Workouts are done in thirty high intensity minutes. What more can you ask for."

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Mike Mahler’s Miami Kettlebell Workshop a Great Success

This past weekend we hosted a Kettlebell Workshop at my martial arts/fitness studio by Senior RKC Instructor Mike Mahler. This was his last workshop of the year and we all left the workshop with better technique and a higher level of understanding of Kettlebells. I would like to thank Mike for an awesome workshop. It was a pleasure to have this polite and humble instructor with great knowledge and charisma doing a workshop at our facility. This is truly a hard combination to find in one individual.

 

Mike is an incredible teacher with his own unique way of simplifying the moves. He breaks down each and every move piece by piece putting them together as if you were building blocks. This in turn simplifies the moves and when he finally has you execute the lift it comes together like magic with more precision and perfection. I’ve been in the fitness industry for over 30 years, starting as a competitive bodybuilder and in all these years I have not seen such an amazing yet simple teaching techniques. As a martial arts instructor I can say that Mike has an incredible progressive teaching method that I’ve only seen in elite martial arts masters. When I shared this with Mike he told me that he saw kettlebells training like martial arts training.

 

If you can not get to one of his workshops do get his DVD’s. I just got and strongly recommend “Kettlebell Solution for Size and Strength.” Mike Mahler is a true Kettlebell Master. He is destined to become a Fitness Superstar in the very near future.

Kettlebell History

Kettlebells have a rich international history. Kettlebell training as we know it today stems from Russia. KB's have been utilized for athletic and warrior training throughout the world. There is speculation that kettlebells were used by Greek athletes and gladiators thousands of years ago. There is now evidence that legendary fighting monks of the famed Shaolin Temple used granite padlocks as a training tool to enhance their kung fu fighting skills. Padlocks are rectangular looking kettlebells also known as Chinese Kettlebells.

Kettlebells were the training tool of choice for the early 1900's strongmen. The early bodybuilding and muscle building manuals and weight sets all had kettlebells. In the mid nineteen hundreds handles to transform dumbbells to kettlebells came with all weight lifting sets. That's how Bruce Lee began using them. The handles came with the barbell set that he ordered. As per the book “Bruce Lee, The Art of Expressing the Human Body” Lee trained his back muscles with the KB attachments.

In the early 1900's musclemen, bodybuilders and strong men of Europe, Canada and America like Arthur Saxon, Sig Klein, Louis Cyr and Eugen Sandow, to name a few all trained with kettlebells just like the Russian strongmen and athletes. Yet, while KB's disappeared in the West they began to flourish in the former Soviet Union. Everyone from common people, to the military, to Olympic athletes trained with kettlebells. In 1948 the first kettlebell competition took place in Russia. Later it became Russia's National sport. For more information on Russian Kettlebell history read “The Russian Kettlebell Challenge, Xtreme Fitness for Hard Living Comrades” by Pavel Tsatsouline.

Today top American athletes, police departments, the military and martial artist are training with KB's to stay on top of their food chain. We predict that the gym of the future will not be cramped with body part specific machines, thread mills, stationary bikes or even aerobic classes. We believe that the futuristic gyms will be functional and look more like the gyms of the early twentieth century with kettlebells, Indian Clubs, medicine balls, ropes to climb and room to move and train. Anta's Fitness and Self Defense is the future of fitness, what's old is new again.