Thoughts & Opinion from #1 best-selling author Frank Rumbauskas
Like most people striving to stay fit, I’ve tried a wide variety of variations in both diet and exercise to meet my goals. Along the way, again like most people, I was sold on the necessity of ab exercises: Lots of crunches, leg raises, planks, and more.
No more was this more prevalent than when I was training with a personal trainer who was, self-admittedly, obsessed with abs.
I take exception to a lot of the silly and needless exercises I see personal trainers directing people to do every day in the gym. (No, this is not a rant against personal trainers – I’ll clarify my thoughts there in a future post).
The one exercise I see day in and day out that royally pisses me off is the kettlebell swing, the latest craze in the fitness world. Perhaps you’ve seen it: Someone in the gym places a kettlebell on the floor, bends down to grasp it, then in one motion, swings the weight outward until they are standing upright with the weight extended out in front of them. Then back down, and repeat over and over. [Read more...]
