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This Double Kettlebell Workout Will Scorch Your Shoulders and Legs

If youre only using kettlebells for <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a28439541/kettlebell-swing-form/" id="49aff8bb-1a87-3abc-acdf-4874337a4ba0"> swings </a> and , youre sorely missing out on some killer total-body work. These two movements , former Broncos safety and Super Bowl 50 champ, demos in a superset workout: the double kettlebell push press and double kettlebell goblet squat.
Take On a Total-Body Double Kettlebell Workout
Take On a Total-Body Double Kettlebell Workout

The workout requires you to complete 10 total reps of each kettlebell movement back-to-back for 4 total rounds, keeping rest to a minimum. [This] wicked kettlebell superset will have your core on fire, he writes (with the help of emojis) in the accompanying caption.

For the push press, youll clean both bells up into a , and take an athletic stance with your feet under your hips. Keeping one of the bells in the front rack position, youll press the other bell straight overhead. As you lower the bell back into the front rack, bend your knees slightly to help absorb the weight. Thats one rep. Switch sides and complete five reps per side.

Your focus throughout the movement is to keep your body in a vertical line. That means your ribs arent flaring towards the ceiling, and your lower-back isnt rounding when you press the weight overhead. Keeping a tight core and squeezing your glutes can help. But because youre only pressing one weight overhead at a time, the offset load means your abs and obliques have to work to keep you stable. That might mean the appropriate load for this exercise will be lighter than you usually use during overhead movements. Thats okay.

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Youll start the double kettlebell squat the way you started the press: By cleaning the bells into the front rack position. But this time, you'll widen your feet so that theyre in squat stance. Descend as low as you can without dropping your chest or shifting into your toes, then drive off your heels back up to the start. Thats one rep.

Because the weight is front-loaded, the bells are going to pull your body forward as you lower into a squat. Your cores job is to lock-in to help you stay in position just like Bolden does in the video throughout the rep.

Burning after you got the work in? Bolden warned you with all those flame emojis.

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