Weight Training Zone!

Weight training exercises often mimic everyday movements, such as lifting, pushing, and pulling. By strengthening muscles used in these movements, weight training can improve overall functional strength, making daily tasks easier and reducing the risk of injury.


Featured Weight Training Articles

Kettlebell Training for Power Endurance

- Jason C. Brown

Most sporting events revolve around your ability to create explosive movements over an extended period of time. This athletic quality is known as power-endurance. Training for power-endurance can be absolutely grueling; however, the athlete that possesses the greatest amount of power-endurance usually goes home the winner....

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A New Way to Look at Balance

- Gray Cook

I wrote my first book, Athletic Body in Balance, in response to what I witnessed in the first part of my career. As a sport and orthopedic physical therapist and a part-time strength coach, I was well-positioned to see all kinds of bodies doing all kinds of activities, and discovered all kinds of unexpected findings...

Why the Kettlebell?

- Don Saladino/Chris Holder

Why the kettlebell? With a fitness world filled with an array of devices, machines, free weights and gadgets, how does the kettlebell become the preferred training tool by the top experts in the field? Celebrity trainer, Don Saladino, and longtime strength and conditioning coach, Chris Holder, both agree that if you want to get into superhero shape, or professional athlete strong and fast, the kettlebell is likely be the best choice...


Learn From The Experts

"Weight training tools can be a powerful vehicle in teaching proper movement and how to use their bodies most efficiently in sport and life. Building strength that positively impacts how people live can be the most empowering ability of any coach. It allows us to impact people’s injury resiliency, mobility, and ability to have a high quality of life and accomplish fitness goals that are most meaningful to them."


Josh Henkin - CSCS

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"The shape and compact size of a kettlebell allows one to safely accelerate it eccentrically in exercises like swings and snatches. Another unique benefit of the kettlebell's offset center of gravity is the special manner in which the shoulder is loaded in overhead lifts. This promotes mobility and stability."


Pavel Tsatsouline

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