Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
DVD5 (2 DVD Set) | MPEG2 @ 7 Mbit/s | 720x480 | AC3 Stereo @ 192 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 5.02 GB
Genre: Kettlebell Workouts & Exercises | Language: English
DVD5 (2 DVD Set) | MPEG2 @ 7 Mbit/s | 720x480 | AC3 Stereo @ 192 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 5.02 GB
Genre: Kettlebell Workouts & Exercises | Language: English
Can one move do it all? Can one exercise provide insight into how you move? Could one exercise be the key to achieving a balanced and strong body? Kettlebells from the Ground Up will introduce you to that exercise and provide you with all the tools you need to master this movement. THe Get-up is a stability exercise without compare for the shoulder, the core and well…everything. Join Brett Jones and Gray Cook on this 2 DVD set and "step by step" manual as they reveal the 7 steps, and workouts to get up perfection.
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
Kettlebells from the Ground Up
The Kalos Sthenos
With Gray Cook, RKC and Brett Jones, Master RKC
Could This Powerful Turkish Wrestling Exercise Be the Single Best Secret for the Cultivation of "Beautiful" Strength?
Modern-day athletic performance experts hail rewards of the ancient "Turkish Get-Up"—reveal cutting edge program for both correcting and radically enhancing your physical movement.
Can one exercise sequence do it all? Can one exercise provide insight into how you move? Could one exercise be the key to achieving a balanced and strong body?
Well, according to the two of the most highly regarded "Engineers of Movement Mastery", Gray Cook and Brett Jones, the answer is a resounding Yes!
When past Super Bowl champion teams have wanted to ensure their athletes are moving at full potential, Gray Cook has been their go-to guy. When Pavel and Dragon Door wanted similar results with their certified RKC instructors, they invited Gray Cook and Brett Jones to design the CK-FMS certification program to fill that need.
Turns out, one of the absolute cornerstones, one of the greatest success breakthroughs Gray and Brett contributed was an astonishingly thorough re-engineering of the revered Turkish Get-Up.
Although the Turkish Get-Up has always been a staple, core exercise taught at the RKC, Gray and Jones consider it a vastly under-appreciated and under-used method. A fundamental drill, as important to high-level performance as the classic kettlebell Swing.
So Gray and Brett, with additional masterly contributions from Dr. Mark Cheng, have created a brilliantly comprehensive instructional guide that every RKC and every serious athlete will want to watch and learn from many, many times.
Kettlebells From the Ground Up not only introduces you to the basics of the Turkish Get-Up, but provides you with all the tools you need to master this movement. In a carefully progressive, 7-step process Gray and Brett help you toward Get-Up perfection.
And as you would expect of these Masters of Movement Engineering, they don't just stop at showing you how to perform the exercise. Discover why the Turkish Get-Up is simultaneously a profound and broad-ranging assessment tool, a tremendously effective corrective strategy and a formidable workout where the sky's the limit for athletic accomplishment.
For lay comrades, the language is kept simple and clear. But for the pros who need the extra background, each of the 7 Steps has a "tips for Pros" section that alone is worth the price of admission.
The old time strongmen used the Get-Up as an "entrance exam" requiring a 100-pound Get-Up on each side before beginning any other training. The Turkish Wrestlers used the Get-Up to train for combat and grappling. And today the Get-Up represents an opportunity for everyone to regain the "beautiful strength" and symmetry that our so-called fitness routines should bring us—but invariably don't!
An assessment and an exercise…
As Gray Cook has so eloquently stated: "modern fitness techniques can actually allow us to stack fitness on dysfunction." Meaning that we can actually take a "bent frame" and put a bigger engine in that car. Not a great idea…
To perform safely at our peak, year-in, year-out, we need to cultivate a "symmetry of strength and movement". Enter the Get-Up!
Because the Get-Up can provide us with that crucial Left to Right assessment of movement and strength… At each of the 7 steps on the Kettlebells from the Ground Up DVD you will know if the movement, stability and strength is equal. The exercise actually becomes an assessment.
Shoulders and Hips
"Some schools of Chinese medicine…refer to the shoulder and hip joints as the Four Knots and where there is an imbalance of tension or strength in any of the Four Knots problems…can occur…" Dr. Mark Cheng brings us this excellent description of the interplay between shoulders and the hips. Modern reductionist fitness philosophy has people attempting to isolate pieces and parts of the body into something called "fitness". But this is simply not how the body works. Movement is an incredibly complicated concert of agonist/antagonist muscle action coordinated by a web of neurological input.
So how about simply cutting to the chase—while maintaining this exquisite integrity— by performing an exercise that requires us to move our body around a stabile shoulder coordinated through mobile hips? Sounds like the Get-Up doesn't it? Correct. Correct…
Getting Primitive…
The beginning for the Get-Up represents a very primitive rolling pattern. Many of us actually lose this rolling pattern as we age. But loss of this fundamental pattern can—and usually does—create a cascade effect through the body of dysfunction and compensation.
If an individual is having issues with the beginning of the Get-Up it could be because of a defective rolling pattern—and working on the first part of the exercise can "bring back" this primitive movement pattern. With a welcome upgrade to your overall athletic performance.
When you progress through each step of Kettlebells from the Ground Up, you'll be self-engineering a whole series of similar athletic performance breakthroughs, one building on the next for an ever more elegant and powerful overall result.
If you're currently dissatisfied in ANY WAY, by the quality of your movement, then you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of Kettlebell from the Ground Up NOW—and fix what needs to be fixed.
If you don't oil your vehicle or don't put air in a flat tire, you're heading for serious trouble. It's not a case of if, it's a case of when.
Our bodies are no different.
Unfortunately, we often scrimp and shortchange our bodies by neglecting or procrastinating on this crucial self-maintenance. Ironically, often the more skilled we are as athletes the more procrastinate on fixing our dysfunctions. Bad idea!
The Kettlebell from the Ground Up program—designed by two absolute masters of the game—could just be a life-saver for your athletic performance. Go for it!
Kettlebells from the Ground Up (2008)
