THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS!
Some information from the author:
After competing in three world championships in a row, winning fifth place, bronze, and silver, I have been competing for five years now and I have trained under some of the best coaches in the sport. I have trained many lifters to compete and stand on the podium. Learning from a qualified coach is the best way to get better and stay injury free. I do not recommend you rely solely on books to teach you about kettlebell sport training methods and techniques; I recommend you seek a professional coach in person or via video conferencing, but I wanted to write a manual to help people who train without a coach. So now I am giving the gift of my knowledge and experience to the world, so that more people who are interested in the sport can train successfully, compete, and win! I hope you enjoy this book and I hope you learn how to get stronger while training to compete!
So much has been written about kettlebell training: for strength, for power, for speed, for weight loss, for general health and fitness, but almost nothing has been written regarding training for kettlebell sport. Kettlebell sport lifting is one of the fastest growing competitive sports in the world. This growth, fueled by several national and international organizations, along with many very good coaches and lots of high level athletes, have all pushed kettlebell sport to a new high in popularity, and now the sport has observer status with the IOC and is on the road to someday become an Olympic sport!
In 2007, the first kettlebell sport competition was held in the United States. In the following years there were a small handful of competitions each year up until 2013 when kettlebell sport exploded and there were almost a dozen competitions in the United States! This was also the year that the American Kettlebell Alliance held their first national championship to create the first "Team USA" to compete at the IUKL world championships. Fast forward from 2007 to 2017 and now there are over two dozen competitions per year in the United States and almost 100 per year worldwide. With this popularity and growth there are many gyms and many coaches one can go to for help with technique, training and programming. But there are very few written manuals for those who wish to try it out on their own, so the basement and garage lifters may be a little lost with how to train for their first competition, these lifters have very few written manuals to help guide them in their training...until now!
This is my second manual and it is not for beginners, my first manual was for athletes to train for their first competition, if you have not competed yet please go check out my first manual. If you do not have the equipment or the time to do a two a day split with powerlifting in the morning and kettlebell in the evening, this manual is not for you. This is a grueling eight week program that I only recommend doing once per year, no more. Prepare to be sore, prepare to eat more, prepare to be tired, and prepare to get really strong!