4200 Kettlebell Swing Challenge!
 

There is 6 weeks until the year ends.
this is an inspiration thread from another forum i joined and i thought it woud be great.
Who would like to join me in a kettle bell challenge 100 swings a day until the end of the year thats 4200 kettlebell swings, you can do more each day if you choose and finish earlier.

If you’re looking to burn an enormous amount of calories, sculpt and tone lean muscle and feel incredible, KettleBell training is for you! Although Kettlebells have just become immensely popular in the fitness industry, kettlebell training is NOT new. Kettlebell training has been around since the early 1900′s.

Benefits of Kettlebell Training
■Total body conditioning: Kettlebell exercises are meant to work your entire body. While it may seem that you are really working your shoulders or legs, kettlebell exercises call on nearly every muscle in your body to perform a movement. This is unprecedented fat burning and muscle sculpting at its finest!
■More results, less time: Because each kettlebell exercise works multiple muscles, you don’t need to spend hours in the gym. Even a 30 minute power workout will get you incredible results.
■Lean muscle development: Because kettlebell exercises use light weight with repeated repetitions in a fast and concise movement, kettlebell exercises have lean, sculpted bodies. Kettlebell exercises are NOT used to develop bulky or thick muscles. This is particularly appealing to women.
■Major calorie burning: The American Council on Exercise estimates that Kettlebell workouts burn approximately 20 calories per minute, that’s 1,200 calories an hour! To burn that many calories, you would need to run a 6 minute mile for about 20 minutes straight!

This sounds awesome. I'm in! I love doing kettlebell workouts. I've been doing them for about a year.

So far I've done 60 today (with 25# kettlebell). I'll get at least another 40 in this evening with my 15# at home.

Thnx for joinging.
i did 135 today my kettle bell is 15lbs, hoping to work my way up to your 25lb kettlebell :-)
4200-135=4065 i am going to be counting down lol i cant wait to hit my goal

I am the newbie here with a 5 pound kettle ball, but I will do it. What a great work out for the arms in addition to the work out that came with my ball!

50 done tonight!

Welcome Ksquared and good job! :carrot:

BABYPHAT, you'll be at a 25# in no time. :cool:

I did a total of 150 yesterday. 60 with the 25# and 90 with the 15#. Today is going to be a busy day so I'm hoping to get my 100 swings in this evening.

Have a great day!

thanks for joining Ksquared and yes its a great mini workout.

JenJen hopefully by the end of this challenge i will be up to 25lbs :-)

4200-335=3865 remaining.
i did 200 today, hoping to get 200 more done later tonight

I did another 150 swings with the 15# kettlebell. Only 3900 more to do.

3865-150=3715 at lease it looks like the numbs are going down lololol....lololl
it sucks because i wont be able to do it over the weekend, i am going away until sunday.
but keep going ladies.
i sweat more doing the kettlebell for 5mins than i do walking the threadmill for 30mins

I did 100 swings last night and so far today I've done 125.

Have a great weekend!!!

well i didnt get to do it over the weekdn, but tmmorow i willl try to do 300 to makeup

I ended up doing another 75 on Saturday so that got me to 200. I didn't do any yesterday. So far, I've done 600 swings. Only 3600 more to go!

Hoping to get in at least 100 tonight. I plan on taking my KB with me for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hopefully this time, I'll actually use it rather than just haul it around.

3715-150=3565...........
we are almost thru with 1000kettle bell

I did 300 swings last night (6 sets of 50) with the 15#. So, that's 900 so far. Only 3300 left! :devil:

Another 300 swings tonight. Total of 1200 completed and 3000 swings to go.

Hoping to do 200 in the morning before I start traveling for Thanksgiving.

hmmm....I can't do 100 a day, but I think I'll join in and do as many as I can. It's been a while since I've done them routinely although I lift fairly heavy weights twice a week.

I've got the 25# KB, and will start tomorrow.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Thnx for joining tejas an it doesn't matter how much you do each day as long as you get some bell throwing going on.

I did 150 this morning and hopevto get in another 150 later today

I justt put in another 150

I'm already two days behind!! :lol:

Ok, tomorrow!!

I will check in later,with my kettle swings

I did 300 swings total Wednesday-Sunday. 2700 more to go. I'm going to get back with the program tonight.

Way to stick with it gang!

Great idea, BABYPHAT4ME!.. I'm joining kinda late, so I'm gonna try going for 3500 swings by the end of 2011... it's been a while since I was faithful to my KB, so this should be good incentive to get going with it again...

Thanks & hugs :hug:

P.S. Here is an excellent blog post about a 10,000 KB Swing Challenge going on in January at Kettlebell Online Magazine...

200 swings tonight. 2500 more to go.

Aunt Sheshie, I saw the 10k swing challenge. Sounds interesting. I might try it in January.

3565-300=3265 to go

i just found a kettle bell app on my phone, and it was free, it has 10 diffrent ways to use the ball, so you guys can look that up as well

100 today. 4 X sets of 25 with 26# KB

wow i just did 400 and i feel like i was running on the threadmill the way i am sweating, bu i am soo happy i am out of the 3000's

3265-400=2865 way to go everyone

I looked at the 10k swing ASwell and i just mightr join it along with u but i will need gloves cause just doing 400 with a 15lb bell hurt my hand middle

Im hoping to finish 900 more swings by fridau. Because im taling weekends off,
Does any one else arm feels.like its on fire hours later, I can tell the swings are working already

I did another 200 swings last night. So 2300 to go. I think I'm going to try to see how many I can actually do by the end of the year.

Babyphat, when I do the heavier kettlebells, I wear gloves. My hands sweat terribily. I do have calluses though. And yes, my arms start burning. What was the app you downloaded? I'd be interested to add it.

Worked out with the trainer this morning, and no swings. I'm going to try to get 200 in this evening though.

Just finished 100 swings... I didn't get started 2 days ago when I first posted that I was joining the challenge, but I feel confident I can make up for lost time in the days ahead & finish at or above the 3500 goal I set for myself... since I hadn't picked up a KB in a while, I decided to start easy today with the 10-pounder... it really was too easy, so tonight I'll try another 100 with the 15#... by next week, I should be back to the 25#, where I was when I abandoned my regular KB workouts several months ago...

3500 - 100 = 3400 to go

A couple of questions... do y'all wear weight-lifting gloves with KBs, or do you swing bare-handed?.. also, what about shoes?.. I've always done my KB workouts barefooted... I feel I have a better "grip" on the floor...

hugs :hug:

Aunt Sheshie, sometimes I wear gloves & sometimes I don't. If I'm doing a full workout, I usually wear gloves--mainly because of hand sweating. If I'm doing a "light" workout or just swings, I usually don't.

Same goes for shoes. If I'm in the gym, I have to wear shoes. If I'm at home, a lot of times I'm barefooted. I like being barefoot because I can feel my heels really "digging" into the floor the way it should be. I really have to think about it when I wear shoes.

I took an RKC kettlebell class in February, and the instructor recommended being barefooted or wearing flat soled shoes when possible. He said it's possible to work out in flip flops! He also recommended not wearing gloves but using chalk/powder if your hands get sweaty.

its called kettlebell Comrade, its free, it also let u recoed your excerise, shows you how to do diffrent kettlebells via youtube its pretty cool.

and i also do kettlebell barefooted as well, i think i do need a gloves i cant stand to get calluses, i will go find one today or some chalks

i did another 400 tonight an i found a callus on my right hand, this scks, i definatly going to get a gloves or use socks lol

2865-400=2465 to gooo

i am so proud of everyone who joined, keep it going ladies.
my body is soo sore right now i did 45mins of excerise as well as the kettlebell.

i cant wait until i can move up to 25lbs, i am sure after i finish att he end of the year i will be strong enough to do 25lbs an i will be soo darn proud

I did 250 swings tonight, so I have 2050 left. Over 1/2 way there.

My body is sore tonight--especially my abs and triceps! Hoping to get to the gym in the morning before work and get some heavier swings in.

Keep up the great work everyone!

Talking about using socks, I remember that in the RKC class the instructor mentioned that you could run a hand towel through the handle and do swings by grabbing each end of the towel close to the handle. That might help with calluses.

i will try the towel thing today.
i wokeup this morning an i am even more sore, my calf, waiste, thigh, stomache, shoulders, arms, i can feel it, it feels good but now i can barely move lol
i cant wait to put in my 400 tomm and today because i wont be around to do them on weekends

i ended up doing 100 this morning so i spread it out during the day-
2465 - 100= 2365

2366_550=1815 I had to do 450 tonight because I didnt get to workout so I did kettled instead