5 Best Kettlebell Exercises For Fat Burning

The Top 5 Kettlebell Exercises
By Marty Ozaeta
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#1 - Kettlebell Snatch

The snatch is far and away the most athletic lift there is, when done well it is borderline artistic.
Not only that but it takes hell of a lot of different muscles firing in sequence, ultimately burning some series calories and fat.

The kettlebell snatch allows the beginning enthusiast to experience this movement, much quicker than would be possible with a barbell and more fluidly than with a dumbbell.
I love this drill I personally try to get in 25 snatches per arm per day.

#2 - Turkish Get-up or The Get Up (TGU)

If I only had one drill that would give my clients everything they need this would be the one.

- Upper body Strength - Shoulder Mobility & Stability - Leg Strength - Flexion and Rotational Trunk Strength - Hip/Pelvis Mobility - High Volume of Work
All that fits the needs of 90% of all my clients.
Plus it develops one of the 6 Points of Fitness that I identify as critical, and that is the ability to get you body up off the ground.

Due to the dynamic demand of this drill it really requires that one stays engaged with what it is that they are doing; this built in benefit will allow the client to get the most strength and fat loss benefit possible.

#3 - 2-Hand swing

This drill is #3 because of its quick and simple implementation. I know of fitness coaches that use the 2 Hand swing as 1 of 2 primary drills that use with their clients.

Think about that - only two kettlebell drills and the 2 hand swing is one of them, and they get really excellent results.

The shear volume of work that can done is astounding, as we know in the fat loss world that more intense work = more fat loss.

Along with that there is another little secret many often overlooked about the 'swing' and that is the dynamic stretch you get on the hip flexors, a very tight area for many of us.

#4 - The Double Kettlebell Front Squat.

My clients absolutely hate this drill, so much so that they actually beg to be able to do barbell back squats.

If that doesn't tell you something about this drill I don't know what does.

The two great things about this drill are:

A) Any time we hold a weight on the front side of the body to squat, it just makes squatting properly so much easier. Specifically that act of pushing your 'hips back'.
B) Again because the weight is on the front side of the body, you have to engage your core/trunk to a significant degree otherwise the weight will pull you forward and down.
Pretty slick and your abs just get smoked doing this drill.
You end up getting an awesome leg and ab workout all at once.

#5 - Kettlebell Overhead Press

(I actually prefer double kettlebell overhead press, but single KB's work well too)
The best thing about the kettlebell overhead press is that when done well it is a:

- Dynamic shoulder mobility drill, this is due the way the kettlebell sits it naturally allows the shoulder to move through a very 'open/unrestricted' range of motion.

- Along with that one that when the kettlebell is press properly it is very much a total body movement even more so performed with doubles.