Kettlebells from
the Ground Up
The Kalos Sthenos
With Gray Cook, RKC and Brett Jones, Master RKC
Manual co-authored
with Dr. Mark Cheng, RKC Team Leader
2-DVD Set with 36 page spiral-bound manual
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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.
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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!
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here to order now!
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