Kettlebells, circuit training, etc...anyone here use these/do this? (Page 2)

There are some good kettle bell resources at http://www.dragondoor.com/easy_strength_for_all_ages/.

Kettle Bells are a great form of training.  Got introduced to them doing circuit training at local Krav Maga centre.

I use a 35lb kettle bell as part of a larger training routine. There are lots of
good exercises and routines out there.... If you can add a kettlebell routine
to your work outs, you will definitely get some great results.  Always depends on the core, and work a lot of the tiny muscles that don't get isolate with free weights...


A great kettle bell routine, that I kinda like:

1)Get a
full deck of cards. Take any 4 exercises and allocate a suit to each
one.
Clubs: One Arm Swing
Diamonds: One Arm Snatch
Hearts: Turkish Get Up
Spades: Figure 8 to hold.

2)shuffle your cards. pick the top.
Whatever the suit do that exercise. Whatever the number, do that many on each
side. Jokers and aces are 11.

3)max 15 sec. rest between each card. (shorten or lengthen the time between each exercise 
as you need for a challenge.)

4)Start with 10 cards, work your way up until you can do the entire deck.
Mix up the exercises to get a variety on different days.

I've been trying one lately with KB's that goes something like:

10 Exercises

Circuit is each exercise 1 min work, 15 seconds rest.

Complete Circuit then take 2 min rest.

Complete CIrcuit 3 times.

All of the exercises are whole of body type activities  that work everything including the core while keeping my heart rate high.  It damn near kills me but it's doing wonders for my strength and endurance.

+1

Here is one my trainer had me do last week

.5 mi max effort run
25 Squats
25 Bodyweight Rows
25 Push ups
10 Turkish Getups (ea arm) with 25lb dumbell <--the kettlebell was being used
25 Burpees
.5 mi max effort run

Almost like reverse pushups, he had me do them on the treadmill.  Here is an animated gif I found.

They are more commonly called inverted rows.  Some people call them body weight rows.