Adjustable Kettlebells

Coach Keen


I pride myself on having one of the 'most diverse' (note: I did not say 'best') adjustable kettlebell collections out there.  I have accumulated these over the last few years, usually with the purpose of dragging a kettlebell with me wherever in the world our intrepid leaders have seen fit to send me, with widely varying results. (results varying on the success of the kettlebells or the trips, I will leave to you...)

We like to use these at our remaining GMAAC boxing gym locations because they provide just what we need in terms of what kettlebell training adds to boxing S&C: affordable, compact, progress-able, efficient power-endurance training.

Having fielded many questions about them from athletes, parents, friends, and e-acquaintances, we'll throw a quick review up here so that the broken record act can be over and done with:

Stop Making Excuses

As I write this, Sergio Martinez is less than 24 hours from winning another defense of his Championship and Ring Title at middleweight.  At, yes, 36 YEARS OLD.

I have been whining about rehabbing a torn achilles (that is, complete rupture, followed by 'open' surgical repair) at 35.  Yet here's a guy who spent 20 years working his way to the top and who, in his pre-fight interview with HBO talking about growing up impoverished in Argentina, said "I was 14 before I knew what 'dinner' actually was."

So, to me, and the rest of you, shut up and work.

I had a friend in the military who always told people who were bogged down in the details to "chop the wood that's in front of you," and as Rocky Balboa said, "you have to KEEP MOVING FORWARD."

Simple, almost knucklehead, advice, but mostly true nonetheless.