Archive for November, 2008

Charm City Kettlebells presents “The Ultimate Holiday Survival Guide”

We enter the beginning of our traditional holiday season tomorrow. It really amazes me that kids will be sitting in Santa’s lap come Friday but Christmas will be here before we know it. Most folks overindulge beginning NOW and since it’s hard to always get to the gym at this time of year I wanted [...]

Using Your Thanksgiving Bird To Create Amazingly Healthy and Tasty Fat Blasting Meals

It’s about that time of year again, the time when that big old bird comes out of the oven for Thanksgiving. Most people tend to associate Turkey Day dinner with horrible excess and the start of holiday weight gain. Now you can blame stuffing, mashed potatoes with loads of butter and gravy, and pumpkin pie [...]

Pre Thanksgiving Feast!

As you probably already know, there’s only one nutrition company I believe has your best interests at heart. And when I heard they were having a rather unusual sale for Thanksgiving I had to tell you about it. You see, Pro Grade has two big reasons to be thankful this week.1- They have completely revamped [...]

Why are You Thankful?

I think we should all remember to give “thanks” throughout the year. Most of us at least remember to at this time of year. I have so much to be thankful for. I’ve started a new business this year and I have a wonderful crop of kettlebell enthusiasts who help make each day a blessing. [...]

How I Got Where I am Today

About two years ago I found kettlebells. Actually they found me. I can’t even remember how I got to the Dragon Door Website but I got there somehow and ended up finding at trainer in Baltimore who introduced me to the KB. As soon as I picked it up I knew that I had found [...]

The Best Kettlebell Exercises for Rapid Fat Loss and Lean Muscle Gain

As a former College football player and a current real world fat loss expert who has helped lots of people lose a lot of pounds of fat, I know a thing or two about exercise selection. Everyone always asks me what the best kettlebell exercises are to lose fat AND gain muscle fast. I’ll keep [...]

New Kettlebell Facility in Baltimore

Today was the first day in our new facility at our facility in historic Fells Point. I’m excited as now we have our own dedicated space and have more flexibility in our kettlebell class schedule than we enjoyed before. Today we started with our ordinary joint mobility work and then we did a kettlebell interval [...]

How To Build The Ultimate Kettlebell Circuit Training Workout For Rapid Fat Loss

In the past, the cornerstone of most resistance training workouts has been performing exercises in a straight set format. Essentially, this means you perform a certain number of reps for a given exercise or you perform as many reps as possible for a given exercise and then you rest anywhere from 30 seconds to five [...]

Charm City Kettlebell Workout for General Fitness

Today’s workout went well for all of our AM Fells Point clients. We started with joint mobility got warm, lubed and loose. Next, we did a 3 exercise circuit 4 times. We did split squats for 3 seconds a side and then rested for 30 seconds. Then we did rows, left and right with another [...]

Fells Point Workout November 11, 2008

Today we did a work rest ratio of 2:1 after we did our normal joint mobility. IT was a great blend and I was pleased with the level of effort from the groups today. We did all of the following for 40 seconds, with 20 seconds of rest in between each set. Swings Rows, left [...]