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The Three Pillars of the Ageless Body by Andrea Du Cane

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The following is an excerpt of the Ageless Body Workshop Manual.

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment or question!

Enter Andrea Du Cane, Master RKC, CK-FMS, Z-Health, CICS:

We have the choice to let aging happen to us, or actively put up a fight.

We can’t stop it, but we can decide to continue to live our lives to the fullest.
Aches, pains, a little stiffness, decline in strength or speed and the need for medications that have side effects are all part of the process. But, we don’t have to use those conditions as an excuse to give up and sit on the couch watching “The Biggest Loser”.

We must keep moving, keep active both physically and mentally to continue to enjoy life as we know it. There are many simple things we can do to slow the hands of time. The obvious are diet and exercise.

I work with a lot of people who have been athletes or been very active for most of their lives. These people often come to see me after their first, second (or third) minor injury or setback. They have been going along following a certain program for years and for a long time it worked. Then all of a sudden, the workouts they had been doing stopped producing the results they wanted, or they started to gain weight and got injured. Welcome to the first of many little reminders of our mortality and the aging process.

I have a strategy for moving beyond these roadblocks to keep you healthy and vital.
It’s not a magic pill, but with dedication and consistency you can achieve a feeling of renewed vigor, prevent injuries, and maintain your goals for weight and strength.

First, it’s time for an attitude adjustment. If you are the type to push yourself to the limit every time you workout, you no doubt have already experienced some kind of injury or set back. Now is not the time to blindly push yourself to set PR’s every workout. Having a goal is important, but so is listening to your body and knowing when to give it a break. Remember the next step after a peak is a big fall downwards!

This careful attention to what the body actually needs is especially important for trainers to learn when working with certain populations. Sometimes the trainer’s job is to slow down and adjust a workout program so their client doesn’t over train. Learning to watch for those signs both within yourself and your client is crucial for successfully reaching your goals.

Years ago I remember a trainer at a Big Box gym asked me why I always looked so good. She said she’d been training and dieting and no matter what she did she was actually gaining weight and losing strength. I realized on some level that she was overtraining, but didn’t’ know how to articulate that to her. Because of my work schedule at that time, I was forced to have days with no chance to workout. And because the film business had a “craft-service” table I ate like a pig on “shoot” days. The combination of rest and eating more, allowed me to rest my body and feed it as well. When I did hit the gym, I hit it hard and also naturally cut my calories. The result was a healthy and fit body.

Now my schedule is a bit different. I follow my own version of “Easy Strength”. I love the way Senior RKC, Dan John put it in such a simple format. I naturally have been doing that for years. For me, this type of training keeps me fit, healthy and I can maintain my crazy lifestyle.

There are many ways to train, hit it hard a 2-3 times a week or do a relatively light workout 4-6 times a week. I will go into more detail regarding programming later in this manual. But, in my opinion the most important thing to remember it’s now how often you train but HOW you train!

I’d like to introduce something I call the Three Pillars. Or you can think of it as three points of a triangle, each of equal importance. Balance of all three is what is important here.

Strength
Flexibility
Mobility

It is now common knowledge that strength training as you age is key to staying healthy. Strength training has a positive impact on everything from your blood pressure, resting heart rate, body weight, muscle mass, triglycerides, cholesterol as well as helping to control diseases like diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. I’m not saying that it’s a cure for any of these, but following a healthy lifestyle can help prevent some of the typical signs of aging.

Maintaining strength also helps with balance and prevents injuries. Falling is one of the leading causes of people being put in nursing homes, and is also shown to be a leading factor in deaths in the elderly.

Flexibility and mobility often are confused. The former being “the quality of bending easily without breaking”. Flexibility is the ability to move a muscle to it’s natural length allowing full range of motion of a joint or series of joints. However, having too much flexibility and too little strength can lead to injury. Over stretching can lead to sacrum and lower back problems.

The latest studies show that stretching before strength training actually decreases your overall strength and does not help in reducing injuries. Stretching correctly after exercise can help the body recover. However, stretching correctly is not as easy as it sounds. You must be careful to use proper form when stretching to hit the muscle you intending and not over stretch the ligaments and joints.

Mobility is the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. For the body this means the ability to freely move a joint or series of joints in their full range of motion.

If you stop moving your joints they can calcify and you will then end up with an immovable joint. That’s why after knee surgery or shoulder surgery they get you moving that joint as soon as possible.

3 Ways to Mobilize Your Hips and Why It is Critical

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Last night I was reading a monstrosity (in a good way) of a book by Gray Cook called Movement.  Gray is a consultant to pro sports team and teaches mobility and movement screen certifications, among other things.  This is one of those books where you have to have an intense desire to know what the author is saying, because you have to keep looking up words and reading sentences over and over again.  It is like drinking water from a fire hose.  But any little thing you get is worth more than gold.

He said something that harmonized with what I read in Andrea’s new book (not yet available).  Out of all the different kinds of movement, Gray says that hip and shoulder mobility are the true “primitive” foundations of movement.  This doesn’t mean ankle mobility or other kinds of mobility aren’t as important, its just that hip and shoulder are the most basic. So even though they aren’t more important, they have a certain privilege.

Toe Touching

The toe touch is a good indicator of hip mobility.  And this is really a question of having long, strong hamstrings.  If you do, then go can keep your legs nice and straight and bend over and grab your toes without contorting your back or bending your knees.  In other words your gluteals will be engaged, even in a somewhat “extreme” position.

The fact that you utilize your glute muscles is a good indicator of correct hip movement.

Unfortunately, our society has forgotten about our butts.

I think this is a big reason for aging and a big reason for people trying to stay active and getting hurt.

How to pick up an object

When you go to pick up a kettlebell, or any object, “sit back” and don’t bend over or scoop your knees.

But this is how many people move.  What does it tell us?  The glutes are these big slabs of muscle and instead of “sitting back” and actually using them people want to bend or scoop and end up using smaller muscles that weren’t meant for loading like the low back and knees.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that moving and lifting this way is an injury waiting to happen.  It is also AGING waiting to happen.

So practice using your glutes.  Here’s how.

Picking Stuff Up Vs. Squatting

Its important to keep in mind that the squatting movement and deadlifting movement are similar, yet different.

Both use the glutes, but the intention is different.  With the deadlift, you want to shoot your hips back, NOT down or back and down.

A good drill to practice this is to face away from a wall and “punch” your glutes against the wall.  You want to move farther away from the wall and keep hitting it with your hips WITHOUT letting your shins go less the perpendicular towards the wall.  Keep your shins at or close to perpendicular.

Secret to Mobile Hips

Here’s a big secret to hip mobility.  It is very easy when the right muscles are long and strong, not short and tight.

And the two big ones are the hamstrings, that we mentioned, and the hip flexor muscles that become tight when we sit all day.

The name “hip flexor” tells us these muscles flex the hips…so if they are tight then you will have trouble flexing your hips.

Fishing analogy

I was trying to think of an analogy to explain this and kept coming back to fishing, even though I haven’t fished since I was a kid (shame on me).

Say you want to cast your line out into the middle of the lake.  The ability to do that depends on the length of your string.

Same with the right use of your hips when you pick something up.  You want to “cast” your hips backward and you can’t do that if your hamstrings and hips flexors are tight.

good cast:long fishing line::mobile hips:long HFs and hamstrings

So what’s the best way to loosen the hamstrings and hip flexors?

Last year I was assisting at the RKC and a Master RKC noticed my low back would round downwards when I deadlifting, an “anterior tilt.”  It wasn’t staying neutral.  He wouldn’t help me solve my problem but Pavel did.

Pavel suggested what I later came to learn Gray Cook suggests for tight hamstrings.  The active and passive straight leg raise.  This simple exercise is cash money.  Gray points out there is much more to this exercise than stretching your hamstrings (which is fascinating to discover), but still it is great for stretching your hamstrings, probably the best one there is.  I really like to use a belt and do the passive leg raise.  In Movement, I believe Gray uses the passive leg raise to help achieve a better active straight leg raise.  And it certainly does that.

Pelvic Tilt

 

My low back was tilting anteriorly, towards the front.  My hamstrings and hip flexors were tight so they were “pulling” my low back anteriorly. Pavel and Gray suggest the obvious.  Lengthen those muscles enjoy a more neutral spine, or perhaps a slight posterior tilt but not too much.

Hip Flexor Stretching

For the hip flexors you can’t go wrong with the “RKC hip flexor stretch.”  There is now an RKC Hip Flexor 2.0 which I’m not familiar with enough to break down, but I remember when Pavel introduced it he gave some credit to Andrea for helping develop it.  Do you like how we talk about stretches like computer programs?  Version 2.0…developing…its so bizarre.  But Andrea has so much dance experience it makes sense that she would help with the flexibility developments.

Another tip Pavel gave me for my hips was face the wall deadlifts.  These are awesome…and hard.  You just face the wall and shoot your hips back.  If you have tight hamstrings and hip flexors you won’t be able to go very far.  This move brings it all together and forces a healthy posterior pelvic tilt.

So to increase your hip mobility try these three things:

Active/passive straight leg raise
Hip Flexor Stretch (I’ll put links to HF and ASLR and PSLR when I find good ones…in the meantime google them).
Face the Wall Deadlift

After doing these things daily, through deliberate practice NOT working out, to failure, etc. let’s come back to our starting point.  I bet your toe touch will be better.

Have fun with your Hip Mobility: Load 

But we don’t do this to touch our toes, as amusing as that is.  We want to have mobile hips so we can safely and strongly lift stuff.

Now that we use our glutes…we want to load them up with weight.  That’s what they are for.

Once you have mobile hips then you should start deadlifting or better yet, the most explosive deadlift there is: the hardstyle kettlebell swing…a veritable fat burning machine.

See how it all ties together?

Aging hates this information.

Rock Bottom Pistol at 66 Years Young

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How Kettlebells Changed My Life

I became interested in Kettlebell training a little over four years ago. I was beyond frustrated with my health. I had religiously followed the rules of health I had been taught. I have a B.S. in Health and Physical Education and have been a Chiropractor for over 25 years. You would think I would know what worked, Right? I thought so too. But evidently I did not. All I had to do was look at myself in the mirror to see that. I have tried it all. Every conceivable combination of cardio, weights, flexibility and diet that you can think of, I have tried. And after years of training at 64 years of age I was ready to quit. I was getting weaker, stiffer and actually fat. What was wrong?

Well just about everything I was doing was wrong! Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I had to admit as far as fitness went I was insane. Not a happy thought. Right? I don’t remember how I heard about Kettlebells but I was willing to try anything. I drove four hours to Houston to meet Team Leader Jay Armstrong and take a class. What an awakening. Finally! Here was someone almost my age who could move like a kid and was brutally strong. Some of the women he trained were stronger than the men in the class. I was impressed. I heard about this thing called the RKC Challenge and thought “That’s impossible for someone my age”. But Jay encouraged me. I was not as convinced of my potential as he was to say the least. People have told me “John you are just getting older”. Accept it.  Next time someone tells you that, drop an Kettlebell on their foot . Aging is mandatory, Getting old is optional. I set a goal. I would attempt the RKC in two years. Focusing on the Swing and Turkish get up and the Kettlebell warm up, I started my journey.

One other thing. I decided that I would never train longer than 30 minutes, 4 days a week. No more hours wasted in the gym for me. My beginning workout was:
Mon & Thurday: 10 min. warm up followed by 12 minutes of swings using the 24 lb. bell
Tues. & Friday: 10 minute warm up followed by 5 minutes of Turkish Get-up, using a very small Kettlebell. And 10 minutes of practicing goblet squats, deadlifts and clean and presses.

By the time I was ready to go to the RKC, I was swinging the44 lb. Kettlebell and doing get-ups with the 53 lb. Kettlebell. I went from 150 lbs. down to 129 lbs and under 10% body fat. I was able to snatch the 44 lb. Kettlebell 75 times in 5 minutes. I was stronger, leaner and healthier than when I was 20.  Today my Rule is the same. NEVER TRAIN more than 30minutes.

My current routine:
Mon. & Thur.
10 minutes Bulletproof and flexibility warm-up
3 minutes snatches using the 44 lb. followed by 9 minutes of
swings using the 44lb.
Tues. & Thur.
10 minute warm-up
5 minutes Turkish Get-ups followed by a 15 minute circuit of
Pullups, Double Cleans and Presses using the 44′s and Pistols
(single leg squats).

I feel better than I have felt my entire life.

Anyone can do this!! The fitness world is full of misinformation. You can trust the RKC.
Embrace the truth like your life depended on it.

Because it actually does!

AUGUST 19, 2011 UPDATE:

We received a great question addressed to Dr. John:

“Brilliant Dr John! You’re a champion! What strategies did you use to change your mindset?

Regards,

Dave”

Here is Dr. John’s response:

“Hello Dave,
Thanks for the compliment. As far as Strategies for Change.  What I used was HONESTY…… Take off your clothes…. STAND IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR…. LIKE WHAT YOU SEE??? .. NO??
Then what you are doing is not working……   IF NOTHING CHANGES THEN NOTHING CHANGES…… I had been misled for years by profit motive driven fitness industry people who have invaded our lives and actually the University level. ALL of what I learned regarding strength and fitness in college and afterward was wrong. Basically I Got Sick and Tired and became WILLING to try something different. And IT WORKED FOR ME>
Good luck
Hope to see you in Orlando.
Drjohn”

What’s going on in Orlando?

If you want to explore the Ageless Body deeply for 2 solid days and get the best information, that hardly anyone in the fitness world knows about – aimed at longevity NOT setting personal records – there are 4 spots left for the first and only Ageless Body Workshop in Orlando.

Reserve your spot here and save $300.00 on registration when you sign up by tomorrow, August 20:

www.agelessbodyworkshop.com

Sean

PS An acquaintance of Dr. John’s had this to say:

“I personally have watched Dr. Sullivan completely transform his entire body through the use of Kettlebells and the dietary guidelines he implements. He truly walks his talk and leads by example.

He is nothing short of amazing (aside from the fact he is 66!) and his passion for fitness and health is exceeded only by his desire to help others in this arena of life.

He is a patient, knowledgeable, educated teacher. He is constantly looking for the latest techniques and ways he can help his patients and fitness clients to a better life through improved health and fitness. Thank you Dr. Sullivan for your continued journey to help everyone to a healthier life!”

-Julia

PPS Grab one of the remaing spots by clicking here and save $300.00: www.agelessbodyworkshop.com

The Most Important Anti Aging Technique has Nothing to do with Kettlebells

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Movement is Prior to Strength: Learn it and Live It

Its almost cliché these days: you have to earn stability.  If you can’t move your body under control using full ranges of motion then you shouldn’t be loading it up with weight.

This is natural.  We move first and gain strength afterwards.  Toddlers have little time for squat racks, but they squat all the time from the ground up.  They move first and load later.  This is the message from Grey Cook and the CK-FMS and you won’t find much in terms of deviation from this philosophy in the Ageless Body.

The same pattern of mobility-then-stability that we live by naturally in our earliest development needs to be constantly revisited and lived throughout our lives.  How Ageless is that?  What works for an 8 year old works for an 80 year old.

Mobility is the foundation, when you lose it then losing the ability to exercise might be the least of your worries.

Building the habit of mobility is the cornerstone of an Ageless Body.  A habit is repeated action…what you do every day.  This doesn’t mean doing a few shoulder circles in the mirror before you go to press!

Our practice of mobility must be frequent, deliberate and precise.

Having a mobile body will not only make you less prone to injury or stiffness- it also “programs” our body to become stronger.

Indian Clubs are a perfect example.  Ask anyone who has gone through Indian Club exercising with proper form – which are designed to mobilize shoulder, elbows and wrists if their push ups or presses are stronger the next day.  Mobility makes you stronger!

Our joints want movement and will reward us if we pay attention to mobility and frequently practice it.

Don’t deprive your joints of what they want…because if you do they will make you pay for it!

We are interested in the science of mobility insofar as it helps give us an Ageless Body.

Moving your joints creates synovial fluid that in turns reduces friction in the synovial joints.  And who wants friction in their joints?  Frankenstein maybe but I hope not you.

Frequent joint mobility puts you in the Ageless Body Mindset

Its easier to practice mobility when you use kettlebells for overall health and longevity so you can keep playing than when you are trying to impress people with heavy lifting.  There is a discipline to it.

We use kettlebells as a tool to stay strong throughout our life so we can keep dancing, water skiing, golfing, gardening, throwing people around…whatever, not to post youtube videos!

Andrea really helped me to understand this mindset personally when we met a few weeks ago.  She asked me: do you want to PR or be able to keep doing your favorite activity?

I hate to admit this, but I will: for a long time I trained to impress people.  What is more impressive, doing a Turkish Get Up holding a 32kg and 24kg kettlebell in one hand, or having the kind of patience and discipline to practice mobility and strength every day?  I was younger then and obviously didn’t think about it in this way.

The problem is, what is most impressive (I hope you said that daily practice is more impressive) is hidden.

But aren’t the greatest things in life hidden?

The problem for most of us is, daily practice isn’t a home run like a huge PR, its more like good pitching and sound defense.  Pitching and defense wins championships.  Daily (or almost daily) practice of mobility and moderate doses of strength and cardio training with kettlebells will win you an Ageless Body.

Mark Reifkind, Master RKC says people get it wrong.  “Glory is temporary, pain is forever.”

And who knows what we’re doing every single day besides ourselves?  We have to think about what is really impressive.  The habit is impressive.  Being smart and giving our bodies what it wants and needs every single day is impressive.

Consistency trumps Intensity

This is my all time favorite strength quote.  I think if we can discover and live this for ourselves, then we are more then half way there.  This is coming from Mark Reifkind, a world champion power lifter:

“And in those simple beautiful movements I remembered what was really important in training; that consistency trumps intensity; all the time. That intensity is born from consistency. That one cannot force it, one has to lay in wait for it, patiently, instinctively, calmly and be ready to grab it when Grace lays it down in front of you.”

We have to start seeing the journey as what is worth chasing, not a momentary moment of false glory.  This gets at the heart of the Ageless Body.  I don’t care if you are 20 or 80 if you train you have to learn this.

There’s always someone else stronger, and if you push your body to extremes it will most likely haunt you.

If you are training this way, develop patience and start practicing mobility and get more moderate in your strength practice.  Long term you will be much stronger for it.

If you have the habit, different strength applications will be easier.  We’ll talk more about that later.

This approach will paradoxically make you stronger.

I know in my own practice recently I can do more strength applications than I could before, even the heavy get up – without caring about doing a heavy get up.

The habit of daily strength and mobility practice yields long term strength and the ability to keep doing whatever your favorite sport is, with less or no pain.

Andrea preaches that we do mobility before lifting.

So I asked Andrea to share with us the three most important mobility drills.

Principles are Broader than Specific Exercises or Movements

Like the sage that she is, she did not give us three mobility drills.  She has given us four principles.

Principles are more important than drills, because a principle is a source.  If we understand principles, we understand everything else.  Why?  Because the water flows from the source.  If you know where the source is, you know where all the water is, its just a matter of drawing it out.

If you know the principles of strength, then you can use any tool, kettlebells, bodyweight, whatever to become strong.

So Andrea has given us the principles of mobility.  She didn’t invent them of course, but she knows what ones are the most important from her own experience and research.

The Four Critical Areas to Mobilize

The three most important areas in your body to mobilize – that means ability to move under control from within through full range of motion for that joint – is ankles, hips and shoulders.  There are in fact four top three mobility drills: thoracic spine mobility is the fourth.

So if you already have your favorite ankle, hip, shoulder and T-Spine mobility drills, then do more of them!  Every day if possible!

If you don’t have a favorite or want to know THE BEST ways to mobilize these areas, post a question on the blog!

Train Ageless!

Kettlebells – No. 1 Tool for Anti Aging

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This is post no. 1.  Welcome aboard!

How Kettlebells Help with Anti Aging

For years and years now kettlebells have rejuvenated peoples’ lives and restarted athletic careers.  Men and women have discovered they can be stronger and more energetic than their old selves.  In sport, guys and gals in their 50s are able to dominate much younger opponents.

In non-contact sports kettlebells are relieving joint pain and increasing strength so folks in their 50s and 60s and beyond can keep playing while others are sitting out, another victim of joint pain.

Even women and men in their 50s who have had hip replacements and shattered bones have found out that with the right use of kettlebells, (for a specific story that is truly amazing, click on the free report on the right and read about April Spas) they can bounce back and continue cycling, surfing, swimming, golfing, or whatever your sport is.

More People Need this Information/Results

The timing is perfect.  Statistically, this generation of 50-70 year olds aren’t finished playing.  In the past men and women were content with slowing down and calling it quits around 50.  This generation is looking for something that will anti age their bodies so they can get out of pain and keep playing.

There is no quit in this generation so a tool was needed to enable their bodies to keep up.

The problem is not many people know how to maintain their bodies properly:

“Orthopedic surgeons are seeing a “tidal wave” of 45- to 64-year-olds suffering from exercise-related injuries they’ve dubbed “boomeritis,” Dr. Ray Monto, a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), told Reuters Health.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/02/us-aging-athletes-idUSTRE56103J20090702

This article proposes several tips for avoiding the plight of surgery.  Two of these we would like to help you with:

Get some tips. Taking lessons in your sport of choice can help improve your form and reduce your injury risk.

Stay balanced. Make sure your exercise regimen includes a mix of cardiorespiratory workouts, strength training, and flexibility exercises.

We will give you tips that will teach you how to move (these principles of movement can be applied to any sport.  It is prior to sport specific training), and we teach you the proper balance of cardio, strength and flexibility.

Anti Aging Products

The anti aging industry is a funny place.  Most of its promises are given in the form of a magic pill or supplement or topical creams that promises youth.

We aren’t against them but we are for building a body on a foundation of sound movement and intelligent, sustainable training.

A pill or cream isn’t going to help you with strength, endurance or having a resilient body.  Botox is great, but does absolutely nothing if you are interested in staying active and being a force on the field.

Andrea Du Cane’s Ageless Body: Experience meets Research

Andrea’s philosophy of training is based on wisdom.  Train a little each day and mix up movements.  If you are training for a PR (A personal record, or, very heavy), you will eventually get hurt.  We train for health and strength so that we can keep playing, not get injured.  We’ve seen too many people chase PRs and in their older years they pay for it.  Be smart and train the right amount…not too much and not too little.  This is what you have to practice if you want an Ageless Body.  You want to be strong NOW, not strong 20 years ago.

Andrea has been in the kettlebell boat since it started.  Most of the time she’s been leading.  There are very few instructors in the United States and all over the world who have her experience.  She has been a Senior Instructor since the beginning and a Master Instructor in the RKC when the position was first introduced in 2007.  Andrea instructs the instructors.

Andrea is just as comfortable teaching a professional athlete as she is teaching his or her grandmother or grandfather.  She can scale essential exercises to fit any level.  She has a DVD on working with Special Populations that has paved the way to her Ageless Body philosophy and products.

What Kettlebells can Do

If you want to anti age with kettlebells you have to get these three things right: what to train, how to train, and how often to train.

We use kettlebells as the base for sound movement, strength, mobility, flexibility, and moderate yet noticeable endurance.

Used intelligently, kettlebells deliver the perfect amount of resistance.  Not too heavy, and not too light.  Heavy enough to respect what you are doing!

Antiagingkettlebell.com will show you the moves but also be a magazine for showcasing people who are anti aging with kettlebells and how they do it.

Master RKC Andrea Du Cane will contribute often as well as other contributors who you will meet along the way.

Cole Summers

The gentlemen you see on the header demonstrating a perfect kettlebell goblet squat is contributor Cole Summers.  Cole is strong, enthusiastic and has a lifetime of fitness knowledge to share.  Cole has done everything and now swears by the power of the kettlebell.  You will learn a lot from this man!

RKC

The RKC (Russian Kettlebell Challenge) has been leading the kettlebell invasion in the United States since the beginning.  Led by former Soviet Special Forces and Master of Sport Pavel Tsatsouline, kettlebells started on the fringe by people interested in serious strength: lifters, benders, grip freaks, etc.

Slowly yet quickly the invasion began when weekend warriors discovered that kettlebells weren’t merely a tool for the fringe, but for everyone who engages in sport.  Pavel talks about martial artists in their 50s using kettlebells and then getting feedback from younger opponents: “What did you do to get so strong?”  They found their strength and flexibility exploded as, almost paradoxically, did their endurance.  If you’ve used kettlebells you know the feeling.  You get an “extra gear” late in the game when all is on the line.  Your opponents are getting tired and you are just getting warmed up.  It is a beautiful thing.

The RKC has been certifying instructors since the early days, back in 2001. Their certification courses have grown over the years and these days it is common for them to have over 100 people lining up to learn their system.

Just a week ago the RKC logo was proudly displayed on the shorts of legendary mixed martial artist Fedor Emelianenko.

70 Years Old and No Problem Doing a Rock Bottom Pistol – One Legged Squat

I just received an article from a 70 year old man who uses kettlebells. They’ve changed his life.  He is fairly ripped and has no problem doing a butt to the floor weighted one legged squats, or “pistols.”  If that isn’t the picture for anti aging I don’t know what is.  His joints are fine! You’ll be learning more about this amazing man soon.  Click on the free report to get access to the picture.  He also reveals his personal story and his current training.

These feats are nothing new, they’ve just been lying underneath the surface of the kettlebell world.  We want to share this anti aging information to people who like playing and being active and want their bodies to cooperate with them.

Join Us and Tell Us Your Problems

If you follow us on antiaging.com and listen to what Andrea and Cole and our other contributors are saying, you will get your Ageless Body.  Nothing anti ages like the proper use of kettlebells and Andrea’s method of supplemental flexibility and mobility work.  I met with her the other day to talk about this information we want to share and she seriously looks like a spring chicken. She got stopped in an airport in Amsterdam and…well, you can read about that in the free report.

If you’ve been using kettlebells and aren’t getting the results you’ve read about here, then we can help you.

For years I was using kettlebells without the proper supplemental mobility and flexibility work and although I got stronger I also got injured.  Ageless Bodies are strong and NOT injured.  I didn’t know about Andrea’s program back then so that’s OK, I’m not bitter.

We encourage and sometimes demand your comments, especially suggestions of problems you have, whether it is a problem with proper form or shoulder or back pain to equipment, we are here to serve!

Andrea and I’s goal is to give 5000 people an Ageless Body by the year 2016.  Read more about that in the “Our Goal” tab at the top.

Stay Ageless!