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KBs are expensive, but IMO are worth the price you pay. I've shelled out for a 36-lb, and 2 53-lb KBs. Being able to manipulate tiny weight increments is not that critical. You can always make a light KB seem heavier by doing a harder version of the exercise. For example, once you can do military presses with a given KB weight, switch to bottoms up presses. Once those become easy, switch to sots presses. Once those are easy, switch to bottoms up sots presses. Just get creative.
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Hmmm, these contraptions seem pretty fucking cool, and a cheap alternative. I have about 100lbs of plates at home in the form of 10 and 5lbs. With a pair of those handles, I can make me two 25+lbs kettlebells right off the bat.
I think the greatest value of these things is not the ability to increment the weight, but the "return of investment"... specially if you already have your own set of plates... this is all assuming those handles are solid.
So far, the t-nation folks seem to like these puppies :
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Yep, that was me.
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10/13/2006 6:10pm
Style: creonte on hiatus--
Yep. There are exercises which are better done with one and not with the other, and viceversa. However, kettlebells are much, much more versatile than clubbells. I'd pick kettlebells over clubbells if I could :)
I love my ghettobells, though :)
There is something I've been playing with lately, by grabbing dumbbells via a towel rather than the handle. It's it certainly not the same as kettlebells, but doing pench presses or overhead presses with those... while trying to keep the dumbbells from swinging too much, that's a bitch.
****, I'm buying a pair of those kettlestack handles :)Read this for flexibility and injury prevention, this, this and this for supplementation, this on grip conditioning, and this on staph. New: On strenght standards, relationships and structural balance. Shoulder problems? Read this.
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Posted On:
10/12/2006 8:12pm
Style: BJJ
a cheap substitute for kettlebells??