CPAT Training - Hard style Kettlebell is the perfect primer! If you or someone you know is training for the CPAT exam kettlebell training will help prepare you for success – leg press, leg extension, leg curls and other exercise performed on machines will NOT prepare you for the challenges of the CPAT – they may help, but just a little – if you want the most effective, most efficient training system to insure maximum success hard style kettlebell training is the key! – Start with the kettlebell dead lift for power, add the Turkish Get Up for tactical strength, then add the VO2 Max Protocol for extreme cardio vascular conditioning. Success is not an accident – it is a process. Prepare for success.
The second annual RKC Fire Pro Kettlebell Training Seminar will be held in Bridgeport CT on March 20 and 21, 2010. Click here for registration: Save $100! Early Bird Registration! Register Now!
All in attendance of our first seminar rated the program and the training system 10 out of 10! In the past year two of our seminar participants have gone on to receive RKC certification. Dr. Matt Leonard completed his RKC training last fall in Philadelphia. Wendy Pond, the wife of Fairfield Firefighter Tom Pond – earned her RKC instructor certification last August in San Diego. She destroyed the 5 minute instructor snatch challenge completing 100 snatches with a 16 kg (35lb) bell in 4 min 24 sec. Wendy lost an incredible 45 lbs preparing for her instructor challenge. Another seminar participant – whose name is with held on request - lost over 30 lbs. This current firefighter and former college athlete recently told me that he is in the best shape of his life. His work out consisted of Omelets and TGU’s. He recently purchased a Gymboss timer and began training using the VO2 Max Protocol. His next email read like this: “Chief - I hate the GYMBOSS!” It killed me :) Looking forward to my next work out!”
As Wendy recently put it – “This stuff is addictive – once you start to get some results you can’t stop.” Kettlebell training is the toughest work out you will ever love, and Even if you have not kept up your training – the secrets of true strength and power that you learned at our seminar has changed your life forever. You will have unlocked a powerful source of strength that can be used any time you need it. In situations where you have to lift a heavy piece of equipment, or carry a large victim down a flight of stairs, “sniff” and “drive” has become a reflex. Learning how to brace changed everything – what used be a risk of injury now seems routine. Check out the following clip from the Charles and Zar’s Fire Belz Training Studio in Albuquerque NM.
One of the greatest benefits of RKC Kettlebell Training that I have seen in my life is injury prevention. Last weekend I was moving a Stairmaster Stair Mill (the stair climbing machine used in the CPAT test) off the back of a truck. One of my former soccer players and I had picked it up in New Jersey to be used in our new CPAT Training Center. The load shifted when it cleared the bed and my grip slipped a little. A few years ago that slight shift might have put me out of work for a few weeks. Worst case scenario I could have been scheduling an appointment with the back surgeon recently cut open one of my brother firefighters. Hard style teaches us to brace when we lift – and to hold tension during the movement. By using what I learned through my RKC training I caught the load without injury. The next morning I was a little stiff but I felt fine after my work out. RKC Kettlebell training had prepared me for that moment of truth. The goal is not just to survive the incident, but to make it to work the next day!
RKC Hard Style Kettlebell training changes the way you move! The results we experience are TYPICAL. You will become stable, flexible, and powerful. You will lose weight and drastically improve your cardiovascular fitness. Most importantly – your training will help prevent injuries.
This is not the case with all styles of kettle bell training! The difference is often core deep. RKC Hard Style Training movement begins and ends with tension. – THE PROCESS, NOT THE PRODUCT, IS WHAT MATTERS! Perfect practice of perfect process produces a perfect product. There are no shortcuts! – Developing stable, flexible, and symmetrical functional movement patterns is the primary goal of hard style training. The things most people seek – weight loss, core strength, increased joint mobility, elimination of pain, toned bodies, and powerful muscles are the byproducts of Hard Style training.
Anybody can make you sweat. If you are just looking for exercise you can pick up a Richard Simmons DVD and do some “sweatin to the oldies.” You will burn some calories, drop a little water weight, and maybe even improve your cardiovascular fitness. If you want to add specificity variable grab your turn out gear, throw on an air pack and walk around the station for 20 minutes. To make this a strength building exercise and increase the aerobic intensity try adding a few intervals of smacking a truck tire with a 10 lb sledge. This way you will burn some calories, maybe drop a little body fat, and add some strength.
More than 60% of all strength training programs result in injury! A recent study revealed that 60% of those who start a strength training program get injured within the first 6 months of training. A majority of those who get injured NEVER go back to their training! The attendees of our first seminar ranged in age from 13 through 68. In 2 days of intense training we had NO injuries! This is a testimony to the high level of instruction and the rigid training methodology of RKC training. You learn perfect and train perfect. We expose your weaknesses – finding the imbalances, the stability and flexibility issues rob your strength and cause career ending injury. We teach you to fix yourself – to remove the barricades and restore functional movement so your body can move the way it was intended – before injury, gravity, and age took their toll. We fix what is broke and then teach you how to move properly. Then we load the movement pattern to develop strength and stability. Then we ballistically load the movement to produce incredible core strength, cardiovascular endurance, and explosive power. All with an incredibility low rate of injury.
If you only do one power movement it should be this! Police, Fire, and Emergency Service Personnel are professional athletes. They are tactical paid to perform in a high stress, high risk, and time sensitive environment. Activities range from short duration high intensity to long duration moderate intensity work outs. Listen to Gray Cooke define why the Kettlebell Dead lift is the perfect training movement. Gray Cook RKC - Why Do The Kettlebell Deadlift?
If you only do one strength movement it should be this! Tactical athletes need functional strength and stability. Of all the strength training exercises available the Turkish Get Up gives the most bang for the buck. The RKC Hard Style TGU as demonstrated by Dr. Mark Cheng is the ultimate strength movement for tactical athletes. No other exercise is as effective for developing total body strength and stability: Dr. Mark Cheng RKC Demonstrates the TGU
Learn the Kettlebell Deadlift and the Turkish Get Up at the Second Annual RKC Fire Pro Kettlebell Seminar, Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, in Bridgeport Connecticut. Save $100! Early Bird Registration! Register Now!
If you grew up as I did, then our mentor was the guy in the gym with the biggest arms. We learned as much as we could from watching him train – from a distance of course. When we out grew the limited knowledge of our gym rat buddies we looked to Joe Wielder for guidance. Our training programs came out of the latest issue of Muscle and Fitness and changed monthly. Our motivational imagery included Pauli badmouthing Adrianne while Sly Stallone pounded a side of beef hanging in a Philadelphia meat freezer. Our mantra was “No Pain, No Gain!” We truly believed that we needed to endure pain to achieve strength and that pain was in reality - weakness leaving the body.
The problem with this philosophy is that it is product based – get the job done – never quit – adapt, preserve, overcome. Do what you need to do translated to using whatever worked - muscles or movement patterns that would get the job done – it didn’t have to be pretty, didn’t have to be perfect, it just needed to work. There was no real wrong – if your arms were strong you used them, if your back was strong you used that, you used it till it broke or failed – then you figured out a work around . In training we call this developing compensatory movement patterns – using other muscles to do the job of the ones that should be doing the work but are not due to injury, weakness, or bad programming.
They say that learning RKC hard style Kettlebell training is more like learning a martial art then learning an exercise program. We agree. The most important factor in learning martial arts is to find the best teacher. Find the very best teacher and approach every training session with a teachable mind. We cannot learn that which we think we know. Approach learning with a blank piece of paper – free from scribble – ready to record the notes that may change the way you see the world, or in this case, the way you view training. We have found the teachers – they will be waiting for you in Bridgeport on March 20 and 21.
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In Hard Style Kettlebell training achieving a teachable frame of mind often involves a paradigm shift. Just as our life experiences shape our view of the world, our personal training experiences shape our view of training. The problem with “No Pain No Gain!” is that it encourages and rewards bad movement. As Gray Cooke puts it so well in his functional movement training seminars – loading flawed movement patterns is “adding fitness to dysfunction.” He goes on to explain that adding speed, power, and endurance to bad movement patterns is kind of like trying to build a race car on a bad frame. If you put all your money into the engine and don’t fix the frame it’s just a matter of time before you crash.
We will give you all the tools you need to change the way you move - what you do with that is up to you. Zar and Charles will be back. They are looking forward to sharing their continuing journey into the Kettlebell with you. As contributing editors to our blog – they frequently add training video and demonstrations such as this firefighter training video - RKC Firefighter Circuit by Charles .
Tom and John are trying to clear their calendar. Space is limited. Saturday and Sunday - March 20 and 21. More information including training tips, video, and registration information is available at our blog - http://rkcfireprokettlebell.blogspot.com/
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One Day Basic Kettlebell Seminar only $99 - add a Kettlebell for only $50 more.
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On a final note – we are not salesmen, we are not business men, we are not looking to sell you anything you don’t want. A major portion of what we collect from our seminar fees will be donated to help firefighters and kids stay strong and safe. Our motivation is to share what we have learned, in as spirit of helpfulness and respect, in the hope in some small way this changes your life in the same way that it has changed ours. We are giving you the tools and the instructions. What you do with that is up to you. We are also giving you the chance to meet some really great people and to share a brotherhood that goes beyond that which we know in the fire service. The price is very cheap compared to other similar seminars. Please do not confuse a cheap price with a cheap product. If you want what we have please do not wait – we are going to fill up very rapidly – register now.
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