Kettlebells are a fantastic tool for building strength endurance and shooting your conditioning level through the roof. But for balanced development, you do need to include other types of training in your overall programming scheme. Using your own body weight as a workout tool is a great solution. Here are three advanced body weight exercise methods that should make a great compliment to your existing kettlebell training program:

1. Static holds

Here’s a somewhat unorthodox technique for building strength your own body weight.  A static hold is, at it’s most basic level, where you simply hold an exercise at a particular point in its range of motion. It’s a great way to make exercises that are easy when you reach a certain fitness level – like Push Ups – more difficult.

As an example, to use this technique with a Push Up, you could do three static holds of 30 seconds each at the bottom, middle, and top of the range of motion of the exercise.

2. Tabata Intervals

The ‘Tabata’ method, just for a quick review, is a simple interval protocol. It involves twenty seconds of all-out work, ten seconds of rest, and is repeated eight times. Then puke, fall down, pass out, etc. 🙂 I wrote more about the Tabata method in this post:

The Advantages Of HIIT Cardio

It works great with a variety of bodyweight exericses, like Squats, Push Ups, and Sit Ups.

3. Using Body Weight Exercises For Cardio

In the same vein as Tabata intervals – if you hate doing traditional cardio (like I do), you can do a body weight circuit instead. You simply need to string together a series of body weight exercises and make sure that they:

• Keep you moving non-stop for a period of time
• Keep you heart rate up
• Aren’t overly intense – you should be able to maintain the flow for at least 15-20 minutes

Here’s a cool video to give you an example:

So there are three advanced body weight exercise training methods to compliment your current kettlebell training program. Build them into your workouts today!

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