I love the idea of bringing a couple kettlebells to a park and doing a workout.
Passerbys can feel free to join in and lift along with you.
Eventually this could lead to a community of people that meets up every week, for free, to do a kettlebell workout outside in nature.
But why on earth do I see the kettlebell Instagram influencers doing this BUT teaching people flows?!
Seriously?!
Kettlebell flows are not exercise.
And people new to kettlebells do NOT need to be doing silly flows and flips or juggling.
Bring your kettlebells to the park and do sensible training. Training that will actually improve and challenge one's strength, muscle, endurance, mobility, and movement.
There's nothing sexy about kettlebell squats, deadlifts, swings, military press, pushups, rows, and loaded carries. Turkish getups are a little sexy to the untrained eye, but they'd be fine to teach, as well.
All these exercises can be built into a workout that will actually produce a stimulus to change the body.
This is how you promote kettlebell training.
Flows are a total waste of time for the general public.
Kettlebell flows ruin the kettlebell's reputation and make out kettlebell training to be some foo-foo hippy dippy choreographed slow dance.
The only reason I can think of these influencers teaching flows is to try and make themselves look cool.
If you're an experienced kettlebell lifter and you want to do flows for active rest, meditative purposes – go for it. If you're experienced and you want to do some cool, challenging kettlebell juggling – go for it.
But don't waste the kettlebell's potential and reputation by creating "flow" workouts for people that don't know much about kettlebells. Use the kettlebell as it's meant to be used – a strength training tool.
I am 100% a proud member of the "anti-flow kettlebell club." I've even got a shirt stating my stance (from Deadset Kettlebell Club).
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