Getting More Out of the Kettlebells You Have

I thought I had outgrown my largest kettlebells a couple of months ago. I made plans to buy a larger one. It's kind of a good problem to have, but it is an expensive problem. I delayed buying one and discovered that I don't have to have a bigger one just yet.

I was using Pat Flynn's strength-focused training plan in his book Strong On! I got stronger so that my largest kettlebells weren't challenging enough. When I decided to delay buying a bigger kettlebell (at my wife's urging), I tried another plan from his book focused on building muscle. Otherwise, I would have skipped that plan. Because the rep ranges are different, I couldn't use my largest bells and had to go down a couple of levels. Now, I'm getting a ton out of my medium-sized bells. 

The training plans in the book are called Strength, Muscle, Conditioning/Fat Loss, and Mobility. There are workouts each week from each category, but the emphasis changes. You use the lowest reps and heaviest weight with Strength. Each emphasis raises the reps and lowers the weight that you need. If you start like I did with a Strength plan, then every two months, you can do a plan that uses different weights but still challenging. 

Building visible muscle is so hard (and usually requires steroids), so no one should worry about getting bulky from the Muscle program. I tried for many years to build muscle without drugs and couldn't it.

I love Strong On! It has the best training plans I've ever done and is the most fun I've had working out in a long time.