 Unlike most traditional exercises, Kettlebells
training will help you recruit your core
musculature. Unlike a dumbbell or barbell,
the Kettlebells’ centre of mass is
offset from the handle.
This means the weight constantly pulls away
from a center line of control and requires
strength, balance and co-ordination when
exercising with it.
In addition to this there is also the recruitment
of other muscles through your arms, shoulders
and core stabilizer muscles, these are muscles
that will generally not be used when doing
static exercises or when using a machine
in the gym which restricts the natural planes
of movement.
Training with kettlebells will develop your
body core and stabiliser muscles which help
your back become strong to prevent back pain,
and also help you train the whole kinetic
chain.
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The core muscles are activated in every kettlebell
exercise due to the dynamics of the weight,
these muscles include deep trunk muscles,
Transversus abdominis (TA), multifidus (MF),
Internal Oblique (IO), paraspinal, pelvic
floor, they provide an active support of
the lumbar spine.
The co-contraction of these muscles produce
forces via the "thoraicolumbar fascia"
(TLF) and the "intra-abdominal pressure"
(IAP) mechanism which stabilise the lumbar
spine, and the paraspinal and MF muscles
act directly to resist the forces acting
on the lumbar spine.
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