Kettlebell Windmill

If you are interested in kettlebell exercises and did some survey and research on it, you have surely come across an exercise called kettlebell windmill. This is a very popular form of kettlebell exercise which all of us can do irrespective of our fitness goals. This exercise is not that much difficult as it seems when a trainer performs it. All that is required to perform this exercise is to know the exact technique of how to do it.

The Russian Kettlebells are unique forms of free weights which provide extensive training of fitness. You can perform a number of exercises which affect broadly different areas of your body. Perhaps no other single exercise equipment can do as much as Russian kettlebell can do for you. There are different forms of exercises like kettlebell swing, crush kettlebell, kettlebell windmill, kettlebell lift and others. Of these which everyone should perform is called kettlebell windmill. This is like a warm up for other forms of kettlebell exercise.

While you do kettlebell windmill interestingly you make body movements which stimulates a kind of metabolism throughout your body and the whole body gets prepared for other forms of exercises. If you wish to learn more on kettlebell windmill buy the videos by eminent kettlebell trainers like  Pavel Tsatsouline. He is an expert of kettlebell and has authored a number of books on kettlebell. The videos by Pavel show the right move of angle and body parts. When you are advised to move your feet to an angle of 45 degrees you cannot measure out the exact degree right? So if you see how a trainer like Pavel stretches out the legs you can point it and perform exactly to make your fee 45 degrees.

Let me illustrate here very briefly about how you can do kettlebell windmill. But be cautious while you do that reading here. Because reading and visualization differs a lot. A movement I say here may be interpreted in a different manner. So try to watch a video online on kettlebell windmills after you read my method of doing it.

This tremendous core exercise is done to strengthen shoulder girdle, trunk rotators, rotator cuff, side flexors, hamstrings and buttocks. The exercise is beneficial in developing flexibility, strength, body awareness in the spine, hip and torso region as well as shoulder regions. Here is how you should perform kettlebell windmill exercise.

First clean and press the kettlebell overhead with one arm. Keeping the kettlebell that is overhead locked out in all times, you slowly push your butt out in direction of the locked out kettlebell. Then turn out your feet to a forty five degree angle from the arm which has locked the kettlebell above. Now slowly lower your torso till the non working hand touches the ground or front foot. Pause in this position for a second or two and reverse the position back to where you were. Don't forget to squeeze your buttocks while you rise up. Repeat this windmill exercise with the other hand now. You can do this for a period of 5-10 minutes.

I strictly warn that never perform this exercise with weight beyond your capacity and in absence of an expert.