How do kettlebells stack up against circuit machines?
The difference between a kettlebell workout and a machine workout goes back to the effect kettlebells have on your stabilizing muscles. Your stabilizers are the muscles which operate and balance your joints through their ranges of motion, and a machine isn t designed to strengthen them at all. If you are doing an overhead press, the weight of the kettlebell will be centered outside your forearms axis and you ll have to fight to control the levering motion of your arm all the way to the top of the lift. Not only your wrist and elbow stabilizers, but you your shoulder and trunk stabilizers will be in on the act. Machine lifting also lacks the 3-D aspect of kettlebell training. And unlike a machine, which limits the possibility of your exercising outside the box , kettlebells will constantly be fighting you for control. It sounds scarier than it is. As long as you stay with a kettlebell of the proper weight, the battle for control will simply meant that you are increasing all your neuromu
