{"id":475,"date":"2012-08-24T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T07:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2012-08-24T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T07:40:43","slug":"the-kettlebell-long-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/the-kettlebell-long-cycle.php","title":{"rendered":"The Kettlebell Long Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/the-kettlebell-long-cycle.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wow the Kettlebell long cycle rocks.  This is the clean &#038; jerk done with two kettlebells for 10 minutes continuously. You don&#8217;t put them down but can kind of rest in the rack &#038; overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it means there is no real rest for the full time. The top guys do this with two 40kg KB&#8217;s which is diabolical. I&#8217;m a beginner on long cycle but I really like it. I like it even more than one arm snatch.<\/p>\n<p>I do get a better endorphin hit off snatch though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/girevoy_sport.jpg\" alt=\"long cycle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This exercise is deceptively difficult. You may watch these guys doing it and think yeah I can do that. Well straight off the bat I doubt it. Here is a video of one of the sports top athletes passing out at 214 reps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYZBlKI2o2k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Sergey Rachinskiy a top world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good video showing proper form&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bKRizbCX2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main man Steve Cotter giving some long cycle instruction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5DGPKBnRLc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally a nine week program training long cycle 3x per week<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/kettlebellfitnessdk.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/13\/9-week-kettlebell-long-cycle-training-program\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Wow the Kettlebell long cycle rocks. This is the clean &#038; jerk done with two kettlebells for 10 minutes continuously. You don&#8217;t put them down but can kind of rest in the rack &#038; overhead. Of course it means there is no real rest for the full time. The top guys do this with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,490,375,489],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-girya","tag-girya-long-cycle","tag-kettlebell","tag-kettlebell-long-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}