A well-rounded fitness regime includes cardiovascular, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility training.  How can you get all that and still be efficient with your time? The answer is kettlebells.

A cast iron kettlebell, commonly known as a girya in Russia, looks like a cannonball with a handle.  Unlike other forms of weight lifting, training with a kettlebell uses momentum along with gravity, and leverage to train the entire body as a unit. In addition, the fluid motion improves joint flexibility.  Kettlebell exercises use large muscle movements, you burn a tremendous number of calories in every session, providing you with a quick way to increase lean muscle, lose fat, gain endurance, and flexibility.  Mastering kettlebells is challenging but practiced over time, you’ll see the fitness gains you’ve been searching for.

For additional information on beginning a kettlebell workout you can contact Victoria purchase her book through the link below.

	From the Publisher Kettlebells: Strength Training for Power & Grace Kettlebells--those amazingly effective weights that look like bowling balls with handles--have become all the rage in high-end health clubs and boxing gyms everywhere. And this is the first mainstream how-to guide to guide on the subject.
	As published in San Francisco Magazine, Best of the Bay 2007 Workout reminscent of the Eastern Bloc Classic: The Russians have use kettlebells for centuries - and the training has no doubt helped them pick up all those gold medals. In 2002, Mark Reifkind opened Girya Kettlebell Training in Palo Alto, the first studio in the United States devoted to the discipline. It's hard to believe swinging a cast-iron ball around while staying rooted to the spot can cover all your fitness bases at once: flexibility, stamina, agility, and stength. But, unlike barbells, the continious motion of kettlebells displaces your center of gravity, forcing your core muscles to compensate and grow and giving you the added bonus of a cardio workout. In the city, Victoria Gray, author of Kettlebells: Strength Training for Power and Grace, offers private and semiprivate kettlebell training at Equinox. You can also pick up her book and buy just one kettlebells (they start at $65-), and you'll be off to a great body, by the way of the Russian twist.