5 Ways To Successfully Mix Kettlebells and Barbells, Part 2 Ok, here’s the deal – you won’t give up your barbell training but you want to use kettlebells. You’ve got a bunch of the ball-things lying around and you want to incorporate them into your traditional training. I get it. Been there, done that. Still do it. You can too. https://chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-workouts The more options you have available, the more likelihood you’ll find a variation that fits your temperament and the more success you will have. There’s some scientific evidence that unilateral movements have a stronger stimulatory effect on the nervous system – i.e. make you [temporarily] stronger – than bilateral movements. Not only that, but the theory goes that over time you can correct side-to-side imbalances, addressing the “parts of the whole” if you will, and make the bilateral movement stronger. I want to look at the short-term stimulatory effects of unilateral movements – specifically the kettlebell movements, and show you how to incorporate them into your training for greater gains in strength and muscle.
2. Feeders. These are called “feeders.” Yet, unlike “feeders” in other forums, these actually give instead of take. They add to what you already have instead of subtracting from it. “Off the reservation” fitness guru, Paul Chek, once suggested years ago (c.1998) that you could make stronger gains by structuring your programming the following way – in a way that he felt was more challenging to the CNS – Unilateral –> Semi-unilateral –> Bilateral Independent –> Bilateral Fixed