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WELCOME TO THE BODY SHOP Some of the most innovative advancements nts in fitness are being developed in a garage e in Murray, Utah. Follow them and grow stronger. onger. 108 MENSHEALTH.COM | April 2014
BY MICHAEL EASTER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN
COMMAND “SWING!” THE COMMAN ND RICOCHETS RI RICOCHE OFF THE WALLS AS
seven kettlebells explode off the fl floor in unison. Their bearers—six men and one woman woman—swing the weights co up to chest level and then begin counting off pendulum-like reps. “One, two, three, four...” fo They continue to 50, and then the largest man in the group cleans his kettlebell and does five overhe overhead presses. “We’re We’re conducting an experiment experime this month—500 swings a day, five days a week, wit with a strength exercise between each set,” says sa trainer Da Dan John as he lowers a 70-pound kettlebell ttlebell to the floor of his two-car garage in Murray, Utah. “The sw swing is the fundamental hip-hinge movement—a total-bo to total-body power exercise—