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Kettlebell Squat and Press
A fantastic exercise for both toning the muscles, and building too if performed with heavy enough weights, but also for overall fitness conditioning and fat burning.
A slightly more skilled exercise than some others, so please make sure you are warmed up well before you start and are confidnent you can do the exercise correctly. Always start with light weights to get the form spot on.
The kettlebell will keep your torso more upright than a regular squat, so decend as far as you can maintain your spine in neutral position.
• Stand with feet hip-width apart and hold a kettlebell in both hands to your upper chest.
• Bend the knees and, keeping the torso upright and the back straight, lower into a squat, taking the weight towards the floor.
• Keep the back flat, chest up and look up. Brace your abdominals.
• At the bottom of the movement, keep your abs in and the knees behind the toes.
• Breathe in on the decent, breathe out on the way up.
• Squeeze the glutes to push back up without locking the knees.
• At the top push the kettlebell overhead.
Return kettlebell to upper chest.
