30-Minute Full Body Kettlebell Workout (Or Single Dumbbell)

How To Do A Kettlebell Deadlift And Clean Squat Press

1. Stand with feet hip-width distance apart, toes pointing forward. Hold a kettlebell with both hands by the handle (aka horns) at your chest; palms facing your body. Engage your core.
2. Hinge at your hips with your knees slightly bent to lower the bell down towards your knees/shins. Think of pushing your butt back towards the wall behind you while keeping a flat back and neutral neck. This is the deadlift portion of the move.
3. Then stand tall, driving your hips forward to propel the kettlebell up towards your chest (this is the ‘clean’ portion of the clean squat). If you’re using a kettlebell, slide your hands down the horns of the kettlebell. Note, your heels might pop off the mat as you use your momentum to ‘clean’ the bell up to shoulder height. Think about getting under the weight, catching it in a loaded position.
4. Once you catch the weight at your chest; hold the weight at shoulder height in a front rack position as you perform a squat. Lower your hips down parallel to your knees.
5. Finally, drive through your heels to stand tall and press the kettlebell overhead.

How To Do Staggered Stance Kettlebell Swings

1. Stand tall with your feet slightly staggered and shoulder-width distance apart. Right leg slightly in front of left leg; both toes still facing forward. Engage your core.
2. Hinge forward at the hips to reach for the kettlebell in front of you. Place your hands on the horns, palms facing your body.
3. Then with a slight bend in your knees and weight in your heels, hinge your hips, pushing your butt back towards the wall behind you. Reach for the kettlebell in front of you and ‘hike’ the kettlebell back between your legs to start the swing movement.
4. Drive through your heels to stand tall, pushing your hips forward as you squeeze your glutes to swing the bell up to shoulder height. Aim for shoulder height, with arms extended out away from the body. Think long, loose arms (your arms are just a vehicle for moving the bell, your hips and glutes generate the power to move the bell).
5. As the kettlebell begins to descend, think of catching the weight with your hip hinge, loading the glutes and hamstrings. The front right leg will have a greater hinge doing the majority of the work to control the weight.

How To Do A Single Leg Deadlift And Reverse Lunge

1. Start standing with feet spaced hip-width apart, left leg forward, right toe popped slightly behind the left leg. Most of your weight should be in your front left foot.
2. Hold the kettlebell in your right hand in front of your right hip, right arm long and palm facing your body. Left arm can be out at your left side for counter-balance. Engage your core for balance support.
3. With a flat back, neutral spine and slight bend in your left knee, hinge at your hips (hip flexors), extending the right leg behind you as you balance on your left leg. Option to keep your right toe on the ground for balance support. Keep your hips even, square to the mat, as you press them back towards the wall behind you.
4. Once you’ve reached the bottom (range of motion looks different for everyone) of your single leg deadlift; drive through your left heel, squeezing your glutes and hamstrings to push your hips forward and return to the starting position.
5. From here, step your right leg back into a reverse lunge, dropping your back right knee down towards the ground as you lower your hips until both knees reach a 90-degree angle, front thigh parallel to the floor.
6. Then squeeze your left leg glute, driving your back right leg forward as you stand up; back to the starting position.

Modification: Option to stagger your stance for the single leg deadlift (follow Rachel on the left). If you’re more advanced you can take this to a balancing single leg deadlift (like Lindsey on the right).

How To Do A Single Arm Back Row And Kettlebell High Pull

1. Start in a staggered-stance — 80% of your weight in your front right foot, 20% of your weight in your back left toe. Hold the kettlebell in your left hand near your left hip.
2. Hinge forward at the hips, pushing your hips back as you find a bent over row position — neck in line with your spine, flat back, and belly button pulled back towards your spine. Engage your core.
3. Perform a single arm bent over back row by pulling the kettlebell back towards your left hip (think of pulling from your elbow versus your wrist). Stop once your left elbow is in line with your rib cage, making a straight line from left shoulder to elbow. Hold at the top for a moment.
4. Then control the kettlebell back down to the starting position.
5. From the starting position, drive through your front right foot to push your hips forward, pulling your back left toe/hip forward, square and in line with your front right toe/hip. Simultaneously using the momentum from your hips to pull the bell up towards your left shoulder.
6. With control lower the bell back to the starting position and repeat.

How To Do A Push Up And Reach (Kettlebell Tap)

1. Place your kettlebell in the center of your mat, about 6 inches in front of you (or an arms length in front of you).
2. Start in a high plank position with your shoulders stacked over your wrists, weight evenly distributed amongst all 10 fingers. Core is engaged.
3. Hold this push up position, maintaining a straight line with your body, gaze slightly in front of you.
4. Perform a push up by lowering your chest down towards the ground. Maintain a straight line with your body. Option to perform the push up with your knees on the mat.
5. Exhale to push your body back up (in one straight line) to high plank position.
6. Hold high plank as you brace your core and reach your right hand out towards the kettlebell in front of you. Tapping the weight with your right hand.
7. Repeat the push up and then reach for the kettlebell with your left hand.

Modification: Perform the push up from the knees and then pop to high plank to perform the reach or kettlebell tap.