KOR Strength and Conditioning Blog
Everyone agrees that fitness is good. It boosts your health, brightens your soul, calms your mind, and allows you to do more with your life.
Our articles focus on tips and advice to help you live better. Follow our KOR Strength and Conditioning blog to learn about upcoming events as well as exercise tips and tricks to keep you healthy, toned, and fit.
The Swingers Club 2018
The Swingers Club is back!!!! Your favorite fitness challenge is back this spring with new challenges, more prizes, and a new structure. For those new to The Swingers Club, this [...]
Team KOR crushes the WAKSC Cali Open 2018
We had an incredible weekend at Innovative Results in Costa Mesa, CA for the 2018 WAKSC Cali Open. Team KOR's own Lauren ("Lolo") earned her Master of Sport, the first for our team! Events started [...]
Kettlebell HIIT Workouts
By now it's common knowledge that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a much more effective training modality than low-intensity, long-duration aerobic exercise. Combine HIIT with our favorite training tool - the kettlebell - and you have the [...]
Top 6 Reasons to Get a Personal Trainer
At KOR, we believe strongly in the value of a personal trainer. Many are hesitant to hire one because of price or intimidation, but the benefits will greatly outweigh your doubts. Keep reading to find [...]
10 Myths About Kettlebell Training
From KBFitBritt.com Kettlebells have become increasingly popular in the fitness world, and for good reason. They are an incredible tool to build strength, conditioning, unilateral coordination, endurance, and mobility. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of [...]
Get a Grip
By Mark Reifkind There are no strong people with weak hands. In fact, grip strength, along with abdominal and hip strength (read glute) are the three key neural generators of strength. You’ll never meet a weak [...]
January Pull Up Challenge
Starting in 2018, KOR Strength and Conditioning Coaches are challenging our members to improve their benchmark exercises: pull up, push up, swing, press, pistol, and Turkish Get-Up(TGU). In the month of January, we are focusing [...]
Rules and Scoring for Kettlebell Sport: How To Win
How are kettlebell competitions judged? Kettlebell Sport rules require every lifter has a judge who sits in front of them for the duration of their competition set and counts their repetitions, monitors their technique, and [...]
Swingers Club 2017 Challenge
It's back!!!!!!!! What is the Swingers Club Challenge? The Swingers Club Challenge provides fun fitness challenges that KOR members can complete to earn points towards prizes. How do I play? Fill your name in on [...]
5 Reasons to Start Swingin’ the Kettlebell Swing
Strengthen the posterior chain When done properly, the kettlebell swing is a fantastic hinging movement that works several major muscles on your backside including the hamstrings, glutes, and erectors. Improve posture In a world where [...]