Steve Frei
Thu, Jul-10-03, 06:14
http://tinyurl.com/gh2l
If this doesn't bring you directly to the interview with Coach
Reeves, just click on his name - it's right near the top. It
was my privilege to be a student alongside Coach Reeves and
also Coach Mike Burgener (in one of the pictures in the
article) at the April, 2003 Russian Kettlebell Challenge
Instructor Certification.
An excerpt is below:
-S- http://www.kbnj.com
> D.D.: You had talked about how KBs had enhanced the
> performance of the people you train. Is that true?
>
> E.R.: Yeah. We've been very fortunate. In football, in the
> last two years that we've used the kettlebells, we've
> had two winning seasons in a row, and that's not been
> done since the 1985-86 seasons here at Wake Forest. Our
> men's basketball team, which religiously uses
> kettlebells, won the ACC regular season, which had not
> been done since 1962. Our soccer team was ranked number
> one in the country all year long. Our Field Hockey team
> won the N.C.A.A. championships this season. Our women's
> basketball teams, track team, both our men and women's
> tennis teams, women's cross country which won the ACC
> and placed 9th in the N.C.A.A.-just about every team
> that we have, all of our athletes uses the kettlebells.
>
> D.D.: So nothing has changed except the addition of
> kettlebells to the training?
>
> E.R.: Well, no, some sport coaches have changed, and the
> strength coaches have changed. We added the kettlebells
> into our strength training philosophy instead of using
> dumbbells for those lifts. All of these elements in
> conjunction have made the difference. There's not any
> one thing that's made that difference, but we feel that
> the kettlebells have had a lot to do with our success.
>
> I'm just very impressed with kettlebells. I like them. It
> gives the kids great variety, and our strength coaches great
> variety in designing programs for their athletes.
> Kettlebells really help our athletes develop their
> athleticism, and we're going to continue doing them. In
> fact, we're going to purchase some more this coming year.
> We're going to buy eight pairs of the 26-pounders.
If this doesn't bring you directly to the interview with Coach
Reeves, just click on his name - it's right near the top. It
was my privilege to be a student alongside Coach Reeves and
also Coach Mike Burgener (in one of the pictures in the
article) at the April, 2003 Russian Kettlebell Challenge
Instructor Certification.
An excerpt is below:
-S- http://www.kbnj.com
> D.D.: You had talked about how KBs had enhanced the
> performance of the people you train. Is that true?
>
> E.R.: Yeah. We've been very fortunate. In football, in the
> last two years that we've used the kettlebells, we've
> had two winning seasons in a row, and that's not been
> done since the 1985-86 seasons here at Wake Forest. Our
> men's basketball team, which religiously uses
> kettlebells, won the ACC regular season, which had not
> been done since 1962. Our soccer team was ranked number
> one in the country all year long. Our Field Hockey team
> won the N.C.A.A. championships this season. Our women's
> basketball teams, track team, both our men and women's
> tennis teams, women's cross country which won the ACC
> and placed 9th in the N.C.A.A.-just about every team
> that we have, all of our athletes uses the kettlebells.
>
> D.D.: So nothing has changed except the addition of
> kettlebells to the training?
>
> E.R.: Well, no, some sport coaches have changed, and the
> strength coaches have changed. We added the kettlebells
> into our strength training philosophy instead of using
> dumbbells for those lifts. All of these elements in
> conjunction have made the difference. There's not any
> one thing that's made that difference, but we feel that
> the kettlebells have had a lot to do with our success.
>
> I'm just very impressed with kettlebells. I like them. It
> gives the kids great variety, and our strength coaches great
> variety in designing programs for their athletes.
> Kettlebells really help our athletes develop their
> athleticism, and we're going to continue doing them. In
> fact, we're going to purchase some more this coming year.
> We're going to buy eight pairs of the 26-pounders.