Advanced Kettlebell Windmill

What it is

This dynamic, full-body movement primarily targets your abdominal muscles. You'll also engage your glutes, hamstrings, and shoulders as you perform the exercise. It's an excellent way to build core stability and control using a kettlebell.

Technique tips

• Keep the kettlebell locked overhead throughout the entire movement.
• Turn your feet roughly forty-five degrees away from the loaded arm.
• Initiate the descent by pushing your hips out towards the loaded arm.
• Maintain eye contact with the kettlebell as you descend.
• Lower yourself only as far as you can maintain control.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.