Kuri,
I just passed my IKFF cert in Malaysia. Wow, that was intense. Steve Cotter is the man for sure.
Some of the things we did in the cert are relevant to the thread. For example, the KB front squats would improve people's MA stances. Steve had us hold a low stance without the KBs to check the depth. He then showed us a hip flexor exercise that looked simple. Well one guy actually improved his squat depth by like 2 inches after about 30 seconds of the exercise. It was very cool.
Steve talked a little about how you actually have to pull downwards to get into the low stances but it was hard to grasp that. Many of us just try to relax and allow our bodies to sink down but that only gets us so far. The kettlebells help by pushing us deeper into the stances when we don't have the ability to pull with the psoas yet.
Also holding the KBs makes us straighter in things like horse stance. Most of us want to lean forward in horse stance but having the KB in the rack position allows us to straighten the back more because of the counter balance.
Haha. I could go on and on. There's tons of crossover benefits. It's good training.
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