kettlebell ladies

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  • frood
    frood Posts: 295 Member
    I am very curious and interested in purchasing some kettlebells. I am a 5'2" woman 155 lbs. What weight and how many do I need? Any woman on here use them and if so, do you just buy one weight or more than one? My husband said not to use any 20 lbs or over? Is this true? I don't want to necessarily be super buff, but I do want to have lean muscle and don't mind having cuts/rips on my body. Any good sites, videos for workouts using them? Any input is appreciated!!
    I deadlift a 62 lb one, swing with a 31, goblet squat with a 22, and half get-up with an 18.

    I've been doing it for 2 months. I just use the bells at the gym at the moment because I'm quickly growing out of the lower weights. I have a 15 lb at home that is too light for me already.
  • VorJoshigan
    VorJoshigan Posts: 1,106 Member
    I've been doing workouts from this site (free) for almost a year. I'm up to two 50-lb bells for some of the lower body exercises, but still at 25 lbs for overhead presses. You might advance faster than you expect for your first couple of bells.

    http://livefitrevolution.org/

    I would guess that a small person with a low weight would burn maybe 5ish calories per minute. My HRM tells me that I burn almost 10 (6', 265lbs).
  • NesiyR
    NesiyR Posts: 4 Member
    I use a combination of 10 lb and 15lb kettle bells, I know many ladies then only use a 5 lb one which I find is too light. I am 5' 2" as well :-)

    Look on you tube for video's there are plenty on there, I also found this calculator to figure out the calories and I added in my own exercise.
    http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calories_burned.asp

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