January 1500 Kettlebell Swing Challenge

I’ve been playing with the Kettlebell Swing of late and I think it’s a fantastic exercise and I was lucky enough to get two new kettlebells for Christmas :-) So I want to put them to good use… I also want to make exercise a habit as I’d already discussed but now seeing as we’re coming up to January which is traditionally the month where we all push ourselves to try to do something new I thought I’d make the Kettlebell Swing into a challenge!

I’ve seen lots of these challenges around the Internet – the largest I saw was 10,000 swings in one month but thats over 330 a day without any missed days so that’s a bit tough for someone just starting out. I’m going to set my sights much lower and aim for 1500. However, what I really want to emphasise is the act of doing this every single day. There are 31 days in January and I’m staying with friends at New Year so I shall start on January 2nd so I can ensure I’m at home and set myself the simple goal of doing 50 swings every single day for the remaining month of January reaching the target of 1500 on the 31st. If I get on well with it the aim would be to continue doing challenges increasing the total reps each time. Maybe I’ll do a 10k month at some point in 2012!

This will be on top of any other exercise I’m currently doing which is another reason why I’m starting low. I’m going to drop the Kettlebell day from my 7 workouts routine as that would just be a bit confusing.