Kettlebell & Bodyweight Training: Build Strength & Power

Kettlebell & Bodyweight Training

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Complete Your Fitness Picture

While GYROTONIC® training is incredible for strength, flexibility, mobility, core strength, balance, and coordination, there’s one crucial piece missing from the puzzle…

The Missing Link : Power

Power training combines strength and speed to create explosive movements. It’s not just for athletes – it’s essential for everyone who wants to maintain their vitality and slow the effects of aging.

Why Power Training Matters

Explosive Movement

Train movements you need for sprinting, jumping, throwing, and swinging – abilities that fade without practice.

Fast Twitch Activation

Target your Type 2 muscle fibers – the ones responsible for power that most traditional exercise misses.

Functional Strength

Build strength that transfers to real-world activities and sports performance on Maui.

Anti-Aging

Maintain muscle mass and nerve connections that otherwise naturally decline.

The Science: Type 1 vs Type 2 Muscle Fibers

Type 1 Fibers (Slow-Twitch)

  • Purpose: Endurance activities
  • Used for: Walking, smiling, yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonic
  • Capacity: Dozens of repetitions without fatigue
  • Training: Already well-developed in most people

Type 2 Fibers (Fast-Twitch)

  • Purpose: Explosive, powerful movements
  • Used for: Sprinting, jumping, throwing, lifting
  • Capacity: Limited reps before fatigue
  • Training: Requires specific power training

If you don’t use your Type 2 fibers, they slowly lose mass and your nervous system stops using them as Type 2 fibers. Power training is the only way to keep them strong and functional.

Quick Test: Are You Using Type 2 Fibers?

Here’s a simple way to tell: How quickly do you fatigue?

  • Type 1 training: You can do dozens of repetitions (like in yoga or Pilates)
  • Type 2 training: You fatigue quickly (can’t do dozens of push-ups or box jumps)

When you safely work your muscles to fatigue, you maintain the mass and nerve connection of your critical fast-twitch fibers.

Body Weight Training fills the gaps.

Using those Type 2 fibers isn’t all jumping, sprinting, throwing, etc. Doing an exercise to muscle failure (under controlled circumstances) is also using those fibers. Pull ups, for example. They aren’t done quickly, but you might run out of the power to do one more rep very quickly. Even the “lowly” push-up uses these muscles. If you can do 20+ normal push-ups, we can change how you’re doing them, like having your hands wider apart or very close. Or you can do them with a specific tempo like shown in this video. Changing how you do them will put your nervous system in a place it isn’t familiar with, making the exercise “new”.

The best part? Power training is fun. You’ll see for yourself when you start swinging the kettlebell.

Perfect for the active Maui lifestyle

Whether you’re surfing, golfing, hiking, or playing pickleball, body weight & power training gives you the functional strength you need to excel. Combined with your Gyrotonic practice, you’ll have a complete movement system that addresses:

• Strength ✓

• Power ✓

• Flexibility ✓

• Coordination ✓

• Balance ✓

• Mobility ✓

Ready to Unlock Your Power?

Experience how kettlebell and bodyweight training can transform your strength, power, and overall performance. Perfect as a complement to Gyrotonic or as your primary training method.”

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