Kettlebells are excellent to have in your fitness "tool-box".
If you think they are just a fad, too dangerous and hard core, or no different than a dumbbell, you might want to rethink that! Women love kettlebell training because exercises like the basic swing work the hips, thighs and glutes like you would not believe! The fact that you now see kettlebells more and more in mainstream retailers and sporting goods stores should be evidence that it is a legitimate piece of exercise equipment.
Best of all, if working out at home or in a park is your thing, or you just want a break from the gym, they take up extremely little space in your house, and you can toss them in your car and drive to your nearest park for an outdoor workout.
Kettlebell training provides a total body strength workout and high intensity interval training for cardio for fat loss...
in one.
Often when people see kettlebells for the first time, they think of them only in terms of strength training.
Ask anyone who has experienced doing a minute of kettlebell swings if their heart rate goes up and I will guarantee the answer is YES! Most of the kettlebell exercises are full-body movements.
Even with some of the more isolated kettlebell exercises like military presses, when you increase the intensity and combine them with full-body kettlebell exercises you will get winded.
Think about this as a superset: 30 seconds of 1-arm swings, clean and press 30 seconds, pull swings for 30 seconds, kettlebell front squat 30 seconds and then switch sides.
The kettlebell has never left the ground and your body has not stopped moving for 4 minutes straight.
The kettlebell and the kettlebell training really deliver!