Kettlebells have been exploding in popularity these past few years and there is good reason.
They are quite simply the most effective training tools for gaining a number of benefits from exercising with them.
Let's begin with number 10.
Mental Toughness:
Properly training with kettlebells will develop your mental resiliency. The more you train with them the more you practice pushing through your mental sticking points and pain threshold. I'm talking about a good pain here. One that is different from pain that signs you are doing something wrong.
This "good" pain is what comes when you feel you can't do one more rep and then you push through that. This benefit transfers over to real life. Whatever challenges you might face in life where you feel like you can't go past one more hurdle or might feel threatened by the hurdles, kettlebell training will help reinforce the drive in you to push through and get past those hurdles.
If you have never experienced this for yourself, I would urge you right now to drop everything and get your hands on a kettlebell and push yourself through some high reps with a weight that you can handle. The experience and results you'll gain from this will be astonishing.
Tomorrow will look at benefit number 9.