Kettlebell virgin no more

I have been wanting a kettlebell for some time, but rather hate paying more than I think I should for something. Therefore up until today, I did not own one.  I ran into Target this afternoon after work for something I just realized I didn't get and decided to see if any were on sale. Lo and behold the 20 pound kettle bells were marked way down.

and I mean way down.. look

Yup, not 20, 30, 40 or even 50% off the regular outrageous price of $49.99, but sixty freaking five percent off.  Whoop!  Sadly none of the other sizes were on sale or I would have bought one in every size.    Briefly considered buying both of the 20 pound ones that were there, but abstained. 

I, of course, couldn't wait to try it out.  I found the Killer Kettlebell Workout on shape.com.

I was a little worried when I saw

Since mine is a 20lbs kettlebell I decided to just sub in my free weights as needed.  Luckily I only had to for one move.

 

I did three rounds and was dripping sweat by the last round and having a hard time holding on to the handle with all the sweat.  

My verdict?  It took a little bit to get used to holding onto it comfortably for each of the moves, but overall awesome total body workout. I see myself using it quite a bit in the future.  My core, legs, and arms were feeling it by the end.  Maybe it didn't help that yesterday I did a workout that had 140 pushups in it..

Some days I am a glutton.