What Are The Benefits Of Adjustable Kettlebells?

There are many different items of gym equipment that you could choose to have in a home gym, but, unless you live in a very large house with lots of storage space, you can’t pick everything. That means you have to choose some items and not others.

What can help is if you select items that can be used flexibly, enabling you to do different things. A good example of this is any kind of adjustable weights, so that you can use them for training at different levels of intensity and development. 

For anyone just starting out, these can be great as you can start with lighter weights and gradually work upwards.

Among the items that would fit such a description is an adjustable kettlebell. If you are not familiar with kettlebells, these are steel dumbbell weights with a handle on top, which you use to lift them. The ‘bell’ part under the handle contains most of the weight.

These have varied in shape and size over the years, with modern versions often having the weights handily inscribed on them.

What Are Kettlebells Best Used For?

Whether they are the best thing for you depends on what kind of weight training you wish to do and what your fitness and muscle-building priorities are. But there are many things you can do with them.

The particular benefits of using them include all of the following: 

·       Increasing your overall strength

·       Enhancing your core power

·       Improving balance and coordination

·       Increasing flexibility

·       Strengthening your grip

This wide range of benefits means there are several kinds of training that you can use kettlebells for, such as aerobic exercises, endurance training, general strength training and core muscle training.

For this reason alone, kettlebells are great weight training aids, since they offer multiple functions and varied benefits that enable you to enjoy all kinds of training exercises. All this can be done with one item that takes up fairly little space, so it is a very useful thing to have when you weigh up the size and usefulness of it in the context of limited home gym space.

If this alone were as far as the handiness of kettlebells went, it would be great. But things can get even better. Adjustable ones add an extra dimension to the efficiency of space and flexibility of function.

What Are The Different Kinds Of Kettlebells?

Instead of having several kettlebells squeezed into what may be a limited space, you can have one that can have its weight increased or decreased according to your needs or those of other users you share it with at home.

This is a simple innovation and there are several versions of it, such as:

·       Weight dials, which you can add plates to (or take them out) to vary the overall weight

·       Weight pins, which can be inserted or taken out the vary the weight

· Plate-loaded kettlebells, which you stack plates on or take them off

·       Competition kettlebells, which have to be screwed / unscrewed using an Allen key, with weights added (or subtracted) inside

What Are The Advantages Of Adjustable Kettlebells?

Whichever version you have, the flexibility in terms of weight makes this piece of equipment extremely handy in various ways:

·       Its flexibility enables you to adjust your training regime in whatever way you need

·       You can work your way up in accordance with your plans and progress, or drop back if required

·       Because you can vary the weight so much, you only need the one kettlebell, rather than having to get several of different weights

·       More than one person can use them

·       They are convenient for circuit training

·       Having one adjustable kettlebell saves money on buying them

·       You can also save a lot of space, which means you can make the most of the limited room you have.

Different kettlebells have various increments of weights that you can add, which means you can be more precise with the adjustments in some than others. For example, some may have 5kg increments, some 10 kg.

Some may be happy with increments of ten, whereas others might want to be very precise about how they make their adjustments and work their way up the weight scale.

The possibilities for using kettlebells of different weights are huge, both in terms of incremental improvements and also by adjusting their weight for different exercises. This may not mean it is the only kind of weights you want to use, but the economy of space they provide means you have more choice about how you use the rest of your limited room.