Double Kettlebell Push Press

How to do it

1. Clean two kettlebells to the rack position, elbows tucked and wrists straight.
2. Set your feet under your hips and brace your stomach.
3. Dip a few inches by bending the knees with the torso upright.
4. Drive up through the legs and let that momentum start the bells upward.
5. Press them the rest of the way to straight arms overhead.
6. Lower them to the rack, absorbing the landing by bending the knees slightly.

Common mistakes

• Pressing before the legs have finished. The two halves run into one movement; starting the arms early wastes the drive.
• Dipping deep. A few inches is the dip — going lower is a squat the bells never accelerate out of.
• Catching the bells on locked legs. Bending the knees as they land is what lets the legs take them.
• Letting the wrists bend back at the top. Straight wrists overhead, bells settled on the forearms.

Muscles worked

Primary

• Shoulders

Secondary

• Calves
• Quads
• Triceps