Comments on: Turkish Get Up: A Full Body Exercise To Help Build Strong Muscles

By: Kevin Baugher,CSCS

Kevin Baugher,CSCS — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:08:15 +0000

From years of being a weightlifter, football player, and now a professional wrestler, my shoulders have taken a pounding. I just finished a 12 week muscle building routine where I put on 11lbs of muscle naturally using kettlebell complexes. The last workout I had I tweaked my left shoulder because of the large volume of overhead movements envolved in the complex. I switched to get-ups and after two weeks my shoulder is almost back to normal. Amazingly enough I’ve been able to keep my mass by doing get-ups instead of heavy presses and my goal is to try and build bigger shoulders using get-ups as my big press. Get-ups rule and I’ll keep you posted on my trials with turkish get-ups. Kettle bell up!!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:28:56 +0000

The turkish get-up is a weird name, but it is the best full-body and core workout you can do with a kettlebell. Best of all, it’s functional strength. Thanks for the in-depth look at this great exercise. Good article.

By: dan befit

dan befit — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:35:05 +0000

This TGU stuff seems quite interesting, need to have a look into,
thanks
Dan Brussels