The Kettlebell Swing: American or Russian Style?

In the past couple of weeks, I've had 3 different people ask me about range of KB swings and advantages of overhead rather than traditional KB swings. It makes sense that I might not be the only person who is asked that question. I am a subscriber to the Catalyst Athletics Newsletter, and received this today from Greg Everett at Catalyst Athletics. It strikes me as the most rational and balanced answer I've read on this topic, so I'm sharing it here.

I want to address the swing in response to an email I got about it. Those of you who pay attention to CrossFit are familiar with the practice of continuing the KB swing overhead rather than the traditional level. The question I got was basically why do either, and is there any sort of injury risk or similar with the overhead swing?

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If you don't already subscribe to Greg's newsletter, it is something I'd recommend you consider. Link to requesting the newsletter here, and home page link to his website - lots of resources and information there.