A Simple High Leverage Kettlebell Warmup Everyone Should Try

Most people don't warm up, they just start lifting.
 

They grab a weight, do a few arm swings, and call it good. But your body isn't ready to work—it's ready to compensate, brace, and cheat its way through the first few sets.

That's a problem, because the modern human is bad at one basic skill: standing up under load.

We sit all day, then ask our bodies to suddenly produce power. No wonder things feel stiff and clunky for the first ten minutes of every session.

There's a fix, and it only takes one movement.

Combine a kettlebell halo with a deadlift-clean pattern, and you get a warmup that forces your abs, glutes, shoulders, and rib cage to switch on together. No shortcuts. Just your whole body waking up at once.

Do 50 reps before you train, and you're not just warming up—you're practicing the one skill your body was actually built for.

Mark breaks down exactly how to do it, and the mistakes that quietly ruin it.