GiryaFit, Kettlebell Strength and Conditioning "Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body"

• New Website

  Written by Justin / on 06/01/2010 / 0 Comments

  The new website is fully functional now. I will continue to add new content to the blog. I will be writing at least one article a week to keep everyone up to date on current trends. The website at www.undergroundathlete.com also has options for registering for our events and signing up for group classes so I will be moving away from this site. If your a member of this site please check out www.undergroundathlete.com there is a forum where you can ask whatever is on your mind. There's also a profile page where you can create your own page a lot ..

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• Celebrating the New Year and our First Year!

  Written by Justin / on 12/30/2009 / 0 Comments

  I would like to invite everyone out to a celebratory lunch on January 2nd. We were going to do the whole holiday party thing, but figured most people had enough going on. We would just like to have a little get together over lunch to say thank. Because of you, it has been a successful first year for Underground Athlete. And what better way to start of a new one than with all you can eat sushi?

  Details:

  Saturday January 2nd

  1pm

  Todai Sushi and Seafood Buffet
  11750 Fair Oaks Mall #135 Fairfax, VA, 22033

  Thank you Veronica getting this ..

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• Hold Me Accountable

  Written by Justin / on 03/22/2009 / 2 Comments

  Up until now I have always kept my goals to myself. I haven't announced them publicly because I've been too scared to fail. I hate to fail and I hate to lose. Growing up I refused to play the sports that I knew I couldn't win. I was a little on the competitive side to say the least. I actually remember cheating to win at the Rudoloph the red nose reindeer board game when I was 6. I probably only remember that because when my mom busted me she did her best Joe Jackson impression and smacked the he-man off my ..

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• Washington Times reports on GiryaFit

  Written by Justin / on 03/18/2009 / 2 Comments

  

  Kettle bells give body a lift
  Traditional Russian weight lifting gains favor
  Karen Goldberg Goff (Contact)
  Wednesday, March 18, 2009

  In kettle-bell lifting, there are no complicated dance moves. There's no need to vary the equipment to bars and resistance bands. Participants in this old-school type of exercise are too busy exhausting their muscles to worry about such frivolity.

  Kettle bells, also called giryas, are traditional Russian iron weights that look - and feel - like cannonballs with handles. Think of old-time pictures of European strongmen with exaggerated muscle definition, and you've got the inspiration for today's lifters.

  Kettle bells never ..

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