a couple of weeks ago I had a great conversation with my friend Emilio Emilio is a personal trainer from New York and he's also into KOB Bells if you're interested in the full discussion I'll leave a link to it in the description when you have a great conversation about kettle bells in many cases P Tulin comes up and we will talking about his most popular Kettlebell workout simple and Sinister now to make a long story short this combo made me think about the Turkish getup and I came to the conclusion that I've changed my mind
to a certain extent about this exercise yes it's been touted as the one exercise that martial artists do and the one exercise that gives you great shoulder stability so on and so forth but since I work with people who never touched weights in their life and who some of them don't even know what a kettlebell is I've realized that from my own coaching intuition teaching and doing the Turkish getup is not the most bang for their book now in this video I want to extrapolate a little bit on this topic and maybe I'm stepping on
somebody's toes but please understand this the Turkish Get Up is still a cool exercise and if you want to do it do it what I'm presenting you right now is just an opinion which is backed by a little bit of experience but hey before we get started if you're over 40 50 or 60 and you're looking for a free cell workout check the first link in the [Applause] [Music] description so let's bust the myth about the Turkish G up you know that many people say that marshal artists love this exercise because it grants them results
and skills that they need in practice now here's what I did a quick Google search I checked out Mike Tyson's workout come to find out he never did a getup or at least it's not documented then I checked out Gordon Ryan he's into BJJ of course grappling technique he does some weightlifting in the gym then I checked out khabib come to find out he's into running he's into Basics he's not doing fancy stuff so these martial artists have achieved Peak Performance in their careers and it seems like they have never done a Turkish getup and
maybe they didn't even touch kettle bells now if we talk about the documented origins of the getup we can trace it back to a guy named Emil Voss Emil was doing this exercise as a feat of strength and to entertain people and I think as far as I can remember he was placing knives below his body so that if he would trip or if the weight would drop he would instantly die now just because an exercise looks cool or just because an exercise entertains doesn't mean that it serves Great Value now again I'm not saying
the Turkish getup doesn't add value I think it's still a cool exercise but at the end of the day with this knowledge that I have today and with this little Google search that I did and with my experience as a coach I think there are better Alternatives than a Turkish getup for people who never touched weights in their life and who are just getting started with their kettle bell Journey now like I mentioned I still do the Turkish getup for fun recently I was doing a 44kg getup without preparing for it I was doing my
basic gpp work on barbells some kettle bells some heavy stuff some lightweight stuff and come to find out I was able to pull off a 44 kg getup and what now shoots through my mind was a conversation that I had with an sfg heart style practitioner who told me that while he was preparing for for the Beast Tamer these are exercises that you have to do with a very heavy kettle bell he was using barbells to prepare for it but if you see that the getup gives you value and your training and you like it
and it keeps you active and it's the reason why you stick with kwells please keep doing it don't take this video and now think that I hate the get up or that I will never do a get up in my life if we take the exercise apart we have a couple of exercises that are mixed in the getup which I believe maybe serve you more value if you do them on their own one of the exercises for example is the windmill so as we reach this bottom position of the get up we are engaging into
a kneeling Windmill and the windmill is this exercise another exercise that is kind of involved in the Turkish getup is a split squat lunge type of exercise now as you step down from here you are engaging into a curtsy lunge and as you come up from the bottom position when you align yourself to get stand back up you are engaging into this split squat stance so doesn't matter whe whether you keep the kettle bell racked or overhead or in a sandwich grip a lunge on its own can still Grant you powerful benefits and this is
an exercise that we do on a regular basis or if we would look at the split squat I would argue that maybe even a split squat on its own can gr Grant you more benefits finally the getup involves a press from the floor or overhead now we can press the kettle bell like this or we can lay on the ground and then press the Bell up like this from a floor press now if we take these three exercises apart we already have the windmill the press and the lunge as a solid selection of exercise that
make for a great workout if you do a Turkish getup on a regular basis it can teach you how to stand up if you trip or if you lay on your back and I agree but you don't have to do the exercise in full you can just have people laying on their back and then let them stand up and find a weight that is suitable for them or that works the best for them doesn't have to be a weight overhead and to wrap up this video and just to make it clear for everybody who's already
in the comments saying ah Gregory hates to get up here's what I have to say at the end of the day when you work with regular people who never touch we weights who are a little bit older and who never trained in their life I have one ultimate goal and that is to teach them exercises that give them the most bank for the buck for the time that they come in most people don't train on a regular basis and if people make time to show up in at the gym and to train I cannot waste
it I have to give them the biggest return on investment most people show up once a week and if they show up once a week I have to give them give them the Ultimate Tools to prepare them for the rest of the days of the week and to give them as much value as possible at the end of the day here's what I believe the Turkish Get Up morphed into it started as a feet of strength and as an exercise to entertain people and in the modern times morphed into this dogmatic approach of training that
everybody needs and that grants you this unique results just because Steve Maxwell Incorporated this exercise in the rkc days when they were forming their curriculum so if we take the dogmatic approach away if we take this thinking this philosophy that there's only one exercise and just because pabl said it or just because this person said it I have to do it if we take all that stuff away and we just look at it from a biomechanical reality I think a squat a press a swing a carry a deadlift gives you more bang for your buck
than a Turkish get up but like I'm saying for the 100th time to repeat myself I know on YouTube we're not supposed to repeat ourselves but I want to repeat it again a Turkish getup is still a cool exercise and if you're having fun and if you enjoy it then more power to you here's the next thing that you have to do clean and press that like button share with a friend who's also interested in kettle bells and then check out the full conversation that I had with Emilio right here this this was the spark
for this video this experience that I was able to together culminated in this conversation and that it slowly changed my thinking to a certain extent so go check it out it was an awesome conversation
