Timings for Weekly Group Class:
Saturday 9:00am
Rates are still $10.00 per class.
New rates and payment options to be announced for the Fall.
Location:
Saturday- Cresthaven Park unless indicated otherwise
Tuesday- class will no longer be offered
Iron Discipline locations in Barrhaven:
GUESTBOOK here
Introduction
Hi, my name is Darren Little. Welcome to Iron Discipline!
This site is dedicated to the benefits to be derived from swinging and pressing (grinding) a "cannonball with a handle"...
History
Many of you may be familiar with the recent boost in popularity, and promotion of what has been coined by some as the "Kettlebell Revolution". You also may or may not be aware that kettlebells and kettlebell style training has been around for literally centuries. Kettlebells and similar training tools originated in one form or another from many areas of the world from Russia (known as a girya) to Scotland (depending usually upon the heritage of the one doing the promoting). The common trait regardless of the country of origin, was simplicity of design, availability, and ease of use. In the centuries before Nautilus, Hammer Strength, Weider and so on, individuals trained and developed their bodies not in order to admire their own reflection, nor to stand on a stage covered in oil with a painted on tan and pose. They trained in pursuit of true strength they could actually use. In a purist sense, the Russian Kettlebell stands alone due to it's unique design and use.
In most cases, life itself was usually enough to develop men and women physically. However, then as today, people who desired to meet the fitness challenges of their own circumstances, whether citizen soldiers, games competitors, or simply those interested in making their daily lives easier, found ways to train toward that goal. They as well relied on what "technology" was at hand, that being rocks, logs, bags of wheat and so on. As with all things, it wasn't a stretch when someone came up with the idea of welding a handle onto a cast ball of iron. An example of simplicity in itself yielding ingenious results. With the handle, the weight could then be lifted, swung, and pressed in countless ways restricted only by the imagination of the user. With this high-tech advancement in training tools and techniques, the interested party looking for a method to develop his physical being now had a full-body, multi-station training device. More importantly, due to the very nature of it's design, what he in fact had at his disposal was a Functional training tool.
Fast forward a few hundred years, through the Scottish highlanders competing in games (practice and preparation themselves for battle fitness) through the astoundingly physically strong Russian military practitioners, most famously the "feared" Spetsnatz Special Forces, (Soviet Olympic competitors have credited kettlebell training for their baffling successes over the West), to modern day North America, and kettlebells again are popping up in everyday language. Today we are finally close to being beyond quizzical looks from gym supply companies when inquiring on the availability of kettlebells, to seeing them demonstrated on morning talk shows, internet infomercials, and Hollywood stars expounding on their many benefits.
Welcome to my site. I hope I have piqued your interest and that you will check back often.
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
"Prepare...Live Life"
Darren
Well, you're here, take a minute and sign the GUESTBOOK. Ideas, requests, complaints? Let me know what you think of the site!
