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Saturday, October 23 · 9:00am - 6:00pm

Hyperfit USA

Take your healthy, vitality, and fitness to the next level with Kettlebell Training, joint mobility, and natural hormone optimization!

"Thanks so much for the workshop on Saturday - it was one of the best things I've paid money to attend in my whole life, and it was worth way more than $300. you are EXCELLENT. I feel very inspired! next time I attend, I will leave my 3kg baby rattle at home. while I may not be quite ready to Li...ve Life Aggressively, I am certainly not as much of a sissy as I was last week. thank you."
- Alysia Nolan, Los Angeles, CA

"I was convinced of the value of Mike's workshop. I had wondered previously about its value since I had already learned a lot from videos. But now there was no doubt: some of these things you just need to learn in person. And with exercises I had learned before, the reinforcement of proper form in all its subtleties was worth the time and money. One of the important differences between videos and the workshop is how Mike would build up to an exercise. With the military press, for example, he started by teaching a deadlift, then a clean, then doing a tension exercise, then power breathing, then finally the press. The tension exercise was great: he had us hold a heavier bell than we were used to in the clean position. I was used to a 35lb bell, but now I had an 88lb bell cleaned. Holy cow, it took my whole body just to hold the thing there for 10 seconds! But generating whole body tension was exactly the point. That's the kind of thing you can't get from watching a video."
- Josh Carter, Denver, CO

When:
Saturday October 23, 2010

Where:
Hyperfitusa
Suites 3 & 4,
670 Airport Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
http://www.hyperfitusa.com/
Please direct all questions about the course to Mike Mahler

Time:
10am to 6pm

Instructors:
Ken Blackburn and Mike Mahler

Let me get right to the point. If you are serious about getting into great shape and developing strength, flexibility, core strength, endurance, and turning your body into a fat burning machine then this workshop is for you and we want to work with you. You will love our workshop Not a possibility, it is a certainty. If you want to take charge of your physical health and make a serious investment in your well-being, then we want you at this seminar. We love working with people that take charge of their lives and are prepared to pay for high quality services for self-improvement. If you like to blame others for your problems and think society is to blame for you being out of shape, then go ahead and leave my website now and never come back. Our training philosophy is not for you and we do not want you at my workshop. we only work with motivated people.

You should be super excited about this seminar. This informative hands on eight hour seminar is for all intermediate level kettlbell trainees.
In addition to all of the incredible training information that will be delivered, I am going to give a lecture on the importance of optimizing sex hormones naturally and why everyone should make hormone optimization a priority. Moreover, I will reveal how to train and modify your lifestyle to optimize these hormones naturally. This information is crucial to optimal health and well-being. This lecture alone is worth the price of the course. Sick of having no energy and making zero progress with your workouts? You need to be at our seminar. As an additional bonus, we are going to discuss the intricate field of training program design and what the common pitfalls are. More than likely you are not maximizing your time working out and you will love this section of the course. You will understand clearly why training programs need to be personalized and how to make that happen.

As if the kettlebell and hormone optimization info were not enough, it gets better. Top kettlebell instructor and fitness expert Ken Blackburn is going to show you how to become more agile, mobile, and flexible then ever before. Ken's agilility, mobility, and flexibility routine is going to blow you away. Not only will Ken's agility training improve your kettlebell game, it will improve any athletic endeavor, as well as enhance well being and health. Ken weighs close to 250lbs and has the agility of a fit person half his age and bodyweight. You will be amazed with Ken's abilities and more importantly with his instruction. What he will be teaching has the power to improve the quality of your life dramatically. After all, lack of mobility seriously hampers your well being and must be addressed.

Okay, enough with the sales pitch, lets provide some more info to make your decision an easy one

First off let me tell you who I am. I am a Kettlebell Instructor and fitness information provider. I am the author of the DVD's The Kettlebell Solution For Speed And Explosive Strength, The Kettlebell Solution For Size And Strength, and The Kettlebell Solution For Fat Loss And Mental Toughness I have done over 100 Kettlebell workshops across the US and overseas. I am the producer of a series of best selling workshop DVD's: "The Boys Are Back In Town", "Collision Course", and "Kettlebell Training In The Age Of Quarrel." I am also the author of "The Aggressive Strength Solution For Size And Strength."

Thousands of people have benefited from my experience with kettlebells and I have written about the benefits of kettlebells in several magazines in the US and Japan including Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Planet Muscle, Industry Magazine, Testosterone Nation, Ironman Magazine, and Ironman Magazine Japan.

Of the thousands of people that I have trained, I have never received any negative feedback. Not one person has been disappointed. What does this mean? It means that you are guaranteed to have a great time at our seminar.

Next lets talk about top kettlebell trainer Ken Blackburn

Ken Blackburn is the Associate Head Instructor with the International Kettlebell & Fitness Federation. Along with Head Instructor Steve Cotter they travel all over the world teaching workshops and their very popular instructor certification – The CKT (Certified Kettlebell Teacher) course.
A lifelong athlete and martial artist, Ken began seriously training with kettlebells after attending a workshop at his BJJ club with Steve Cotter several years ago. Always on the lookout for training that would enhance his athleticism, he immediately recognized the value in Kettlebells and has been training/teaching with them ever since.

Ken is one of the top American competitors in kettlebell sport and won the Chair Press at the World Championships in November, 2007 doing over 50 reps with two 70lb kettlebells.

I attended a kettlebell certification course that Ken taught with Steve Cotter in 2008. I was very impressed with Ken's teaching abilities. As Ken was teaching I was looking around the room to see how receptive the students were. It was very clear that they were having a great time and were learning a great deal. I knew that I wanted to work with Ken when the right opportunity came along. That opportunity is here and with it is an opportunity for you to learn from one of the best kettlebell instructors around. Ken is an incredible resource for kettlebell training as well as physical training in general.

Detailed Information On Mike's Intermediate Kettlebell Training Material:
I cannot wait to cover all of the new information that will dramatically impact your strength and health in the best way possible. I will get right to the point. This course is not for beginners. If you cannot do the following exercises with decent form then this course is not a fit for you.

• One-arm Clean
• One-arm Military Press
• One-arm Snatch
• One-arm Swing

Course Information:

• Mastering the double rack walk to learn the "sit-back" to increase overhead pressing dramatically. You will be able to move to the next KB size up when you master this and do not have to add any more muscle or bodyweight.
• Why too much tension is a waste and how to apply just enough tension to get the job done. I did not clean and press two 70lb bells 19 times by over doing tension.
• Where to look and what to think when doing heavy KB mil presses
• What the kickstart press is and how to use it to ramp up your Mil press numbers.
• The advantages of doing double swings and double snatches with the bells on the outside of your feet and how to do it.
• Why you must do rows and other pulling movements for healthy shoulders and strong pressing.
• Why body positioning and leverage is more important than maximum tension for strength and efficiency
• How to use the side press to take your mil press through the roof
• Learn the Kickstand Lunge for the benefits of the one legged squat without the stabilizer issues. Also great for building strong well developed calves.
• The Kneeling Squat for ramping up one legged strength and demolishing imbalances
• Low position walking lunges one of the best KB quad exercises that you have never done! That will change after the course
• Tons of tips to go from Renegade row failure to renegade row success. Variations of the Renegade row to accelerate strength and progress.
• The ten best kettlebell exercises for fat loss and how and when to do them.
• How to avoid over-training the shoulders with kettlebells. Every KB exercise is a shoulder exercise. Learn which ones to focus on and which to cut out. Otherwise, expect to have expensive shoulder injuries. You cannot have it all all of the time.
• Why the Double KB Swing is the best ballistic KB exercise for strength and power and how to handle more weight than you ever imagined was possible in the safest manner possible.
• Why Double Swings carry over well to double pressing
• The best KB exercises for speed and explosive strength and why you should never do more than three reps when speed and explosive power are your goals.
• Develop incredible explosive power with the Jump Shrug and Full Body Attack
• How to use kettlebells for strength and size
• How to get ripped with your KB program and why high rep KB programs are not the answer. Not by a long shot!
• Why exercise form changes with each kettlebell and why light KB work does not transfer well to the heavy work. How to get the best of both worlds.
• The biggest mistakes that kettlbell trainees make with program design and why many KB trainees are over-trained stimulus addicts.
• The critical role of nutrition and supplements to get the most out of your training.
• Why nutrition supplementation needs to be personalized and how to determine what you will benefit from.
• The importance of hormone optimization and how to to achieve it

Here are the exercises that I will cover in detail at the workshop:

• Double Clean and Relaxed Military Press
• The Kickstart Press
• Alternating Hang Clean and Mil Press
• Alternating Renegade Row
• Outside Double Swing
• Outside Double Snatch
• Double Snatch
• One-arm Double Kettlebell Bent-over Row (two bells in one hand)
• Suitcase Kickstand Lunge
• Double Front Kickstand Lunge
• Low position walking lunges for the quads
• Double Rack Walks
• Kneeling Squats
• Double Overhead Position Walks
• Double Clean And Squat Press
• Hang Clean
• Hang Snatch
• Full Body Attack
• Jump Shrug

Bonus Hormone Lecture Information

Here is what will be covered in detail at the hormone optimization lecture:

• Why stress management skills are critical for hormone optimization and what you can do today
• Why hormone optimization starts in your brain: the 4 brain chemicals that you must optimize for brain and body health
• The importance of eating organic food and why it is even more critical if you eat meat.
• Why Insulin, Leptin, and Adrenaline are the three most important hormones to optimize regardless of what your goals are
• Why you should have long stretches in between each meal
• Why real hormone optimization is essentially lifestyle optimization
• The two best supplements to take for increasing free levels of testosterone
• What supplements have been proven to increase growth hormone by up to 700%
• What style of exercise to engage in to ramp up growth hormone dramatically
• Why focusing on one hormone is a big mistake
• What adrenaline exercise is and why it must be balanced with restoration exercise
• The connection between doing the career you love and creating an optimal hormone environment
• What supplement works for androgen receptor uptake and for increasing insulin sensitivity
• Why hormones need to be optimal for long term fat loss and muscle gain. Forget about counting calories and doing cardio all day long. It is your hormonal environment that determines how you look.
• Why DHT is important for men and what supplements to take to optimize it
• The importance of melatonin and why everyone should be using it
• The three best supplements for destroying estrogen dominance
• The best supplements for increasing insulin sensitivity and improving physique composition goals (in other words fat loss and muscle gain)
• The most important vitamins and minerals for sex hormone optimization

Detailed Information On What Ken Blackburn is going to cover:

Mobility/Agility training (bodyweight and k-bells) and Assistance Drills for Kettlebell Sport

• Improve mobility and flexibility with unique bodyweight and k-bell exercises
• Develop joint health and freedom of movement
• Enhance athleticism while simultaneously taking your conditioning to higher levels
• Train the body to perform in a spontaneous/instinctual manner
• Develop a high level of body/kinesthetic awareness
• How to greatly reduce the chance of injury through an effective pre and post workout mobility routine
• Learn how to effectively transition from the ground to standing and condition your body to handle the demands of these transitions – excellent for many sports
• Overcome the body’s fear response thru advanced movement training
• How joint mobility helps correct mechanical imbalances, reduces injury and improves performance
• Why warming up is essential for creating the much needed mind/body connection
• Simultaneously train all physical attributes in a short duration of time
• How to take your competition lifts to the next level with unique and effective assistance exercises and drills
• How to safely incorporate progressions into the more advanced agility exercises
• Eliminate the guesswork and learn how to program your cardio training in a manner that is specific to kettlebell sport and your indvidiual attributes

Testimonials for Ken:

“I had the fantastic opportunity to work with one of the best instructors ever, Ken Blackburn! Coming into my first real experience with KBs I had no idea what to expect... how hard they would be or how detailed the form is... My initial thought was, this looks easy, haha, boy was I wrong! It looked easy due to the fact that Ken made it look effortless.
As I progressed through the first day of my certification I was happy to learn from Ken and have his expertise available to me. After the fantastic warm-up of agility, mobility and stretching movements, led by Ken, I was excited to see what else I would pick up from his coaching and direction.
Ken has an easy going personality that makes it fun to learn... Even as 'large and in charge' as he is, he comes across with an ease that anyone could learn from and feel good about themselves. Ken is very approachable and listens before he answers, which in my book is extremely important!
Even though the KBs were the reason for my attending the course, I thoroughly enjoyed the warm-up that Ken led. I wish I could do that everyday with him leading; I am sure I would have less neck and joint aches!
I highly recommend Ken as an instructor... he is one of a kind. With that said, I still can't keep the image of him in the splits with the biggest KB overhead! Now, if I could just get him to point his toes... LOL!

”Monica Brant, IFBB Fitness Olympia Champion/IFBB ProFigure

“When it comes to combining kettlebell training with other aspects of athleticism, Ken Blackburn one of the best trainers in the world. Ken is a big strong guy and he moves better than most athletes out there regardless of their size. This combination of strength and agility is rare. Ken combines these skills with the ability to teach them to others. I have known Ken for a number of years and I have seen him continue to evolve and refine his teaching style. I think that anyone from beginner to elite athlete would benefit significantly from Ken's unique approach to training. If you train with Ken you will not be disappointed.”

Scott Helsley MD, PhD , Master of Sport


Testimonials for Mike:

"Mike Mahler is an expert in the challenging field of sports conditioning. His unique and innovative teaching tactics guarantee high retention of these one-of-a-kind workouts. His extensive knowledge feeds a powerful passion to explore the human body with safety and strength. If you get a chance to train with him; do so or regret it."

- Frank Shamrock, Five Time UFC Middleweight Champion
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"I often get this question asked at seminars. Who do you respect in the industry? Mike Mahler is certainly of the most decent beings and leaders in the fitness industry. Mike loves to help, and he does it from the bottom of his heart, that is what makes him a great leader. Zero ego, all heart. Great job Mike."

--Charles Poliquin author of Modern Trends In Strength Training And The Poliquin Principles http://www.charlespoliquin.com/
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"My Name is Harley Flanagan I am a Purple belt under Renzo Gracie some of you may know me from my bands the Cro-mags, Harley's War and others. I have always been into working out and over the years I have suffered from various shoulder injuries. After just one of Mikes seminars I felt improvement in my shoulder. A lot of my injuries from grappling and life in general got aggravated by using standard weights. However, when using kettle bells I felt improvement in my strength and in those weak areas. These damn kettlebells get you strong as hell, but I would never suggest playing around with them without proper instruction. That's why you should get in touch with Mike Mahler and check out his Dvds and his seminars! You will be glad you did whether you are a martial artist or just into strength training these things are the bomb! This stuff will REALLY get you in top shape for MMA or anything else life throws your way!"

- Harley Flanagan, Cro-mags / Harley's War www.hardcorehalloffame.com and www.cromags.com
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"Since I have been using Mike's techniques I have gotten into absolutely amazing shape. I'm proud to say it! I cannot recommend his expertise enough. In the past few months, everyone I know has asked me how I got so fit and I direct them all to kettlebells and Mike Mahler. Mike realizes that everyone has different training goals and what they need to do to achieve them. He knows what works and what doesn't and will get you where you want to go. Thanks Mike, you seriously kick ass!"

- Chris Pontius of MTV's Wildboyz and Jackass


REGISTER HERE: http://www.mikemahler.com/michigankettlebells.html

Questions: e-mail Mike Mahler at: mahler25@yahoo.com

• Master high intensity “kettlbell combinations” to supercharge your explosiveness and athleticism – perfect for combat athletes!
• How to choose which assistance drills for kettlebell sport are the most specific to your goals, body type and abilities
• Why integrating k-bells and bodyweight exercises will prepare you for the stress and demands of “neuromuscular transitions” that occur in sport and everyday life
• Why mastering advanced movements will take your “basic” movements to the next level



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