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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Chloe Gray

It's official: you don't need a gym, just a kettlebell and 30 minutes to build full-body muscle

A woman doing 30 minute kettlebell workouts in the gym.

30-minute kettlebell workouts that build serious strength and fitness from home almost sound too good to be true, right? But we're here to tell you that this one piece of kit plus just half an hour of your time is all it takes to smash your fitness goals. 

Let's look at the research: studies have found that kettlebell training can be as effective as traditional weightlifting for increasing strength and power, with a further paper from the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, performed on women's football players, found that 20 minutes of kettlebell training three times a week improved VO2 max (a marker of your cardiovascular and respiratory fitness) by 6% in just one month. 

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